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Amber's Story: As a coach you expect to see your athletes progress, but sometimes their progress surprises you. Amber’s progress astounds me. She came to UK in Nov 2013, from Barbados, with very little experience of track cycling and originally found the level of competition in the UK pretty difficult. But in 36months, Amber's hard work had taken her from bunch race novice to a rider ranked as one of the top-5 Junior in UCI rankings. In 2016 Amber had focussed on the sprint route but she also retained her endurance base and after the BC National Champs 2016, where she placed 4th in Sprint she made the jump to track-endurance and went to the 2016 Junior Pan-American Track Champs, where she rode for Barbados, taking 4th in the Scratch Final and a SILVER medal in the Omnium. Amber returned to the Junior Pan-American Track Champs in 2017 repeating her silver in the Omnium, but taking GOLD in the Points Race Championship.  In 2018 she  turned Senior and competed in the Elite Pan-American Track Champs. From there onwards a string of strong results and medals as a senior athlete has followed.