Newport Harbor High girls scrapbook

Newport Harbor girls top 10 for 2000-2001

1. Amber Steen posts national best this season (4:43.75) to win 1,600

meters at CIF Southern Section Masters Meet.

2. Amber Steen wins CIF Southern Section Division II titles in the

1,600 and 3,200, after winning both, as well as 800, at Sea View League

Finals. She goes on to finish third in the state in the 1,600.

3. Amber Steen repeats as CIF Southern Section Division II individual

cross country champion to lead Tars to fifth-place team finish.

4. Girls tennis team is CIF Southern Section Division III runner-up.

5. Carly Geehr (two), Nicole Mackey (two) and Hayley Peirsol (one)

each post top-three finishes to help swim team finish fourth at CIF

Southern Section Division I Finals.

6. Water polo team, led by Sea View League Player of the Year

Katherine Belden, wins league crown and advances to CIF Southern Section

Division I quarterfinals.

7. Taylor Govaars (volleyball); Katherine Belden, Jenna Booth, Heather

Deyden and Erin Ball (water polo); and Amy Burlingham (soccer) are all

named All-CIF Southern Section.

8. Swimmers Carly Geehr (200-yard freestyle and 200 individual

medley), Nicole Mackey (100-yard butterfly), Hayley Peirsol (500 free),

and track sprinter Amy Burlingham (200 meters) win individual Sea View

League titles.

9. Sunset League champion field hockey team’s best season ever ends as

postseason Tournament of Champions runner-up.

10. Soccer team gets school’s first two CIF Southern Section playoff

victories, before falling in Division II second round.