From a press release issued by the AMA:
AMA SPORTS TO HONOR 2002 CHAMPIONS & HORIZON AWARD WINNERS
PICKERINGTON, OHIO — The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) has announced that AMA Sports will crown its 2002 champions and recognize its AMA Horizon Award winners at the AMA Pro Racing Awards Banquet, to be held on November 23 at the Venetian Resort Hotel Las Vegas:
AMA Dirt Track Horizon Award: Logan Myers of Wheeler, Michigan; and Nicholas Cummings of Mt. Morris, Michigan. In four different types of events, Myers notched five wins, two seconds, a third, and two Grand Championships, while Cummings earned four wins, six seconds and one Grand Championship.
AMA Motocross Horizon Award: Evan Laughridge of Hemet, California (Suzuki). Riding both 250 Open A and 125 A/Pro Sport, Laughridge won four of six motos and earned three overall wins.
AMA Road Race Horizon Award: Chris Caylor of Marietta, Georgia. “Opie” won two of eight “premier” classes — 750 Superbike and 600 Superbike — and earned two second-place finishes and one fifth.
AMA/Women’s Motocross League: Stefania Bau of Tallahassee, Florida. The 2002 championship is Bau’s second, having also won the 1999 title.
AMA National Hare Scrambles Series: Fred Andrews of Salem, Ohio (Kawasaki). This is Andrews’ second straight hare-scrambles championship; he also won a cross-country title in 1993.
AMA National Hare & Hound Series: Ty Davis of Hesperia, California (Yamaha). This title, his third in hare-and-hound, joins the two national enduro titles he won in the 1990s.
AMA/FMF Racing National Enduro Series: Michael Lafferty of Millville, New Jersey (KTM). Lafferty won four of eight rounds to clinch his fifth title in six years.
AMA Grand National Cross Country Series: Rodney Smith of Antioch, California (Suzuki). A two-time hare-and-hound national champion, Smith claims his first cross-country title.
AMA/NATC Ryan Young Products National Observed Trials Championship Series: Fred Crosset of Kansas City, Missouri. Crosset defended his 2001 title by winning seven of ten rounds.
AMA National Speedway Series: Billy Hamill of Carlsbad, California. Hamill now has three titles in the last four years.
ATVA/Maxxis Grand National Series, Motocross: Tim Farr of Canal Fulton, Ohio. A four-time champion, Farr also won titles in 1995, 1996, and 1998.
ATVA/Maxxis Grand National Series, TT Scrambles: Shane Lee Hitt of Buckhannon, West Virginia. Now a six-time champion, Hitt won four of 2002’s six rounds.
ATVA/Maxxis Grand National Series, Short Track: Darin Ogden of Dillonvale, Ohio. To earn his first title, Ogden won two of three rounds in the series.
ATVA/Grand National Cross Country Series: Bill Ballance of Oakland, Kentucky. Winning seven of the series’ thirteen rounds, Balance claims his third consecutive championship.
AMA Horizon Awards are presented each year to outstanding young dirt-track, motocross, and road-racing riders who are most likely to succeed at the sport’s next level. Since 1997, several AMA Horizon Award winners have distinguished themselves in AMA Pro Racing series, including Nicky Hayden, Jared Mees, James Stewart, and Jason DiSalvo.
The AMA is the world’s largest motorsports-sanctioning body. AMA Sports manages more than 3,700 AMA-sanctioned amateur, pro-am, ATV and youth competition events each year.