sentences:  She was "Track and Field News" "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1987.She continued to UCLA to where she won three straight NCAA Championships in the 400 hurdles.Vickers achieved her lifetime best in the 400m hurdles at the 1991 World Championships, where she won the bronze medal in 53.47 seconds, finishing behind the Soviet Union's Tatyana Ledovskaya (53.11) and Great Britain's Sally Gunnell (53.16), but ahead of her American team-mates Sandra Farmer-Patrick (53.95) and Kim Batten (53.98).