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Amanda (Trujillo) Scrivner and her husband, Marcos Scrivner, share a common bond and an uncommon passion. Both excelled at the highest level in the NCAA-sanctioned sport of rifle. A native of Brush, Colo., Amanda was the first Husker in history to earn the maximum eight All-America accolades in both smallbore and air rifle. Five years earlier, her husband, a native of Portland, Ore., was a pivotal part of West Virginia achieving the highest team-level experience possible – four consecutive NCAA Championships in men's rifle.
“It’s neat and kind of cool to share a competitive passion with your husband,” Amanda told me. “You can probably guess that we have a lot of things in common, personality-wise.” Precision is proof of their respective daily performance standards. After spending nearly 14 years in Denver, Marcos is now the assistant controller for Nike North America, the company’s largest geographic segment. Amanda has home-schooled all four of the couple’s children before and after they moved from Denver to Portland, Marcos’ hometown.
Last March, when Trujillo learned she would be the first Husker rifle student-athlete to be inducted into the inaugural Nebraska Athletics Hall of Fame class in September, both families beamed with pride and started making plans to visit Lincoln and attend the Husker-BYU football season-opener that will recognize the 22 inaugural inductees.
“My parents from Denver and his parents from San Antonio are looking forward to that weekend with us,” Trujillo Scrivner said. “When I first received the news, I was completely surprised. I’ve always been proud of having been a student-athlete at Nebraska, but somehow, I’ve never given serious thought to the mark I may have left in my years of being there. This honor is truly humbling for me. It’s an invitation to consider again how those years of training and discipline at Nebraska have shaped me as an individual.”
Four Children Have Richer Context for Their Parents’ Sport
Having a husband who excelled in rifle, “our four children are well acquainted with the sport,” Trujillo Scrivner said. “They’ve always been aware that we both competed at an elite level, but this honor has given them a much richer context.”
Raising a family keeps Trujillo Scrivner very busy. She’s always looking more toward the future and less to the past, so it’s been fun for her to see pictures and awards and to tell her children stories of the time she spent at Nebraska. “I haven’t thought about those stories in a long time, so I have a renewed sense of pride in my past as a Nebraska student-athlete,” she said. “It’s really special to be able to share that with my family and friends.”
As a wife, mom and teacher, there’s rarely time to process an unexpected honor. Trujillo Scrivner, however, is well aware that the inaugural Hall-of-Fame class “carries a foundational significance for Nebraska,” she said. “What a privilege it is to be a part of a genesis that celebrates the history of Nebraska Athletics.”
Trujillo Scrivner finished as the individual runner-up in air rifle at the 2001 NCAA Championships, one season after her accurate shooting helped the Huskers to a third-place national finish in 2000. In the classroom, the eight-time All-American was also an eight-time member of the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll. She earned a Bachelor of Nursing degree from the University of Nebraska in 2003.
Trujillo Scrivner: Nebraska Provided Elite Student-Athlete Support
“What I love most about Nebraska is the elite support they give student-athletes,” Trujillo Scrivner said, recalling a statement that resonated upon her arrival: Dedicated to Excellence. “I noticed it on my recruiting trip, and it was an exhilarating feeling of being inspired to something higher than I had imagined for my collegiate years,” she said. “I knew on my recruiting trip that I would be given every chance to excel as a student and an athlete.”
At Nebraska, the Hewit Center became her home away-from-home. “It was the place where I studied and ate every day,” she said, remembering the physical training with her team and other athletes. “What I liked most was not just the state-of-the-art facility, but the way we celebrated the accomplishments of students in athletics and in academics.”
Trujillo Scrivner can close her eyes and still see the Academic All-American portraits hanging in the hallways. “They were much more than just portraits,” she said. “They recognized and celebrated student-athletes who applied themselves to excel athletically and educationally. To me, they were the highest caliber, and every day that I saw them was an inspiration that I could pursue excellence in both my sport and my education.”
Placing second overall in air rifle was a personal performances Trujillo Scrivner will never forget. Placing third overall as a team was equally memorable. "I just remember how excited we all were and how unifying it was," she said. "It gave us such great momentum to train harder for the following year.”
After an ‘Amazing’ Nursing Job, Trujillo Scrivner Teaches Her Own
Post-graduation, Trujillo Scrivner's life reflected all the work she put into it. “I was able to get a great nursing job right out of school at University Hospital in Denver,” she said. “I truly loved working there, but nothing can really top the job I’ve had for the past nine years. Raising four amazing children has been my pride and joy. It’s my greatest honor to stay home with them, to school them, and to pour myself into them as they grow.”
Nebraska’s culture taught Trujillo Scrivner that anything worth doing was worth doing well and that obstacles were opportunities to learn how to overcome rather than to quit.
“My coaches, teammates, and advisors were always there to encourage me and help me find solutions to the challenges that I faced,” she said. “I was often inspired by other student-athletes who were driven to perform well in their sport and in their studies. They were people happy to share a wealth of knowledge and perspective with me on setting goals, prioritizing and training.”
Nebraska was a great observation deck for Trujillo Scrivner to see “a ton of leadership in action with an attitude of humility in so many countless individuals,” she said. “Those were qualities that impressed me, and I wanted to emulate them for my fellow teammates and student-athletes.”
Trujillo Scrivner describes Lincoln as “a great community that is largely unified by their pride in Nebraska and the Huskers,” she said. “I think that fact, combined with the awesome resources that Nebraska provides student-athletes, is what continues to attract more of the same caliber of student-athletes.”
Scrivner Family Goals Faith-Based: Power, Love and Self Discipline
The Scrivner family, including mom (pictured above), dad, three daughters and a son, is guided by the Bible verse of 2 Timothy, verses 1 through 7: For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. “Those are words that I live by and try to teach my children to live by as well,” Amanda said.
Asked to share her greatest life lessons, Amanda Trujillo Scrivner comes up with four and says she’s thankful to have learned from all of them:
1) Change is inevitable and a constant in life. “I can either waste energy trying to stop it, or use that same energy to learn through change and grow in character and wisdom,” she said.
2) I’ve learned that life with Jesus is far better than life without Him.
3) Loving God and loving people are the driving force of life and are wholly fulfilling.
4) Character is the only thing we take with us when we die, so I try to pursue and build as much of it as possible.
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