 Crooks won the 400 metre title at the first Pan Am Junior Championships in 1980, as well as a silver in the 4 x 400 metre relay.In 1981 she won a bronze at the World Cup in Rome as a member of the America's 4 x 400 metre relay team.She Won Gold medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay and placed seventh in a nine-woman field in the individual 400 metre race at the 1982 Commonwealth games.