The Hill City-University athlete has become the best female race walker in New Zealand over the past two years and stamped her dominance on the sport by retaining her senior 3km track walk and 20km road walk titles at the New Zealand championships in Auckland in March.
Robinson (21), a physical education student at the University of Otago, was named in the New Zealand team for the Oceania championships in June.
She will compete in the senior 5km track walk.
Another highlight was to break the 50min barrier for the first time in a 10km road race in Timaru. Her time of 49min 58sec was the fastest walked in New Zealand by a woman for 10 years.
At the Otago championships in February, Robinson broke Lisa Mathieson's 1994 Otago senior 3km record with her time of 13min 42.30sec.
Robinson was also named as the best Otago senior athlete in the summer season and the best female athlete in the winter season.
Promising 400m runner Andrew Whyte (Hill City-University) was named the top junior athlete in the summer season. He won the senior boys 400m title at the New Zealand secondary schools championships in a record 46.91sec in Wellington and won a silver medal in the 100m.
His 400m time was the second-best in the country last summer.
Alex Jordan (Tasman) was top with the 46.83sec he ran to win the New Zealand senior title.
At the New Zealand club championships, Whyte won the junior men's 200m and 400m double and was selected in the New Zealand team for the world junior championships in Barcelona in July.
Daniel Balchin (Caversham) was named the male athlete of the year during the winter season.
Prof Richard Barker was named the Otago coach of the Year. His best athlete was Callan Moody (Ariki), who won a silver medal in the 3000m at the New Zealand championships.
Colin and Margaret Taylor, officials on the long and triple jumps for more than 20 years, won the contribution to athletics award.
