Amy Acuff, High Jumper - Biography, Amy Lyn Acuff
US High Jumper
Height: 6' 2
Weight: 145 Lbs
Born
1975-07-14, Port Arthur, Texas
Amy Lyn Acuff is an athlete from the United States. An aggressive high jump competitor, Acuff competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field and is a three-time Olympian. Her personal best is 2.01m, which she achieved in Zürich on 2003-08-15.
Acuff lives in Austin, Texas, and is an alumna of UCLA with a degree in biology.
Finished
third at 2000 Olympic Trials and beat Tisha Waller in jump-off to win spot at
Olympics.
Named National High School Athlete of the Year in 1993 without a
coach. Taught herself using books and videos, labelled herself 'the mail order
high jumper'
Ended prep career holding national high school records for freshman,
sophomore, junior and senior levels. Related to country Musician Roy Acuff.
Studying
at the Academy of Oriental Medicine (Austin, Texas) to become a doctor of Oriental
medicine and a licensed acupuncturist. As she felt she benefitted from it, so
would like to do it aswell.
Even at the age of 5 she was found doing athletics and the many competitions. In 1985 she set the long jump record for under 10s.
At 13 she reached 5 foot 8 and a half at the High Jump, which she had taken up, to boost pts for her school team, a rate that would have been good for her the Texas high school championships.
She jamp 6 foot in her freshman year. And broke
the Texas state record as a sophomore reaching 6 foot 2. At 17 she reached 6 foot
4 in jumps.
Models in spare time. She once wore a fashionable costume for a
jump, and said she thinks High Jumping is not brain surgery or something like
that so she should not takle the sport absolutely seriously. Unlike some competitors
who do, but some of them often do better, or worse. But people do say obssessionw
orks in sports for competitors, but maybe after all it is not essential and could
be considered unhealthy, but not as unhealthy as many far worse things.
Has
had national exposure in TV commercials and appeared in Rolling Stone, Sports
Illustrated, Maxim, Vogue, US and other magazines for some photo shoots, modellings,
and revealing pictures.
Organized calendar (2000) featuring photos of herself
and 11 other U.S. female track & field stars to raise money for training and
charity.
Finished fourth in ESPN’s "World's Sexiest Athlete"
Voting.
Likes to surf.
Athletic titles
94 NCAA Indoor Champion
95 NCAA Indoor Champion
95 NCAA Outdoor Champion
95 U.S. Outdoor Champion
96 NCAA Outdoor Champion
97 World University Games Champion
97 NCAA
Indoor Champion
97 U.S. Outdoor Champion
01 U.S. Indoor Champion
01
U.S. Outdoor Champion
03 U.S. Outdoor Champion
04 U.S. Indoor Champion
She was on the front cover of Playboy magazine once, and posed inside it nude.
Also
been in Esquire, “Women of Summer: Strength & Beauty: A Portfolio of
America’s 10 Sexiest Athletes”
“Men's magazines”, such
as Maxim and FHM
Playboy, “The Women of the Olympics”
Pictures of Amy Acuff
Photograph of her jumping well
Picture of her lying down in the changing rooms
Passionately kneeling in a High Jump Match
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