Amy Acuff, High Jumper - Biography, Amy Lyn Acuff

US High Jumper

A pic of her

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 nude

Picture of her lying down in the changing rooms

Running

Kneeling in sporty clothes

Passionately kneeling in a High Jump Match

Her from behind

In fur, down with fur

Putting her clothes on

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