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• Harper named USATF Athlete of the Week

  Cool Running - Found 1 hour ago Lashinda Demus (Nike) - Eugene, OR 6/27 World leader HJ - 1.95/6-4.75 Chaunte Howard (Nike) & Amy Acuff (Asics) & Sharon Day (Asics) - Eugene... Harper named Athlete of the Week - USA Track and Field Explore All

• Update: Alan Webb Did Not Race Men's 1500m Final at USA ...

  Run Washington - Found Jun. 30, 2009 ... with a clearance of 1.95m/6-4.75. Joining Howard on the Team USA roster for Berlin will be Amy Acuff, who qualified for her 12th consecutive U...

• Yoder Begley sets Hayward Field record at USA Outdoor Championships

  Run Ohio - Found Jun. 29, 2009 ... with a clearance of 1.95m/6-4.75. Joining Howard on the Team USA roster for Berlin will be Amy Acuff, who qualified for her 12th consecutive U...

• Yoder Begley sets Hayward Field record at USA Outdoor Championships

  Colorado Runner - Found Jun. 28, 2009 ... with a clearance of 1.95m/6-4.75. Joining Howard on the Team USA roster for Berlin will be Amy Acuff, who qualified for her 12th consecutive U... Merritt wins 400m title at USA Championships, remains undefeated - Colorado Runner Jeter, Rodgers win U.S. titles and remain undefeated in Visa ... - American Track and Field Brown Trafton headlines women's throws at USA Outdoor Champs - Colorado Runner Merritt wins 400m title at USA Championships, remains undefeated - USA Track and Field Explore All

  Colorado Runner

• Provisional U.S. world championships team

  Yahoo! India - Found Jun. 29, 2009 High jump - Chaunte Howard, Amy Acuff, Sharon Day. Pole vault - Jenn Stuczynski, Chelsea Johnson, Stacy Dragila.

• Day qualifies for world championships

  Daily Pilot - Found Jun. 27, 2009 Chaunte Howard won the high jump, while Amy Acuff finished second.

• Rupp wins first US championship

  EDuck Sports - Found Jun. 27, 2009 6-4 �. Experts cannot remember a US high jump championship that had three clear even 6-4. Chaunte Howard won over Amy Acuff and Sharon Day. Galen Rupp embarks on next stage of his career - Sacramento Bee Galen Rupp embarks on next stage of his career - Minneapolis Star Tribune Galen Rupp embarks on next stage of his career - Seattle Times Galen Rupp embarks on next stage of his career - Denver Post Explore All

  Durham Herald-Sun

• Yoder Begley sets Hayward Field record at USA Outdoor Championships

  California Track and Running News - Found Jun. 27, 2009 ... with a clearance of 1.95m/6-4.75. Joining Howard on the Team USA roster for Berlin will be Amy Acuff, who qualified for her 12th consecutive U... USATF Report: USA National Championships, Day 1 - Cool Running Rupp, Yoder-Begley Capture 10K Titles at US Championships - New England Runner Yoder Begley sets Hayward Field record at USA Outdoor Championships - USA Track and Field Explore All

  New England Runner

• Yoder Begley sets Hayward Field record at USA Outdoor Championships

  American Track and Field Athlete - Found Jun. 27, 2009 ... with a clearance of 1.95m/6-4.75. Joining Howard on the Team USA roster for Berlin will be Amy Acuff, who qualified for her 12th consecutive U...

• Alan Webb Safely Qualifies for Men's 1500m Sunday Final at USA ...

  Run Washington - Found Jun. 26, 2009 ... with a clearance of 1.95m/6-4.75. Joining Howard on the Team USA roster for Berlin will be Amy Acuff, who qualified for her 12th consecutive U...

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Amy Acuff

Personal information
Full name	Amy Lyn Acuff
Nationality	American
Date of birth	July 14, 1975 (1975-07-14) (age 33)
Place of birth	Port Arthur, Texas
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	145 lb (66 kg)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Track and field athletics
Event(s)	High jump
Club	UCLA Bruins
Team	USA Track & Field
Achievements and titles
World finals	See table
National finals	Outdoor: 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003–2005 Indoor: 2001, 2004–2008
Olympic finals	2004
Highest world ranking	2nd (2001 Grand Prix) 3rd (2006 World Cup)
Personal best(s)	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) August 15, 2003

Amy Lyn Acuff (born July 14, 1975, Port Arthur, Texas) is an athlete from the United States. An aggressive high jump competitor, Acuff competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field. Her personal best is 2.01 m, which she achieved in Zürich on August 15, 2003. Acuff graduated from Calallen High School in Corpus Christi, Texas

Acuff lives in Austin, Texas, and is an alumna of UCLA where she was inducted into the UCLA Bruins Hall of Fame in 2007.

Acuff is distantly related to country musician Roy Acuff (her grandfather’s second cousin). (Acuff-Ecoff Family Archives)

Acuff's championships include:

• National Scholastic Indoor Champion: 1991, 1992
• Pan-Am Junior Champion: 1993
• NCAA Indoor Champion: 1994, 1995, 1997
• NCAA Outdoor Champion: 1995, 1996
• U.S. Outdoor Champion: 1995–1997, 2001–2007
• U.S. Indoor Champion: 2001, 2004, 2007–2008

International events (finalist or qualifier)

Event	Rank	Height (m)	Location	Date
World Junior Championships	9	1.85	Seoul	1992-09-19
World Championships	8	1.93	Gothenburg	1995-08-13
World University Games	1		Sicily	1997-08
World Championships	6	1.92	Athens	1997-08-08
IAAF Grand Prix Final	6	1.93	Fukuoka	1997-09-13
World Championships	9	1.93	Seville	1999-08-29
Summer Olympics	17	1.80	Sydney	2000-09-28
World Indoor Championships	4	1.96	Lisbon	2001-03-09
World Championships	10	1.90	Edmonton	2001-08-12
IAAF Grand Prix Final	2	1.96	Melbourne	2001-09-09
World Indoor Championships	10	1.92	Birmingham	2003-03-16
World Championships	9	1.90	Saint-Denis	2003-08-31
Summer Olympics	4	1.99	Athens	2004-08-28
IAAF World Athletics Final	6	1.95	Monaco	2004-09-18
World Championships	8	1.89	Helsinki	2005-08-08
World Indoor Championships	13	1.90	Moscow	2006-03-11
IAAF World Athletics Final	5	1.94	Stuttgart	2006-09-09
IAAF World Cup	3	1.94	Athens	2006-09-17
World Championships	12	1.94	Osaka	2007-09-02
IAAF World Athletics Final	5	1.94	Stuttgart	2007-09-22
World Indoor Championships	6	1.95	Valencia	2008-03-09
Summer Olympics	9	1.89	Beijing	2008-08-21

Modeling

Acuff is also known for her career as a model. She organized the 2000 Omni Lite Millennium Calendar of Champions, featuring nude (or semi-nude) photos of Acuff and 11 other U.S. female track and field stars, with half the proceeds going to the Florence Griffith-Joyner Foundation.

Acuff's cover appearances include:

• Esquire, “Women of Summer: Strength & Beauty: A Portfolio of America’s 10 Sexiest Athletes”
• “Men's magazines”, such as Maxim and FHM

• The 2004 Olympics were noted for the large number of female Olympians who posed nude—following in the footsteps of the 2000 Matildas and the Omni calendar. Of the 2004 examples the most visible was Acuff's appearance on the cover and within Playboy's, “The Women of the Olympics” issue.¹²

• Acuff appears across the top of the title for The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition.³

References

External links

• Amy’s official website
• IAAF profile for Amy Acuff
• Video Interview
  • "Flotrack Video Interviews and pictures of Amy Acuff". http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/search.php?cx=003556892317167185039%3A536qwfr48fi&cof=FORID%3A11&q=amy+acuff&domain=1&sa=Search. 

Sporting positions
Preceded by Angie Bradburn	USA National High Jump Champion 1995	Succeeded by Tisha Waller
Preceded by Tisha Waller	USA National High Jump Champion 1997	Succeeded by Tisha Waller
Preceded by Karol Damon	USA National High Jump Champion 2001	Succeeded by Tisha Waller
Preceded by Tisha Waller	USA National High Jump Champion 2003	Succeeded by Tisha Waller
Preceded by Tisha Waller	USA National High Jump Champion 2005	Succeeded by Chaunte Howard

v • d • e Summer Universiade Champions in Women's High Jump  1959 – 1961: Iolanda Balaş (ROM) •  1963: Taisiya Chenchik (URS) •  1965: Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL) •  1967: Mami Takeda (JPN) •  1970: Snezana Hrepevnik (YUG) •  1973: Virginia Ioan (ROM) •  1975: Galina Filatova (URS) •  1977: Sara Simeoni (ITA) •  1979: Andrea Mátay (HUN) •  1981: Sara Simeoni (ITA) •  1983: Tamara Bykova (URS) •  1985: Silvia Costa (CUB) •  1987: Svetlana Isaeva (BUL) •  1989: Alina Astafei (ROM) •  1991: Alison Inverarity (AUS) •  1993: Tanya Hughes (USA) •  1995: Viktoriya Fyodorova (RUS) •  1997: Amy Acuff (USA) •  1999: Monica Iagăr (ROM) •  2001: Vita Palamar (UKR) •  2003: Dóra Győrffy (HUN) •  2005: Anna Chicherova (RUS) •  2007: Marina Aitova (KAZ)