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- Tiffeny, who stands a mere
5-2, dated a 6-10 basketball player at Hillsboro High School. Today
she says she would never date someone that tall.
- Tiffeny played in 1995,
1996, and 1997 with Shiroki Serena of the women's J-League in Japan.
She drew the ire of team officials her last season there when she refused
to bow to them during a ceremony.
- After winning
the Women’s
World Cup in 1999, Tiffeny and her teammates got their own breakfast
cereal.
- Tiffeny graduated from the
University of Portland with a degree in Communications Management. She
also minored in German.
- Tiffeny ended
her career at Portland with 103 goals, the same total Mia Hamm posted
for North
Carolina. At the time that tied them atop as the NCAA’s list
of all-time leading scorer. Their mark stood until 1998, when Danielle
Fotopoulos graduated from Florida with 118 goals.
- Tiffeny has been
a part of soccer history on several occasions. A crowd of 5,596—then
the largest in U.S. women’s soccer history—packed into Merlo
Field for Portland’s 1992 match against North Carolina. Seven
years later Team USA’s opening game of the 1999 Womens’
World Cup against Denmark in Giants Stadium drew the largest crowd to
date (78,972) for a women’s sporting event. That mark was shattered
weeks later when the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, filled to capacity
with 90,185 fans for the final between the U.S. and China.
- After the 1999
Women’s
World Cup, Tiffeny accompanied Hillary and Chelsea Clinton in Florida
to watch a space-shuttle launch, and made a cameo appearance on the
TV show “Popular.”
- Tiffeny has 96
international goals. She hopes to crack the 100 mark during the Women’s World
Cup, and should soon pass Michelle Akers (104) for second place on the
national team’s all-time scoring list.
- Before the WUSA was formed,
Tiffeny considered trying out for the WNBA.
- Tiffeny’s
favorite training food is Korean barbecue.
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Team USA Cereal box
Danielle Fotopoulos, 1999 SI for Kids
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