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...Tiffany Whitton certainly knows how to get on FM’s good side: “FM is the one newspaper that I read,” she asserts. Sincerely, of course. Whitton has an air of sincerity about her, with California-girl freckles and strawberry-blonde hair, she hails from what she calls a “conservative, Orange County family.” But underneath her unassuming demeanor lies an athletic powerhouse. “She is one of the most talented softball players in Harvard history,” says head coach Jenny Allard. Whitton...
...Whitton doesn’t take herself all that seriously. She offers a story from a game against Drexel last year. She was on second base when the next batter hit a long fly ball to centerfield, which Whitton judged to be at least a double. She took off running, but it wasn’t until she had rounded third that she realized her coach was frantically signaling—the ball had been caught by the Drexel centerfielder. Whitton says she used her Harvard logical reasoning skills to get back to second base: “The shortest...
...Whitton laughs at the memory. “My coach had a really hard time disciplining me, because it was just too funny,” she says. According to Allard, this response is characteristic of Whitton’s personality. “We’re talking about someone who is in the upper echelon of talent, but to not know how to run the bases is typical of Tiffany. Her response is not to get mad at herself, but to laugh at herself,” Allard says. “It was so ridiculous that everyone...
...can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?” Whitton asks. “The things you really remember about college are the stupid things...
Like the time in her first year when Tiffany and her roommates staged a water gun siege on Annenberg. Whitton recalls how stereotypes worked against her: “Some guy thought I had spit in his ear! He said, ‘Well, you’re a softball player.’” Whitton assures FM that she steers clear of the chaw. Nor is she just about softball. She is a government concentrator, writing a thesis on the National Organization for Women, and she co-chairs the student-athlete advisory committee...