Tiffany Catafygiotu

2003 NGCA Academic All-American Team
2003 All-SEC Academic Honor Roll
2004 All-SEC Academic Honor Roll
2005 All-SEC Academic Honor Roll

2004-05 (SENIOR YEAR): Earned a spot on the Dean[apos]s List in both the fall and spring semester…Competed in eight tournaments with a 78.79 stroke average…Turned in her best performance of the year at the ACC/SEC Challenge, where she carded a 73-73-76=222 to finish in a tie for 21st.

2003-04 (JUNIOR YEAR): SEC Academic Honor Roll selection…Competed in seven tournaments, compiling a 79.66 stroke average…Carded a 75 in the first round of the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge for her best round of the year…Finished in a tie for 17th with a three-round score of 235 (76-76-83) at the TOPY Cup in Japan for her best tournament showing of the year…Fired a 77-82-77=236 to finish in a tie for 26th at the Lady Gamecock Classic.

2002-03 (SOPHOMORE YEAR): Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll…Competed in all 11 tournaments during her second year on the Gamecock team … Posted her best stroke average of her young career with a 78.26 … Accumulated one top five finish … Was a last-minute substitution to the South Carolina fivesome just before the Liz Murphey Classic (due to the ineligibility of Kristy McPherson) and finished in a team-high fourth place … That fourth-place outing was the best of her career … Notched one par or better round as a sophomore (Liz Murphey – first round) and that 71 score was her career low … Recorded two 73[apos]s last year … Participated in her first NCAA postseason and finished tied for 79th at the NCAA East Regionals (with a 17-over-par 233) and tied for 76th at the NCAA Championships (25-over-par 313).

2001-02 (FRESHMAN YEAR): Appeared in four tournaments and finished seventh on the team with an 81.00 stroke average … At the LSU/Cleveland Golf Classic, finished in a tie for 19th place, had a low round of 75 and finished with a low tournament score of 231 … Had one Top 20 finish on the year.

HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letterwinner under Coach Philip Smith at Greer High School from 1998-2001… Voted Most Valuable Player after her junior season … 1999 South Carolina High School Girls State Champion and selected for the 1998, 1999 and 2000 All-State Golf Team … 2000 WSCGA Junior Girls State Champion … Selected by the SC Coaches Association for Women[apos]s Sports as the 1999 Golfer of the Year … Named to the 1999 and 2000 AJGA Compaq Scholastic All-American team … A member of the Greer High School varsity basketball team from eighth grade through 10th grade.

PERSONAL: Born March 16, 1983, in Spartanburg, South Carolina … Full name is Tiffany Ann Catafygiotu … Family includes parents Tom and Mary Ann; and younger sister Megan … Is the only golfer in her family … Major in accounting with career aspirations of finding a job at an accounting firm … Named to the 2003 NGCA Academic All American Team and to the 2003 All-SEC Academic Honor Roll … Only junior on the 2003-04 Gamecock squad … Worked over the summer to improve her short game, her iron play, her driving and her conditioning … Captured her second consecutive Greenville Ladies Amateur title in August of 2003 after winning her first championship last summer … Enjoys playing other sports when she[apos]s not on the course … Would love to meet Michael Jordan one day … Favorite golfer is Jay Haas … Competed against his sons in high school and still remembers how supportive and kind Haas was to her … Considers her dancing ability as her best non-athletic talent … Admires her Cliffs Valley Country Club summer boss, Woody, because he is wise, funny and a great friend … Loves to play for Coach Coggins because she has a great attitude about golf and life and is always smiling … Favorite movie is ‘Shawshank Redemption’ … Favorite city to visit is Baltimore … Enjoyed the team[apos]s visit to Augusta National last spring and named the course as her favorite place to play … Would love to get a call from the producers of Friends so she could make a guest appearance as one of Phoebe[apos]s backup singers … Favorite dessert is anything that contains Oreo[apos]s.