Dec. 25, 2004
Current Notre Dame senior track sprinter Tiffany Gunn (Little Rock, Ark.) – who serves as the president of the ND Student-Athlete Advisory Council – recently agreed to serve as an ad-hoc committee member on the Monogram Club board. In this new role, Gunn will act as a liaison between the SAAC, individual teams, student-athletes and the Monogram Club. She will be invited to take part in Monogram Club board meetings, will advise the board as to current issues affecting more than 800 current Notre Dame student-athletes and will offer suggestions as to ways in which the Monogram Club can continue to support the student-athletes.
Gunn – a science/business major, enrolled in the College of Science – is a two-time relay participant in the NCAA Championships, plus two NCAA Regional hurdle appearances. She was a member of Notre Dame’s 4×400-meter relay team that won the 2004 BIG EAST Conference indoor title, combining with Kristen Dodd, Okechi Ogbuokiri and Tricia Floyd to finish first in a time of 3:45.23. She also posted top 2004 BIG EAST finishes in the indoor 60-meter hurdles (8th, 8.67), the indoor 500 (4th, 1:14.19), the outdoor 400 hurdles (8th, 1:03.13) and the 4×400 relay (4th, 3:43.28). She then went on to compete in the NCAA Regional, finishing 22nd in the 400 hurdles.
Her sophomore-year highlights included competing in the NCAAs for both the 4×400 indoor relay (9th, 3:38.28) and the 4×400 outdoor (9th, 3:33.53) while running the outdoor 400 hurdles at the Mideast Regional (5th in heat, 55.00). Her 2003 BIG EAST results included 11th in the 60 hurdle prelims (8.72), 7th in the indoor 500 (1:13.86) and 13th in the outdoor 400 hurdle prelims. As a freshman, she placed 4th at the BIG EAST indoor meet in the 60 hurdles (8.69) before competing at the outdoor meet in the 100 (13th, 14.58) and 400 hurdles (7th, 1:03.35).
Gunn’s prep career at McClellan Business Magnet High School included receiving the Arkansas High School Heisman as the top prep athlete in the state. She was a four-time All-American while also winning the 400 hurdles at the 1998 Junior Olympics and reaching the 400 hurdle finals at the 1999 and ’00 Junior Nationals. She won four state titles, set the state record in the 100 hurdles, never lost a high school race in the 300 hurdles and helped win the 2000 state mile relay title by closing a 50-meter gap on the anchor leg.
Gunn – who also won four letters as a forward on the McClellan basketball team – served as National Honor Society president and senior class president while being named the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 2001 female academic athlete of the year. Her father David Gunn played football at the University of Arkansas.