Tiffany Cherry

Tiffany Cherry joined ESPN in December 2006 as the Melbourne Bureau chief, producer and on ground reporter for the new Pacific Rim SportsCenter, covering the Australian and New Zealand region. Following her hosting of the ESPY awards in Hollywood in July 2007, Tiffany was invited to anchor the show at the company’s base in Connecticut and after reporting on the 2008 Australian Tennis Open, she re-located to the US.

Tiffany was invited by ESPN domestic (US) to join their exclusive Tennis Team covering the Australian Open in 2009. She hosted the show LIVE on Australia Day – January 26 – back into the US market with millions of viewers watching. Tiffany also provided on the spot reports, court side commentary and post match interviews throughout the coverage.

Tiffany attended the Superbowl on her arrival in 2008 and her experiences with ESPN have so far included covering the NFL, NBA finals, Wimbledon, Australian Open, the ESPY awards – sport’s equivalent of the academy awards, the AFL and NRL Grand Finals, the Layne Beachley Surf Classic, Volvo Ocean race, and the PGA Tour. She has also reported on the Kentucky Derby, NHL, MLB, English Premier League, Indian Premier League and 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Prior to her move to ESPN, Tiffany built up an impressive resume over twelve years in the industry. A trained physiotherapist and masseuse, she worked with some the world’s leading athletes. She was an accomplished hurdler ranked in the top eight in Australia and trained with Olympic gold medallist, Cathy Freeman; she represented Australia at the 1999 World Triathlon Championships in Montreal; was a physiotherapist for her old school football team, Carey Under 19s – coached by former AFL star, Brian Taylor; and was a physio for the Richmond Football Club.

It was while she was working in the health industry that Tiffany treated former Sportsworld presenter, Kate Paton and decided to switch to journalism.

She landed her first role on television as a reporter for Channel Seven’s Talking Footy in 1997. She has since worked as a football reporter for 3AW; written for The Age Sport and Herald Sun in Melbourne; reported for Channel Ten’s Sports Tonight; the Ten Nightly News in Sydney; Seven News Team in Melbourne and CNN World Report based out of Atlanta, USA.

Tiffany was one of the first employed at FOX Footy in 2001 and was with the Channel for the entire 5 years. She was the first female AFL Boundary Rider and worked around Australia for the FOX Footy coverage. Tiffany was also News Presenter on White Line Fever with Clinton Grybus and produced and presented her own weekly segment on injuries in the game, called AFL Injury Update.

In 2004 Tiffany followed her passion of documentary making, producing an award winning special on AFL in the USA. To date, she has produced seven documentaries around the world from Australia to the USA, Europe and Africa.

In May 2007, Tiffany was chosen by Channel 9 to be the sports presenter on Mick Molloy’s new national comedy show, The Nation. In addition, she also established her own radio talkback show The Hen House on SEN, which she co-hosted with Olympic swimming champion, Giaan Rooney and World Champion netballer, Eloise Southby-Halbish. Tiffany also joined the station’s AFL Broadcast team as Boundary Rider for their coveted Friday night games and the 2007 AFL finals series and while living in America, she had a weekly spot on Kevin Bartlett’s SEN morning show, Hungry for Sport providing highlight’s from the US sporting landscape.

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