{"id":856,"date":"2009-04-01T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=856"},"modified":"2017-05-24T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:11:09","slug":"tiffany-magnuson-a-star-on-ice-and-on-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2009\/04\/01\/tiffany-magnuson-a-star-on-ice-and-on-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany Magnuson \u2014 a star on ice and on the field"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Don Stoner<\/p>\n

\"TiffanyIf it weren\u2019t for finding cheap hockey skates at a tent sale, Tiffany Magnuson\u2019s athletic career might have been quite different than it is today.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad didn\u2019t want me playing hockey. They bought me figure skates, because my dad didn\u2019t want me messed up with the hockey guys,\u201d said Magnuson, whose father is a hockey coach in their hometown of Green Bay, Wis. \u201cThey bought the figure skates for me, and I couldn\u2019t skate in them because of the toe pick. But my dad always said that I had a natural hockey stride, and I kept telling him that I wanted black skates.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Magnuson\u2019s mom found her a pair of black skates\u2014 hockey skates.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom always said, \u2018Wal-Mart started your career,\u2019 because they had a tent sale at Wal-Mart on hockey skates,\u201d Magnuson said.<\/p>\n

A senior, Magnuson has excelled at two sports during her Auggie career\u2014hockey and softball\u2014and will leave Augsburg as one of the top all-around female athletes in school history. Magnuson finished her hockey career as the school\u2019s second leading goal-scorer and No. 3 point-producer. She was a four-time All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection.<\/p>\n

In softball, Magnuson played three positions\u2014second base, first base, and pitcher\u2014during last season\u2019s run to the MIAC playoffs for the first time in program history. A threetime All-MIAC selection, she enters this season with a .379 career batting average as the Auggies leadoff hitter.<\/p>\n

Magnuson, a finance major and accounting minor, was recruited to play hockey at Augsburg and she said she chose Augsburg because it was a small school in a large city. Being active in back-to-back sports has helped her learn to manage her time.<\/p>\n

\u201cSports have taught me about leadership, being committed and competitive, about interacting with others, and having to all come together for a goal,\u201d said Magnuson, who wants to work on the business side of a sports team. \u201cIt\u2019s a family [atmosphere], and for me being away from my family, it helps me with my life. That\u2019s what I like about Augsburg, the close-knit atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Don Stoner If it weren\u2019t for finding cheap hockey skates at a tent sale, Tiffany Magnuson\u2019s athletic career might have been quite different than it is today. \u201cMy dad didn\u2019t want me playing hockey. They bought me figure skates, because my dad didn\u2019t want me messed up with the hockey guys,\u201d said Magnuson, whose <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,7],"tags":[39,59],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-featured-stories","tag-spring-2009","tag-womens-hockey"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}