Fight For Iowa - Amy Herrig Tanny
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Fight for Iowa – The Official Podcast of Iowa Athletics
10 min
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5 chapters
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Who is Amy Herrik Tanny and why is she being honored on the Fight for Iowa podcast?
On the Hawkeye Sports Network from Learfield, this is the Fight for Iowa podcast. Here's the voice of the Hawkeyes, Gary Dolphin.
Amy Herrig Tanne was an all-state basketball postplayer at Dubuque Senior High School in the mid-1990s. Recruited by the Hall of Famer C. Vivian Stringer, Herrick played for coaches Angie Lee and Lisa Bluter and was an important notch of an incredible decade of Iowa women's basketball. An Associated Press All-American and All-Big Ten's selection, Herrick Tanne averaged 19 points and 11 rebounds. As a freshman and was named Conference Newcomer of the Year. Thirteen hundred and nineteen career points and 789 rebounds later, Herrick Tanney had started every game as a Hawkeye, including a then Carver Hawkeye Arena double-double record of 42 points and 25 rebounds, glittering numbers behind anyone's stat line.
But Amy Herrick Tanny was so much more than statistics. statistics.
How did Amy’s high‑school dominance lead to being recruited by Hall‑of‑Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer?
She showed the value of passing out of the post. Coaches Lee, Bluter, and then assistant Jan Jensen would all say how extraordinary Harri Tanne was at finding an open teammate. She says that starts with knowing where you are on the court.
Making sure that you know your where your surroundings, you know where the double team's coming, you're able to kind of see things happen before it happens, because then you have a plan of attack on what to do. You know, if I uh feel a double team coming, I know that I'm gonna instantly pass out of it. But, you know, I try to I try to keep that ball in the post as much as possible, you know, uh with my uh trying to score some points, but when I when I did pass, which again I did, but you know, it's usually probably opposite side, all the way in the corner for a three. And I had a great team to finish it off for me. So, you know, three pointers weren't as popular back then. So it might have been somebody else kind of scoring a layup too.
But in general I had a great team around me to help me out.
Amy Herrick Tanny uh shot 51% from the field for her career, 80% from the free throw line. I I'd label you, uh Amy, a thinking woman shooter. Uh you were fast and efficient at analyzing where the soft spot uh soft spot in the defense was. Uh uh the arena was another classroom for you, I would say, because the minute you recognized what was and that was Awfully fast the minute you recognize the situation. Yeah. You were going to the basket.
Yes. Yes.
What made Amy’s post‑play style—especially passing out of the post—so revolutionary for Iowa basketball?
No, I I loved uh I was a big mid range jumper, um, post player, so that Elbow shot that Haydn or Stolkey were doing. That was kind of my game. Or um right in the it never was a three-pointer. I think I shot one three my whole career, which was my senior game, which was funny at last game at Carver. But uh other than that, I loved and I also had we played the high-low game. So I had a Big Ten player of the year, Tangela Smith on my side. And so, you know, if I wasn't open, she was. So it was a great combo between the two of them. of us. Somebody was always getting the ball and getting a good score off of it.
You mentioned Haydn uh as a mid range jumpshooter. Uh you gotta love her game for as young as she is. I do.
I do. We follow we love to follow 'em here at home and, you know, watch the game and you know, Haydn's got so many depths to her game, you know, and she's such a quick r quick release, fast runner, you know, just athletic. It's just true to see and you know, uh Coach Jensen always has those bigs, those post players that, you know, are true to form, have great different characteristics from Gustafson to Haydn to you name it. It's been fun to watch the ride.
Your Iowa teams in the late nineties won three regular season Big Ten titles, two conference tournament championships. What and who besides yourself made those teams so special, Amy?
Well, coming in as a freshman, I was Vivian Stringer's last recruited Iowa, and she recruited the number one class in the nation, the class ahead of me. And that was many amazing uh athletic people on that class, and that kind of helped give me uh you know our team the boost to be able to do so well so and learn from the best.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Amy Herrik Tanny and why is she being honored on the Fight for Iowa podcast?
0:00–1:01
2
How did Amy’s high‑school dominance lead to being recruited by Hall‑of‑Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer?
1:01–2:29
3
What made Amy’s post‑play style—especially passing out of the post—so revolutionary for Iowa basketball?
2:29–4:21
4
Why does Amy describe herself as a “thinking‑woman shooter” and how did she find soft spots in defenses?
4:21–8:57
5
Which teammates and coaches contributed to Iowa’s three Big Ten titles in the late ’90s?
8:57–10:38