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Tiffany Cherry re-joined Foxtel in July 2009 as co-presenter with Steve Liebmann, for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
Tiffany will also be presenting, producing and reporting for the New Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games and London 2012 Summer Olympics.
In addition, Tiffany created her own television sports show for Foxsports, ‘Flash Footy’ which makes its debut in 2010. This weekly half hour Indigenous AFL show co-hosted alongside Premiership stars, Michael O’Loughlin and David Wirrpanda, and featuring AFL coaching legend, Kevin Sheedy, aims to bring some of our best footballing talent into the homes of every Australian - showcasing their achievements both on and off the field.
Tiffany also joined the network’s 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 a viewing audience of more than 50 million. She also provided on the spot reports, courtside commentary and post match interviews throughout their coverage.
The past three years has seen Tiffany work with the American Sports Network, ESPN. She joined the International Company in December 2006 as the Melbourne Bureau Chief, producer and on ground reporter for the new Pacific Rim ‘Sports Center’, 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 attended the Superbowl on her arrival in the US in 2008 and her experiences with ESPN included covering the NFL, NBA finals, Wimbledon, Australian Open, ESPY awards – sport’s equivalent of the academy awards, the AFL and NRL Grand Finals, the Layne Beachley Surf Classic, Volvo Around the World Ocean race and the PGA Tour. She has also reported on the Kentucky Derby, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, English Premier League, Indian Premier League and 2008 Beijing Olympics – one of five Olympic Games she has both attended and reported from.
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 highlights from the US sporting landscape.
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.
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.
She landed her first role on television in 1997 as a reporter for Channel Seven’s Talking Footy, hosted by Brice Mcavaney. 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 has spent fifteen years in the media industry, building up her resume. A trained physiotherapist and masseuse, she worked previously with some the world’s leading athletes. She was also ranked in the top eight in Australia in 400m hurdles 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 for three years.
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