Hey let's meet Purdue's Tiffany Fisher

Purdue is on fire! So why don't we read up on one of their hotshots, senior Tiffany Fisher, via an interview with her at the Lafayette Journal and Courier.

Fisher learned to work hard pretty early in life, people.

"I've always had to make sacrifices."

Hit me with an example.

"I couldn't have sleepovers because I had to go clean the pens in the hog barn."

No one wants to braid your hair and talk about zits when you smell like a pigpen. Right, Pig-Pen?

Oh, poor guy. Chin up.

How did this hard-working farmhand wind up at Purdue? Fisher's high school AD, Darlene Mathew, thought, "maybe she would get a Division I track scholarship because she was a very good high jumper."

So the AD was no help.

"But when Purdue coach Dave Shondell spotted a tremendous athlete in a 6-foot-2 frame, he..."

Broke down? Threw up? Called his assistants and fired them for not finding her sooner?

"...thought he could find a spot for her."

He was right, as the stats have proven. Fisher leads the Big Ten in hitting percentage, blah blah blah.

"'(Fisher's) toughness and competitiveness drives all of us,' redshirt senior Blair Bashen said."

Ah, so she's a real show-off, and you fight her for the spotlight?

"You want to get every dig because you see how hard she is working."

Oh. So it's the complete opposite of what I said. Gotcha.

"You know she is going to perform well every game. That's a great leadership value."

Well, I guess. If you're into that kind of thing. It's interesting, though, to see the similar work ethic that is developed in disparate communities.

"Bashen is from Houston, a metropolis compared to Fisher's hometown."

Or, you know, anyone's hometown, since Houston is a metropolis. But Bashen soon found out that they had a lot of similarities despite the whole small town / big town thing.

"'Her personality is nothing like a small-town farm girl,' Bashen said."

So, no stirring the Kool-Aid with her bare hand then?

"Prior to the start of a set when Bashen prepares to sub in for Fisher to play defense, Fisher will oftentimes offer a playful slap to the face."

Which confirms what I've always said: Nothing is more different from small-town life than a slap in the face. AmIright?