Amy Acuff of UCLA won five NCAA DI high jump titles, with three coming indoors and two outdoors. She never finished lower than third in an NCAA competition, adding a pair of runner-up honors and one third-place finish. During her college years, she won three U.S. titles (two Senior, one Junior), made the 1996 U.S. Olympic team and won the 1997 World University Games.
In 1995 she became the first woman in 17 years to hold both the indoor and outdoor collegiate record at the same time after clearances of 1.97m (6-5½) indoors and 1.98 (6-6) outdoors – both in championship competition (NCAA Indoor and Pac-10 Outdoor, respectively). She was the first collegian to clear 2.00m (6-6¾), doing so in the summer of 1997.