Unrolling her navy sleeves, senior Tiffany Weimer shows off a string of bracelets made of plastic, yarn and rubber wrapping up both forearms.

"I never take these off," she said with a smile.

It's a side the media rarely sees of the star forward on the No. 2 Penn State women's soccer team. She confesses she is still not completely comfortable with the attention she's garnered most of her life.

As she talks about her superstitions and enigmas, her often-veiled personality begins to show through.

She's not answering questions about the Big Ten career goal-scoring record, which she's only eight away from, or addressing the possibilities of an undefeated season or explaining why the team performed the way it did.

Weimer also admits she's not completely comfortable speaking about other teammates, preferring to let the captains do the talking.

The talk of her quirks is a welcome relief and you see she's just like any other student, any other athlete.

She puts her shorts on one leg at a time. She just puts on the same underwear and sports bra underneath them before every game.

The woman who may leave State College as perhaps the conference's greatest goal scorer quickly, and defensively, interjects, to stave off embarrassment, that she washes them despite having two games on weekends.

"I have to wash them," she says, clearing up any misunderstanding.

On top of the undergarments goes the lucky shirt.

And then her cleats have to go on in the appropriate order.

"I cannot put on my left foot before my right foot, every single time," Weimer said. "I can't do it. If I do, I take it off and put it back on the other one."

Well before each game she has the breakfast of champions: eggs with protein and an offsetting, dehydrating soda.

"I usually have it earlier in the morning, but I have to have one before every game," she said.

She defends herself that her pregame meal is not as bad as that of senior goalkeeper Erin McLeod.

"Ask Erin about her Arby's before every game," she said. "She has to have Arby's and two scoops of ice cream."

Then there are the visible good luck charms worn as part of her uniform.

In the cheering section stand chest-painted brothers from Triangle Fraternity, while Weimer dons long sleeves and a white headband, despite the heat of summer.

The sleeves evolved out of a need to cover up all those arm jewelry.

"I wear long sleeves so the referees don't see them," she said of the bracelets. "That's another reason [for the sleeves]. If I don't wear them, they make me take [the bracelets] off."

The long sleeves became a mainstay during last season, a season in which she tallied conference bests with 26 goals and 12 assists, en route to a second place finish for the M.A.C. Hermann Trophy.

"I did it one time and then I did well," she said. "So every time I do well it's something else."

As for the headband, it's given to her from her mother at the start of every season. It's been that way since she was 12. Every other superstition began since her arrival at University Park.

Apparently they've continued to work this year, registering a conference-best 15 goals, 11 more than the next-closest Lion, junior midfielder Ali Krieger. She has also scored in all 10 Penn State games.

At Weimer's current goal-scoring pace, she will probably go on to break the goal-scoring record held by former Nittany Lion Christie Welsh, but it's her idiosyncrasies that will probably elicit a larger smile, at least on the outside.