[5] Wilt Chamberlin watched the game and praised her performance: "That little guard for Maryland (Tara Heiss) was up and down the floor all night long.

[4] She postponed professional play after college to maintain amateur status and became a member of the 1980 US Olympic women's basketball team.

However, due to the United States boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, American athletes like Heiss were unable to complete.

[7] Heiss played for the Allentown Crestettes in the Amateur Athletic Union and the New Jersey Gems in the short-lived Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL).

[9] Following her playing career, she was an assistant coach at Maryland and Towson University and worked for twenty years for FedEx.