Well, being someone who hates info-dumping at the outset of a story, especially when it involves pre-explaining everything (because that's so fucking clinical it makes me want to rip my hair out), I spent most of it being very cagey about how tall she is, even though I do hit on how short he is a LOT. I don't explain how she got to be so tall until the second arc, honestly. But it does actually tie into basketball stuff, how tall her father was versus how short her mother and sister were, etc.
Fuck.
I have something way more similar to this than I want to admit cooking. Hopefully I can be immersive enough to sell you on the trope this time when it happens.