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Kinda boring here; Anyone care to brag about past personal sporting achievements?

Won my friend group’s large summer beer die tournament 2 of the last 3 years.

Gonna try to make it 3 in 4 a week from Saturday!!!

Tongue-in-cheek, of course, but no drinking game imo is more fun than beer die. It’s a shame it only seems to have made it to the east coast in the last 6-8 years.
 
Called my extra inning home run to win high school game to reporter Hal Levy while in on deck circle. He wrote article comparing me to babe ruth lol.

Following year at Uconn happened to live across hall from the very pitcher i went deep on in Towers. I plastered my door with copies of the article, so he saw it everytime he left his room ( til he tore them down first drunken weekend lol)
 
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phillionaire said:
I hit a cycle of home runs (solo, two run, three run, and grand slam) in a rec league softball game last year. We still lost.
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UConNick said:
Won my friend group’s large summer beer die tournament 2 of the last 3 years.

Gonna try to make it 3 in 4 a week from Saturday!!!

Tongue-in-cheek, of course, but no drinking game imo is more fun than beer die. It’s a shame it only seems to have made it to the east coast in the last 6-8 years.
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back to back post/avatar
 
husky429 said:
Wow, that's impressive. That would kill me. Literally.
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It was hillier than I was used to, too. Just an absolutely devastating ride. I took like a year off from cycling after it.
 
A couple years ago I signed up for some random golf fundraiser tournament I saw a flyer for and won the long drive trophy. They were all confused why this person who had no connection to the organization actually showed up.
 
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My accomplishments as a coach matter much more to me because I get to see other people succeed. I've coached MMA/Muay Thai, XC, track and field, and basketball.
  • Basketball
    • 1 HS conference championship.
    • Never had a losing season.
    • From high school--4 kids on college rosters (maybe 3? I'm forgetting)
    • From AAU--probably a dozen kids D1, 1 professional player.
  • Track and field--I coached sprinters and jumpers.
    • I believe 6 kids from track and field are on D1 rosters.
    • 1 state championship in track and field (boys)
    • 2 conference championships in T&F (1 boys, 1 girls)
  • XC
    • 1 state championship in XC
    • I think 3 conference championships in XC
  • MMA/Muay Thai
    • Nothing really exciting, but I did corner a UFC fight a few years ago.
 
In junior high/high school...
ran track against a future olympic gold medalist in the 4x400..(he had to give it back) Jerome Young
played baseball on the same team as a world series winning pitcher -Carl Pavano
played football against a future super bowl winning DB -Tebucky Jones
played little league against the Trumbull baseball team (Chris Drury) who won the LL world series
 
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My Dad and me, about 25 years apart.
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I broke a twenty year old record to hike 80 miles on the Appalachian Trail in one day. Unfortunately, I had to stop when the crotch rot from a freak downpour slowed me down to a waddle. That left the door open for my record to be broken the very next year.

I also killed 73 deer flies in one day during a 50 mile hike on the AT. I’m pretty sure that’s a record. ;)
 
Just this last weekend, my brother-in-law and I dominated a bunch of college kids in cornhole on the beach in Brigantine. It was hot and the beers were hitting me but I fought through and we won about 15 games in a row. Then I was asleep by 8pm…

There are a bunch of high school, college multi-sport and slow pitch softball accolades years ago, but knowing I still have it tossing beanbags gives me a warm fuzzy.
 
JTLAW said:
In junior high/high school...
ran track against a future olympic gold medalist in the 4x400..(he had to give it back) Jerome Young
played baseball on the same team as a world series winning pitcher -Carl Pavano
played football against a future super bowl winning DB -Tebucky Jones
played little league against the Trumbull baseball team (Chris Drury) who won the LL world series
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I ran track back then. Jerome Young was ridiculous in high school, best track and field athlete in the country and had the second fastest 400 time ever in high school. The things Young and Tony Ortiz at Crosby were doing on the track back then were insane.
 
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diggerfoot said:
I broke a twenty year old record to hike 80 miles on the Appalachian Trail in one day. Unfortunately, I had to stop when the crotch rot from a freak downpour slowed me down to a waddle. That left the door open for my record to be broken the very next year.

I also killed 73 deer flies in one day during a 50 mile hike on the AT. I’m pretty sure that’s a record. ;)
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Nope. The record is 74.
 
superjohn said:
I ran track back then. Jerome Young was ridiculous in high school, best track and field athlete in the country and had the second fastest 400 time ever in high school. The things Young and Tony Ortiz at Crosby were doing on the track back then were insane.
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He beat me by close to 80 yards...it was insane. Got toasted by Tebucky Jones, Kyle and Ian Mcintosh of Cheshire in the same 100 heat and it wasn't pretty. Those guys were fast also!
 
StrawChewer said:
I pitched a one hitter beating Madison Bumgarner in high school. I like to think that inspired him to win two World Series championships and sportsman of the year
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That’s pretty dang impressive!

I was a college baseball and basketball player but I was no good at either in the grand scheme, I don’t know that I ever threw a 1 hitter at any level. Definitely not against a future stud.
 
Not too much.

Two time hot shot winner at basketball camp (I drained a lot of 3s in a short amount of time, more than anyone else), 2nd place baseball team in little league, 2nd place cross country team in states in high school, most improved award for tennis. Some holes in one in mini golf including a 41 for 18 holes at a course in Old Saybrook which isn't too bad IMO. I think that's about it.
 
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Kitaman said:
Freshman football team went undefeated and unscored upon, 10-0. I was the star running back.

Won the basketball tourney in high school and was title game MVP (33 points).
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Nice! Flip side to your coin: my Freshman team LOST every game & was shutout every game. EXCEPT for our final game-we lost something like 48-6. Other team was wondering why we celebrated like crazy when we got a meaningless TD at the end of the game
 
When I joined the rugby team at Boston U., having never played before, we had an away game at Yale. This was a week after I joined the team at the start of school. My family showed up to watch. I scored the winning try. For years afterward, my Dad talked about my great Rugby exploits. I was never really all that good. I hardly knew the sport. The highlight was Rugby tours in Jamaica and the Bahamas on Spring Break. Never played again after leaving for Study Abroad in junior year. My Dad still kept asking about the Rugby team and whether I considered taking it more seriously.
 
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