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

[huskiesNhoos]

used to do the spartan races competitively and finished top 50ish overall for the season in point total...then more pros starting competing and I couldn't hang

won the nutmeg games in CT a few times for soccer, open cup, and bunch of other tournaments around NE back in the day

 

[SCNCHuskie]

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

Which school did you pitch for, as I taught Madison Bumgarner in middle school. My son has a friend who’s claim to fame is he got a single off of Madison Bumgarner.

 

[superjohn]

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!

There were some freak athletes in CT back then and then a few years later you had Freeney and those other dudes on the Bloomfield football teams.

 

[maineuconnfan]

I was the backup center in my middle school rec league. Only scored 2 points on the year. Starting center doesn't show up for the championship game. I scored 25 points and pulled down a ton of boards. Everything clicked for me that day. It was a surreal experience, as everything was moving so fast because I was inexperienced, but somehow, I managed to lead the way to victory.

Had a similar moment of clarity moment. In a senior league all-stars, I started the game pitching...with a broken ankle, mind you...I walked the first five batters...I then tried throwing a curveball for the first time in my life, and it clicked...in fact, the curve was devastating. We won in 6 innings due to a ten-run rule. I didn't allow another baserunner. I struck out 17.

 

[diggerfoot]

Nope. The record is 74.

Damn! Now I will have to hike from dawn to dusk on a warm, humid day and attempt to kill 75.

 

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JV year we literally beat every team we played by 20 points or more.

 

[husky429]

I was the backup center in my middle school rec league. Only scored 2 points on the year. Starting center doesn't show up for the championship game. I scored 25 points and pulled down a ton of boards. Everything clicked for me that day. It was a surreal experience, as everything was moving so fast because I was inexperienced, but somehow, I managed to lead the way to victory.

Had a similar moment of clarity moment. In a senior league all-stars, I started the game pitching...with a broken ankle, mind you...I walked the first five batters...I then tried throwing a curveball for the first time in my life, and it clicked...in fact, the curve was devastating. We won in 6 innings due to a ten-run rule. I didn't allow another baserunner. I struck out 17.

Shows you how much of the game is mental.

 

[tomtom80]

I held TimTeuffel’s 86 World Series ring at a wedding we were both attending

 

[Tenspro2002]

I went undefeated at JV tennis -- singles or doubles -- for an entire season, probably 30 matches.

 

[nomar]

In Babe Ruth League, I stole home twice in a season.

All downhill from there.

 

[olehead]

Top 75 b-ball in country
1st team Ct. All-State b-ball
1st team all-conference twice
Five Star All- Star twice
High major D-1 recruit

 

[UConnSean]

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.

thats awesome! who did you corner?

 

[Jim]

In the middle of a three game set, I once bowled 25 strikes in a row.

 

[notEwekon]

While serving in the Army stationed in Savannah Georgia my roommate invited me to join the Savannah Rugby Club. I'd never seen it in person, never mind played the sport, and so my roommate convinced me to check out a game.

When we arrived I was surprised over the scope of the production...the opposition was a club from Denmark and the stands held well over 200 people, there were 40 or so people on the sidelines including coaches. The uniforms were really nice.

So my roommate introduces me to the coach during the game, coach shakes my hand and says "what size cleats?". I tell him, he finds me a pair and PUTS ME IN. Coach tells me to tackle anyone who runs at me, and if I get the ball I run "that way".

A few minutes in someone comes running at me, I wrap him up around the waist, pick him up and drop him on his shoulder and get a huge attaboy from a few of my new teammates. Feeling prideful at this point, a short while later someone is tackled and the ball goes to the ground and starts to roll...I break into a sprint from the spot coach told me to be, throw a forearm, a few shoulders and dive on the loose ball.

All of the action immediately stopped, I'm talking guys from both teams standing there in a circle looking down at me while I'm in the fetal position wrapped around the ball. The ref walks into the circle and says, "you can't do that".

 

[Thunderbird]

Captain of my HS football team. I Moss’d Tyler Coyle and Jason Pinnock on the same play (see pfp). Also scored the first TD on Plainville’s turf field in the last game of my career.

 

[StrawChewer]

I don't think anyone can beat that. Wow.

Thanks. It’s a cool claim to fame. I was almost a preferred walk on at Western Carolina U but they gave that spot to Greg Holland after watching us play each other. He ended up being an all star and closing out the World Series for the royals. They chose right lol. Tommy John got me after 3 years in DII

 

[storrsroars]

If poker is a sport, I won the 2nd annual South Campus winner-take-all poker tourney back in '78. iirc, take was $800.

Was on 2 separate Stamford city champion softball teams, one Sunday rec, other corporate. Batted over .700 for both. Wasn't the star on either as was more a gap guy than a true power bat. But scored a crapton of runs.

 

[Chosen]

In lunchtime football my senior year in high school, one of the kids dropped the ball and I recovered the fumble. Only moment in football career. Kids also said i did good at frisbee during lunch.

 

[shizzle787]

Scored 80 points in a basketball game during recess in 6th grade.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Top 75 b-ball in country
1st team Ct. All-State b-ball
1st team all-conference twice
Five Star All- Star twice
High major D-1 recruit

OK, where did you play?

 

[shizzle787]

Oh, and owned Whaler in the Boneyard poker tournament.

 

[BlueMAB]

Won closest to the pin at a charity tournament. Better to be lucky than good.

 

[shizzle787]

Top 75 b-ball in country
1st team Ct. All-State b-ball
1st team all-conference twice
Five Star All- Star twice
High major D-1 recruit

Where did you play in college?

 

[TrueBlue22]

REC League Baseball 13 year olds circa 2000, our 1-4 hitters all batted over .500 with 30+SB in a 18 game season.

We got mercied game one of the shoreline semis, then mercied the other team (North Branford 2) twice to reach the finals.

Finals, we get mercied game one. We mercy the other team (Guilford) twice to win the shoreline title.

I’d never played 2 straight mercy games, let alone 6 !!!!

 

[GlastonTim]

Shot par at the Cape with rented clubs. Best round ever!

 

[Ant3411]

Scored 19 in the first quarter against a Doug Wiggins East Hartford HS bball team. Doug wasn’t guarding me, but they probably should have put him on me…

 

[ColchVEGAS]

I batted over .600* (it was little league so I am sure there were some errors not accounted for) for my little league all-star team in the post season district tournament. Our team was stacked, mercy ruled just about every team we played in the tournament except Orange who beat us twice, our only losses, including in the semi-finals to eliminate our hopes of moving past the districts.

Needless to say my baseball career was not as fruitful after that, as I think my talent was maxed out shortly after. Boy it's great to live 25 years in the past.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

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.

One-pitch tournament in Stamford about 13 years ago I managed to strikeout every way possible. Swinging, looking, foul out (I guess technically not really a strikeout but a one-swing out never the less). In fairness, we played two morning games then had a 5 hour gap until the next game thus my teammates and I spent most of the time drinking heavily at Colony Pizza before the next game.

 

[sdb1989]

Have run three consecutive sub 5 minute miles in a row

 

[UCTitleTown]

Sad, but the highlight of my athletic career was making all three put-outs in an inning for my high school team as a right fielder. Most hitters are righties and pull the ball to left field, so getting hit to right in one inning was special for me. Never happened before or after.