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

I won a dorm darts tournament in college - I rarely played but magically got in the zone that night. I was drunk too, which I swear helped.

I took 2nd in the U14 division of the Litchfield Hills Road Race when I was just 11. Unfortunately, my running career came to a crashing halt when I hit puberty.

I once hit 7 three point shots in a high school basketball game coming off the bench. Coach still never started me. I hated him.
 
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 also had the pleasure of running against Jerome Young in the 500m at indoor state opens. I had won the class L race and missed going to New Englands by 1 place. That Prince Tech 4x400 was so dominant with Jerome and Kenroy Seargeant. I remember Aaron Haynes was a pretty ridiculous intermediate hurdler.
 
I wasn’t a great basketball player, but in one game in my town rec league I hit three three-pointers in the final minute of a game, with the last being the game winner…I didn’t even see it go in!
 
If by personal, you include teams:
  • Was on intramural championship football and soccer teams at UConn. - We had half the track team, including all the sprinters in my dorm. I was not a key player.
  • Lost in the UConn intramural softball championship game b/c we allowed them to use two varsity baseball players (we had one).
  • Recruited and captained the KU Law softball championship team that finally beat the Law Review team for the first time in over a decade. Won the first game with two outfielders. Juggernaut.
Pretty sad.
 
Won an A division softball league as a 57 year old shortstop.
First time running the mile in basic training posted 6 minutes 10 seconds, at the end of basic training it was over 9 minutes. Too much muscle isn’t always the best thing!
 
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Batted .759 last year LL….. Batted .750 in 4 all star games with 2 2HR games and one in each of the others. Shut out a Wallingford team 1-0 on a 2 hit/11 K stint and hit the HR with 2 outs in the 6th.
Had 11 straight hits my senior year…. a hit last AB versus Plainville then 4-4 versus Southington next game and 6-6 versus rival Platt last game of the year. We got beat by Waterford and Brian Winters (big lefty cup of coffee with the Cubs) 3-2 in the state semis. We did beat New Britain 13-8 to stop their 46 game win streak during the regular season as well.

Won the Greater Hartford Twilight League title our first year in it (Katz Sport Shop Meriden) and the cool thing was it was the strike year on MLB in’81. Baseball fans needed their fix so instead of playing in front of 50-100 family and friends the whole town of Meriden were coming to the games. 1-2K people fun summer.

Beat New Haven to win the state Jr Pro title at 12 yrs old had 28 in that one. Got beat by Roxbury in the Northeast finals by 1 or we would have gone to Rupp Arena to the nationals.

17 and 21 versus a good Mattatuck team in community college with former Husky Al Frederick. I think he had 35 and 38 if memory serves me correctly.
 
HuskyHawk said:
If by personal, you include teams:
  • Was on intramural championship football and soccer teams at UConn. - We had half the track team, including all the sprinters in my dorm. I was not a key player.
  • Lost in the UConn intramural softball championship game b/c we allowed them to use two varsity baseball players (we had one).
  • Recruited and captained the KU Law softball championship team that finally beat the Law Review team for the first time in over a decade. Won the first game with two outfielders. Juggernaut.
Pretty sad.
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I’ve found most baseball players suck at softball until they get a few years under their belt
 
Chasm64 said:
I’ve found most baseball players suck at softball until they get a few years under their belt
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These guys were hitting massive home runs and had cannon arms from the outfield. Our guy too. He was a pitcher but played CF for us and could hit bombs.
 
Gotta go waaaaay back.
Undefeated in varsity singles tennis my senior year of high school. 13-0
Then I got to the state tourney. ;)
 
Chasm64 said:
I’ve found most baseball players suck at softball until they get a few years under their belt
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So true funny story. After being a pretty good baseball player for many years in town when I was done playing in twilight leagues all over the town softball teams were bidding for my talents. Elected to play for Fortes Cafe best team in town and one of the best in the state. I hit for a higher average in all of my years of baseball than that one year of softball. Watching kids who couldn’t make the HS baseball team bat .600-.700 and I’m at .300-.350 made me decide to only play 1 year. Played some great defense loved the speed of the ball on a small field but I’ve never grounded and popped up so much in my damn life, I was putrid offensively.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
These guys were hitting massive home runs and had cannon arms from the outfield. Our guy too. He was a pitcher but played CF for us and could hit bombs.
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We had a guy on our company team - Bill Silverstein - who said he was once in the Royals system as a 6'5" catcher. We were playing at Westhill HS once and he dropped a bomb in the parking lot we estimated at 425ft. Also led league in OF assists. Dude fired lasers from LF that actually stung when IF or C caught 'em.
 
Led my office softball team to the league championship with 4 hits and 4 RBI in the title game to beat the team that had knocked us out 3 years in a row.
 
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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One more guy sprinter was amazing then - Aaron Haynes from Wilbur Cross. He and Ortiz were neck and neck in the 110HH, and I’m pretty sure Haynes ran a sub 38 second 300IH.
Young usually ran 46 point in the 4, but had that crazy 45.01 at nationals.
 
husky429 said:
Shows you how much of the game is mental.
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I ripped my quad muscle playing softball in a beer league. Like an idiot, I kept playing but didn't do further damage. After I got hurt, I started smoking the ball. Hit 3 straight home runs. Someone on the team said it was because I hurt my quad so I wasn't stepping into the pitches and I was just using my upper body. Everyone laughed at the guy.
 
After being forced to do this by the gym teacher in Junior High, I made 28 out of 31 foul shots and advanced to round 2 at another gym in another Junior High School.

At that time, I made 12 out of 30.

I never played competitive basketball in my life, and the 28 out of 31 was a fluke.

But well, I had my moment of glory.
 
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Pitched no-hitter and won the game 1-0 with a homer in last inning against state runner-up in high school.
Starting pitcher in college D1, we were ranked #1 in the country for two weeks in my junior year. We were 37-1 at that time.
Drafted in 4th round. Made it to AAA my second year (won regular season championship) then blew out my shoulder. Never to be heard from again.

12th man on a 12 man team in HS basketball (baseball coach was the head coach). We were the last team that Moses Malone's team lost to in high school. Of course, he was a sophomore at the time. I had a great seat from the bench for that game.
 
I was a dodgeball wizard at Tinker School gym in the late 60's :)

Coached the Mickey Mantle State Champions in 2003

Coach Babe Ruth District Champions in 2000

Otherwise just your typical gym rat, playing sandlot 24/7/365
 
This is random, but I am really, really, really friggen good at ping pong compared to most people. By no means am I competitive, but there's a good shot I could beat 99% of people. Can't play any other racquet sport well.

I went to the YMCA almost every single day after school from 6th-grade to 10th-grade with my friends. When we were sick of playing basketball, we would go play ping pong with a group of retired old Korean guys that were absolutely disgustingly good. One of them bought us all fancy competitive paddles for Christmas one year and our game really took off.
 
I hit a halfcourt shot to win a tournament for our aau team when I was 17 in Europe in an international tournament and it only happened because we tried to call a timeout and they didn’t allow it because it wasn’t a dead ball when the other (Spain) team scored with 6 seconds left. We didn’t prep for any international rules.
 
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On a track and field spring break trip to Margarita Island (pre-commie Venezuela), I won the Mr. Sexy Man contest. And, man, I was such a good boy - I didn’t cheat on my girlfriend with the hot senior hurdler who gave me her panties to help me win the most bras received from the crowd contest. I kinda regret that one.
 
Won best passer at basketball camp two summers in a row. It was admittedly not a camp targeted at prospective d1 players, mostly a regular bball camp held at the Storrs campus.
 
twice All-state in Cross Country, once honorable mention AA. Member of two class M Cross Country championship teams.

starting stopper on undefeated Tidewater area championship soccer team (military tournament in greater Norfolk area).

played the critical position called "left out" on my high school varsity basketball team...saw action if we were up or down 20 pts AND the coach remembered by name...scored 7 points for the season
 
huskyharry said:
twice All-state in Cross Country, once honorable mention AA. Member of two class M Cross Country championship teams.

starting stopper on undefeated Tidewater area championship soccer team (military tournament in greater Norfolk area).

played the critical position called "left out" on my high school varsity basketball team...saw action if we were up or down 20 pts AND the coach remembered by name...scored 7 points for the season
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Groff?
 
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