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

[djct1999]

Rashmal Jones dunked over me in the Trinity Catholic gym.

I graduated high school as the all time leading goal scorer in soccer. The record has since been broken twice.

 

[shizzle787]

I don't care what league it was, have you ever been the MVP of it?

Yes unofficially

 

[StrawChewer]

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.

Thanks! It was a good day when everything was clicking. I never got a hit off of him and he really improved since then haha

 

[Martin]

Baseball was my game. 2 HRs a double and a single my career game. In the championship game when it counted most I made the defensive gem of the game with a diving stop. My last year of basketball I scored 7 pts; all year. In 2004 we were down 3-0 to those Damn Yankees but came to back to beat them and win the World Series. Oh wait that wasn’t me that was the Red Sox! ‘Nuff Said. But my favorite sports moment ever, when Bundy scored 4 touchdowns in a single game. I’m actually watching Force 10 From Navarone right now. And it was my daughter with the better sport’s accomplishments than me. She did play a year in college, hung her volleyball shoes up for good when a psychotic coach took all of the fun out of the game. No lie the day after she retired she looked, well happy walked taller looked better. Sports can be bad medicine too.

 

[Austin316]

I was on the bottom the dog pile twice. I kicked field goals on our football team. Our sophomore and junior years we may have won a single game. Senior year I drilled two game winners. We still sucked… but we moved from being a laughing stock to a respectable laughing stock (.500ish record). We were ok with that.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

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.

Dads....I lost my dad a month ago. I once scored 29 points in a game and had the game winning block...against a bad team. The way he told the story to anyone who would listen made me sound like the second coming of Jordan lol

 

[CL82]

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.

For what it's worth, I love Brigantine. Highly underrated beach.

 

[Richmondhsky]

Helped hold Mike Gminski to 34 in a CT state tournament…he only played three quarters however.

 

[BullDawg]

Made a free throw at half time at an Atlanta Hawks game back in the late 70’s (in high heels, only given one attempt).

Won a sports trivia contest at the ESPN bar at Disney World in the late 90’s.

 

[slug25]

Soccer All-American and college record holder in triple jump, four senior championships at my course, but the ultimate highlight was helping the Simpering Eunuchs of the women’s team win the Boneyard Open at Keney Park.

 

[Apollo]

CT State cup champion in soccer. All conference senior year of HS. Was training to try out for the local semi-pro Wolves team after college (DII), then blew out my ACL.

Hiked/ summited the highest point in each New England state a few summers ago.

 

[upstater]

Dads....I lost my dad a month ago. I once scored 29 points in a game and had the game winning block...against a bad team. The way he told the story to anyone who would listen made me sound like the second coming of Jordan lol

Sorry to hear about your Dad. Mine died 2 weeks before UConn's 2014 run in the tournament. He used to get off work early and pick us up to drive up to Hartford for UConn games in the early 80s. Watching that Michigan State game in MSG in 2014 was more than a little overwhelming for me.

 

[twiceahusky]

This year I won my neighborhood beer mile (in 8:20) when my 14 yr old son failed to complete a penalty lap after barfing while chugging his 4th coke (kids got soda). He’s still angry.

 

[brihman]

Was a college middle reliever so yeah my proudest athlete accomplishments are mostly slow pitch softball and peloton output totals.

 

[MTBingNinja]

I’m a casual cyclist but…..,

Last year I Rode my bike for 151 miles in one day. Left the house at 7:00am, returned at 9:01pm. Left my house, pedaled to the end of the railroad trail in Westfield Massachusetts. From there, pedaled back down completely through Connecticut and back home.

Today I did 28 miles in 176 minutes. Climbed up Southington Mountain then through Wolcott up the Woodtick Roads to Bristol. Went up Willis St in Bristol, the most challenging cycling hill in Connecticut. Then went back through Wolcott, Southington and home to Cheshire. All the hills without stopping. All in 95°

 

[Yardigan]

Scored 27 points in a basketball game (shoulda had 30 .. 7-13 from the line)
Made a halftime buzzer beater from half court in a game we won by 1
Suck at golf but love to play, made an eagle once

The one that really matters though (for health, I'm old) - Every work day I get out there and walk 3 14 minute miles on two replacement knees (can't seem to find the time to do that on weekends or when I'm on vacation)

 

[uconnfan68]

Had three holes in one.

Only 1, but I had to wait almost 60 years for it.

 

[huskypantz]

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.

I played one HSFB game against Ortiz.

Legit scored 4 TD’s in one game senior year of HS. Only scored 8 in the season so it was kind of fluky.

First season coaching my daughter’s soccer team 4w-3t-1L.

 

[UConnRock]

Struck out 26 in a ten inning game in high school

 

[WeAreUCONN]

I once played against Marci Glenney in a 2 vs. 2 pickup game. I blocked ten of her shots and made her quit. This was at the mystic community center indoor gym. Highlight of my career. I showed no mercy just like Cobra Kai.

 

[djct1999]

In a game of knockout, I got Uncle Cliffy at the Cliff Robinson basketball Camp. I think it was his second season in Portland. All I remember is how tall he was and his socks w the nba logo. I thought that was really cool. Rip legend. Ironically, I saw him years later at the Costco in Brookfield and reminded him. He laughed.

 

[Scrappy3]

Bench pressed 415 at a bodyweight of 190 33 years ago at 22. No steroids no real diet and a beer guzzler on the weekends. Tore pec lifting an old school fat TV set and never even came close again. Very decent ping pong player.

 

[djct1999]

Bench pressed 415 at a bodyweight of 190 33 years ago at 22. No steroids no real diet and a beer guzzler on the weekends. Tore pec lifting an old school fat TV set and never even came close again. Very decent ping pong player.

We should have a boneyard ping pong tournament!

 

[husky429]

Bench pressed 415 at a bodyweight of 190 33 years ago at 22. No steroids no real diet and a beer guzzler on the weekends. Tore pec lifting an old school fat TV set and never even came close again. Very decent ping pong player.

That number is in elite competitive powerlifter territory. Good ! I'm not even in the 2 plate club at 160lbs.

 

[Dove]

In a Wallingford pool league around 1988, I ran a table. Drank for free that night.

 

[Dove]

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.

Not sad at all.


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Very sad, actually.

 

[DisabledVet]

Matched up against Heisman Trophy winner Joe Belino in a pickup basketball game at Hanscom AFB. He was at least 20 years older than me at the time and very physical. I used all of my available fouls.

 

[Scrappy3]

That number is in elite competitive powerlifter territory. Good ! I'm not even in the 2 plate club at 160lbs.

Not elite but good. I started lifting with my plastic weights at 12 so I had ten years in. I loved all sports but I put the extra after school time into weightlifting. I knew a lot of juicers but never engaged. My biggest weapon was eating chicken for almost every meal. It wasnt a good diet but I saturated in protein. I put a lot into getting there! but looking back--for what--to mention it on a basketball forum 30 years later))

 

[Offhegoes]

Cut high school freshman year basketball, was senior captain my senior year. Had that dog in me.

 

[Yardigan]

Not elite but good. I started lifting with my plastic weights at 12 so I had ten years in. I loved all sports but I put the extra after school time into weightlifting. I knew a lot of juicers but never engaged. My biggest weapon was eating chicken for almost every meal. It wasnt a good diet but I saturated in protein. I put a lot into getting there! but looking back--for what--to mention it on a basketball forum 30 years later))

IOW, totally worth it