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This place is Dragging: Your Favorite (Personal) Sports Memory?

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Having a ten game hitting streak in High School
It was only stopped when the homer score keeper called it an error when their outfielder
Missed a shoestring catch. Their pitcher had a no hitter going.
Beating the Number 1 team in the state in football.
I did get knocked out in that game so my memory is fuzzy.
Making 18 consecutive free throws to win a team contest.
Making 8 shots in a row from the deep right corner with my patented one handler.
It was a JV game but I'm counting it anyway. Inside 20 ft I was deadly.
Being on the same field with Floyd Little. Although I tried I never got a hand on him. I did knock Shorty Gardin ,who played for the Baltimore Colts in a Super Bowl IV, out of bounds on a punt return.,barely. Okay he stepped on the line but I caused It.
Hitting a baseball into the pine trees in left field at Cheshire.
To be honest my bigger thrills were watching my son and now my grandsons play
 
boog204 said:
My freshman year of college Rip Hamilton was rehabbing a foot injury by riding his bike around the campus. I was walking near MSB, didn't notice Rip riding, and walked right into his path knocking us both over. I thought I had re-injured him and personally ruined our chance at a title.
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Edit: Just noticed Shaq is wearing new balances.
 
Basketball-wise, I hit a game-winning hook shot from the top of the key at the buzzer as an 8th grader in the Mansfield Parks and Rec League.

Overall, I'd probably have to say beating Tolland in straight sets in my final varsity tennis match. It was made especially sweet since when we played them a couple of weeks earlier, we lost in 3 and I got nailed in the 'nads early on.
 
Oh I should also add for fave memory... One of the bball team managers lived on my floor and was tight with a lot of the players. So my freshman and soph year included many extracurricular adventures with the players. And probably my fave memory was being in Huskies when Taliek Brown and Johnnie Selvie decided they wanted to party with us. Spent the rest of the night w/ them. Surreal experience.
 
Stairmaster said:
Basketball-wise, I hit a game-winning hook shot from the top of the key at the buzzer as an 8th grader in the Mansfield Parks and Rec League.

Overall, I'd probably have to say beating Tolland in straight sets in my final varsity tennis match. It was made especially sweet since when we played them a couple of weeks earlier, we lost in 3 and I got nailed in the 'nads early on.
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Yesss mansfield rec basketball and eo smith tennis let's go.
 
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As far as non-UConn spectator experiences go, I'd have to say being present for Joe Carter's World Series winning home run in 1993 along with my father and three brothers is the one I'll alway remember most fondly.

As far as ones I was actually involved in, I would say it was making a desperation three while falling out of bounds to beat the buzzer and win the game in a regional playoff in high school. That's my one and only game-saving play in all of my life.
 
1. Hitting a walk-off Home Run in little league, to win 6-5 in the bottom of the 6th, as an 11 year old against an arch-rival who had my neighbor pitching & his father coaching. Total shock in the neighborhood.
2. Scored a Hat-trick in Soccer during an Alumni Quad tournament in about 1979 when Jimmy Lyman (a future All America) was playing for the opposing team. (He was probably - most likely - high.)
 
boog204 said:
Oh I should also add for fave memory... One of the bball team managers lived on my floor and was tight with a lot of the players. So my freshman and soph year included many extracurricular adventures with the players. And probably my fave memory was being in Huskies when Taliek Brown and Johnnie Selvie decided they wanted to party with us. Spent the rest of the night w/ them. Surreal experience.
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Had a similar experience with Souleymane Wane and Khalid El-Amin my junior year in Watson Hall, the night before Soul's first game (he was not eligible in the first semester).
 
boog204 said:
Oh I should also add for fave memory... One of the bball team managers lived on my floor and was tight with a lot of the players. So my freshman and soph year included many extracurricular adventures with the players. And probably my fave memory was being in Huskies when Taliek Brown and Johnnie Selvie decided they wanted to party with us. Spent the rest of the night w/ them. Surreal experience.
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To be fair, we would need a show of hands for people who didn't party with Johnny Time. I hung out with Taliek a few times as well.
 
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Somewhere around 7th grade... Town league hoops in Wethersfield... We were down 2 with a few seconds to go, had to go the length of the floor. I am, most definitely, not a prototypical hoops player. Honestly not sure why I was on the court unless we were missing people and there was foul trouble. Anyway, play was drawn up for anyone but me... Ball was deflected and ended up in my hands... My one and only three pointer swishes in, and I just remember yelling "I'm going to Disney world!" like I won the Super Bowl.
 
Mine is more of a wtf type of moments, I was a defenseman in lacrosse and I catch an outlet pass from the goalie I was running full speed down the field and whipped a bouncing shot through the goalies legs, I had no stick skills whatsoever. In wrestling being down by 10 in the 3rd period and getting a pin with a minute left in the match.
 
I was the last player cut from the freshman basketball team at Shelton High. The coach was also the freshman football coach and saved four spots for his grid boys because they were still practicing.

I remember seeing the final list with my dad who always came to see me play. Not seeing my name on that list and walking back to the car with him in silence is something I will never forget. I felt that he had waited his whole life for his son to play high school basketball and I let him down.

I never played organized basketball again although to this day, I can still shoot the lights out at 57 years old (with nobody watching).

On a brighter note, UCONN basketball has made me happy over the years and eased my heartbreak. Although my dad passed away in 2008, he was proud of my achievements and family.

Excuse me while I reach for a hanky! :)
 
Swim team in sixth grade.

We had a clinic at the local college that was the parent organization for our team.

They had some women from the college team doing demonstrations. An equipment failure on one of the prettier swimmers peeled the top-half of her racing suit down.

Might have been the high water mark of my life to that point.
 
Best: breaking my HS record in the 800m by running a 1:58 at the hartford invitational.

Worst: Duffing a penalty kick in a penalty shootout against farmington for my travel team. Our town was small so we very rarely ever had the chance to beat any of the bigger towns
 
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Freshman high school football team 11-0 and UNSCORED UPON! I was the 'star' halfback with too many touchdowns.

Thanks for the thread as I tend to forget this extraordinary feat.
 
It was late at night after a few beers, we had just met earlier at a horse show and we were sharing a cot.....
 
pnow15 said:
It was late at night after a few beers, we had just met earlier at a horse show and we were sharing a cot.....
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That's a whole different thread.
 
Biking all over Manhattan on a BMX bike with a fat bag of weed in my pocket. Was jumping curbs, etc. Cops pulled me over. They didn't search me.
 
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When I was playing travel ball in 2010 we played a team from New Rochelle, NY that was 92-4 on the year. They'd been honored at Yankee stadium earlier in the summer. We'd already played them in a double header earlier and they beat us 1-0 and 11-1. Well, we drove 40 minutes from Norwalk to play at some ghetto field, and beat them 3-2. I had 2 hits including driving in the go ahead run in the 5th, and made a diving catch at 1st base for the second out in the bottom of the 7th, with the tying run on third base. Next kid grounded out to short and that was that!
 
being MVP at the Ray Reid Soccer Camp and having our high school team ranked in the northeast and nationally
 
OT victory over Wilton to clinch a tourney in high school. I was in goal. Still have the puck.
 
I beat my best friend in the one-on-one free throw contest in XL at the under 12 timeout of a Georgetown game in 2009ish? Crowd was going nuts, I was facing the student section and I think I hit 8 in a row.
 
Best: Hard to distill into a particular memory, but my sophomore year in high school I went undefeated in JV tennis (singles and doubles). I never even lost in practice.

Worst: One time in IM soccer in grad school, as a fullback I conceded an own goal header on a corner kick to tie the game. It was literally the last play of the game and turned a win into a deflating draw. I couldn't look at my teammates afterward, and my face hurt. That result effectively torpedoed our season (or seemed to, as basically nobody showed up after that, though I don't think that was entirely my fault).

Silliest: At JC's basketball camp in the late 90's I took my turn playing one-on-one against Jake Voskuhl. (I was maybe 11.) I got the ball first, dribbled back well beyond the 3 point line and launched a 30-footer, figuring he would stuff any foray towards the rim. Of course the shot missed, he got the rebound, backed me down and mercifully dunked to end it. It was a fun experience though.
 
partyATkemba said:
I beat my best friend in the one-on-one free throw contest in XL at the under 12 timeout of a Georgetown game in 2009ish? Crowd was going nuts, I was facing the student section and I think I hit 8 in a row.
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I have great memories of absolutely wrecking in the "Dress Like the Huskies" contest. One of the kids I beat turned out to be my main competition throughout middle school for the honor of "last kid off the bench" in multiple sports.
 
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