What's your greatest athletic accomplishment?

[BiPolarBear 476]

I shot 15 dove with 18 shells

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and a country boy can survive

Considering the national average is about 105 shells for 15 dove, I would say you did real well.

 

ETA: They were flying, right?

[JT 137]

From a purely athletic standpoint it would be high jumping above my height. That's one of those "bench press twice your weight" kind of measurements. Jumped 6'9" at 6'6" tall.

 

Personally, I enjoyed what success I had as a swimmer more than anything else. Just about everyone I swam against was a year-round swimmer. It really led the pack as a sport in which kids specialized. I played basketball, ran and jumped for the track team, played football through junior year, and started swimming each May/June. By season end championships (August/Sept) I more than held my own.

[Phurfur 70]

Almost 50 years later I still hold HS wrestling records for my weight class.

[jerryskids 5,169]

10 ft. tranny

Awesome.

[penultimatestraw 473]

Not really athletic, but the standards drop as you age:

 

Climbed Denali to 17K+ feet, but couldn't summit as my partner had frostbite.

Bench pressed ~120 pounds more than I weighed.

Climbed 5.12b on rock

Place 3rd in age group in a 5K as a 40 year old, besting my time in 20's.

[nzoner 936]

Last game of a 5 game Pony League All-Star Play-Off and I came to the plate in the last inning with a guy on 2nd and down by one and hit a walk-off homer to send our team to the next round.

[Sho Nuff 719]

51 second 400m barely edged out at the line and wound up 3rd in the Knoxville meet that year

 

Lots of baseball stuff and all star teams, but nothing too great.

 

Was more of a very good in several sports but not outstanding in any one.

[Thornton Melon 542]

Beating a black kid in the 50 yard dash when I was a high school junior. He was a freshman, but did I mention he was black?

[Voltaire 4,554]

I was playing third base in the 7th inning, (last at bats, we only went seven innings in the cub scouts) leading by one with a runner on third and the other team's auto-home run cleanup hitter at bat to win the game. This kid was a focking nightmare at the plate and all the punks on the other team were on their feet excited, cheering him on. I backed way the hell up, barely on the infield dirt. The kid smashed a hard line drive straight at me- maybe the fastest ball I'd ever caught at that point in my life. Huge bullet dodged, but my heroism on that play wasn't yet done. Coming to my senses a split second later, my eyes got big with joy when I realized the dipsh*t runner on third was caught 1/3 of the way home and I had him dead to rights. So I jogged over and tagged the base to single-handedly force an inning/game ending double play.

[SUXBNME 1,321]

Awesome.

Amazing that you gravitated towards tranny.

You, sir, are not allowed on my couch anymore.

[smashmouths@blf 33]

I got drafted by the New York Mets. Then threw my arm out.

[jerryskids 5,169]

51 second 400m barely edged out at the line and wound up 3rd in the Knoxville meet that year

 

Lots of baseball stuff and all star teams, but nothing too great.

 

Was more of a very good in several sports but not outstanding in any one.

That's kinda my story; I always considered myself a renaissance athlete, but in hindsight I wonder what might have happened if I had focused on one sport, specifically baseball.

 

My not-so-great baseball tale: as background, I spent K-6 in an "academically talented" test program in the 70s where we were largely isolated from our dummy peers. Come 7th grade we were introduced to the general population (school was a 7-12 combo Jr/Sr HS). I was a pretty good baseball player but only known by the kids who played organized ball in the area. In 7th grade our gym teacher had us play softball and kids picked the sides; usually the football players were captains and they didn't know me; I was the skinny smart dork to them, so I usually was picked near the end.

 

A few weeks in I was playing teener league ball and came up with two on, two outs, down two, bottom of the last inning. I crushed a ball to right center for a 3 run homer to win the game. I wasn't particularly an opposite-field hitter, but I hit that ball so hard that I spent the next year as an inside-out hitter trying to recreate that perfect swing.

 

More importantly, word had gotten out and the next day in gym class I was one of the first kids picked. I had crossed the line from unknown dork to normal kid.

[gocolts 300]

I joined a midnight softball league one year, before I was a cripple. I went just to hit on the chicks. I was pretty drunk when the team from work said they need an emergency fill in at bat. I told them I was too drunk, and they said I had to do it or they would have to forfeit. It did not matter if I even hit the ball, as long as I could stand at the plate. The chick that was there I was hitting on said "You should do it, it will be fun to watch". So I think this might get me laid, why not. No pressure at all.

 

I get up there and swing at the first pitch and knock it out of the park and everyone goes bananas. THey all said I had to join the team permanently after something like that. After the chick said she would come to every game IF I played, I agreed to do it.

 

Next game, I bat 1000. They give me the nickname "The Natural". Yeah, I know, real original. I proceeded to bat 1000 for the ENTIRE season.

 

So that was it, I actually had at least a base hit every single time at bat for the entire season.

[jerryskids 5,169]

I joined a midnight softball league one year, before I was a cripple. I went just to hit on the chicks. I was pretty drunk when the team from work said they need an emergency fill in at bat. I told them I was too drunk, and they said I had to do it or they would have to forfeit. It did not matter if I even hit the ball, as long as I could stand at the plate. The chick that was there I was hitting on said "You should do it, it will be fun to watch". So I think this might get me laid, why not. No pressure at all.

 

I get up there and swing at the first pitch and knock it out of the park and everyone goes bananas. THey all said I had to join the team permanently after something like that. After the chick said she would come to every game IF I played, I agreed to do it.

 

Next game, I bat 1000. They give me the nickname "The Natural". Yeah, I know, real original. I proceeded to bat 1000 for the ENTIRE season.

 

So that was it, I actually had at least a base hit every single time at bat for the entire season.

So did you fock her?

 

Also, I call bullshiot on batting 1.000 for the entire season. Everyone gets out occasionally.

[gocolts 300]

So did you fock her?

 

Also, I call bullshiot on batting 1.000 for the entire season. Everyone gets out occasionally.

Nope, never made it in her pants. Started dating some other chick the next week.

 

It was just one of those softball leagues made up of local laborers. We did not play many games either. Only 10 teams total. So we only had 9 games in that season I think. No playoffs or post season, just a straight up 9 games. So not nearly as cool sounding as my 1st post.

[Bishop82 61]

Should baseball/softball count as "athletic accomplishments?"

[jerryskids 5,169]

Two kickoff returns for a TD in one game freshman year.

And a game winning 3 pointer in my junior year.

 

 

Should baseball/softball count as "athletic accomplishments?"

 

Probably not, Al. How is the shoe business?

[30 Fat, Bald & Texan 5]

The day after I scored the first touchdown of my life, one of the cheerleaders sent me a note in class asking me who I liked. The note had 3 names on it. I crossed them all out and wrote "you". I went from nerdy adolescent to popular jr. high kid immediately.

[wiffleball 4,631]

I got the silver medal in involuntary luge.

[vuduchile 1,940]

Playing free safety on defense, I intercepted 7 passes in one game as a freshman.

Playing QB in offense in the same game, I threw one pic and fumbled at our own goal line, giving up a safety.

We still won, but that was the strangest game ever.

[Bishop82 61]

The day after I scored the first touchdown of my life, one of the cheerleaders sent me a note in class asking me who I liked. The note had 3 names on it. I crossed them all out and wrote "you". I went from nerdy adolescent to popular jr. high kid immediately.

Yep still works.

[Bishop82 61]

 

 

 

Probably not, Al. How is the shoe business?

Great, thanks for asking.