Your greatest sports/athletic achievement

In my last ever competitive basketball game (which was in 8th grade), I scored 34 points. Unfortunately, my team lost that game and my career ended.

I guess there's no place in basketball for 5-10, stocky guys with streaky jump shots and no hops.

 

this thread is worthless until JDV posts

 

At least we'll have video documentation.

 

Meadowbrook CC, Gainesville, Florida
Hole in one - #4, 175 yards

Reached semis of Green Valley CC tennis tournament back in '93 (singles and mixed doubles)

League bowling last summer - opened with 7 strikes in a row, finished with 253

 

7/28/97

Hole in one

220 yard par 3 No. 3

4-iron

Scott City Country Club

 

Hmmm ... getting plunked twice in a season as a 10-year-old baseball player. By a pitching machine.

 

Scored three touchdowns in "Mud Bog Ball" at summer camp as a 10 year old

Scored a touchdown on a fumble recovery in 10-year old football

Hit the game-winning single as a 13-year old against the "flamethrower" of the league

Scored the game-winning shot in basketball when I was 15

Chipped in for birdie from about 60 feet once during SEC Media Days

In high school, my greatest work was being an athletic supporter. Yea, team!

 

Threw for six touchdowns in one pickup game, including the winning touchdown on the last play of the game.

Scored the winning goal in pick up soccer in rain that was hard enough to force me to take off my glasses and be virtually blind most of the game.

Hit an opposite field double to drive in two and spark my team's come-from-behind win in a company softball game.

That's all I've got.

 

The first time I broke 80, won a little 8-man competition with a 76 on a tough golf course with my Dad following us around in a golf cart.

If I could have kept my mouth shut during my son's soccer games, that would have been a much greater achievement. The little guy could outrun 'em all, but he kept getting spilled ass-over-teakettle by big kids frustrated when he scooted past them. I was a howling idiot.

 

FB's the guy on the right--nice porn moustache, FB

 

Oh, forgot about this one:

First wrestling match of my senior was in a tourney, and I was giving 14 pounds (175 wrestling @ 189... ouch). Anyway, in the very first period, I hyper-extended my left elbow. Took two injury time-outs and was in danger of defaulting. I last the first round, then wind up pinning the kid midway through the second with my elbow all taped up.



Then I had to face the #1 seed. That didn't last too long, and four-and-a-half years later, I have surgery on it to remove a bone spur. Good times!

 

* threw a perfect game and a couple no hitters in Little League (ah, glory days!)
* won a youth soccer state championship (ah, glory days ruined by communist sport! wtf mom & dad!)
* finished third in the state free throw contest; went first and sank 20-of-25 shots, only to have that beaten by 21-of-25, which was then beaten by 22-of-25
* had five hits in one HS baseball game; in another game got a hit off a pitcher who was taken in the MLB draft
* caught nine passes in one HS football game, though none for a TD
* learned how to finally do a real tennis serve (pride, baby, pride, i mean we're talking at least three year's work here)

-- the cool thing is that i failed much more consistently than i succeeded as an athlete, and still do. i was born cross-eyed, had surgery as an infant to correct it, but lost all depth perception. doctors told my parents to not even let me play sports, because i would suck at them, wouldn't be able to do anything with them. to this day, i can't tell you what depth perception is. i don't see things the way most people do. i guess the best way to describe it is that i see things sort of two-dimensionally, but it's all i've ever known and doesn't matter much unless you're throwing a curveball at me.


* fwiw, my favorite and greatest, and one that i still take real pride in as an adult, is that i grew up playing youth and HS sports with and against a current MLB player and NHL player, but beat them to the big time, so to speak, if you call covering pro sports big time, etc.