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OK Dawgnation - what is your #1 moment as an athlete.
Let's go Dawgnation. Brag on yourself a little. Share your best memory either as a player or the best memory of a team you played on.
I was pitching in the first inning of a 6th grade baseball game. I was a really good youth baseball pitcher but I was having a horrible day. I walked in 4 runs - not a single strike was thrown. 7 straight hitters and not a single strike.
Coach finally removed me from the game and I sat in the dugout crying and embarrassed.
Bottom half of the 1st inning, we are down by 6 runs. I'm batting 4th and I come up with the bases loaded. Yep...... you guessed it. Grand slam straight over the center field fence. My very first over the fence home run.
That was over 40 years ago and I can remember everything about it.
Let's go. Start sharing.
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Blocking for Charlie Ward in high school as an offensive lineman. Almost every snap with him at QB back then had the potential to bust for a big play or a TD, even though he was a sophomore and I a senior. His greatness was evident even then....although he didn't become the starter until he was a junior, and I was gone.
In Little League, I went 3-4 and drove in the winning run. When I got home, I told my dad and he said, "What happened that 4th time"? Sound of air going out of balloon.
Fifth Grade Baseball - kid hit a dribbler right down the 3rd base line, it was going fairly quick but not a hot shot you usually expect at 3rd base. I charged right down the line and bear hand picked it up off the bounce and threw across my body while still moving forward and perfect strike to the 1st baseman. I remember the coach going nuts about it and both teams and parents just all acknowledging how good of a play it was, kinda like a stunned silence. Don't know why that stuck with me, I think it was the coach's reaction to it.
Now that's cool
Playing DE in high school, picked up a s trip/sack and ran it about 40 yds for a touchdown.
I think my #1 would be a game I pitched in at the University of Tennessee when I was 16. The night before, my coach asked me if I would be able to go all 7 and I told him kind of jokingly it wouldn't be a problem. The next day, through 6 innings, I was no-hitting the best 16U team in the state and one of the top 15-20 in the nation. We were wining 3-0 and he tried pulling me after 6 and I told him zero chance he was taking me out. I was due to face the 3,4&5 hitters to finish it out. I got the lead off guy to a FULL COUNT after fouling off like 4-5 pitches in a row and he hits a freaking 400ft bomb off the dam scoreboard. I get a pop up, strikeout and ground ball to finish a one hit, one run complete game. Nicest mound I ever threw off of. I also forgot my grey pants for this particular trip so I had to borrow another players and they were SUPER tight. I think between feeling uncomfortable in those pants and pitching at an SEC school brought out the best in me. I tore my UCL a month after that.
Awesome.
I dont remember where it is but my dad wrote down my stats (224 yds rushing 2tds 2 extra points made like 15 tackles and 1 sack and 1 blocked field goal) on one of those mini footballs the cheerleaders throw out. By far my favorite was busting threw the line for the blocked extra point. Went straight through A gap. Favorite play had to be kickoff. Never knew if I was going to get laid out or if I would lay somebody else out. Hint I never went for the tackle just wedge buster.
@Acrum21, as a 14u select baseball coach I can appreciate how awesome that game was for you. That's very special
My HS soccer team had traveled to play in Jonesboro. The field was full of holes big enough to crawl into during an artillery barrage. The game was tied until the end of the second half when I scored the game winning goal. Unfortunately it was for the other team. Good times.
Seriously, the biggest moment was probably starting in the playoffs as a sophomore.
Played basketball and in my sophomore year of high school we played for the district championship. I was never much of a scorer, just good at defense and really high effort. The coach would reward me with some playing time but nothing super significant like our starters got. Apparently the other team knew I wasn’t likely to shoot all that often so they literally left me open several times to double team our best guy. And I mean wide open. Anyways he passes me the ball and I make like a 18’ jumper. We get a turnover, go back down and do it again. I had like 10 points in the first half before they committed anyone to me and by the end of the game I had the second most in the team. We won and I got my name in the newspaper with our best player.
That was the sports peak for me, it all went downhill from there lol
That's awesome. Some of the greatest moments as a coach is when a non starter is actually the star of the game.
Although the worst is when the bench player is the star of the game - then you realize he is a senior and you probably just screwed up as a talent evaluator and the kid doesn't have any eligibility left.
won a Krystal’s eating competition when I was younger.
Little League when I was 11. I had stitches in my hand but could still swing a bat so the coach put me in centerfield. Bases loaded. High and deep fly ball in my direction. Lost it in the sun. The ball hit me in the forehead and carried over the fence. Grand Slam off my head.
It was a rather humbling moment.
Wow. If that is your best moment then I would hate to know what your worst moment is.