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Nice round!
Got my right eye poked out during a rugby match and never came off the field. Put the eye back in the socket myself. Back in those days we weren't pu_ss_ies!
Hitting a Grand Slam home run in the Playoffs of IM Softball @ UGA.
Hitting a Home Run on Ray Goff
Getting run over by William Andrews
Grand slam against Clarkston my senior season in HS. Finished the game with a diving stop and tag out at third. Not sure why the runner continued into me.
Most impressive so far.
Game winning layup in Ramsey in an intramural basketball game. I've had pretty marginal athletic success.
Mine wasn’t really an athletic performance by me per se. At my time at UGA there was a gym was located where the current student center is now. It had a bunch of basketball courts and you could go there pretty much any time for pickup games of bball. Now I was a decent athlete (was 6’1” and could dunk) so I went frequently. One day some of the football and basketball players were there (for some reason the coaches allowed that back then). Anyway for the first game I end up covering non-other than Dominic Wilkins. So, thinking I was a decent athlete, I decided that my best course of action was to simply stay in front of him and not allow him to the basket. I wouldn’t’ try to block his shot or even reach to steal the ball, etc. Well, the other team brought the ball down at the beginning of the game with Dominic handling the ball. At around the top of the key I tried picked him up. He made one quick move and went right by me. Not only that but in the time it took me to spin around all I saw was him finishing a two-handed dunk. It was then and there that I realized there are athletes and then there are ATHLETES. Anyway, for the next few minutes (that’s how long the game lasted), I had a front row seat to all sorts of spins and dunks. Quite an experience.
My best day ever in a game? My 8th grade football year - I was (assigned to line up) as the strong side outside LB, and for some unknown reason I just couldn’t be blocked on that day, I was always in the right place all game long, and absolutely nothing went wrong (for me). I finished the game with two QB sacks, 14 tackles (3 for a loss) with a blocked punt, and a fumble recovery on that very play. Best game of my life by far. We won 27-0.
As a player it was my freshman year in HS. I made the varsity team, but mostly as a kicker and backup WR. We used to play a "5th quarter" after games. It was an opportunity for the backups to get some live snaps. Anyway, the coach put me in at DE for some reason (I was all of about 5' 7", 125lbs). I ended up making about 3 sacks and knocked the QB out of the game...solid shot to the ribs. Coach was impressed and the next week one of our LBs was out so I got the start at ILB for one game as a freshman. I played well and had a lot of tackles, but coach realized I was too small for that position and I was back to kicking the rest of the season.
As a coach, it was a little league baseball team. We were the last team to make the playoffs. First round was of course against the #1 team (essentially a hand-picked team of great players...if you have ever coached LL Baseball, you know what I'm talking about). My kids played lights-out and we mercy-ruled them 11-0. The whole Oconee Co baseball community was shocked. Next game was against the #2 team...another stacked squad. We mercy ruled them as well! Then the finals came, and I was out of pitchers after about 2 innings (pitch count is closely monitored). We lost in a very sloppy game...but mercy-ruling the two top teams was stunning.
Bittersweet; Hit a switch-hit home run over the right field fence in an all star little league game. First one I had actually ever hit over a fence because the fields we normally played on were high school depth or cow pastures. Any way, after I hit the ball I took off like a jack rabbit. I didn't realize the ball had gone over the fence until I was headed around second base and saw the umpire doing the little wave around motion. As I looked back towards right field to admire the situation, I tripped over second base tumbling right to the feet of the short stop. I looked up at him and he says, "First home run, huh?" I said, "Yep". We all laughed. Oh, we got beat 11-1 .
Went to bat with a men's softball team back when I was in my twenties. The town stud/show-off who was a football coach at a local highschool and thought he was God's gift to women was in left field. He loved to talk smack all game long. I was kinda smallish (though I was in pretty good shape) but I guess he thought I was a wimp. So when I came to bat he moved in shallow and called in all of the other outfields to come in shallow. I connected and as I rounded first I seen him running towards the fence. It went straight over his head. I got an inside-the-park homer. Needless to say, he was humiliated and kept his mouth shut the rest of that game. That was my moment of glory!
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Playing baseball in the parent/kid friendly game, I was pitching and one kids dad cranked a line drive right at my crotch, took several seconds for everyone realize that Id caught the ball and wasn't a newly minted transgender.
Played in a summer league basketball tournament at Clemson my junior year of High School and got my first break-away dunk in the championship game in Little John Coliseum. That was by far my favorite memory of high school basketball. Finished with 15, 5 and 5.
Maybe not my #1 athletic moment in and of itself, but the coolest was 1987 fall softball when I hit a three run home run over the fence and when I returned to the bench Paul O'Neill who had fractured his wrist that year playing for the Reds was sitting in the bleachers and said "Nice Shot". O'Neill ended his career with 5 All-Star games, 5 World Series Rings and One American League Batting Title.
Dislocated my shoulder when hitting another player while going for a ground ball in lacrosse, scooped up the ball, somehow maintained possession running down the alley and made a perfect skip pass through the poles to our center attackman, who scored the winning goal against the top rated team in the state with :02 seconds left.
Funny, the thing I remember most is the team mauling the attackman with congratulations, while I laid on the field writhing in pain from my shoulder...with no congrats at all! 🙄
* Dominique (**** spell check)
Should be others, but I recall as an 8th or 9th grader in practice, pulling on a "student body" right play, leaving my feet (when one could do that), going horizontal, and laying out 2 defenders, to oohs and aahs from the key coach.
I would also cite 2 Par 3 holes in one on public courses with buddies, but then you said "athlete". 😜 (I am not a golfer.)
Great stories.