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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.
55 yd FG as a 15 y.o.
Dang. That's impressive.
Mine was when I was 13. Was swimming the 13-14 South Eastern championships in the 100 yd backstroke... as a 13 year old I really wasn't expecting anything. I was the last qualifier for the championship finals... I was a full second and a half slower than the top qualifier... which for a 100 yard swim is a huge difference in time.
But I had a great race. Nailed the start, hit my turns perfectly... everything went well. Meanwhile since I was in late 8 and the top qualifier was in lane 4... I don't think he saw me. I think he saw he was ahead of the guys in nearby lanes and started to coast at the end. You can't see outside lanes easily when doing the backstroke.
I touch the wall, and look around and realize I was near the front. Look up at the timer board... which for this pool displayed the times one at a time for a couple seconds for each lane in order of finish. It was already on the #2 finisher (lane 4). It kept going through other lanes and I'm getting confused. It's already on the 5th place finisher and I don't see my lane.... what's going on? Was I really that far down? I turn to look over at the other side of the pool where my coach was at... and he was jumping up and down and screaming at the top of his lungs... and I finally realized that I had finished first.
My dad later said the look on my face the moment I realized I had won was one of the funniest things he had ever seen. Apparently it was clear as day that I was clueless up until that point.
Only regional championship I ever won (had a few state titles here and there over the years). Finished 3rd the following year as a 14 year old.
That is awesome. I can so picture that, and how cool it would be. O'Neill was a great baseball player.
Sub 8 minute mile in jeans when I was a junior in high school.
About 4 years ago on Thanksgiving I was playing football in the south bronx with some neighborhood kids and my friend Ben who lived there. First play of the game I ran the kick off back for a touchdown. Later in the game our QB throws deep but it's off. One kid is waiting to catch it. I yell at him, he gets nervous, and the ball bounces off his chest in to my arms and I take it in for a touchdown. Everyone is rolling around on the ground laughing. Oh these kids were in middle school so the accomplishments weren't THAT impressive.