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I've never been all that big of a dude. I wrestled 103 my freshman year of HS. Never had really done sports seriously before that. I mean, I had wrestled the year before too, but that wasn't varsity.
Anyway, being a freshman 103 was somewhat normal. Plenty of freshman weren't that big. In one of my first tournaments, however, I got to square off against a 103 SENIOR. I don't know how that even happens. And he was good. He was basically muscle, tendon, and bone, and had four years of varsity experience to boot. I got handled. Pinned less than a minute into round one. I took the L, and also took with me a vendetta.
WAY later in the season, I got to see him again, and I was mad. He busted my lip and they had to stop the match to clean up the blood. So then when they were finished and we started again, I crossfaced him and busted his nose. They had to stop the match to clean up HIS blood this time. He still ended up winning, but the match went a full 3 rounds and he won by a single takedown, which was 2-points. Neither of us pinned the other. There was a legitimate handshake, and it was nice to experience mutual respect. I hung with somebody that had destroyed me earlier in the year, so I knew I'd improved—and he did, too.
Ended up getting sixth in state that year, and it was the last year I wrestled. Had to devote more time to band, and all. Good thing, too (see my username). But I enjoyed it while I did it.
Pony League All-Stars in Northeastern Florida. I played for Marianna. Struck out 17 versus Port St. Joe ./Shot a 70 at age 11 in the Future Masters.
I also caught one pop fly playing rec-league baseball, 13/10 moment
Jeez @Bankwalker made coffee come through my nose.
Golf: when I was 64 (8 years ago) I shot a 66 (personal best) from the members’ tees. 2 eagles, 4 birdies and a double bogey on a par 72 course. I double bogeyed the 16th hole, then finished birdie/birdie.
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.