Who here competed at the highest level in a sport other than T&F/XC?

Quiddich - seeker. Bulgarian national team.

umm wrote:

[quote]wow, dork wrote:

Ever hear of Major Indoor Lacrosse? Lol...D1 highest level.

Yeah... thats not a thing. theres the Major League Lacrosse (outdoor) and National Lacrosse League (indoor), but D1 is basically the highest level of real outdoor lacrosse, since the guys in the mLL have to have real jobs in addition to playing lacrosse

It is now defunct but there was a Major Indoor Lacrosse League. I used to watch it.

my roommate was ranked number 4 in the world and number two in the us for 2v2 player battles in World of Warcraft. Also qualified for the state meet that year in the 1600.

I made an awesome catch in Little League once.

i once played a butt trumpet solo with thelonious monk. that's not sports, but it's a pretty high level i think

i once played checkers with myself for 72 hours straight on crystal meth. i never lost. i'm pretty sure that's a world record

I ran 220/440 for an NAIA school in the late 60s/early 70s. After my military service I played professional billiards for a couple of years and made enough to cover my post-grad education. I also just missed qualifying for a couple of pro surfing events on the West Coast before I went into the Navy to do some classified stuff in Vietnam. Since coming back to running I have a couple of 5th place results in National Masters XC.

I once won a weiner eating contest. It was held in a motel room. I never got my prize.

I am a seven time Tour de France champion. Now I crank out 3 hour marathons.

I was on the gold medal-winning team in rapid-fire pistol shooting at the ISSF word championships back when I was younger.

My best non-running sports achievements aren't very high-level, but they were a lot of fun.

I beat the whole starting five of my DII school's basketball team in consecutive 1-on-1 games (to 11, winner's outs, win by 2) while a 6'1", 155-pound sophomore on the cross-country team. And after two guys had lost, they were on to most of my tricks. The last game was against a 6'8" forward who I tired out by running all over the place, shooting from outside, and sprinting after my own rebounds if I missed. The final game went to something like 13-13, I went up by one, and then I made a left-hand hook that I'd saved throughout all five games so I could surprise someone with it.

I had a similar victory over a 280-pound shot-discus guy: In a fitness class taught by the school's water-polo coach, we'd learned that to bench-press 100 pounds as many times as possible in one minute, the best way is to start slowly and keep a steady rate of about one lift per second. I did 60 with that method after doing about 33 while starting really fast--which makes you go totally anaerobic at less than 30 seconds, after which you're reduced to long pathetic gasping waits between lifts for the last 30 seconds. Armed with this knowledge, I challenged the biggest guy on our track team to a bench-press contest in front of about half the team while we were in the weight room. Of course he thought I was joking; he could bench over 400 pounds. I gave him the rules and "allowed" him to go first. He blasted out of the blocks, so to speak, and had about 40 lifts at 30 seconds. He was then completely exhausted and got 15 or so in the last 30 seconds. I acted very impressed, really milked the prelude to my turn--and then did 60 without much trouble, to the huge delight of the audience, both distance guys and weight men. The thrower blustered and scoffed and kept saying "Let's go for max!!" But of course I wouldn't let that happen.

Played pro hockey in the early 90's a for a couple minor pro teams,

i was/am a professional rock climbing. not much of a profession though.

also, a kid on my HS xc team was once ranked first in the world in a popular video game and he ended up getting paid to play video games...thats pretty legit haha

D1 Basketball

D1 Track/XC

High school chess champ

Pool checkers champ at age 5 (was competitive at pool)

Member of 1988 US Water Polo team. Silver medal. Blew out shoulders a few years later.

Finally, someone I can respect here.

Masters Fattie wrote:

Played pro hockey in the early 90's a for a couple minor pro teams,

I did well in a mud run once.

I was a starting wing in the Rugby Super League.

hmmm super league rugby player on letsrun...that's kinda hard to believe.