here are mine.
made varsity baseball as a freshman(didn't play much though)
Dunked a basketball
broke 80 in golf for 18 holes
bowled a 201
bench pressed 250lbs
other than that i have never really won any awards in anything except running, unless you count little league baseball
MVP of every basketball team I ever played on except for AAU.
Broke 80 in golf.
Leadoff hitter and number one pitcher on varsity baseball as a soph (before I switched to spring track)
Started on an AAU baseball team that was 7th at nationals
Bowled a 220
Never maxed out on bench but it would not be pretty
But most of all, made the last second game winning 3 pointer in the freshman vs. the rest of the xc team-basketball game (college)
I've never played a sport and not been a starter. That is why I switched to xc my freshman year of high school after not playing a lot in football
Third place in the U.S. Air Force Chess Championships.
Brilliancy prize winner in the U.S. Armed Forces Chess Championships.
(A bunch of other chess stuff, but I abandoned the game in my early twenties to focus on running.)
i think he said athletic accomplishments. Oh!
bmc pool wrote:
i think he said athletic accomplishments. Oh!
Yes, I know. But when I saw that bowling accomplishments were included, I figured that anything goes.
Juggled 4 bowling balls (ANSI Standard 302.4 PBA approved)--once.
Introduced the DMR with bowling score handicaping scoring system.
Served as trainer for the PBA, CBA, WFPBA, NQWPBA, and several other athleticully relaited thaings.
Duh? wrote:
Juggled 4 bowling balls (ANSI Standard 302.4 PBA approved)--once.
Wow! And ANSI Standard, too! Was it a four-ball cascade or shower? How long did you last?
I've bowled a 226.
That's about it.
--Made Varsity Wrestling.. Fresh & Soph years (never wrestled before in my life & our team was one of the best in the Midwest).. I didn't wrestle Jr or Sr yrs... to focus on running.
--Multiple time summer league swim champ/medalist (specialty was Breaststroke though)
--3rd place Air Force Skeet shooting championship
--Have also dunked a BBall (2 handed)
--Killed plenty a fool in a mean game of Foosball
--Threw a 180 in Darts
--Also benched 275 (while I was deployed)
Suck at Football
Suck at Basketball
Really, Really Suck at Baseball
Never Played Hockey
Not too shabby at Soccer, but didn't pursue it
Suck at Bowling
Shot under 100 in golf (i.e. I suck)
I have my moments at pool and darts (random spurts of drunken greatness)
Mediocre at Ping-Pong/Fooz-Ball
But I ran a mean ass two mile in high school and am training for the Olympic Marathon Trials now...
God I Love Running...
Junior state champ in table tennis. OK, so it was West Virginia.
Hit in face during dodgeball and broke glasses
Hit in face during basketball and broke glasses
Hit in face during floor hockey and broke glasses
Hit in face during snowball fight and broke glasses
Hit in face with golfball from another fairway, just missed glasses
Hit face on diving board during backflip, didn't wear glasses.
Never broke glasses while running. Now I know why I run.
I have bowled 236 (4 times). Average is 172.
Made All-Star teams 4 years in a row as a little leaguer.
MVP on my championship winning Church basketball team in 9th grade. Played ball in 7th, 8th, and 10th grade for school.
Won a couple soccer championships (intramurals) in college, and a floor hockey one (that one I'm very proud of).
When I was 13, I won a doubles tourament in tennis (pool vs. pool vs. pool thingy in our city)
Have played soccer in the 3v3 nationals tournament for 4 years. We stunk once we were there, but we did qualify, that means something.
I like many probably grew up playing all sorts of sports but then found that running was the way for me to go. I started as soccer player like many on here too.
I'm only in college now so obviously these all happened when I was pretty young...
Won HS district tennis singles 3 years, advanced to regional finals
Made All-American cheerleader and performed in Citrus Bowl halftime show (yes cheerleading is a sport--how many back flips can YOU do?)
Was MVP on state championship softball team, went to Nationals twice (granted this was when I was 11 but it still happened)
mvp, blah, hold a bunch of records, all county in softball.
i scored 4 touchdowns in a single game for polk high football.
500 situps nonstop. On an incline.
I was the league champion on the 1963 Newton Mass. HS rifle team. Hardly picked up a rifle after HS.
Ran JV Track 440. Tried XC but couldn't stand it and quit. 41 years later I've qualified for Boston.
I once killed a man, just to watch him die...