Can you name 7 members of your HS XC varsity team?

macker wrote:

Hey, you went to C-ville HS.

sure did! You too?

???? wrote:

I'm only 23, but can't remember a single one. Come on now. High school does not matter one damned bit. I can't remember much about high school - I have more important things going on, like grad school and trying to run fast. If you remember high school (athletics, academics, friends, etc.), you are either:

1. Still in high school;

2. Stupid, and never advanced to college;

3. Living in the past (but why would you want to live in high school?).

We had a guy on our team like you. We called him ... well, actually we never called him. We didn't want him along at parties or when we went out to TP someone's house. We didn't want him coming to the movies with us, or to the A&W. Nobody asked him to come to Lake Huron for Memorial Day, or to Florida for Spring Break.

Even though he was eventually a 1:54/4:19 runner, we won our Regional Title without him, our 6th at State without him, set the 3200mR School Record without him and none of us ever trained with him in the summer or the winter, he was always injured when you needed him most, and disinterested when you needed him just a little.

He was always too good to run with us, the popular kids would have frowned on it, so he ran his own workouts mostly and in the off-season he didn't run at all. Most Fridays in Summer and Spring he skipped Friday practice to go up north to his cottage, but he always faked an injury or claimed to have a tutoring session he couldn't miss.

If you don't remember any of your teammates or friends from high school you are likely very self-absorbed and shallow.

I'm betting they remember you, but for the wrong reasons. When the subject of running comes up, I bet they say, "Is ???? still running? And is he still such a prick?"

RG

MM

DB

TK

DT

BB

MH

Bump

Cass

Lyle

Straub

Straub

Me

Sandrock

McNamara

Senf

Niese

a journalist wrote:

1. Charlie Rogers, junior -- joined the Marines after graduation. ran a marathon in combat boots.

2. Mike Foley, senior -- ran a bit at Mich. State but sucked

3. Pat Delano, senior -- ran at Univ. of Detroit

4. Jim Stojek, senior -- went to Central Mich. Univ. Did not run.

5. Gary Tottis, junior -- smoked a lot of dope after graduation

6. John Anderson, junior -- ran at Mich. State but got booted off for something.

7. Fred Hempel, senior -- went to Mich. State, but was like a nun or something. super religious.

Fall of 1977, Harrison High School, Farmington Hills, Mich.

Can't remember the JV runners except a couple of nasty nicknames.

I like this format:

1. Eddie Fisher, jr - UMich, ended up w/ColSanders

2. Andy Campbell, sr - Harvard, bigshot now

3. Adrian Newby, sr - Purdue, didn't run

4. Martin Hueter, jr - EMU, ran 1 semester, transfered somewhere...?

5. Carl Hueter, sr - UMich, successful architect in Ann Arbor

6. Karl Tsigdinos, so - Harvard, ran some for the Crimson, moved to Ireland, editor of Irish auto magazine

7. scotth, sr - EMU, ran for the HURONS 4 years, co-captain cross jr & sr.

Fall of '69 cross, Huron High, Ann Arbor. State Class A champs.

Not sure about the JV but one guy became a lawyer in AA.

CHRIS HOFFMAN! my college room-mate and teammate! Handstands galore.

My friend, wasn't Chris in all the Cheech & Chong movies?

blackknight wrote:

macker wrote:

Hey, you went to C-ville HS.

sure did! You too?

Nope but I lived in C-ville for about 8 years, from grad school on. One of my best buds from college is Glenn Wayland, a CHS alum. My ex-wife was a classmate of yours, Lisa Shifflett and her brother Rory and I were pretty tight. I also knew Tim Morris, who played football for you, and later for UVA.

Doug Bloor and I pledged the same fraternity in college, but he dropped it because it interfered w/ his training (I didn't run in college).

nope - he was a three stooges and beach boys FANATIC - no weed for him. And a AA his Frosh year - tough competitor. We had a 'Dave' but our Dave WAS here. Cheech and Chong did visit our college but I doubt they would remember :)

easily I can do this.

My freshman year:

David Ramono

Kevin Drews

Anthony derouen

Steve Smith

Kyle Slotta

me

Calvin Claude

Me - "The Dog"

Jason Hussell - "Hussman"

Kevin Knapp - "Mack Nappy"

Greg S.

Jay Hatfield - "Clipboard"

Chris Adams - "Whoa"

Mike ???

Matt Richardson - "Tipper"

We sucked. Never won anything as a team eventhough we had two people qualify for state my senior year, and I went undefeated until the state meet.

Andyroo wrote:

1. Aaron Castleberg

2. Matt Kiss

3. Andrew Bednarek

4. Ryan Ramsden

5. Jeff Comstock

6. Chad Wethel

7. Juan Gomez

Badger conference champs (first time for school in 25 years), sectional champs, 9th @ state

Thats a good team

What ever happened to Castleberg, I know he was running at Minnesota for awhile, but then he kind of dropped off the map.

C. Milton Wright, Class of '93, Maryland State Finalist

1) Brian Harris

2) Steve Donahue

3) Greg Stephen

4) Me

5) Troy Morse

6) Kevin Koffenberger

7) Chris Parkinson

Abdigani

Fauwd

Abdifatah

Elser

Yassin

Mohad

Mohammed

Yes, all the top runners on my team were either somalian or ethipoian (yes, like Geb)...

macker wrote:

My ex-wife was a classmate of yours, Lisa Shifflett

yeah... I remember her, didn't know her that well tho.

macker wrote:

I also knew Tim Morris, who played football for you, and later for UVA.

sure, I knew Tim - better than Lisa but not terribly well

macker wrote:

Doug Bloor and I pledged the same fraternity in college, but he dropped it because it interfered w/ his training.

wow... I forgot he pledged that frat! Weren't the Dierauf's in that one too? Andy and Roland. Or maybe Andy Arnold? Doug's back in C'ville as of late last summer.

Flores

Santana

Turner

Murphy

Foxman

That is the best I can do 40+years out

Turner&Foxman ran on our 1:27.x 4X220yds

Bill Taylor

Lee Allard

Matt Landon

Bill Dohm

Ron Way

John Tunison

1982 Michigan Class C Champs

blackknight wrote:

wow... I forgot he pledged that frat! Weren't the Dierauf's in that one too? Andy and Roland. Or maybe Andy Arnold? Doug's back in C'ville as of late last summer.

No, at least I don't recall the Dierauf's. I don't know if Doug would remember me, as I only met him through the brief time we pledged together, but tell him Chris Womack says hello nonetheless. I remember him mainly because he was (and I'm sure is) such a good guy. If you frequent Ragged Mountain tell Mark L hello as well.

totally agree with you darkness... I just received my invite to my 20th .

members were:

Kenny F.

James G.

Daved W.

Ross S.

Murphy J.

Steve J.

Vinorod

Hope to see some or all of them.

As for the other poster,

I graduated high school

Did advance very far in college

and had better times with high school teammates than my college ones

later