OT - your most impressive athletic achievements

This is a good thread. Shout out to the OP.

Best HS baseball game

• Had to play catcher because the starter was injured (was Left Fielder)
• Went 5 for 5, Hit the cycle with an extra double.
• Threw 5 people out trying to steal base. Last guy tried to steal third and I had to ask what he was thinking. Could throw, with accuracy mid to high 80's.

Playing basketball with friends/pickup, I can throw a Kevin McHale shot and I am practically automatic in the 2 point range. Oddly, I don't use it too often, but always fun to freak people out with it.

I once ate 2 double cheeseburgers at Wendy's AND hit the salad bar as well.

Also took the 1lb burger challenge at Chee Burger Chee Burger, and won the challenge, that one hurt.

I guess my accomplishments all centered around food lol.

Played Pop Warner football until I was 13, but then decided chasing girls and smoking weed was more important (I guess the weed explains the cheeseburgers?). It was the 1970's after all.

Shortlisted for the England Schools Cricket Team. Had a great first year which got me on to the shortlist but didn't do so well in year two.

Back in the day (he he he), hit .600 in our church's co-ed softball tournament. We placed well and had a blast.

Putting my name next to the words "athletic achievement" creates an oxymoron. I was a flag twirler on the color guard in both high school and college. That is the closest I ever got to an athletic competition. It did, however, feed my rise to Patriots superfan

Patsfanin Philly said:

Not the greatest of athletes but I had hops for a 6'0 guy. In a rec league in my 20's went up for a rebound while the ball was in the cylinder and got 5 inches over the rim and tipped it in/jammed it depending on your perspective. It was offensive goal-tending either way.One of the other players was screaming "offensive goal-tending" but I just looked at him and said, " I wish I could jump high enough to commit offensive goal-tending". The ref let it go and never called it..

Coed softball league the same year. One of the women on the other team was annoying everybody to no end. The cars were parking way out in right field ( I'm a leftie dead pull hitter). When she wouldn't shut up, I asked where her car was parked. She pointed it out like expecting I'd never hit it.. Next pitch was grooved and I drove it headed right for her windshield. right fielder caught it right in front of her car but to hear her shrieking was worth it... She never annoyed me after that....

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Back during my pick-up days, I also eclipsed the cylinder. Except I was on defense. One of my teammates told me I should have jammed the ball home anyway.

manxman2601 said:

Shortlisted for the England Schools Cricket Team. Had a great first year which got me on to the shortlist but didn't do so well in year two.

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And probably more relevant to this forum, ran in 5 TDs in my first full game as an American Footballer, back when the UK started playing the game, was given the nickname "snakehips" and then promptly damaged my shoulder in game two and didn't play again.

manxman2601 said:

And probably more relevant to this forum, ran in 5 TDs in my first full game as an American Footballer, back when the UK started playing the game, was given the nickname "snakehips" and then promptly damaged my shoulder in game two and didn't play again.

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I'd give the story a like, but the ending is sad. Hope you made a full recovery!

I used to be able to swim while holding a can of beer.

Al Bundy would be proud of you.

manxman2601 said:

And probably more relevant to this forum, ran in 5 TDs in my first full game as an American Footballer, back when the UK started playing the game, was given the nickname "snakehips" and then promptly damaged my shoulder in game two and didn't play again.

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Cycled Alpe d'Huez in 1 hour 15 mins

I was pretty much a JAG on my HS cross country and track teams. Didn't do any serious running after HS until, when I was 38, my (much younger) cousin asked me to be his training partner for the Boston Marathon. I ran it that year and the next as a bandit - the first time in about 4 hours, 40-something minutes.

Two years and probably close to 5,000 training miles later, I qualified for Boston by running the November Columbus Marathon in 3:12 and change. By that time, I was regularly running 60-minute 10-milers, 36-minute 10k races. I even beat a bunch of local HS football players in the 1/4 mile with a 63 second run (after a ladder workout). I'd never been anywhere close to that fast in HS.

Unfortunately, while doing speed work the following February, I partially tore my right meniscus while (stupidly) attempting to break 26 seconds for 200 yards. I tried to run the race, but had to give up after 10 miles.

Couldn't afford the surgery, so I just quite running for about two and a half years.

Never ran the marathon distance again, but I did manage to break 39 in a 10k and 5:00 for the mile at least once a few years later.

High school -- 5x letterman (track, cross-country) ... was a starter on my sophomore football team and wish I'd stayed with it but switched to cross country as a junior to augment track. Ran one year of track in college.

resdubwhite said:

Cycled Alpe d'Huez in 1 hour 15 mins

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Did you ride about 200km before the climb?

I scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds

I was named the GOAT of flip cup at a camp out party at Fort Walton beach. So I guess I'll have that to my name.

reamer said:

I toured for two years with a professional performance company -- acrobatics, cirque, and dance type stuff. I established and operated a parkour gym for a few years. I can still tightrope, backflip, handstand, etc, at a competent level, although I'm not exactly performance ready anymore.

Here are a few random clips from the last few years. Nothing too crazy, just the footage I happen to have on hand:

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I had some amazing high bar skills...

mosslost said:

I had some amazing high bar skills...

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3x High-school champion in soccer (first team to do it while being composed by only freshmen)

one HS basketball championship (0 points and 2 assists and 6 rebounds during the whole tournament, lol)

member of the Rio de Janeiro U18 Football team as a WR.

First brazilian to play football in the Netherlands

pretty cool stuff, sports are awesome