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[jacl]

What are some accomplishments you would like to brag about in the area of sports?

Does anyone have any remarkable, or not so remarkable, stories? Can be anything from giving someone a season/carreer-ending injury to breaking Wayne Gretzky's single season goal scoring record.

Please share.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

http://psychedelickimchi.blogspot.com/2006/07/thats-when-ya-lost.html

Sparkles*_*

[jacl]

[billybrobby]

[JLarter]

When I was nine ten I was goalkeeper at football. I had a trial with QPR coming up. At the time I was amazing in goal for someone that age. The week before the trial, I was playing in a match, I came out to smother the ball in front of the striker but got a boot in the head.
For some reason that one incident shattered my confidence and I've not played in goal since. (I'm 22 now). My dream of professional football disappeared that day.

[jacl]

I scored two goals in overtime in an under-16 provincial (Canada) finals soccer match.

Had 7 goals and 5 assists in a regular season hockey game in Midget A hockey (grade 11). My coach sat me on the bench in the third period. I won MVP that year.

In grade 12, during a hockey game, I had to crap so bad that I went off the ice near the end of the second period. I didn't even go to the bench. The period ended while I was on the can and the team came into the dressing room. My coach yelled at me while I was in the stall. "What are you doing? Blah, blah, blah!" I came out the next period and scored two goals. After the game, my coach said, "Jesus, jacl! You should take a *beep* more often!"

[Gaber]

Not the point, I know, but New Zealand just wooped Aussie at Rugby tonight. I'll take the brag for that. 32-12. Woop.

Personaly...
Always regretted giving up all my sports with my early teens "everything is stupid and lame" phase.

[Satori]

At 15 I was the youngest person ever to represent my province in the under 19 hockey ( field hockey ) team. And at 17 I was selected for the New Zealand under 19 team. We didn't have an international that year so it was a bit theoretical, we just met for a training camp and that was it...

I played a lot of regional tennis tournament all through my youth till I was 18. Best I ever did was semi finals once, but was often found getting my ass kicked in a quarter final...

[Rteacher]

This is another thread that doesn't belong in the "General Discussion" related specifically to living in Korea - it belongs in the "Off-Topic" forum.

[Jeju Rocks]

In grade 11 gym class, I made a left handed hookshot from the three point line, sunk it, nothing but net. I am a crappy basketball player. The whole class and the teacher stopped and just stared at me and did a collective WOW.

[RACETRAITOR]

I was smart in school so people didn't think I was athletic. Every year I'd smash their assumptions again. But I didn't care much so I didn't go out of my way for it. I'm awful at hockey and baseball but I'm a skilled fullback in soccer and a fast runner in football.

The best incident was in grade nine leading up to the track meet. We were practicing the long jump. I wanted to get it over with so I took one jump and walked away. Everyone around the pit was staring and nobody was saying anything. Funny because usually in gym class they taunt me whenever I do anything. I came back and found out I'd broken the school record.

At the track meet, I entered the 100 m run. It was all white guys and one black guy who was the favourite to win. I didn't even take my jacket off. As soon as the starter pistol went I took off. Somewhere behind me I heard the black guy exclaim "Holy crap!"

Next I went to the long jump pit. I messed up on my first jump. Someone told me, "Don't feel bad--that was a pretty good average jump." The next jump I beat everyone by a wide margin.

Shortly after, I was walking home one day. A group of my classmates who hated me and I mutually hated were kicking around a football. It landed near me and they shouted at me to kick it back. I picked it up and booted it high into the air. It landed right at the feet of the guy who had shouted at me. I heard one of his friends laugh at him and say "You can't even kick harder than Jon."

So they all forgot me. The only guy who remembered was the black guy who couldn't forget getting trounced by a white guy at the 100 m.

[ajgeddes]

When I was 17, I played Junior A hockey in Ontario. Towards the end of the new season, we got a new coach and we had a bit of an outing (to put it nicely ). Anyways, I switched to a Junior B team for the play-offs. I played one regular season game before play-offs started. In my first 5 games, I got 14 points, at which point, the coach decided that he didn't like my playing style and took me aside before my sixth game and said he was going to sit me next game. For the remainder of play-offs (6 games), I got 1 or 2 shifts per game and still averaged 1 point per game.

I still remember after our final play-off game, the assistant coach looking at the game sheets and said to me, "wow, ajgeddes, looks like we should of gave your more ice time". That made me so angry. Funny thing is, the stupid coach of that team still calls me every summer to go golfing, while nothing would make me happier than to fire a golf ball right up his you know what.

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The previous year, I played for my town's A Midget hockey team. After years of friends telling me I wasn't good and laughing at me, my dad telling me I had to get better and coaches telling me I needed to improve, I grew 6 inches and they made me the captain of the team.

All year long, I had a pretty good season, not the best in point, but good nonetheless. Well, in our 4th round of play-offs, we went to a deciding game and were down 3-1 in the 3rd period. I ended up getting 2 goals and an assist, and we won the game. During that game, in the other town (4 hours away), the coach of the local Junior A team asked me to come out for his team, which I played for most of the next season.

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Anyways, now I play hockey in Seoul and live for the once a year "Kimchi Pot" hockey tournament in Anyang, which was last weekend. If anybody is interested in playing some hockey you should come out and play for the RMT Chiefs in Mokdong on Sunday mornings. Go to our website and blog at www.rmtchiefs.com.

[jacl]

[blaseblasphemener]

My gym teacher asked me to try out for the floor hockey team when I was in grade 4. Everyone on the team was grade 6, except for a couple grade 5's. He liked my stick handling ability in gym class. Got the skills from playing road hockey every day after school until dark. Made the team and started. Had the uncanny ability to knock a puck out of the air with my stick, then clear it out, and was tall too, so could keep the puck away from the other team.

Also won the race in grade 3 gym class to determine the fastest boy.

I realize it's extremelly pathetic to be harking back that far, but hey, it meant something at the time.

And, my twin still remembers who was the fastest in grade 3.

[JZer]

Well this is not really a story to brag about but I want to demonstrate the retardness of american sports. when I was in 9th grade, I was on the basketball team. I was placed on the second team because the coaches son and nephew were forwards as well. Almost everyday, the second team would beat up on the first team. I would get the ball underneath the hoop and make a hook shot or go underneath for a score. Despite this I never got a chance to start a game.

The funny part was when some 7th grades thought I would be starting because they did not understand the politics. all they could see was that I was the best forward on the team.

The only revenge I got was that the coach and his son never experienced a winning season. It is not a suprise since he never played his best players.