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Baseball, indoor soccer, and bowling as a kid. But those were never affiliated with school. Baseball was your typical youth sports league. Indoor soccer was similar, but we had to drive 45 minutes to the next town because ours didn't have a facility or league. Don't fully remember how I ended up starting that in the first place, but it was really awesome. And bowling leagues are kind of a family tradition. My parents met in a bowling league, and my brother and I have both been bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments for decades.

And then there's the one I always get shit for whenever I mention it. I was a fencer for my high school and competed in the state tournament twice. And everyone always immediately assumes "privileged rich asshole" but I swear it was just a normal public school. We just got really really lucky. There was a student who happened to be born and raised in our town who, on his own time with his family, had been training with aspirations to become an Olympic fencer. He was one of the top ranked youth fencers in the entire country. The kid was an absolutely insanely good fencer. He just happened to attend the same public high school, and his junior year just because he thought it would be fun, he asked the school if they would sponsor a fencing club and he and his parents, who clearly had plenty of experience, offered to coach for free. They also had plenty of spare equipment like swords and masks with his Olympic training connections, so people could try it out before dropping hundreds of dollars on an admittedly expensive school sport. It was so much fun, and getting to watch him basically troll everybody in every match against other schools was wild. XD