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I played Football & Wrestled in both high school & college, but eventually just switched to Wrestling full time. So that is what I voted.

Football wrestling baseball 3 years. Wasn't really good at any of them. Had one really solid year in wrestling.

Football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis

I played hockey for 3 seasons

Nope. Didn't even do gym in school, Cardiologist gave me notes to get out of it.

I played football and cricket for my school. Cricket at University.

But school/college sports aren't at all a big deal in the UK like they are in the US. If you're any good at football, you will be scouted by a professional team as a kid and forbidden from playing for school in case you get injured.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

Football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis

Wait, you could do both?

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

I fenced in highschool and college preseason (had to drop because I had too much work). To the above poster's point: In highschool, our toughest opponents were an underfunded urban school's team. Fencing requires very little space and the equipment is relatively cheap.

STEROLIZER posted...

Wait, you could do both?

hockey was in the winter, lacrosse was spring.

I played football (wide receiver) and tennis in high school. These days I snowboard more than anything.

In high school:

Football
Baseball

In college:

intramural softball
intramural basketball

I wanted to play college football but I could barely even stand up straight after a bad injury during my senior year of HS. I eventually got to a point that I could be active again but to this day my knee is pretty fucked.

tankboy posted...

Fencing requires very little space and the equipment is relatively cheap.

It's not so much that it's cheap, as swords, masks, and scoring systems can be fairly pricey. It's that it's literally designed for sword fighting, so it's super durable and rarely needs replacing. It's a one-time investment.

No, and I regret it. I played HS baseball and rec league basketball and football, and lots of college intramural sports. But I wasnt good enough to play on the collegiate level. I have torn an ACL in each knee, which did not help.

My oldest son has been playing lacrosse goalie since middle school and is in his first year playing college lacrosse. He was already a better athlete in 5th grade than I have ever been my whole life.

I played ultimate frisbee and a tiny bit of baseball in middle school and high school, but it was never against other schools. Dunno if that counts.

I played lacrosse, golf, and one year of football in high school.

I didn't play anything in college but our college didn't have many official sports. I was on the rock climbing "team" which was an informal group of people that had scheduled practices and went to bouldering competitions, if that counts.

I played basketball up until 6th grade. My junior high basketball tryout proved I was never going to play on a school team ever again. That's where I discovered the academic bowl team was more for me.

I was all conference in tennis all four years in high school. Always ended up getting a round or two into the regional tournament and drawing the dude that would end up being state champ from some ritzy private school in the state capitol.

I got a collegiate offer but the school wasnt somewhere I wanted to go as it was only twenty minutes from home, all my friends were going somewhere else, and I had no real future with the sport. It was also an HBCU and it seemed wrong to accept a scholarship as a white guy.

MrResetti posted...

It was also an HBCU and it seemed wrong to accept a scholarship as a white guy.

What?

A lot of hockey players

Played football throughout high school and for two years at the Division III level.

We got other wrestlers here?!? What weight class?

In HS:

• 152
• 171

In College

• 174
• 184
• 197
• HWT

No. The last time I played any sports was in middle school. Used to play basketball.

We had a few community youth leagues when I was young. I played soccer for multiple years, until I aged out of it. Played 1 season of basketball.

In middle school I started playing football(we didn't have a peewee equivalent before that.) And competing in track/field with shot put and discuss throw.

Played football into high school until my junior year. I quit because the coaching was terrible with no real hope for improvement. In high school track, I started doing high jump along with shot/discuss.

Aside from team sports, I did taekwondo until I was fourteen. Made it to second degree black belt, and went to a bunch of competitions along the way.

evil_cricket posted...

I did taekwondo until I was fourteen. Made it to second degree black belt, and went to a bunch of competitions along the way.

Me too. How functional did you find your TKD training? People say its not functional, but I've been using that side kick in fights for years

STEROLIZER posted...

Me too. How functional did you find your TKD training? People say its not functional, but I've been using that side kick in fights for years

I think the biggest takeaway is muscle memory and techniques like how to properly throw a punch/kick. Detractors seem to think people who learn martial arts are incapable of transferring their knowledge from "proper tournament sparring" into real world scenarios. In reality the rules are different and everything is more instinctual and less rigid.

I played little league up through 8th grade, but there wasn't much of a baseball program at my high school & by then I was an angsty little bastard who was more interested in girls than sports.

None. Very little natural athleticism

I briefly did track for a few weeks. The training was fun imo. Had a scare when I passed tf out for a split second during my first 400m race. Felt like my heart was gonna burst and all that. Got a part-time job the following week instead

Also did cheerleading for a season

Both in HS

High school, basketball and football were the best.

I also did tkd and they do teach some useful kicks for real world scenarios. Unfortunately it falls to the dame kryptonite that any traditional martial arts does. If you come across a grappler you are boned. I'd still rather have tkd than nothing but it wouldn't be my first choice.

STEROLIZER posted...

Arizona -- there was obviously no Hockey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Coyotes

you'd think it'd be obvious

Nope. I've never liked sports. Any involvement I had in a sport was forced on me.

Also, absolutely not.

I didn't want to be at school any longer than I had to be. I certainly didn't want to hang around the area and engage in physical activity.

These results legitimately suprise me. Made this topic on one of the other boards around 2012 and tons of people ran cross country. It dominated the other sports

Chess Club was the only thing like that.

DementedDurian posted...

Chess Club was the only thing like that.

Did the succubus go to the winner?

No.