Sports
During high school, I was all about sports. I was fortunate
enough to graduate Valedictorian, but the real joy of high school was excelling
in sports. I went to a small 3A school in Bandera, TX, so I was fortunate enough
to experience personal success in all sports I participated in. I say personal
success because we didn't always have a great team, but all teams go through dry
spells, right? Anyway, I played tight end and defensive end in football,
ironman. For a while I even got to play fullback.
Though you may not be able to tell it now, I used to be quite
the athlete. My fastest 40 yard dash was 4.8 secs, and that ain't bad
considering I weighed about 210lbs. My fastest 400 meter run was 56 secs,
weighing about 200lbs at the time. At one point in time in my high school
career, I held three out of the four school weight lifting records: 645 dead
lift, 335 bench press, 320 cleans. (I weighed about 230 for these records) I
also squatted 475, but that wasn't a record... Unfortunately all of these
records were smashed shortly after I graduated. Despite these impressive stats,
my favorite sport was basketball. My senior year I averaged 18 points and 12
rebounds a game. Unfortunately, we also only won four games that season... I
also threw shot put and discus during track season. I experienced great success
in these events, and even went to state in shot put. Unfortunately, I had the
worst day of my sports career at state, so we won't talk about that. My official
personal bests in these events were 55' 7" in shot put and 155' in discus,
however I've frequently thrown much farther than these in practice. Ironically,
I was also the mile relay alternate for the track team. Alas, those days are
history, and the pounds have set in. But at least I have the memories!
:-)