As a kid, what sport were you best at?

[HEyHEY]

Poll question: As a kid, what sport were you best at?

Me, I was awsome at skiing and baseball. I was a decent goalie for hockey, but my parents pulled me out after what is a long story.

[SmileyBoy]

1. Hockey.

Probably the fastest skater in my Bantam League. I really regret not playing Hockey in high school.

[HEyHEY]

4. I play roller hockey in highschool

There is no Ice hockey in Canadian high schools. All the hockey is run by independent leagues.

[strategery blunder]

20. In the US, they don't even have roller hockey in high school

Instead, it's just a bunch of people running around with cheap, .8 meter long, plastic hockey sticks. Turned out that that was the only sport I was actually good at; I completely sucked at everything else.

Nobody wanted to believe me when I said I was good at it though, so I always got put on defense, a position usually reserved in American high schools for those who suck. The opposing teams received a nice little surprise:evilgrin:

btw, hockey is still the only sport I can really enjoy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Softball.

And then football...of course. ;)

[Mz Pip]

3. Softball

so I checked Baseball.

MzPip
:dem:

[flamingyouth]

5. Reading

I was a GEEK

[HEyHEY]

6. At least you didn't say collecting star wars figrues

:-)

[SarahB]

7. Tennis if I have to pick

I'm the type that pretty much dislikes team sports on most levels, but at one point, I could do kind of sort of okay at this. That's about it though. :)

[Triple H]

8. BASEBALL!

I'm still good at it!

[Career Prole]

9. futbol americano

Tackle, touch, flag...football! :D

[Kenneth ken]

10. swimming

andwhat a bonus. I still swim regularly, to help keep in shape. Great exercise!

[calimary]

11. I said "other" because you don't have "None of the Above."

I could NOT speak sports at all as a kid. The biggest nerd/basket case on the playground. Couldn't run, jump, hit, catch or throw. Last in the hearts of her classmates. I could run circles around the best of them at report card and test time. But gym class? Forget it!

[nickgutierrez]

12. Baseball

I was a really small kid -- that ruled out football and basketball. I wasn't any good at soccer except in the goal. That left baseball, and I could do that. I was an all-star left-side-of-the-infielder when I was in Little League.

[LastKnight]

13. baseball/softball

played both, utility outfield/second base/shortstop i prefered left or center though. fastest dude on any team i was ever on, i could get anything hit in the outfield. i sometimes liked to kinda run slow and go for a diving catch just to show off. yea, coaches hated me.

i was a slightly below average hitter though, unfortunatley.

-LK

[Madrone]

14. Soccer.

Usually the only girl on an all boys team - more years than not.

I could outrun them and outlast them. My dad always used to tell me he'd laugh during my games because he'd hear parents on the other teams asking "who's that GIRL!?!?"

[grannylib]

15. Baseball out of what you had listed; I could hit pretty well and run fast,

but I sucked at fielding (I am not great at catching, and I throw like a girl, which I am, so there.)
I was more into dance than sport.

[Kathleen04]

16. I like sports w/ rackets...like..

badminton (I can hear you laughing!) and tennis, though I haven't played too much although I purchased my own racket.

And ping pong, I guess technically that's a paddle and not a racket.

Ok..after that is where me and sports part ways. :)

[camero]

17. Football

They always wanted me to play QB.

[starroute]

18. None

And it wasn't even that I was such a klutz -- I was pretty good in school at things like gymnastics. I think it was the competitive part I couldn't handle.

Come to think of it, there was one competitive sport I was pretty good at -- crab soccer. Now tell me nobody's ever heard of it.

[TahitiNut]

19. Since I'm not really a land mammal ...

... my choices were limited. Actually, I have slight congenital scoliosis of the lower lumbar and all the running sports became difficult at around 12-13 years of age. Keeping my feet parallel (skiiing and skating) was even more difficult. But my body wwas just right for swimming and I did the breaststroke like a frog.

[strategery blunder]

21. What's the "long story" of why your parents pulled you out?

Just curious:D

[HEyHEY]

39. Well, they had problems from the begining with....

My having to get up at 5:00 am on a school day at 8 years old to go to practice. I was the Rep team goalie. And one time I had a really bad game, my coach was a complete prick about it. He was the kind of coach who rode you and loved you when you won, and treated you like shit when you lost, which is a bullshit attitude when dealing with 8-year-old kids.

So after that game, my Dad freaked because the coach was an ass, and pulled me out.

[strategery blunder]

45. That sucks

I didn't even get that oppurtunity; about every other year in high school, we would do a two-week unit of floor hockey--and usually (especially in later years) I had to attempt to "influence" the P.E. instructor for even that.

I didn't really have friends outside of school to play hockey with simply because I moved around so much.

[Nile]

22. Water skiing

I lived right near the beach and my dad and freinds always had boats.

[VOX]

23. Baseball, softball, swimming...

A summer-oriented kid, I guess.

[Piperay]

24. Archery..

I was the best at archery but I still wasn't very good, just I was so bad at everything else. :shrug:

[T_i_B]

25. Cross country running

Which all the other kids hated.

[Nikia]

27. Me too

I was all conference 2 years and broke the school record my senior year. I was held the school record in the 3200m. The records stood for four years until the elementarty school girls who were inspired by me put together a state level team with the best of them breaking my records.

[tsakshaug]

26. Hockey / basketball

I played youth hockey and pond hockey growing up, and was good at it. I was also 6'4". In 7th grade I was playing basketball and hockey. The only two sports I was good at were during the same season. When I got to high school I had to decide which one to do. I was a better hockey player, but practice was at 4 AM, basketball practice was after school. Being a typical lazy person I went with basketball.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

28. Barnyard Baseball

Hit a foul into the cornfield and you're out. Hit it into the horse corral and you're out -- and you have to go clean off the ball!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

29. diving and volleyball...and capt of the softball team

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Basketball

I was a pretty nifty guard in high school. Not all that disciplined a player, and just a decent shooter. But, quick as a cat and a natural leaping ability that allowed me to player taller than i was.

Also, the coaches approved of me because i LOVED to play D.
The Professor

[BigMcLargehuge]

31. Judo

I was very good at Judo

[Undemcided]

49. Me too.

n/t

[LWolf]

32. gymkhana

I had a wall full of ribbons.

[ArkDem]

33. I was best at ending my sentences with a preposition.

.

[mobuto]

38. That is something up with which I will not put.

:-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. Drawring

And creative writing.

I was not the athletic type. But my mom still loves reading the wacked out stories I wrote in 2nd and 3rd grade.

And the Nancy Drew-type mystery novel I finished in 6th grade.

[buddhamama]

35. football

it's still my best sport.

[Don_G]

36. Baseball

And DON'T ask about the several thousand I've spent to see Bartman blow it for the Cubs.

Attend a "Dream Game" and trade the tickets for an asshole....

[Bluzmann57]

37. Baseball

Which was the start of a deep love for the sport. Swimming too, my mom is an avid swimmer and we took swimming lessons as kids. We lived near "Big Muddy" and she said we needed to know how to swim, although we weren't allowed to swim in the river.

[zizzer]

40. Dungeons and Dragons

demented and sad, but social.

[amazona]

41. track

I was asked to be on the track team but decided against it. Knowing more about the sports injuries experienced pretty much universally by anyone who gets addicted to running or jogging, I think I made the right decision, although it was a gut thing. I never would have been good enough to be really good -- just good enough to hurt myself. Also, making it into a competitive thing would have ruined the whole pleasure of it for me. I switched over to the weights -- an area where I'll never be in danger of being even remotely competitive and so can enjoy in peace and quiet.

[NuckinFutz]

42. you left out bench-sitting...my particular nerdy expertise....n/t

[elfwitch]

43. Kickball

I really didn't "DO" sports.
Not a big fan of team things.
I like doing stuff by myself.

[Red State Rebel]

44. Gymnastics - I was born flexible...

[rabid_nerd]

46. Seventh Place, YABA National tournament (bowling)

Las Vegas, NV - 1988

[bobthedrummer]

47. In HS I was a good wrestler (14-3-1)

and could outrun most of the track jocks in a sprint.
That was a long time ago, I only weighed about 150 pounds then (sigh)

[camero]

51. I didn't think they included HS

I went to my state tourney for wrestling. And placed 4th in the AAU for the East Coast.

[Dead_Parrot]

48. Does Poker count?

We used to bug out from cross-country running, go a mate's house, stick on a video and play cards. It was 3 years before anyone noticed... :D

[Rhiannon12866]

50. Riflery and horseback riding

Mine is a long story, as well, but those were what I was best at.

[SW FL Dem]

52. what about NONE of the above for us Klutzes

[GreenPartyVoter]

53. Cheerleading