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[Misc] What's your greatest personal sporting achievement or memory as a participant?



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marlowe

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Dec 13, 2015
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What's your greatest personal sporting achievement or memory as a participant (not a spectator)?

This thread isn't aimed just at the "sporty" types, as every one of us has played sport in some capacity, whether we liked it or not and whether we excelled at it or not.

And whatever our level of sporting prowess or lack thereof, we probably all have a memory of a particular moment in our personal sporting history which has stayed etched in our memory as our own personal achievement or moment of glory.

It could be the day you weren't picked last when the sides were being selected for the class football game, or the day you managed to actually connect the bat with the ball rather than the usual being bowled out first ball during the cricket games lesson, or the one day you didnt finish in the last three in the school cross country run.

Anyway enough of my personal sporting highlights how about yours.....
 




Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Aug 18, 2009
68,171
Beside the seaside, beside the sea
My side at school, needed three rounders to win, and I was the last person left in. Normally, I managed to hit the ball far enough to get half way round, or sometimes, if I was really lucky, score a rounder.
This day, either the bowler was being kind, or my eye was unexpectedly in, I hit the ball three times, scored three rounders and won the game for the team.
My finest hour.
 




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ROSM

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Dec 26, 2005
6,856
Just far enough away from LDC
Participation wise;

- serving the winning unplayable serve to win a volleyball inter form tournament at middle school

- saving 3 penalties in a 5 pen shootout for my school team

- in a parents football match for the team I coached, hitting by fluke the perfect half volley (head over the ball, playing through the ball, timing the bounce and being balanced) from outside the box that dipped in under the crossbar past the gobby parent in goal

As a coach (and these both beat the above by far)

- coaching my eldest to their one tournament win when u9s

- at u10s coaching my middle child's team (who were a proper mixed ability community team) to the final of the sussex sixes where they lost on pens in the final having beaten 2 'academy' sides in quarters and semis
 


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Hotchilidog

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Jan 24, 2009
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I was "captain" of my class cricket B team. The B Teams were basically made up of non sporty kids, who were basically useless (hence my inclusion). Normally the B teams would play pairs cricket, everyone gets a bowl and 2 overs of batting and winner was runs divided by wickets. However on one occasion were playing the best side, and they were expecting an easy win and let us know about it. However the usual umpire was not available and the replacement just let us play a 12 overs aside game, not pairs. So being the captain it as my job to change the batting order and then assign the bowling to the handful who actually could bowl a bit. As a result were able to chase down the winning total in the final over. It was the 4th year and that was the first game we ever won. It was amazing. I still remember it to this day.

Epilogue. The other team complained about the format and we had to replay the game and we needed 52 off the last over to win, so normal service was resumed, but no-one can take that win away from us.
 
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Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
72,689
Despite have a pathological and wholly irrational fear of running a 5k (including Park Runs FFS :facepalm:) I completed the Brighton 10k in 2019 to help raise funds for my niece's charity that was set up to help raise funds for facilities for families with kids going through childhood leukemia, including her twin little boys who were only toddlers at the time.

I also hold the record for one of the longest sentences ever recorded on NSC (see above)
 


Commander

Commander

Arrogant Prat
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Apr 28, 2004
13,655
London
Scoring an overhead volley a la David Platt in 1990 against my son's under 11 team earlier this year.

I played a lot of football from the ages 5 - 35, but nothing will ever surpass that goal. A truly exquisite finish that gave the 10-year old goalkeeper no chance, even in the 7 a side goals.
 


Lush

Lush

Mods' Pet
Jul 5, 2003
13,442
Wherever I lay my hat, that's my hat.
800m at Falmer School sports day circa 1977. The school's fastest girl runner - Nicola something? - set off like a rocket and was way ahead after the first lap.

I wasn't much of a runner, but I was a 'training every day before school' swimmer, so had the stamina.

Slowly but surely, I closed the gap and sailed past her on the final bend, as did my friend Alison Oliver to take 1st and 2nd for Lancaster House.

Remember that every time walking past the school field on the way to the Amex.
 




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Berty23

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Jun 26, 2012
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I was a decent cricketer and hockey player before my back gave up. The highlights that stand out from these two sports were as a kid.

Cricket.
When I was about 13 I got 4 wickets in an over in my first season playing men’s cricket. It would have been a hat trick but one of their players was umpiring and refused a plumb lbw. All four of four wickets in five balls were bowled.

Hockey.
When my comprehensive school team hammered torquay grammar school.

Golf
My mum was really good and got down to about 2 (she is in her 70s and still plays of 8 now). We played greensomes when I was a junior and we shot a gross 71. Nett 60. And won the tournament by miles. Name up on the clubhouse wall. She used to whack it miles off the tee. So my job was basically get an iron as close to the green as possible. She chipped it dead and I tapped in. With slight variations on par 3 and par 5s.

I have coached junior hockey for years and that peaked when we had a shoot out vs the kids and I did the dribble into D, flick in the air and dink over goalie who had come off their line. My lad videoed it and I remind him I am not useless despite my back being in pieces.
 
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BadFish

BadFish

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Oct 19, 2003
18,427
I played indoor football against a friend's son and Palace supporter. He was 20 year younger than me and 10 times the player I was. It was just after the second playoff game and he gave me shit about it pre game, he gave me a lot of shit about it.

I didn't give him an inch, every time he got the ball I was there making his life difficult. I won the ball off him at least three times and scored. Blocked shots and slamming half chances, I have never played as well before or since that day. We beat his youthful team and as we walked off he laughed "that's the last time I give you shit about Brighton before a game"
 


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jamie-oh

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Jul 26, 2003
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from melbourne to eastbourne (hooray for bournes)
My four a side team won the school football tournament when i was ten, and i captained us to the trophy. It was the first time it was organised at that primary school, and the four of us were on the fringes of the school team, but not regulars or particularly well regarded to be fair, there were two teams who both had four of the better players and they were absolute shoo-ins for the final - but the cup draw opened up delightfully for us, we played a team from the year below in the semis - the other semi featuring the two fancied teams - lo and behold, the final was us vs the very much vaunted and fancied school team representative IV.
The whole school brought out their chairs to watch the final on the morning of Sports day, which was weird - none of the other games had any more than about fifteen kids watching, but this had infants, teachers, classmates, the whole shebang. I was absolutely shitting myself to be fair. It might still be the biggest crowd ive ever played in front of!
we went 1-0 down inside the first minute, but came back to win 2-1. The thing about our team was we had people happy to do their jobs - a goalkeeper, a defender, a mid and a striker, and all four had the positional discipline to just do our thing, while the other lot - despite being far more talented - all ran around thinking theyd win it on their own. I was the cool and calm centre half, just getting it and giving it to the more talented players. Not sure why i was the Captain, it was early doors responsibility for the young me.
The final whistle went, and the PE teacher handed me the trophy to lift in front of a cheering school playground. The most beautiful girl in school even asked me for a touch of the trophy, and gave me a kiss on the cheek. It was a disney kids movie of a day, and naturally i still have the little individual trophy in my bedroom, i still daydream about it now some 35 years later :p (the most beautiful girl in school has since become a right minger, btw)
 


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Greg Bobkin

Silver Seagull
May 22, 2012
16,293
Completing Ironman Wales in 2018.

Many years before, it would be winning a relay at a school sports day at Withdean as part of a quartet who were all wearing jeans and t-shirts. I (the slowest of us by a LONG way) hung on down the home straight of leg four to make sure the teacher's team didn't win!
 






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cheshunt seagull

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Jul 5, 2003
2,601
My dad worked at the British Embassy in Moscow 75-77 and when I was there on holiday I played in the inter-Embassy football league, which was taken very seriously and attracted very partisan support; the entertainment options in the USSR were limited so there were decent-sized crowds. I was 'fouled' in the last minute of a bad-tempered game against the Brazilians and we were awarded a penalty which gave us an undeserved win. The Brazilians in the crowd thought I had dived and gave me huge amounts of abuse as I left the pitch. The next year the booing and abuse continued as soon as they saw me. 'Sonofabitch' seemed a favourite term . I am mild-mannered and was a very average player so it seemed a huge achievement to generate such emotion.
 


chip

chip

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Jul 7, 2003
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Glorious Goodwood
Winning a team medal in a canoe slalom by virtue of being in one of the three teams to actually finish. Hambledon late 70s/early 80s, very heavy water and dead body found by the weir on Saturday morning. Might have been a youth championship or schoolboy event. The Adur Centre was really good back then in occupying youngsters usefully.
 


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