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#121
10-13-2006, 08:32 AM
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Re: Sports: How far did you go?
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great times, except for dryden. that year's tournament was like playing in nunavut. a gas station, a motel, and a ford dealership was all there was for miles. [/ QUOTE ] Hahaha. My hometown is another half hour west on 17 then two and a half hours north. -SmileyEH 
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#124
10-13-2006, 10:29 AM
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Re: Sports: How far did you go?
I played soccer in the 2nd highest division in my last "junior" year (age group 17 & 18). Now this is in Germany, so I take a bit of pride out of that. Especially, considering that I only started playing club soccer at the age of 16.
Nevertheless, our team sucked compared to the other teams, and I didn't look any better compared to most of the other players, either. But at least I got to play against a few guys who ended up playing in the professional divisions a few years later. Oh, and I don't think I could've made it to go pro even if I started playing soccer at a younger age. Most of my skill came from hard work, talentwise, I don't have what it takes to get to the top.
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#126
10-13-2006, 12:20 PM
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Re: Sports: How far did you go?
Baseball: Played in adult leagues until I hit 30. I'll pick it up again someday. Highlight of my career was a tryout for the Kansas City Royals. Had the best day ever in the field and at the plate. I was wearing an Ole Miss baseball T-shirt and one of the scouts asked me how long I had played there for. The shirt was a gift from a friend, but knowing that a MLB scout assumed from my play that I could play in the SEC was a big rush! I also took BP at Bank One Ballpark for a charity fundraiser.
Tennis: All conference senior year of HS. Tennis in rural Indiana isn't exactly the same as Florida or California, though. I did hit with a few of the IU players when I was there, and learned enough to know how bad I really was. I did work for the ATP stop in Indianapolis in 1993. Got to meet a few of the top names and see how they lived and partied.
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#127
10-13-2006, 01:05 PM
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Re: Sports: How far did you go?
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Re: volleyball: How often do these tourneys run? Is there significant money in them? Thanks for the info BTW, not too often you see another vball player on here. [/ QUOTE ] For doubles, they'd run 10-20 in a summer, depends on if you play just men's doubles, or reverse coed, or quads, etc. Tournies are all day events. Typically 3-6 games in pool play in the morning, games to 15 or 11 (old school scoring, not rally) depending on the number of matches. Then lunch break and you're seeded for double elimination. First round is often 2 out of 3 games, games to 11. If there's alot of entrants, just one game to 15. Money? Not at A/B levels. If you win you usually got town, shirts, lawn chair, a new volleyball, maybe a volleyball net, $20 gift certificate to something or other. It was usually $40-50 for a team to play, so there wasn't much money in the pool. The money largely went to run the tourney. In the the open divisions you could make money, though usually not in a USVBA tourney, but some other tourney locall (PacNova runs a big one every july 4th). There, top prize could be $1500 or some such and you'd get teams that would travel in from out of state to play.
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#128
10-13-2006, 01:42 PM
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Re: Sports: How far did you go?
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[ QUOTE ] i was offered a full scholarship to UF for basketball but turned it down to have sex with asian chicks. [/ QUOTE ] good choice...girls>>>sports any day... [/ QUOTE ] this is just wrong. College sports=girls. Do you see why?
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