Did You Play Any Sport Games Over The Years?

Grew up playing Little League baseball & pickup basketball games. Then after High School many years of softball and golf.
These days I go to the gym four to five days a week.
 
Just individual stuff. No team sports. I ran 10K's back in the 70's and early 80's. At my best I could do them at 8 minutes a mile. Then in my mid thirties I developed Achilles tendonitis and switched to biking. At my peak I did the 170 mile Cross Florida ride from Cocoa Beach to Pine Island in 13 hours. That was in 1995. In 2006 I picked up weight training after a 40 year hiatus. I had done a little in High School. When I was in Florida I used to go to one or two senior power lifting meets a year. The last one I went to was in Feb. of 2014. At that one I Bench Pressed 205 and Dead lifted 285 lbs. They don't have anything like that around here in Alabama. I might go down to Clearwater Florida in December for the Florida Senior Games and do the power lifting.
 

Never good at any sport. Never liked many. I enjoyed golf but not that good. Way back there, when I was trying to find myself, I was in an Archery Club. Competed against other clubs, other towns., I was pretty good at that.
 
Years ago,I played tennis in a league once or twice/wk.I'm left handed,was taught yrs ago,how to slice the ball.When I hit my back hand ,it was interesting to see my opponent's reaction when the ball veered the other way.Once in awhile,I would play against another 'lefty' always checking out where they hit their shots.I preferred singles over doubles,got more exercise playing singles. Sue
 
I started playing football in high school but then they cancelled the girls football team. It was a disappointment. I have also played basketball and volleyball. Used to enjoy swimming and would like to get back to it.
 
I played baseball, football, basketball, and ran track in high school. Loved fast-pitch softball in the service. Later I played in Over-35 leagues in softball and basketball. My son played college rugby for four years and I learned to love the sport.
 
I played hard to get. I was pretty good at it, too, especially since there weren't a lot of guys chasing me. Sigh.

I just looked at my high school yearbook. I never thought about it, but there wasn't a single sport at my high school played competitively by girls, outside of cheerleading which is now considered a sport but sure wasn't back then. Even the bowling club was all-boys. We played softball and volleyball and basketball in gym class but there weren't even any intramural teams.

We were expected to sit in the bleachers and cheer our boyfriends on, I guess. It didn't make any difference to me as I was then and still am absolutely abysmal at any kind of sport (except roller skating.....I was a passable skater). I can't run, I can barely swim to save my life, I can't catch, throw or hit a ball.
 
jujube said:
I just looked at my high school yearbook. I never thought about it, but there wasn't a single sport at my high school played competitively by girls, outside of cheerleading which is now considered a sport but sure wasn't back then. Even the bowling club was all-boys. We played softball and volleyball and basketball in gym class but there weren't even any intramural teams.

We were expected to sit in the bleachers and cheer our boyfriends on, I guess. It didn't make any difference to me as I was then and still am absolutely abysmal at any kind of sport (except roller skating.....I was a passable skater). I can't run, I can barely swim to save my life, I can't catch, throw or hit a ball.
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Where and when I grew up, our backward state (Illinois) established rules against girls participating in competitive sports (some stupid goober probably had a thing about girls acting ladylike). I seem to recall a few halfhearted attempts at intramurals that died for lack of support.

Because I grew up running with a herd of wild boys, I was a great distance runner and adept at many sports. I refused to play that stupid half-court basketball the school authorities imposed on girls, but the boys track coach used to come around and give pointers to us girls. From him, I learned some valuable lessons such as how to pace myself and when to kick.

Our water supply was in reservoirs that froze in the winter, so we played lots of ice hockey. I always loved speed-skating and still hit the rink from time to time when my knee is behaving.

I was a solid swimmer who taught swimming lessons and worked as a lifeguard at the YMCA and local pool.

I enjoyed gymnastics at the Y, especially uneven parallel bars until they brought in a coach I refused to work with. He was ghastly.

I'm getting mad all over again at the misguided "educators" who suppressed girls sports for so many years.
 
Smiling Jane said:
Where and when I grew up, our backward state (Illinois) established rules against girls participating in competitive sports (some stupid goober probably had a thing about girls acting ladylike). I seem to recall a few halfhearted attempts at intramurals that died for lack of support.

I'm getting mad all over again at the misguided "educators" who suppressed girls sports for so many years.
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Same in Ohio. At the very least we could have learned how to throw a ball accurately, and shoot baskets without using the squat technique. LOL!
 
I was so bad at sports in High School that the other guys and the PE teachers made fun of me.

During baseball in our PE class, whenever I came up to bat, the whole outfield would move into the infield because I was a weak hitter, but it didn't matter, because I usually struck out anyway.

When I first came to bat, the pitcher pitched me four balls, but I didn't know what I was supposed to do. My team started yelling "take your base...take your base", but I didn't know what the hell they were screaming about until the catcher pushed me toward first base. From that time on, I hated baseball!

When we played football, the PE teacher would insult me if I did something wrong after the ball was snapped. One time he yelled "look at that dumb end" meaning me.

The only P.E. game I enjoyed was kickball, where the pitcher rolled the ball to you and you kicked it and ran the bases, unless you were slammed with the ball and were out.

I was always out.

I promised my wife I would watch 2 Football games a year...the Rose Bowl Game and the Super Bowl.

She watched all the rest.

We never watched Basketball because I thought it was a stupid game, and she did too.

Hal
 
High school, was quarterback of the football team (and my wife to be was a cheer leader) and on the varsity basketball team and ran track. In my 40s I ran a lot of 10ks, and golfed a lot in my 50s, but was always bad at it. Still golf with son/grandsons.
 
The usual sports
Football to 9 ball
Every one of ‘em took their own portion of my life

I’d say boxing was the most frustrating, as my head is a rock, and my nose made a good defense
But
My onion paper thin Irish skin just didn’t holdup

Yet

The game of golf

Was brutal

Being a single digit handicapper is just not quite ‘there’

Some days there was an undeniable flow
Incorrigible swing habits would chime in and, for a time, I could shape the ball at will
The short game became less….excruciating
Then
It would go away
Read, heard it could be something as intangible as heart rate

Took months to bleed off that game
Back spasms helped

Fishing and hunting of late
 
Does Karate count as a sport? Because I used to teach women's self defense karate style and I won a trophy for Kata (karate moves as a dance movement).
 
I was a Cheerleader, but they didn't call it a sport in my day....Mostly Middle School, cheering for Basketball...Boy's team...At the time, girls only played Basketball at Gym time.....
 
Played every sport imaginable as a kid up through high school, probably played some games that weren't even sports at all, lol. It's amazing what a bunch of kids hanging at the park all day will come up with, especially once we discovered pot, lol. Played Baseball and Hockey at the High School level, continued to play in adult hockey leagues and softball leagues into my early 40's. At that point the knees and other joint pain from arthritis took it's toll and I had to stop. Now I love to fish, mostly freshwater.
 

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