re: What sports have you played/do you play?

Basketball, baseball, skating and mountain biking throughout school.

Now it's just the occasional pick up game and the gym 4-5x a week.

That may have been arkla missy- caftan and I didn’t have too much communication that I remember anyway.

Growing up: baseball, soccer, basketball, and a little tennis.

Currently: slow pitch softball and rock climbing. Occasionally some pick up soccer.

I played baseball until about 4th or 5th grade. Just got bored and quit.

Played basketball until 8th or 9th grade. Loved playing it, but a 5'8" white boy can only go so far. High school soccer coached wanted me to pick either basketball or soccer, so I gave up basketball.

Played soccer until the end of 11th grade. Picked it back up after college.

Haven't paid any attention at all to baseball in about 18 years. I watch college basketball, and just about any soccer game, as well as some other sports I never played.

Let me see.

I was all state in Soccer as a child... which sounds way more impressive then it should since that was back in the 70s and I think there was only three soccer leagues in the entire state at my age group.

I earned that distinction by actually being horribly bad at soccer.

I couldn't pass the ball well, I couldn't shoot on the goal worth a damn, and I couldn't goal tend. I couldn't even get the ball away from people worth a hoot.

So as a centre-back I just when in full speed studs up on my tackles and decleated people. In a league with officials worth a darn I'd have been banned for life after my second match. There are probably quite a few middle aged men in Mississippi with scars on their legs thanks to me.

Once puberty hit I played basketball. I'm one of those that grew like a weed... but couldn't put weight on no matter what. 6'6" is a good basketball height but not when its matched with a weight of 150 pounds. My last two years I played for Carmel... and we were atrociously bad. I might have been the best player on my team but that is like taking pride in being the prettiest turd in the toilet bowl.

Oddly enough my metabolism finally slowed down when I in my mid-20s and I packed on a hundred pounds in like a year. If it had done that when I was teenager I could have played D-Line or TE with ease. Ah well.

Today I mostly play putt putt golf once or twice a year and I can drink most people under the table thanks to my weight and Irish heritage.

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Today I mostly play putt putt golf once or twice a year

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Totally underrated sport imo.

And to be transparent- I was good at softball but I most definitely had a case of the bad luck (play?) brings good things. I had a HORRIBLE game at 2nd and had like 3 or 4 errors by myself (including one where I did the fake rear back to throw to third at a runner who was about 2 steps off the base and had a leg brace so they weren't going anywhere and I wasn't going to throw the ball either except for it flew out of my hand behind me and went flying into right field and she then lumbered home easily). So coach gets pissed and puts me at catcher- well I kicked arse there and again benefited from the fact that at that point in time girls catchers sucked balls and I was actually good and not scared of someone running into me. So then I became a catcher for the rest of my years playing and I'll even admit I got calls that I probably shouldn't have-- because I would stand my ground and get slammed into and still hold on to the ball and in the mid late 80's that was pretty unheard of for a girl behind the plate in centralish Arkansas.

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How well did you bat? If could hit the ball well and stand in there at home plate then most any team would be lucky to have had you.

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Base hitter and decent at that but definitely not a power hitter and I also wasn't good at placing the ball in any particular direction- they would just go wherever and the more I tried to swing early or late the worse I seemed to do.

I do distinctly remember being told that if my hitting would have been better I would have made a few more all tourney teams. That said, one of the umps at the state tourney told me he had been umping it for 10 plus years and I was the best catcher he'd ever seen. Funny, how you remember tiny moments of glory from your youth.

Absolutely young at heart! I hope we never get old.

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Absolutely young at heart! I hope we never get old.

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We will race our mobility scooters at the assisted living facility :)

I play tennis. Mostly on weekends with friends