Your high school sports resume

We don't call students freshman, juniors etc in NZ.
Instead we have Years 9-13.
Year 9 (13/14)
Year 10 (14/15)
Year 11 (15/16)
Year 12 (16/17)
Year 13 (17/18)

[B]Athletics (Year 9-13):[/B]
Y9: Won long jump, won high jump, 2nd in 400 meters, 4th in 100 meters.
Y10: Won long jump, won high jump, 2nd in 400 meters
Y11: Won long jump, 2nd in high jump
Y12: Didn't compete, took the day off school to go surfing with my dropout friend :D
Y13: 2nd in long jump, won high jump, 2nd in 400 meters
Also came second in the school cross country every year. My best friend won each year, and was the guy that beat me in the 400 meters.


[B]Basketball (Year 9 -13):[/B]
Year 9 I sucked. I played point guard (I was SHORT), and had pretty bad handles, and couldn't shoot. I would often pass to our big center by throwing the ball of the backboard (OK, I was a chucker and a bad shooter). I spent every single day working on my game with much older guys at a near by school - I also had a growth spurt boosting me up to 5'11". I transferred schools for Year 10 and started at my age level as a SF, but handled the ball a lot. I made the Senior team for a few games, which is usually unheard of for a Year 10 student.

I played every position over the next two years, but our various coaches never gave me a shot at point guard due to now being 6'2". My senior year I would do the jump ball (I was now 6'4"), then get the ball back and bring it up court. Played point guard the majority of our time and averaged close to a triple double. No one kept stats other than scoring, but I can recall rebounding a lot, and setting up teammates (passing over shorter players was easy). I wish we had the same level of enthusiasm for high school basketball here as Americans do. I'd love to see my stats, I feel like I would have averaged over 5 steals a game and a couple of blocks. We placed 3rd in our province for my senior year, and we also made the national high school tournament. I made the all-tournament team, even though our team was pummelled - I had one decent teammate who I would consider a basketball player.


[B]Cricket (Year 9):[/B]
My friends asked me to play, and I hated it. Fielding is about the most boring activity in all of sports. My guess is that I would've hated baseball as well. My highlight was playing against the high school I transferred to the following year, and scoring 6 out of our 12 runs.... my team was horrible, we were demolished.


[B]Rugby (Year 13):[/B]
I played when I was younger, and my mum pulled me out because I got into far too many fights. Our high school rugby coach asked me if I wanted to try out as a senior, and I thought it would be pretty easy. He wanted me to play lock (which is a forward in the middle of the scrum), I was skinny as hell, but tall. I grew up playing on the wing due to being fast, and was the 2nd fastest player on the team. I took a big hit at one of our practices, and decided I didn't want to play in case I injured myself for basketball.


[B]Volleyball (Year 10):[/B]
I sucked, so I quit. My forearms hurt like hell after every game.


[B]Water Polo (Year 13):[/B]
Toughest sport I have ever played. I went into it cocky as hell, thinking that I could walk in and be the best player due to being a life guard (strong swimmer) and an a natural athlete. I made it through one practice and quit, got punched under the water a few times, swallowed a bunch of pool water. Terrible experience, and I had a lot more respect for the nerds at my school who played it.

At age 14-15: playing for one of sweden's best youth teams, got called up for the youth national team

Age 17: My first game in swedish pro basketball league

[QUOTE=Quizno]
[b]Basketball[/b]

i only did basketball for one year (senior year). i was always a good basketball player and i play all the time so i finally decided to try out for the team because friends on the team kept insisting that i try. so i tried out and made it and i was probably the best shooter on the team. i did really well in some pre-season and tournament games at shooting guard but i messed up my hip flexor pretty badly and sat the rest of the season out :( i'm 5'11 and only about 160[/QUOTE]

How tall was your point guard? :D

I played baseball two years (junior and senior) CF and pitched. I played soccer (Center MIddle mostly) sophmore year until the team was disbanded. I tried to play basketball and made the team and literally never played because i played backup PG and they never took our PG out of the game. I wasn't bench warmer, i was practically literally a piece of the bench.

My personal highlights include a game winning homer taken away and called foul (that was like 30 feet fair) and me subsequently getting tossed for saying a bad work (like WTF) and not being allowed to play the next few games are per the coaches rule. My actual highlight was a game we need to qualify for a tournament and we were up 1 or 2 runs and our pitcher got the yips and walked the bases loaded with 2 outs and i came in from the outfield on a 2-0 count (something like that) and struck out the person on 3 pitches. (I'm not King Felix or anything, just had a good moment, plus i can throw strikes and the person was determined to walk.) Everyone rushed the mound. Was quite fun.

[QUOTE=Raz]

[B]Athletics (Year 9-13):[/B]
Y9: Won long jump, won high jump, 2nd in 400 meters, 4th in 100 meters.
Y10: Won long jump, won high jump, 2nd in 400 meters
Y11: Won long jump, 2nd in high jump
Y12: Didn't compete, took the day off school to go surfing with my dropout friend :D
Y13: 2nd in long jump, won high jump, 2nd in 400 meters
Also came second in the school cross country every year. My best friend won each year, and was the guy that beat me in the 400 meters.
[/QUOTE]

When you say, you "won," do you mean you had the furthest jumps for your school? Or did you win some national competition?

Played Hockey and Lacrosse. Really good at Lacrosse, decent at Hockey. Basketball was my favorite sport but was far to terrible to play it at any level and didn't feel like sitting on the bench.

I could beat off in between periods.

[QUOTE=Raz]

[B]Basketball (Year 9 -13):[/B]
I played every position over the next two years, but our various coaches never gave me a shot at point guard due to now being 6'2". My senior year I would do the jump ball (I was now 6'4"), then get the ball back and bring it up court. Played point guard the majority of our time and averaged close to a triple double. No one kept stats other than scoring, but I can recall rebounding a lot, and setting up teammates (passing over shorter players was easy). I wish we had the same level of enthusiasm for high school basketball here as Americans do. I'd love to see my stats, I feel like I would have averaged over 5 steals a game and a couple of blocks. We placed 3rd in our province for my senior year, and we also made the national high school tournament. I made the all-tournament team, even though our team was pummelled - I had one decent teammate who I would consider a basketball player. [/QUOTE]I have a poor sarcasm detector so I cannot readily tell if you're being completely serious or not. If you [i]are[/i] being serious, I was wondering how long your games were in New Zealand? In the United States, high school games are 32 minutes long and even for the most dominant athletes, that's not a ton of time to pack in statistics that near a triple double average.

In fact, in person, I've seen only two high school players come close to accumulating triple doubles and both came in legendary or near-legendary performances. One instance came in a game where a kid scored 56 of his team's 96 points while also dropping nasty dimes alongside ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SthRVWoBscY)[/url]. The other instance was a teammate of mine, who officially came one assist shy of a triple double in a double overtime game. Otherwise, for a non-super star to average something close to a triple double would be a little wild over here (not to mention the 5 steals and 2 blocks per).

I'm a super athletic 6'3 205 pound left handed guard with insane handles and defense. Im a terrible shooter shot 60% from the free throw line and like below 20% from high school 3. I played varsity since my freshman year started at forward and was the defensive anchor couldn't do anything on offence. Improved my handles the next year to play guard and i lead the team in points rebounds assists blocks steals. I had my first poster that year too it was on a shorter weaker white guy but i did throw it down on a 6'8 monster the next year. Only played half the season in my junior year because i had a kid and some other shit. Switched schools last year and i didn't have time to play but i am staying back a 5th year. I will be playing college ball somewhere

I also played volleyball my sophmore year which was boring football the next year and track this year.

[QUOTE=Myth]When you say, you "won," do you mean you had the furthest jumps for your school? Or did you win some national competition?[/QUOTE]

Furtherest jumps for my school. I competed at the provincial level and was seriously punked.

[QUOTE=Rake2204]I have a poor sarcasm detector so I cannot readily tell if you're being completely serious or not. If you [i]are[/i] being serious, I was wondering how long your games were in New Zealand? In the United States, high school games are 32 minutes long and even for the most dominant athletes, that's not a ton of time to pack in statistics that near a triple double average.

In fact, in person, I've seen only two high school players come close to accumulating triple doubles and both came in legendary or near-legendary performances. One instance came in a game where a kid scored 56 of his team's 96 points while also dropping nasty dimes alongside ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SthRVWoBscY)[/url]. The other instance was a teammate of mine, who officially came one assist shy of a triple double in a double overtime game. Otherwise, for a non-super star to average something close to a triple double would be a little wild over here (not to mention the 5 steals and 2 blocks per).[/QUOTE]

We play under FIBA rules, at lower levels it's 2 x 20 minute halves. At senior level it's 4 x 10 minute quarters.

Either way, 40 minutes per game. In my experience, it isn't hard to rebound and run the break yourself. I had very few offensive rebounds.

I don't think procuring something close to a triple double average is that insane when you factor in the talent disparity on my rosters. Myself and one other teammate played for our province, but came 3rd in our provincial competition. The thing is I have always been an awful scorer, I have either used my athleticism or height to score. When your best player can't score, they're usually dominant in other areas. I would liken myself to an extremely weaksauce version of Rondo or Kidd, playing in a similar role to Derek Harper in high school (He played center and point guard).

Our running joke was calling me 'fentard.' :roll:
Fentard = F (forward) C (center) G (guard)

Good things happen on defense when you sometimes have up to 8 inches on your man, and you have the same level of quickness.