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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - White Cornerback - 10-30-2017
Dermot Lavelle spent most of his time lifting weights or playing football during his time back at college in Sligo, Ireland. When he made the big move to transfer to play soccer for the Wildcats in Arizona on a fully paid scholarship before joining the football team following a coach's recommendation. Lavelle did dabble it other sports, most notably hockey. Now if you know anything about Ireland, it's that hockey never quite took off, mostly due to the abundance of soccer, gaelic and hurling.
Lavelle decided to try his hand at hockey and despite his clear lack of skating ability, he was a decent center. A solid snapshot , combined with his quickness on the ice meant he established himself as an average hockey player.
Lavelle originally a choice to make, a fork in the road or so to speak. He could either enter the NSFL as a waiver player (which he did) and be drafted the following year or choose to opt out of football, play his final year in college on the wildcat hockey team and declare for the SMJHL the following year.
After much deliberation, Lavelle decided to forgo his last year with the wildcats and instead play his waiver season with the Wraiths whilst still getting his degree in Arizona and as a result, his hockey career was never meant to be.
(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - Trey331x - 10-30-2017
Growing up Urlacher played a lot of baseball. First base was his position of choice. From a very young age, he started down in t-ball and played in all the leagues available to him as he grew up. Basketball was also another interest of his. Whether it was outdoors pickup, or organized basketball, he loved to play. Being as big and stout as he is, playing basketball lead to plenty of foul trouble if he was not careful. Basketball was great for staying in shape though, and it is something that helps him to this day. The lateral quickness, and reactions it takes to play basketball rival that of football, and help to keep him sharp in the offseason as it is much easier to play pickup basketball than it is to play pickup football. Baseball helped with his vision, and decision making ability. Quick hands, and straight line speed also were useful in this sport. These were the only three sports that he played for an organized team. In college, intramural volleyball, and dodgeball were a couple of his favorites. You can usually find Urlacher in a gym, or on a field. It has been this way his whole life.
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - ExemplaryChad - 10-31-2017
When I was little, one of the first sports I played was soccer. I was just awful. The coach rarely put me in the game because I was such a liability, and when I did get in, it was at the least important positions (for kids, usually defense). I played for three years, from ages eight to ten, and I never got a goal, an assist, or a save. I was so incredibly awkward. I had tried baseball before that, and similarly never got a hit or an out. I did get walked occasionally because I was afraid to swing the bat. It wouldn’t be until my early teens that I would finally start to grow into my body and start appreciating athletics.
At that point, I started getting really interested in basketball. I had to play by myself due to a distinct lack of a social life, so I got good and dribbling and shooting. When I got to high school, I decided to try my hand at competitive play and try out for the team. The problem was, I had never played, watched, or studied the game as a team sport. As a result, I didn’t know any plays or schemes, or anything remotely team-oriented. At tryouts, I embarrassed myself, getting blocked shot after shot. I had also never practiced going against real defenders.
I guess my point is this: I would never consider myself a dual sport star. Football was the first time I actually understood the game well enough to play it competently and competitively. Good thing I found it, eh?
-Haruki Ishigawa
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - iamslm22 - 10-31-2017
Avon Blocksdale was a multi sport athlete when he was a kid, but once of his favorite sports was quidditch. Yes, like in Harry Potter Avon was a star quidditch player. When he first tried out for the quidditch team (this was muggle quidditch not wizard quidditch) there were many options to onsider. He could have been the seeker going after the snitch. I mean after all the seeker is the only position in harry potter that matters as if you catch the snitch you score 150 and end the game. The next spot he considered was chaser. A chaser is another glamor position and is in charge of scoring the goals. They take the quaffle and try and score it in the goal. He also could have been a keeper. Keeper would be an interesting position, as it's that spot is in charge of stopping the quaffle. But not of those spots were interesting enough for Avon. Avon was a big kid (as evidenced by starting his career on the O Line) so he tried out for beater. Beater is an incredible position as you take a big bat and hit the bludgers into the chasers and seeker on the other team. Beater was the spot for him.
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - Yurt6 - 10-31-2017
Clifford Rove played many sports when he was young, including baseball, basketball, lacrosse, and soccer. But as soon as he got to high school, he started to focus only on football, with the exception of one other sport. What was that sport you ask? Clifford Rove was on.... the chess team in high school. He has said that he always had a love for the game of chess, which he has known how to play since his father taught him when he was only five years old. He loves the strategy, and the gamesmanship of chess, not to mention it can help his quick thinking while out on the football field.
In the Philadelphia locker room, Rove has not yet lost a game, and the quarterback states that he hopes to keep it that way. "I'm always competing, whether it be football or something else like chess, so even though I'm always up for a good game, I do certainly have confidence that I will win every time. I don't want to let any games get away from me." While many would say that chess isn't a sport, Rove begs to differ. He says that chess is a sport for the mind, and a fun one at that.
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - DollarAndADream - 10-31-2017
(10-30-2017, 06:44 PM)ItsJustBarry Wrote:Growing up poor and without both parents around, I didn’t have many opportunities to play sports. Not being a very active kid, I was usually last picked for any typical sports that kids play. It also didn’t help that my parents named me Scrub. I preferred the mental sports games myself anyway. I used my brain and what little strength I had to build a giant fighting robot in my grandparent’s basement. Once the robot was fully functional, I spent the next several months getting familiar with his strengths and weaknesses. During this time, I started to feel like I was a part of this robot. I could feel the pain that he felt and the triumphs when he succeeded. It was at this point that I registered for my membership into the Federal Unified Commission Knowledgeable in Affirming Special Interest for Phony Intelligence (F.U.C.K.A.S.I.P.I). At last, it was finally my night and my robot was primed and ready. He entered the ring and I stared mesmerized by this larger than life creation that I had created, the other robot stepped up and destroyed him with 1 punch. That’s when I decided to try my shot as a football QB and the rest is history.:rofl: :rofl:
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - loco - 10-31-2017
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - jaskins811 - 10-31-2017
Tight end Joseph Askins used to be a prolific cross country runner when he was a younger athlete. Cross country was the first sport Askins ever participated in for school. He started out terrible as he was a fat child, but this only pushed him to get in shape and try more sports. In fact, it is what got him into playing football in the first place. Starting out in cross country, Askins was terrible, he couldn't even run a mile without having to take a break, but he kept on pushing himself to get better and better. By the start of high school, he was a cross country star, and decided to join the football team as a tight end. His ability of running for so long in cross country really helped his endurance on the football field because he was so used to running and exercising for so long. Many of Askins current teammates make fun of Askins for this because it is hard to imagine a 270 pound man running on a cross country team because he is so large, but he did it in his youth. His cross country history really has helped Askins become a dominate player on the football field.
(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - Beaver - 10-31-2017
Though he is a professional football player today, the favorite sport of Blackford Oakes growing up was wrestling. This preference was only 40% because the skin-tight singlets accentuated his dad bod, the rest was because of the one-on-one, individual nature of the sport.
Growing up playing hockey, football, and soccer - all team sports - Oakes knew how it felt to lose because of a teammate's (or teammates') mistakes and how it felt to be one whose mistakes cost the entire team. This is fine, in fact it's extremely motivating, but when you step onto that mat it's you against another person and the result is entirely on your shoulders - there are no coaches to blame or praise, no teammates to help or hinder; if you win, it's entirely your win and if you lose it's entirely your loss. Oakes was immediately hooked. There's also something primal and satisfying about using nothing but your strength and athleticism to outwork another man until he's unequivocally beaten. There are no gimmick wins and few lucky wins. Finally, wrestling awakened Oakes to his underlying homo-eroticism which led to a few very fun times for young Blackford, for which he is eternally grateful.
Though his wrestling days are in the past now, Oakes still smiles a bit when he sees his state championship trophy and wonders what may have been if wrestling was the predominant American sport instead of football.
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234 words(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - adam2552 - 10-31-2017
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