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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - ralz9 - 10-31-2017
Nicholas Pierno has always been an athlete his whole life. In high school, his main two sports were football (duh) and then lacrosse in the spring and part of the summer during travel ball season with a top North Carolina program—his beloved home state. Actually, Pierno had a really tough time deciding which sport to play in college as he was more highly ranked as a lacrosse player than as a football player—though after making it to the NSFL and winning a Heisman Trophy despite being just a 2-star recruit, he knows he made the right call. While at NC State, Pierno wasn’t able to play lacrosse but he was actually a member of the club sailing team when football season ended. He played intramural basketball, but only average 3.5 points per game while playing for the top team in his division. Despite not being the greatest scorer on the court, the NBA has always been his favorite league to watch and he’s a diehard New York Knicks fan.
When his NSFL career is over, Pierno wants to give back by coaching travel lacrosse somewhere in a fully-funded program where the kids don’t have to pay to play.
(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - 7hawk77 - 10-31-2017
Dan Miller didn't really play other sports when he was younger. He instead was much more in to video games. He definitely spent a lot of time playing Starcraft: Brood war, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3 and the custom map Defense of the Ancients.
He was decent at the game but never took it too seriously. His older brother who was more of a techy ended up getting him in to League of Legends during the open beta. They both fell in love with the game and started getting much better at it.
They ended up climbing to platinum ELO at the time which was a rating at 1900, which was in the top 0.01% of players. Dan's brother played a ranged attack damage dealer and Dan preferred the european style of running a support usually bottom line (but sometimes roaming). Dan would usually play Alistar or Taric so he could create plays for his teammates while keeping them safe.
Unfortunately, they never ended up taking the extra step to going pro in gaming. Dan's brother had finally just graduated college and lost a lot of free time do to trying to get a Masters's degree, and Dan was discovered as a freak athlete and urged to get in to football.
They didn't secure a spot on the rosters of the strong american teams when Rock Solid and Team Solo Mid we're probably the top two teams. They did participate in many tournaments cashing in from time to time, however it seems like the semi-pro league of legends days are over.
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - enigmatic - 10-31-2017
Philippe Carter really hated sports as a kid. As a result, he was ridiculously fat. Since his dad was really into vietnamese soap operas, he bought a huge satellite so he could watch TV shows from all around the world. One of the places he got channels from was Mexico. The young Philippe would sit in front of the TV for hours watching luchadore fights while eating healthy Doritos™. He got his brothers into it too and they started a luchadore league in their neighbourhood. The kids got all excited at the idea of designing their own outfits and would fight out of their parents' sight.
While Phil was a pretty bad technical fighter, he really could take a punch. He'd tire out his opponents while they punched in his fat to no effect. He'd then get them on the ground and sit on their back until they had no choice but to surrender under Carter's weight. His parents would just shrug when he'd come home bruised and bleeding, thinking that this is what boys did.
It's only when he started high school and wanted to pick up chicks that Philippe started to lose weight. His favourite activity was running and he got really fast. He got in the school's football team pretty late but he made a huge impact when he did.
(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - Admin - 10-31-2017
For Josh Garden it was always not a question of if he would become a professional american football player, but when. There was a short time though during his high school years that he took up another sport that goes by the same name. "Football", or "futbol" came to Josh Garden during his sophomore season of high school. He has some friends who played on the team and everyone knew how athletic he was compared to his peers. His friends came to him and convinced him to come out and attend tryouts, even if he didn't intend to join the team they convinced him it would be fun to get out there and run with them. The coach put Josh Garden at Striker and told him all he had to do was run fast down the sideline. In Josh Gardens first attempt he saw his team get the ball and he bolted as fast as he could behind the defender. The mid fielder gave him the pass and it was immediately blown down as offsides, Josh Garden has ran past the defender without any idea he was doing something wrong. He was quickly explained what the rule was and that he couldn't be past the defender before the ball. By the end of tryouts Josh Garden had ended up with multiple breakaways, multiple missed shots, and a couple goals. The coach offered him a spot on the team but to Josh Garden it wasn't a sport he was interested in playing any more than that day. He declined the invitation and went back to the game he loves, the real "football".
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - SwagSloth - 10-31-2017
Growing up, Kennedy didn’t voluntarily spend a lot of time playing sports. His family was full of Saints and LSU fans, so he followed those teams as a kid, but as a young boy, he was very scrawny and struggled when he was forced to play contact sports in PE. However, around the age of 12, he started weight lifting in order to gain weight and gain more confidence about himself. He quickly grew to enjoy this activity and dedicated himself to it. He never competed, but he was very active and his participation in this activity is as close as he came to any competitive sport.
Oddly enough, that confidence did lead to him trying out for the high school football team. It was difficult, especially in his first year, but he persevered and refused to give up. Over the years, as the weight lifting helped him grow in size, he also grew in confidence and began to perform better on the field. And it was that confidence that led him to earn the opportunity to play for the LSU Tigers, one of the two teams he grew up watching as a young fan. And, if not for his venture into the weight room, Kennedy would not be where he is today.
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - HENDRIX - 10-31-2017
Kurt Hendrix dominated many sports as a kid growing up. In addition to football, he was a standout wrestler, Track and Field javelin thrower, and basketball player. During his high school years fall was for his true love in football, but in the winter and spring he needed to participate in sports to quench his competitiveness. Strictly weight lifting and studying for the following football season was not enough. He had to compete. As a freshman and sophomore he played basketball during the winter, then switched to wrestling for his junior and senior seasons. He was much better at the ladder than the former. In basketball he couldn't really dribble and had a hitch in his shooting stroke that couldn't be worked out. Wrestling was more in his neighborhood. He competed at heavyweight and was very successful with only three loses on his resume and two California state championships. He was right at home in a sport with as much physicality and contact as wrestling. In the spring Kurt was a javelin thrower for the track team. He had a cannon for an arm and came in top five at the state championships three years in a row. In the end, he always knew football was his calling card if he wanted to earn a lot of money. (218)
(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - kcheng686 - 10-31-2017
Samuel Zhang may be in the NSFL now, but when he was growing up, he was far more interested in basketball and soccer instead. He was a huge Denver Nuggets fan, and wanted to be the next Carmelo Anthony or David Thompson. So, he was an active member of the basketball team when he was in school. He was actually a starter on both his middle school and high school basketball teams. When he was in middle school in Denver, he was actually the starting point guard on his school's basketball team, which was ranked top 3 in the state. He averaged 14 point per game 8 assists a game, and 5 rebounds a game, as well as 4 steals a game and 2 blocks a game, which helped him earn an all state first team and all state first team defensive nod.
When Zhang moved to Houston, both his middle school and high school were much worse basketball teams, and he ended up having to carry the majority of load on the team. On his high school team, he averaged 24.8 points per game, 3 assist per game, 6 rebounds per game, 3 steals a game, and 2.5 blocks a game. He was able to make it onto the All-state first team, and the All-American third team, as well as the All-state first team defense, and All-American defensive second team.
(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - ralams123 - 10-31-2017
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - run_CMC - 10-31-2017
In his press conference at Rice before the draft, Dean Jackson briefly mentioned his history with other sports. Now, the new Tijuana Luchadore goes into more detail on the subject.
“As I’ve said, soccer was the first sport that I played, back when I was six. As is the case with most youth sports, my parents signed me up for it. Now, young me didn’t care much for soccer and would rather be somewhere else, so I spent more time in a casually walking after the ball than I did running after it. Eventually I got moved to goalie where I did okay, but I still didn’t like the sport. I moved on to baseball, which I excelled at. I was the second-baseman and a huge hitter. I bombed that thing nearly every-time it came into the batter’s box. We had some other really good guys on my team, so we actually won the State youth tournament 4 of my 5 years in the sport, and went on to win the regional youth tournament twice. Everyone always said I had a lot of potential in baseball, but like, come on... there’s nothing wrong with encouraging your kid if they’re good at something, but it’s youth baseball. Sure I was good, but a lot changes once you and all the other players hit puberty. ... That came out wrong, but you get the gist. But yeah, after that it was nothing for a little while, then pretty much just football... OH! Actually, no! I also played tennis for a year in middle school. Good times...”
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(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars - TheLastOlympian07 - 11-01-2017
As a kicker, Shawn Guy loves to talk about his love of futbol. He was a pretty nice midfielder back in the day before he made the move to American Football. As a midfielder, Guy was good and keeping the ball and sending balls over the top for the forwards and wingers to run onto. He was also pretty good at free kicks and penalty shots. That leads us to ask the question why football?
Shawn Guy came out to say that he chose football because it was easier simple as that. He just had to come on at the end of a play to kick a field goal or he just had to come on a punt the ball away rather than play a 90 minutes soccer match. That and football pays people crazy money for about 20 minutes game time spent over 3 hours rather than running for 90 minutes constantly. So rather than battle out on the pitch, Guy figured he would just go out for about 5 minutes of combined time and more money.