Greatest sports achievements as a child.

TrustedApple

Hi all extremely random topic to cover but what was your greatest sports achievements as a kid?.

Mine was a soccer tournament when I was about 16where I ended up picking the worst team of misfits ever it was like the left overs that no one else wonted.

There was something like 12 times in this school tournament. Game one we some how won. Game two the same. Game 3 the last game in the group we where playing a team made up of players from the schools football team and some how I scored two goals in this match one goal was that I got passed the ball turned around and kicked and scored this amazing goal.

Then some how we where in in the final and lost by 1 goal or so but to me we where a team of misfits, we could not even work out who could be a goalkeeper or who should play where but some how we where able to play with each other.

So what is eveyones else's?.

lbc2019

Were ye from Renford?

Force Carrier

I drank a glass of guinness and threw my knife and fork on the ground.

c.p.w.g.w

Mine was winning the Kidney Cup over CBC in Thomond Park

Alf Veedersane

When I won the World Cup as a 17 year old in 1958.

I was just a misfit that somehow made the squad and scores twice in the final.

branie2

Winning a bronze medal in throwing the javelin

Pherekydes

One day I managed to not get caught playing chasing.

That's about as good as it got for me. I was so scrawny and weak my sister could beat me up with words.

This is it

3rd in an under 5s egg and spoon race. Pretty sure 1st and 2nd had their eggs glued to the spoon. Bastards.

Lucy8080

Early 70's. Hampered by Flared trousers and clumpy shoes, I turned on a sixpence on wet ground and slipped my chaser (who went down like a sack of spuds) and freed six kids in a game of Relievio.

It is still spoken of to this day, with reverence and awe, by those who witnessed it.

Your Face

I always won the 100m sprint.

Johnnyhpipe

Lucy8080 wrote: »

Early 70's. Hampered by Flared trousers and clumpy shoes, I turned on a sixpence on wet ground and slipped my chaser (who went down like a sack of spuds) and freed six kids in a game of Relievio.

It is still spoken of to this day, with reverence and awe, by those who witnessed it.

Father Lorenzo made me play a completely different game of relievio

Your Face

Johnnyhpipe wrote: »

Father Lorenzo made me play a completely different game of relievio

Apt username so.

gozunda

Sack race when I was four. Never did get the prize of that red toy truck :mad:

Mr. CooL ICE

Joined the local U14 team and first game, came on as a sub with 20 minutes to go. Took a pass, chested it down and smashed it into the top corner to win 2-1.

Whole team thought I was amazing and like a young local Solskjaer. Unfortunately they soon realised I was a bandy legged donkey that just got lucky in my first game.

razorblunt

Scored a "golden hat trick" (left foot, right foot, header) in an 11 a side game against the estate down the road, which we'd do once a week or so in the summer.
I was easily the worst of my friends and for years afterwards even if we were playing nods and volleys they'd all try to match it.

To make it better the left footed goal, being my weakest side was the pick of the lot, proper Ray Houghton style goal vs Italy.

Hector Savage

I won an egg and spoon race hands down, (we used to use potatoes) - my mam picked a potato that just fit perfectly into the spoon, and basically walked over the finish line while everyone else was scrambling around picking up their spuds !

Gold medal!!!

theteal

Not the greatest but definitely memorable.

First ever hat-trick and my only ever red card in the same game. Cup match against Fatima Boys iirc. Match ended up finishing early, war over my sending off as I effectively got the card for nearly getting punched - bloke ran up behind me and swung one but still managed to miss (a bit like the Grealish incident last week), I continued to walk away with a "wtf" look on my face. Then I just remember lads with horses on the pitch. Ah fun times.

The Enbalmer

I swam a mile front crawl when I was 10 to get my gold swimming badge. Apart from swimming I was Shiite at sports.

banie01

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Mine was winning the Kidney Cup over CBC in Thomond Park

St Munchin's old boy?

Spleerbun

Got a skateboard even though I was useless at it, was wobbling down the road on it one day trying not to fall off, almost did fall off but instead of falling I somehow accidentally turned it into a triple kickflip and landed it! I was the talk of the road that day!!

Roger Hassenforder

banie01 wrote: »

St Munchin's old boy?

Pres I reckon

banie01

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Pres I reckon

I hope not :P
But seriously, if he was a Noughties student that Munchins side was very good
I had the misfortune to lose senior and junior finals to Pres!
Hate Pres! :pac:

pxdf9i5cmoavkz

Was about 16 at the time. Not that great at soccer but I was selected to be part of the misfits team. The funniest thing about this team was the constant arguments over who wanted to be the goalkeeper. The foibles of youth I tell you.

Anyway, we were in our third game and I saw an opening for a team member and passed him the ball. The guy did this quick turn around and booted the ball in the general direction of the goal and miraculously scored.

somesoldiers

aged fourteen won school basketball trophy, though I was on the same team as Ollie Murphy who was later to become a Meath GAA legend

Wildly Boaring

Our team won couple underage titles in Gaelic.

I represented Ireland underage in a fairly obscure sport.

kal7

won a cup for athletics best athlete at primary school in 5th class beating those in sixth class.

I think it was because they asked how many events you wanted to do, on a form, and I wrote down six.

So probably just did more than anyone else.

Won High jump and 200m, second in long jump and shot putt, third in 1500m and javelin.

Only ever been average at any sport since, peaked too early.

valoren

We won the Sciath Na Scoil in Football in Primary. A knockout tournament between Cork schools with the Final in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. It has been running since 1903.

I won the Boys 80 metre Sprint in the Cork City sports in 4th and 6th class in Pairc Ui Chaoimh.
We missed the whole thing in 5th class due to crazy traffic on the way. Denied a hat-trick of wins.
In the county final (the one where you win an Actual cup) I was running barefoot on grass and left for dead against lads in spikes.

Won silver medal at the Community Games in 1992 in Soccer. Our team was comprised of the two best local schoolboys teams (Blarney St United and St Mary's). We blitzed through the qualifiers but we lost in a penalty shoot-out against Kildare in the final. We were all gutted. Won a litany of League and Cup trophies with Blarney St United. I never got a Kennedy cup trial for the Cork team, I was disappointed but wasn't surprised. My older brother did and he was always a fantastic footballer. He once scored 8 goals in a match, the kind of thing that peaks the interest of scouts. He played for Ireland under age (14's and 16's) and got trials in England with Arsenal (then League Champions) and West Ham. We were both too soft and molly coddled. He never developed the cut-throat attitude required nor the actual interest in becoming a professional. He played with the skill of a Dennis Bergkamp but lacked the psychopathic zeal of a Roy Keane who once said he would have "swum across the Irish sea for a trial". If he had the interest and was lucky to remain injury free he would have been successful, he was that good.

My personal favourite was the last school sports day in Primary school in 1993. We had a sort of decathlon event which comprised of a range of egg and spoon race, sprint, sack race etc. The last event was a run of 10 laps of the school boundary (circa 300 meters per lap). I was the fastest runner in the school but I deliberately stayed at the back of the pack biding my time. I already won the overall event but coming round the bend on the last lap, I sprinted ahead to victory. It was a lovely way to finish primary school getting a perpetual trophy looking like Michael Phelps with all the Gold medals around my neck.

I then went to Secondary school which was a Gaelscoil with a laser like focus on exams and never ran in a race thereafter. It was in the North Mon and if you didn't play hurling, which I didn't, that was that. "No Sport for you!"

razorblunt

valoren wrote: »

We won the Sciath Na Scoil in Football in Primary. A knockout tournament between Cork schools with the Final in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. It has been running since 1903.

I won the Boys 80 metre Sprint in the Cork City sports in 4th and 6th class in Pairc Ui Chaoimh.
We missed the whole thing in 5th class due to crazy traffic on the way. Denied a hat-trick of wins.
In the county final (the one where you win an Actual cup) I was running barefoot on grass and left for dead against lads in spikes.

Won silver medal at the Community Games in 1992 in Soccer. Our team was comprised of the two best local schoolboys teams (Blarney St United and St Mary's). We blitzed through the qualifiers but we lost in a penalty shoot-out against Kildare in the final. We were all gutted. Won a litany of League and Cup trophies with Blarney St United. I never got a Kennedy cup trial for the Cork team. My brother was always a fantastic footballer. He played for Ireland under age and got trials in England. We were both too soft, molly coddled. He never had the cut-throat attitude required nor the actual interest in becoming a professional. He played with the skill of a Dennis Bergkamp and if he was blessed with the psychopathic zeal of a Roy Keane and was lucky to remain injury free he would have been successful.

My personal favourite was the last school sports day in Primary school. We had a sort of decathlon event which comprised of a range of egg and spoon race, sprint, sack race etc. The last event was a run of 10 laps of the school boundary (circa 300 meters per lap). I was the fastest runner in the school but I deliberately stayed at the back of the pack biding my time. I already won the overall event but coming round the bend on the last lap, I sprinted ahead to victory. It was a lovely way to finish primary school getting the Cup looking like Michael Phelps with all the Gold medals around my neck.

I then went to Secondary school which was a Gaelscoil with a laser like focus on exams and never ran in a race thereafter. It was in the North Mon and if you didn't play hurling, which I didn't, that was that.

I must have just been after you, they changed the "Long Race" for 6th class to be a lap of the lower field, then the adjacent field and up onto the top pitch. There was some amount of lads that gave up on that hill!

valoren

razorblunt wrote: »

I must have just been after you, they changed the "Long Race" for 6th class to be a lap of the lower field, then the adjacent field and up onto the top pitch. There was some amount of lads that gave up on that hill!

This was the route we ran. 10 laps. When you're 12 it was like a Marathon :pac:

razorblunt

valoren wrote: »

This was the route we ran. 10 laps. When you're 12 it was like a Marathon :pac:

Ah I misread, sorry, I assumed you were in the Mon Primary!

Mint Sauce

The winning goal in a match of 'Class 7 v The Rest' in primary school. Granted my goal was only one of where we won 21-2, but it contributed to the winning scoreline.

Elemonator

50m swimming champion.

Gatling

Getting a perfect score on duck hunt on the sega master system using the light gun

Working class heroes

Numerous under age county hurling medals.
Made the finals of the All Ireland’s, gymnastics.
A much sought after basketball player.
County gold at chess.
Won many a pool tournament when young.
Won a boot throwing tournament.

Always thought of myself as a non sporty type as a youngster but after typing all that I suppose I didn’t do too badly........huh!

akelly02

Got to a leinster Minor final with my county , lost that final by a point , i didnt get on the field as i was injured unfortunately

Sunny Disposition

Scored a hat trick in a fourth class v fifth class soccer match back in the early 90s, third one was particularly spectacular and gave us the bragging rights on a famous 1990 evening. Heady days, unfortunately I struggled to keep my feet on the ground after such dizzying early success and never ended up playing professionally.

lbc2019

In the final of indoor soccer when I was in first year went to penalties- I was useless at football- still am- but I had to score my penalty to keep us in it- half my team had gone to the dressing rooms! I scored! Sudden death - Our captain missed his and we lost after that

_Brian

Elemonator wrote: »

50m swimming champion.

Serious achievement, my daughter is an elite competition swimmer and the commitment is intense

marvin80

Taking part in a GAA summer camp years ago and Mick O'Connell was going through a few drills with us. I was able to perfectly replicate the sound of the whistle so was kicking off the drills before he could.

He couldn't figure out who was doing it and was going ballistic - great fun!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Bronze medalist in the Munster schools 1500m final.

Or 3rd loser, lol.

Allinall

I got so good at the slow bicycle race that I could stop and balance, then just cycle normally after the rest had gone over the line.

Got my medal, but wasn't allowed enter the following year.

valoren

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Bronze medalist in the Munster schools 1500m final.

Or 3rd loser, lol.

Don't you mean 2nd loser?

mynamejeff

Played a lot for sports as a kid but was never that successful

couple of great memories

remember once I was about 14 paying 16s rugby sprinting the length of the field chasing their winger and catching him mid air as he dived in the corner and managing to fling him out of bounds before he scored , still got hammered though ,

another time playing midfield in Gaa after getting ate during the halftime team talk i caught the ball from the throw in took about two steps and kicked what i though was a massive point , it dropped under the cross bar and into the net

AllForIt

Sack race but only because I cheated. I found a huge bag and as it turned out because of it large size it was possible to run in it unhindered as you would be in a smaller sack. Everyone else hopped where I was able to run.

Unfortunately I bragged about this to one of my classmates in earshot of our teacher and I was stripped of my title. It was a great lesson to learn at age 8 though, to keep your mouth shut.

hairyslug

Saved a penalty in a schools match, turned it onto the post. Caught the following corner. Not bad for a small kid. Got kicked in the head in the same game and a bad kick in the balls which in later life would make it swell to the size of a grapefruit due to internal scaring.

Won a schools minor league as a 10 year old but that was more down to a small handful of very good players

Mike Oxlong

Won Munster and All Ireland titles and represented Ireland 4 times...... And then I got fat

metaoblivia

Doing a back walkover on a regulation size balance beam. I wasn't a very good gymnast.

Church on Tuesday

Not having to play sports.

Thephantomsmask

Not being the first person to miss the bleep during a shuttle run test in PE was my biggest achievement.

Lorelli!

I beat all of my class in first year in a swimming game. I was up against one lad in the last round and I think he thought he'd won it already because he said to me afterwards confused 'how did you win??'

Not much else other than that. Not a sport but I did win a Bonnie Baby competition. My mam threw out my trophy though!! Every now and then my dad messes putting her on a guilt trip over it saying 'i can't believe you threw out her Bonnie Baby trophy'

DEFTLEFTHAND

valoren wrote: »

Don't you mean 2nd loser?

Ah yes, my brain is already on its weekend. :pac: