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Lucky enough to attend a school with a pretty good athletic history. My wrestling team won just about everything you can win during my time there. My Jr year we were ranked #3 in the country. Pretty good considering this school only graduates 75 kids a year. Tiny school with a rich tradition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulsboro_High_School
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My uncle ran a 4:24 on a cinder track back in the day. That was a true mile too
I only made it to the 100 yd dash Regional finals as a senior but when I looked at the other runners from my outside 8th lane position, I realized I was the only cracker running. And I finished 8th as well.  Our mile relay did qualified for state when I was a junior and one of the regulars was injured so I was the substitute for the 1st leg - I hated running the quarter mile. We took 5th overall in class B in the state of Michigan that year.
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I made it to 'states' on our high school ROTC Rifle Team...
If you can imagine a time when schools had rifle teams.... Quite a few still do. KOFA High School in Yuma AZ has a great Marine Corps JROTC rifle team , very active and well-equipped, they travel quite a bit and bring home the gold quite frequently.
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I qualified 3 years in a row for 100,200 and high hurdles and half mile relay. and 2 years throwing discus. When there each year I felt fortunate that I obviously was in a very slow district.
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My partner and I won for land leveling in FFA my junior year, forgot about that.
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My uncle ran a 4:24 on a cinder track back in the day. That was a true mile too
I only made it to the 100 yd dash Regional finals as a senior but when I looked at the other runners from my outside 8th lane position, I realized I was the only cracker running. And I finished 8th as well. Our mile relay did qualified for state when I was a junior and one of the regulars was injured so I was the substitute for the 1st leg - I hated running the quarter mile. We took 5th overall in class B in the state of Michigan that year. The 600 is the absolute worse. Be glad you only had to run a 400
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State Chorus!!! Much later in life, I did become a state, national, and world record holder in weightlifting.
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I made it to 'states' on our high school ROTC Rifle Team...
If you can imagine a time when schools had rifle teams.... Quite a few still do. KOFA High School in Yuma AZ has a great Marine Corps JROTC rifle team , very active and well-equipped, they travel quite a bit and bring home the gold quite frequently. Good to know. My five man team brought home more trophies than ALL the other teams combined, football, basketball etc....
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I went to State in swimming. 50 & 100 yard free, 100 yard fly and 400 yard medley.
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Our daughter has all the makings of a standout player in either softball or volleyball.
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Twice in wrestling, football coach was garbage, after playing my freshman year, I decided huntin was more important. Glad I did it.
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Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
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Never as a team but was All State Linebacker my Senior year. Made finals in 800m my Junior year, but blew my ankle out my senior year playing basketball when I came down with a rebound and landed all fooked up. Held school record of about 10 years.
Still made All district as a first baseman my senior year as I could hit the long ball that didn’t require a lot of running.
Finished district baseball on Thursday and started basic at Fort Jackson the following week.
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I was a swimmer. We won 4 straight state championships in 84, 85, 86 and 87, runner up my senior year in 1988. I won 3 individual titles, one in 1987 and two in 1988.
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My son made it to state finals as captain of his science olympiad team.
My daughter made it to state finals in cross country.
Both times my wife had to drive a team of teen agers for 5 hours to the event.
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I made it to state (Kansas) in the FFA entomology contest. Did it bug you that you didnt win 1st place? ;-)
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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Lucky enough to attend a school with a pretty good athletic history. My wrestling team won just about everything you can win during my time there. My Jr year we were ranked #3 in the country. Pretty good considering this school only graduates 75 kids a year. Tiny school with a rich tradition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulsboro_High_SchoolYes it is. I didnt wrestle but my buddies did. We were always very good. Paulsboro was on another level.
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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and world record holder in weightlifting. That deserves a quote. I cannot fathom the amount of work that must go into something like that.
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Lucky enough to attend a school with a pretty good athletic history. l "pretty good". lol
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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