I coach for a living.
Started in college doing youth camps all summer long. First year out of college was a varsity boys and girls assistant at a local HS. Got hired for their head coach for their girl's middle school team. Then, got into college coaching after that season. Spent 8 years at different colleges. All the time I have spent with youth soccer clubs and/or camps working with kids.
Currently work with a high-level amateur team trying to send guys pro. Still work with clubs and camps.
Baseball when I was 7 or 8 years old and I quit playing baseball when I got into junior high
Play football in pee wee 6-7 year football league in Louisville Ohio played it all the way through high school and tried a little Semi-Pro didn't make it
Play basketball when I was 7 years old it was a youth basketball league at the Canton Boys Club
Started boxing when I was around 9-10 years old few fights up to about teenage years 12-13
Ran my first track meet when I was in the 7th grade hundred yard dash 220 low hurdles I did that pole vaulting I did high jumping I did the broad jump and I did the 220 relays and 4 by 100 relays or whatever the coach wanted me to do I did it
I started wrestling my freshman year in high school. I really like basketball more but I had weekend calls and the football coach told me to go out for wrestling so I did what it was
There was not a sport that I didn't go out for that I didn't make first-team or Varsity my first year of Eligibility to play varsity.
I had a neighbor who was involved in archery and I used to go out and shoot archery quite a bit which was kind of fun I got pretty good at it but I never really picked it up as a real sport
My wife and I started to play tennis when we both graduated from college and I love tennis quite a bit and I played it for 15-20 years is a great sport I wish I would have taken tennis a lot sooner but it was never offered when I was in my youth.
Started to play golf after I graduated from high school pretty good at it but never really had the time to play that much golf
Basketball: 5th grade through high school. Still play a couple times per week. If I could go back I would do so much more weight training beginning in high school. Once I started in college my abilities on the court grew a ton. I would have probably convinced myself to go play at a D2/3 school, though, and I'm glad I didn't do that.
Baseball: Kindergarten through high school. Weight training would have helped here too.
Cross-Country: Ran from junior high through high school. Started running annual competitive runs the school put on in grades 4-6.
Track: 7th grade through 10th grade. After two years of not enjoying running in the cold of the winter, I decided to just stick to baseball.
Golf: Never competitively, but I started in a youth league when I was 10 or so and have enjoyed golfing since.
Baseball: 6-7. We were/are a big baseball town so it is popular.
Track: 7th and 8th grade. We don't do JH baseball so many just run track. I did shot/disc and 4x400M relay...the first and very last events. HATED IT. Who knew that many years ago I became an actual runner!
Basketball: 7-8 I imagine.
Football: We don't have football until 7th grade. It is sort of ironic....in our county we have 6 HS's. The 2 with youth/midget football have a combined zero state titles and rarely make the playoffs. The 4 schools who don't have midget/youth football and have nothing until 7th grade have a total of 23 state football titles with a vast majority since 2000 (all public schools)
Baseball -- summer league ages 8-18; varsity grades 10-12(played every inning of all games, except one in 10th grade due to injury)
Basketball -- school teams grades 6-12; varsity 11th, starter 12th
Cross Country -- 11th(1967 was inaugural season for our school) & 12th grades
Golf -- wish we'd has a high school team; started playing on a course instead of yard at about 14 with my younger brother and dad; then when I could drive, my brother and I went to the closest public course one day a week in the summer
Didn't really do much of anything before middle school. There, I did basketball and track. High school, I did CC all four years, track the first three and wrestling the last three. Out of all of them, wrestling is the one I wish I'd started earlier. I SUCKED at basketball, but because a lot of my friends were on the team, I tried to force myself into it. Seemed like with wrestling, right when I felt I was starting to get a bit good, my senior season was over, so I really would have liked to have started three years earlier (at least, doing youth wrestling would have been better, but I just didn't have any interest in doing any sports stuff until seventh grade) to see how far I could have gone. I guess I also wish I actually had some comprehension of health/nutrition/weight-training back then too, since I could have been 2 or so weight classes lower and a decent bit stronger if I'd been properly training by today's standards.
First weekend of youth baseball games and how about this for an early nomination of Coach of the Year.
12 yrs old.
Sub 40 degrees.
First game out.
103 pitches.
What say you?
What a miserable 10 hours in 35-40 degree weather.....
