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Matt Foley

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cool. details?

couple years ago....2 teams of 20 so we would be under Fifa rules. We played for over 37 hours non stop other than 5 minute breaks every 45 minutes to simulate a half time and breaks for substitutions. It was almost 100 degrees during the day and we had a hell of a rain storm during the night that delayed us for 1/2 hour because of the lightning. I got hugely dehydrated and was puking on the sidelines, alot! We raised over 50 grand for the cancer foundation though and other than losing 7 of 10 toenails and being tired for a couple of days, it was worth every minute.

A lot of soccer players on here. Just sayin'.

I know...if only we had a forum of our own!!!

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My team won the championship for our little league when I was 10 years old. I played first base. In the championship game, I was sick, but played anyway. Came up to bat with the bases loaded and my team down by two in the top of the 6th (six inning game). Hit a three run triple over the third baseman's head. As soon as I got to third, puked my guts out all over the third base bag. What a day. :)

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Coaches always wanted me to do basketball because of my height but I lived in a rural area with no blacktop so I didn't play much. At all.

I started doing track and cross country and did pretty well. I never hit the weights hard enough to do football. I never really did any extra curricular activity in high school 100% because I was working a lot and I also liked having my weekends free.

I was good in music, cross country, and ultimate. The wuss sports hah. We could never get the school to sponsor a team

Ultimate is actually a great sport if you like football. I think it would actually help developing players. It's a lot more fun than riding a bike. I miss being at school when you could always find people to play with.

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I can't believe nobody has said how awesome this is. If winning football games didn't matter, WCU would be like The U.

There is still room on the bandwagon.

I'm on board. I haven't been back to WCU since 2002. Lots of changes and last I heard, all the frats had to move on campus or lose their charters.

Anyways, I lettered in 6 sports back in high school but was not an allstar at any other them.

Best achievement: I was player/asst. coach of rec soccer team in 8th grade and scored a personal best 13 goals. We went on to a tournament where we won and I happened to score the winning goal. Same year our JV football team went undefeated and I was a backup lineman. A few other minor things but, nothing overly noteworthy.

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Misc:

Hiked Appalachian Trail, 1997

Hiked an estimated 150 km of trails in the Alps, 2007

Climbed Mt. Rainier, 2009

High School:

A few pick-sixes and a punt return TD

Sat on the bench for a basketball team that won 5 games in the 4 years I was there :D

All Conference in track (triple jump, 400 m relay, 1600 m relay)

Regional runners-up 1600 m relay

Tried running cross country during my senior year: fastest time was 21-something. I was the only person not to qualify for regionals :D

Since then:

Still can't run distances worth a hoot, but this balding white guy with a belly still leaves the 18 year olds in the dust on sprints.

I can't dunk a basketball anymore, but I can surely set a pick nobody will forget.

I just keep getting better and better at football. One 11 on 11 game recently: I had 5 interceptions in one game, 3 for TDs.

One 7 on 7 flag football game: 3 ints, all for TDs. Seriously... the other team sees a balding white guy with a belly and thinks they've found the weak spot. Then they keep going to that weak spot. OK, fine with me... In that flag football game, I also had a receiving TD where I had to stop and go back to the ball, and still didn't get caught.

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