Question of the day (4-28)
April 28, 2008 @ 10:48 a.m. by Joannaby joanna
All righty, here’s my question of the day. What I want to know is who are the best athletes — from the school you graduated from in high school and in college.
I don’t care if you are from Podunk, Iowa, tell me who the best athlete you saw or is from there. And your college — no matter how many different ones you went to — name a top athlete.
I’ll get it started.
I graduated from Lourdes High in Rochester, Minn., and the best athlete I saw actually graduated shortly before I got there — Laurie Decker. She was a stud basketball player and was the first girl that I had seen who could hold her own with the guys. When I was at Missouri, I watched Brock Olivo, a running back. He wasn’t the most amazing football player ever, but he was tough and fun to watch.
So now fill me in on yours.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Ahhh. The best athlete from my high school, that’s easy. Me.
No, seriously I graduated from Tyner High School now Tyner Academy in Chattanooga, TN. The best athlete from my high school would have to be either Jameal Hester or Cynthia Jenkins. Hester was the guy that wasn’t great at any one thing, but was good at everything. He was a starter on the baseball and basketball team. Was the drum major in band and all the girls loved him. But my lasting memory of Hester - he graduated a year before me - was in the basketball game between our team and the faculty he dunked on our school resource officer and dogged him up the court.
Jenkins won state track titles in the 100M, 200M, 400M Relays and 800M relays. There was another chick Kelly Smith that was also as dominant, but she didn’t have as many state titles.
College wise. Hmmm, the best athlete from my Alma Mater would have to be Tyrone Calico. Calico played WR and was the Number 28 pick of the NFL draft (Tennessee Titans) in 2003 after running the fastest 40 time in the combine that year (4.34). He was also a good basketball player. The football team would almost always dominate during intramural basketball and Calico was a big reason for that.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Darnell Valentine gets the nod over Darren Dreifort for greatest Heights Falcon. At Wichita State, gimme Dave Stallworth any day of the week.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Did you know that current Falcon Mary Sims is Darnell Valentine’s niece? Too bad she didn’t inherit the “TEAM” factor but she is still a great player.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I graduated from West in the Mid-90’s and the best athlete from there has to be Keldrick Brooks. He was an unbelievable basketball talent, played a few years of JUCO ball and then was supposed to attend D-I at one of the Idaho schools but for some reason it did not pan out.