This is my buddies and me on my old soccer team back in high school in the 90’s.
The players on my current team at Trinity are really good guys. My friends and I would have made a slobby 33-year-old guy cry if he came to soccer practice. Especially if he was huffing and puffing and was the slowest guy on the team. We would have certainly yelled horrible things. Going back is hard enough, I don’t think I would be able to survive if everyone was as big of a jerk as I was in high school.
So exhausted from the second day I fell asleep at 7 PM and woke up at 7 AM. Nice to get enough sleep but I didn’t get a chance to cover my Spanish book and was docked points. Que lastima! Took Paco for my first name.
I’ve been using my dodgeball skills on the soccer field as a goalie. People actually are impressed by the way I can throw the ball and I’ve been teaching the dodgeball throw to the real soccer goalie (who is 1000 times better than me otherwise). It’s cool to have a skill that is good but it was still kind of weird explaining that I knew how to throw well from playing dodgeball 3 times a week.
More press about my first day of high school!
“I almost took my 15-yr-old to the ER because his heart was racing so fast and his pupils were extremely tiny.” - Lori
Are these the kinds of questions high school kids really ask now? That’s what I’m here to find out! Also, I think Lori’s son’s tiny pupils may be a hint that there was something else wrong other than downing crappy energy drinks.
As nice KDKA Pittsburgh is, I can’t get their video to post directly. Please click to see how things went at Trinity today and also how HUGE my bag is.
Here’s a link to a report on my first day back in school. No one shoved me a trash can or made fun of me to my face so you won’t get to read anything juicy like that. Sorry!
Ah, St. Andrews. This is the same place they filmed Dead Poets Society. I was kicked out a year after this photo.
Here I am practicing soccer with people who are more than a decade younger than me. I hope our team wins someday so we get taken out for pizza! Do they still do that in high school? Ugh, I’m old.
Welcome to Todd Gallagher's official book site! Hi, I'm Jill! Todd is a best-selling author who has re-enrolled in high school this semester in Pittsburgh. I will be making the posts he sends me between school, soccer, and sleeping.
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About Todd Vs. High School
Todd Gallagher is a critically-acclaimed author, ESPN writer, '95 high school grad, and current Trinity Christian High School student. He is very thankful to Trinity for admitting him as a 33-year-old writer researching a book.
Investigation and Research
In Todd’s first book Andy Roddick Beat Me With A Frying Pan, he tackled compelling questions and stopped at no boundary to find answers. Todd Vs. High School answers questions, too, except instead of questions like Could a morbidly obese goalie shut out an entire NHL team?", these questions will be about "the best years of our lives."
Naturally, the only way to find out those answers was to re-enroll in high school for one semester, leave L.A., and move back in with his parents in Pittsburgh, which is exactly what Todd did.
A High Schooler Full Of Questions ('91-'95)
In the 90's, Todd hated high school so much he was kicked out of two of them. He graduated as the only National Merit Scholar with a 1.7 GPA. He received a 4% in Spanish.
A High Schooler Answering Questions (Fall '09)
Like the Andy Roddick book did with sports, Todd Vs. High School answers peoples' burning questions. Teens' burning questions from, "Why is getting your high school diploma so important?" to "How can I get invited to parties?" to "How do I hide a fart in class?". And adults' burning questions, like "If you had the chance to do high school all over again, could you do it right?" and "Should I spy on my teen's AIM chats?"
Questions About High School?
Please email us any questions you have. Todd will report his findings in his weekly video blogs and also in his book.
Press
Because of his unique interest in answering questions, The LA Times once referred to him as "Plimpton on Acid".
