This wasn’t quite what I had in mind when I said I was going back to high school to dominate athletically.
Hi, it’s Jill! Here’s the transcript of a quick little Q&A with Todd. Interview by Josh Rowntree of MSA Sports Network. Can you tell which high school soccer player is Todd in this team photo?
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.
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.
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.
Good win vs. Monessen in soccer! 2-0!
Two a day soccer practice is brutal. Back, quads, pride, all hurting.
First soccer practice today at 1:00. Starts with an endurance test. Hope I don’t pass out!
