One major change you might notice......Penn had HAIR!!!
I spent my Jr. High years at Central Davis Jr. High. In these very awkward teenage years I played basketball all three years and was the power forward (all 5'4" of me...we had a rather short team those years). I also ran track one year and my race was the 400M. That race was brutal, it was basically a sprint around the whole track. I also played club soccer for the Layton Strikers. My family moved to Farmington in between my 8th and 9th grade year, but since my mom was working at the elementary school next door to Central Davis, I stayed there for 9th grade so I could play basketball.
For High School, I made the move to Davis High since we lived in those boundaries and I had been playing soccer on the Kayville club team. So I would be the only Dart in a family of Lancers. I became highly involved in sports playing varsity soccer all three years and being captain of the sophomore basketball team. I tore my ACL during basketball my first year so I spent about 6 months rehabing from that to be ready for my jr. year in soccer. I didn't play basketball after that because I went to play on the northern Utah club soccer team in the high school off season and the basketball coach wanted me to pick one or the other. I think she thought I would pick basketball, but alas I stuck with my true sport. During my sr. year in soccer I was playing great, even to the point I was looking at playing in college, and tragedy struck. Another torn ACL. There went that dream! So it was off to rehab again, but I was done. I did have academics to fall back on and was offered full tuition scholarships to all the major schools in Utah, so being 18 and excited to get out of the house, I chose Utah State to be my home for the next 4 years.
Penn doesn't have a lot of stories of sports teams and school clubs from these years because he was home schooled. He was involved in a community orchestra playing the cello. He did have a lot of close friends from his home town. I did find some pictures and lo and behold the boy did have hair at one time.
4 comments:
Well, I hope your up to some stake Futsal then!!! (it's like indoor soccer) It starts the first thursday in August! I too am a true soccer lover! I think it is so funny to see all these husbands with a full head of hair!
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Cool to hear that you play soccer. You guys should come play soccer on Saturday mornings. We play at Ellison(?) Park from 8 until about 10. It is a blast! Also, I love the gracious 311 shirt! 311 rocks!
I think we almost have a full basketball team in our ward now! Sometimes the region will invite the "misfits" that don't have basketball stake play, and throw a team together. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that!
Wow! We have a lot of Darts in the ward! That is pretty cool! I love your soccer pics, they are great! I also have to agree, I love 311... Cool post!
DebE
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