It’s a lot easier to win a national championship in college than it is to be a professional player in anything, so I want to pose the question.
I am leaving it open to pretty much anything. Were you the third safety option for a national championship football team? List it. Won in gymnastics? List it. Win the SEC championship in golf? List it.
I didn’t win jack anything, but I would love to know if anyone else did.
Huh? Tons of guys make the pros without having won a national championship. Look at the NFL Draft. Florida had a few guys drafted, but that only amounts to a fraction of the 224 guys selected this year.
I won what is now the NCAA title (it was the National Collegiate Rowing Championship because the NCAA hadn’t gotten its grubby paws on the sport yet) in 1994.
I was inducted into my undergraduate university’s Hall of Fame on the strength of that and a pretty damn successful post-collegiate career that included subsequent national club titles and strong finishes in some international regattas.