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Sports, etc. Time—and
aging joints—permitting, I devote a lot of energy to playing, competing in,
and coaching sports (and sport-like activities). These days I focus primarily
on running, with recent successes including:
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Norris & Ortega, Native
Americans for Community Action 5K,
Finishing the Rosie Wall 5K, Kailua, HI, August 2005 |
I also love to
hike, and I was very lucky over the past few years to explore some of the
amazing terrain of northern
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Over the years, I have also tried my hand at a variety of
other sports. At Texas A&M, I played for the Aggie Ultimate Frisbee team,
competed in triathlons, and placed 4th out of 400 in the Houston
Transco Tower stair climb (up 81 flights of stairs in Houston’s tallest
skyscraper: 8 minutes, 32 seconds!). During my graduate studies at University
of Hawaii, Mike Long convinced me to take up field hockey, which I played
until breaking a meta-carpal bone in my hand (luckily, a few hours after I
had submitted the revisions for my M.A. thesis). More recently, I stick with
the safer sports, like rock and mountain climbing.
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My earliest and most
enduring sporting passion was for soccer, and I competed on a variety of
teams throughout high school and college, and wherever work or study took me,
including playing for clubs in Germany and Brazil. I also coached and managed
a summer youth soccer camp for eleven years in Texas (the Texas Soccer
Academy), and have coached club, high school, and college teams, including a
two-year stint as assistant coach at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA. Many
of the youth players that I coached have gone on to play in college and a few
professionally.
On top of the
‘Tortoise’,
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