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RUNNING

When I was just a young lad, I was your everyday average medium-speed skinny wimp kid. But once I entered high school, I decided to give team running a try (due to the pressure of some friends and teachers), and after one month of training I was transformed from a junk food-eating couch potatoe into a lean-mean running machine! HAHA! After one year, I was hooked! Some days it seemed to only reason I went to school was to get some passing grades so I could run on the team! Running is now one of my passions in life. Yes, it is one of my hobbies. I polan to continue to run all my life. Next year I hope to participate in the Philadelphia City Marathon. In the future I hope to coach a high school team myself. EXCELLENT!

~~~***MY RUNNING "RESUME"***~~~

***1994 - 1998: Tenafly HS Cross-country; 2-time captain, 3-time varsity, Red Littler Sportsman
***1994 - 1998: Tenafly HS Indoor track; captain, 3-time varsity, Red Littler Sportsman
***1995 - 1998: Tenafly HS Outdoor track; captain, 3-time varsity, Red Littler Sportsman
***MEDALS WON: 28
***TITLES EARNED: 1 (1998 New Jersey State Scholar-Athlete representing Tenafly)
***PERSONAL RECORDS (high school):
400m - 57.0 sec (Tenafly HS track)
800m - 2:09 (FDU indoor track)
1000m - 2:46 (NYC Armory indoor track)
1200m - 3:29 (Princeton Univ. indoor track)
1600m - 4:49 (Hackensack HS track)
3200m - 11:02 (Englewood HS track)
5km (cross-country) - 18:02 (Darlington County Park)
***(notorious)SCHOOL RECORDS: "Best Practice short-cut - the 'Shum-Cut'"
"Smelliest Fieldhouse Locker"

(above) A photo of the shoes I wore during my last year in Tenafly. I ALWAYS trained in Asics brand shoes. They have the BEST support and shock absorption. I ALWAYS raced in Nike brand flats. They had the most variety and the best and most high-tech designs.

(right) A photo of some medals I won. left to right - a Big East Medal, a Bergen County track medal, a NJ State XC medal.

CREW

When I entered college I thought that my sporting days would be over. However, rowing seemed to be a fun thing to do, and I even remembered my track coach talking about it back in high school. So I gave crew a try. I really wanted to row, but because of my skinny-wimp-ness, I was dubbed a coxswain. A Coxswain is the little dude who sits in the back of the boat. My job is to steer (drive) the boat and to yell at the rowers (who are facing backwards). But these days each boat has mics and speakers, so I don't really have to yell. Things I tell them include race strategy (given by the coach), distance left in the race, time gone by, distance of other boats, motivational stuff, etc. It was a pretty cool thing to do. Crew was a great experience, but two years was enough. I always dreaded waking up at 6 am to practice everyday too!!! SUCKY!!! And shelling out hundreds of $$$ each year cuz crew is so poorly funded by the Univ. And getting thrown into the river each time we won stunck too (the rivers around here are soooooo dirty!!!)One thing that was really cool though was that if you win a race, you get the uniforms of the losing teams. HAHA!

~~~***MY ROWING "RESUME"***~~~

***1998 - 2000: Rutgers Univ. Lightweight Crew
***TITLES EARNED: 1 (Big East Champion in Men's Lightweight 4s)
***SCHOOL RECORDS: Longest membership by an asian-kid. HAHA!

(above) A photo of my crew uniforms - top row - and some shirts I won in the past 2 years (M.I.T., U.Penn, Georgetown, Notre Dame).

ULTIMATE FRISBEE

Ultimate Frisbee is a sport that I started playing back in 1992 when I was still with the Boy Scouts of America. It was a pretty cool thing to do on a long summer afternoon. EXCELLENT! Little did I know that it would grow and explode to become such an awesome sport and a dominating part of American sport culture. Ever since high school I have become more and more hard-core; practicing more and more, buying my own frisbees, cleats, cones, visors, and even creating the wonderful Hall of Notoriety. Ultimate is one of the greatest and toughest sports that requires speed, agility, endurance, good timing, and arm strength. It is totally radical!!! (and the first ever intercollegiate game was played at Rutgers.....vs. Princeton....OF COURSE!!!)

~~~***MY ULTIMATE FRISBEE "RESUME"***~~~

***1996 - 1998: Tenafly HS Ultimate club member
***1999 - present: F.A.U. (Friday Afternoon Ultimate) Founder at Rutgers Univ.
***TITLES EARNED: 1 (1998 Rutgers Intramural Champion)
***RECORDS HELD: 1 (most money wasted on-line buying "ultimate" clothes that I don't even wear.)

(above) A photo of the trophy I won for being the 1998 Rutgers Intramural Champion. (yes.....it's a beer mug....)