The ninth grade. I went from 5'9' to 6'8'.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Freshman year, I was 95 pounds and 4 feet 10 inches. So you can imagine what my football uniform looked like - my shoulder pads were bigger than my body!
I've been six feet tall since the sixth grade.
Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.
Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
I was a full foot taller than any child my age.
What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.
I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.