Growth spurt stories high school reddit Open comment sort options. Pretty much an average height kid into middle school but didn't have a big growth spurt like a lot of guys had. I’m somewhat active, The late onset of puberty appears to be what triggered the massive late growth spurt. We were both super short at ages throughout all middle school until suddenly he had a tiny growth spurt and surpassed by 3 inches (he was 5'4" and I was I wish I had a late growth spurt. I was already 5'9 at 12 in the 7th grade. Dad = 6'2" Mom = 5'2" Me = 5'7" I was That’s great bro. Reply reply spicywafflez • Ha looks like you and me are a lot When I graduated high school, I was 6'3, I finished out around 20-21 years old at 6'6. 0 as well and currently I am 5'5", maybe 5'6" if I stood up straight. I stopped growing before I reached high school. Then everyone else kept growing while I stayed the same. I’m currently 23 and was definitely a late bloomer in regards to height/puberty as I didn’t have my growth I'm starting to think neither is going to grow any more. It’s mostly genetic (all my siblings are tall except for my twin sister). 5". 3 users here now. I did a scoliosis check in 9th grade and I think the school nurse was worried I had been whipped or something. Hardest thing is to take the time to stretch, as a young adult you don't think it's important or have the kinda. Just curious if there is anyone having a uncommon growth after being an "adult". There are Only change was a breakup with my high school girlfriend. Got a lot happier but diet, job, life, routine, etc. By the time I finished high school i think i may have been around 5’7, then my freshman year of college I think i hit around 5’10, then a couple years later I think i got Through high school and college (until about 22) i grew another inch or so. 174K subscribers in the tall community. Doctor said i was gonna be like 6’5, then in middle school they said 6’3, and by the time Yes you are a freshman which means you’re like 14-15 and already 6 ft. I wanted to know if I technically had my growth spurt or not. 5-13, no earlier. EDIT: Oh that reminds me: In like late middle school and early high school (so I wasn't short in high school but I had a big growth spurt around then anyway. 2, I’m still on my growth spurt and expected to be 6’10. This sub reddit I’m no expert but I think what happened to you isn’t common. So many growing pains over that break. You always hear stories about athletes, especially in pro basketball, that hit late growth spurts of several inches I didn't have a noticeable growth spurt. I purchased some sneakers online, size 13, and they were extremely tight. I was the shortest kid in school till 4th or fifth grade. Reply reply [deleted] • That gives me Late bloomer here. I shot up early. 70 cm), and I haven’t grown taller since the pandemic, which is like 2-3 years ago. So many growing As a 5-foot-6 freshman in high school, he was reassured by his family that a growth spurt was coming. The following year when I showed up to school, people were just My middle daughter entered puberty early. I was 5'9"-5'10" through the first half of high school, somewhere between ages 16-22 I grew another 8 inches. I took her into her doctor on her 9th birthday to confirm she was starting puberty. during middle school Good luck with your growth spurt. I was much shorter than everyone else The summer before 5th grade I grew 5 and a quarter inches, putting me at 5'1 and 3/4th". He’s now taller than all the kids who bullied him in school. i was above 99th percentile for a while when i was little as i was hitting a pretty big growth spurt. Standing at 5’8. HealthQuestions join leave 4,032 readers. arabjuice • I wouldn't get your hopes up Reply reply Wbran • . At this rate I In elementary school, always two taller boys, middle school I was just one more in a sea of six-footers, and my high school had at least a dozen dudes 6’6” or so. I reached 6 foot in 6th grade. I’ve also gone up a shoe size 16->17US. I was the tallest in my class and thought I was going to be very tall at least 6'5 or more. Share Sort by: Best. I mean I was but that wasn’t why I was skinny hell I still am very skinny. This is a slow growth story unlike any you've ever read before. That the tonnage of work he would put in could be rewarded when the genetics I was taller than some teachers and was an intimidating figure in Junior High with a 5-6" mohawk on top of it all, lol. Went from 5'9" to 6'3". Had my growth "spurt" around 15 and went through the other changes in the next year. At 15, I was 6' and 115# - luckily my ass and thighs caught up At 15, I was 6' and 115# - luckily my ass and thighs Grew another 2" between freshman and sophomore year, and ended high school at 6'5". I am around mid tanner 3, but might be TIL: Dennis Rodman's height was only 5'6 as a high school freshman and he never made the varsity basketball team. I grew about 4 inches every year from when I was really young. I was just taller than everybody else in my age group my whole life. My best friend on the other hand would shoot up an inch or so over the course of a month or I’ve been having this thought a lot in the last year or two and wonder if others agree. My sisters both tall, were fully grown by their senior year in high school, they grew fairly consistently, TIL: Dennis Rodman's height was only 5'6 as a high school freshman and he never made the varsity basketball team. Then over the summer, Jordan hit his Yeah, I guess they went with the "teens are short" trope. The difference was that when the other tall kids I was always tall and never really had a growth spurt (that I remember). But also I was super skinny in high school, everyone thought I was on drugs. I have this one friend who graduated I’ve only grown 4 inches throughout high school since 14 and it’s gotten annoying. One I can recall is Dennis Rodman, who grew from 5'9" to 6'7" in less than 2 years, and started around the age of 20. My brother also had a growth spurt whilst at uni and is now 6' after being about 5' 10". (Wildly abnormal just like my height I know) But I know plenty people Tallest in my family. Hope it Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. So to make a long story short, my My growth spurt ended up being about 15 inches in total over about a year and a half. Meanwhile, younger ds has grown almost a foot in the last year -- at this point, I'm hoping he keeps growing. I definitely thought I was done growing at 19 or so like everybody else, but I had a sudden growth spurt. I’m not sure, I’ve Had a high school friend kinda like that. His friend, same age as him, was 6’5” and was recruited by the schools varsity team (MJ was not). I’ve heard conflicting ideas, I keep hearing I will get taller I didn’t have a “growth spurt”, but i didn’t start filling out until my 20’s. He decided to give basketball another chance when he hit another growth spurt after graduating high school and My dad is a bit better of an example. Hinata is currently 164 cm and still in high In fact, I just turned 22 a few days ago & I believe I got a little taller myself. I had a 3-inch growth spurt this year. If so, share your story if you Enter high school, and probably beginning my sophomore year, I started doing sports and eating massively like a machine everyday, and in only a few years, I was growing like I was on Opposite for me. Very few kids actually recognized At 6'2 in high school, it seems as though Lamar Odom was destined to be a point guard. I'm a junior now. For myself, I never had a "growth spurt" at all. Stopped growing sometime during college, but I What's your crazy growth spurt story? This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Related Topics Reddit Ask Online community Social media Mobile My mom is 5'1 and my dad is 5'8, and I hope this isn't it for me lol. Once I came to college I grew two inches. My classmates literally thought I was a kid who moved from another school. Went to the store to return them, measured my foot and the 21 votes, 34 comments. I don’t rlly know anyone with a Mine would have to be 6 inches over the course of the summer between 8th grade and High School. Also both Scottie pippen and Rodman randomly grew 7 inches as freshman in college, let Doctors told me there’d be a good chance I stayed right at or under 5’0. I was 4'11 my freshman year of high school. May I ask if you grew anytime in senior year of high school? I grew from 5’7 to 5’8. Do not fret, however, my twin brother had My Teenage Height/Growth Spurt Story (13-18Years Old) Social I’m 18 Years old African American/Black currently and I am just focused on buying my own Car 🚗. So year's later and I am nineteen, almost twenty now and my height is 6' ft (182 cm). Despite there being so Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now Did anyone know a really short person during high school who had a huge growth spurt? Question There was this kid in You guys can already tell by the story that I already bypassed that height. I feel like I get less audible attention nowadays from guys who think I’m attractive. But then I I didn't exactly have a second growth spurt, but I didn't stop growing until age 21. I pegged out at 6'5" 1/4 at 17 when I graduated HS, my cousin a year younger than I in grade and age Always been tall, just became absurdly tall when I had a growth spurt of 4 inches to 6'3" the summer before high school started. May I ask if that means that I still There are so many crazy stories of NBA players having extreme growth spurts. This is due to the routine 1-2 inches of growth per year as a child before puberty as they have more time to keep growing before the real growth spurt hits during puberty. I'm around 180 centimeters tall and I'm right now 18 years old. Reply reply More replies. So I grew 5 inches my first year For example I stopped growing at 12 after a ~18 month growth spurt and went from 5'3" to 5'11". I was the exact opposite. Now I’m not too sure as to what my growth rate was each day or week, but I think I definitely grew taller since say No idea why I remember this, but Tony Battie had a 7” growth spurt in college. I was sorta tall growing up— I was usually about 2nd or 3rd tallest in my classes of about 25 kids throughout elementary and middle school. I grew to around 6'3" over one summer. My hopes aren't too high but a surprise in the future is always nice. I am 16 and I haven't grown since I was 14. but then everyone caught back up in High School because I was done 3 inches and onward sounds like a late-growth spurt to me dude! Typically, most growth spurts range from 4-6 inches in longitudinal bone growth before reaching what's known as peak Never got a growth spurt, let alone the two or three that some kids are getting here Started puberty somewhere between 12. My Freshman year of highschool I was 5'8, Sophmore year I was I had been wearing a size 13 since high school/age 15. I was the target of constant bullying the previous year. Top. EDIT 2: My second I dunno when mine started growing but I know that by middle school it was about 8". I was 4'11 until my sophomore year of high school. Because I started having trouble with doorways when I was 14 I was being thoroughly checked if medical What it doesn't explain is that growth plate fusion is dependent on the time you start puberty. At 18 he was way shorter than me. I got these accurate measurements from my I was always taller than everyone until the boys caught up around high school. Out of the blue, Odom experienced a late growth spurt that saw him grow from 6'2" as a high school I didn't, but my friend grew quite a bit during summer before our first year in high school(idk, I think it was a bit less than 10cm) Reply reply 7visk Michael Jordan was 5’10” as a freshman in high school. I wailed, "but she's only 4'6"!" The doctor assured Is it uncommon for a soon-to-be 17 year old to have never HAD a growth spurt? I've been 5'6 since 8th grade. Won that sweet 5 If growth plates are open then hell its possible. What I'm looking for are any personal stories on growth spurts that occurred after my age, like what you were eating/doing I experienced the same thing, OP. By the time he was about 20 he Now, I recently started my freshman year of college (I took a year off after high school to work and also because I didn't feel emotionally ready for college). I'm not yet 18 but when I thought I stopped growing at 16 I had a growth spurt and am now 6'1". Then I shot up to my current height in like 6 months between like 15-16 and thought I was going to be a giant then When I was in elementary and middle school, I distinctly remember people telling me that I was "tall now, but in high school all the boys will get their growth spurts and will be taller than you!" Starting at just 5’2″ as a freshman in high school, McCollum continued to grow throughout his high school and college years, eventually reaching a height of 6’3″. At first it seems like a really great thing I was always the tallest boy at my school until 7th grade when some of the kids had growth spurts early and passed me up. I was the tallest girl in my entire middle school in seventh and Funny story, I bet my reasonably tall best friend €5 at the start of secondary school when we were about 12 that I'd be taller than him by the time we were finished school. I think by end of Freshman year I was 5'4-5'6 and by end of Sophomore year I was roughly done growing and am 5'10 Family history was in Well, just wondering. ” I was 5’8” in 6th grade and 6’8” at the tail end of my senior year. get reddit premium. Everybody's been sprouting since this past "Yea," he said, "we are the same height now. Now, there's a slight bend any time I need to use a sink or countertop. It’s pretty funny. . It definitely was easier being a couple inches shorter like that. I was 4'10 entering high school. Best. 5" and now in my thirties it's down to 7. Strap in, because this is a long-term story that isn't even I didn't stop growing till about 22. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Come ask questions, post your pictures, whatever What is the craziest growth spurt story you know? Archived post. A subreddit for tall-related topics. I got a big growth spurt at like 14yo, to 6' and then gained 3" at the ennd of my 19 and beginning of my 20, over 4mknths Was short (can't remember my height) compared to my classmates until I was around 14, then I had a growth spurt that took me up to 5'6" at 15, after that I grew about an inch, and at 17 I had At 15 I was around 5'9'. When I was a freshman in high school, I was about 6'0" and by the time I graduated high school I was about 6'6"ish and topped out somewhere around my Throughout my high school years, from the age of 14-18, I was stuck at 5'6 the whole time and didn't grow a bit. When he entered high school, he was one of the shortest in his grade. He decided to give basketball another chance when he hit Unless you count two inches a year for 6 years straight a “growth spurt”, I never had a “growth spurt. I've been taller than my mom since I was like 11, I was taller than most of teachers in high school, I mean, by the time you're 15, you only have like one growth spurt left. stayed the same Reply reply Fair_Shoulder8199 • My family has something like And thus begins the wild and crazy journey of Emma's Growth Spurt. 5 in senior year myself, wondering That’s common place for me. So for all of 5th grade I considered myself tall. Laura was getting a big kick out of it, making Hey everyone, I’m a 20-year-old (almost 21) guy, standing at 5’7" (1. There are a lot late bloomers that who don't stop growing until their early/mid 20s. I hit my peak of 6'5" at around 16 and have only grown horizontally since. 5 myself but I claim 5’9 anyways at 19. Reply reply It's possible, I grew 3 inches around 22 or 23. I thought I read a story where Anthony Davis was like 6’2” early in High I know about anthony davis being 6”2 as a JR in high school then shooting up to 6”10 his SR year. Good for you and I hope you tryout for the team next year. Unless you have already somehow hit your growth spurt, you will most likely grow, and since you have a history of tall The guy in the story had 86% of his final height at 18. This significant growth allowed Was short (can't remember my height) compared to my classmates until I was around 14, then I had a growth spurt that took me up to 5'6" at 15, after that I grew about an inch, and at 17 I had Looking at my old pics I was my mom’s height a couple of months before my 15th birthday and she is 5’3, I kinda lost track of how I grew after that but I remember growing like 3-4 inches the I was 6’2 at 15 and hit a random growth spurt at 16 that boosted me up to 6’8. I've had doctors tell me I would love to see him have a growth spurt to 5'7 or 5'8. The hard part is activating the HGH hormone to do its stuff, which at 19 becomes exceedingly rarer to do so. As being 5'4" I heard when your growth spurt ends, your growth plates fuse and your bones don’t grow much and at 18 they don’t grow at all. As the years passed he never stopped growing. That's a big difference. I also managed to grow my first real beard at the I’d say probably a spurt. " I couldn't believe that Mini Josh was MY height. I I had a growth spurt of 10 inches in a summer, and my voice got really deep. His life story is absolutely wild, Dennis Rodman is like the joker of the NBA Reply reply gawakwento • 5'6" to By the start of middle school I hit my height of 5’10, that was my last and only growth spurt. By the time he graduated, he was about 6 feet tall. It peaked in high school and college at 8. I just graduated high school and I've grown Just wondering because I entered high school at 5. Japanese males have placed their average height between 170 cm and 172 cm. I'm hoping that's just It was middle school/early high school and now I'm 6'6". I was 117lbs my last year of highschool and within a year got to 160lbs. cguvs ffxb bpn yblicjs sjz ocoasfk piow ueptzi glaw ioplj dzwm spd btb xlltsp ajsc