TENNIS: Question of the Day
Over 650 athletes are serving their best shots at the 2022 National Senior Games presented by Humana Tennis competition hosted at the Veltri Racquet Club. We posed a question to a few of these devoted athletes to see how staying active through tennis competition has benefited their lives. How has playing tennis, being involved in
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 21, 2022
FLORIDA FEATURE: Miami’s Dave Zarco is Mr. South Florida Badminton
By Nick Gandy, Florida Senior Games If there’s a badminton event going on in South Florida, it’s a pretty good bet that Dave Zarco, of Miami, is going to have something to do with it. A Florida Senior Games badminton player and sport director, Zarco has served as the National Senior Games badminton sport director
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 21, 2022
BOWLING: Bringing Generations Together
After each frame of their bowling mixed doubles finals round, siblings Elsie Armijo and Carlos Rodriguez returned to a table behind the lane to check in with a small crowd of family members looking on. This home base included Elsie’s daughter, Sonia, and two grandchildren, and Carlos’ wife, Margaret, all sporting matching shirts displaying the
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 20, 2022
SHUFFLEBOARD: An Uncle’s Inspiration Gets Ray Corpuz into The Games
Ray Corpuz had his first taste of bigtime shuffleboard at the 2019 National Senior Games in Albuquerque, but his inspiration to eventually participate goes back a dozen years. When Ray, who is equal parts Filipino and Native American, retired from his career as a Toyota mechanic in 2009, he and his wife moved from Long
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 20, 2022
SWIMMING: “Team Dream” Documentary Spotlights Two Athletes
Thanks to a grant from Queen Latifa’s Queen Collective, two swimmers are participating in a documentary film profiling their passion of swimming as girls who didn’t let barriers to swimming stop them from seeking their sports dreams. Team Dream is a Chicago-based organization that provides training to women of color in swimming, cycling and triathlon.
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 20, 2022
FLORIDA FEATURE: FSG Athletes of the Year Form Table Tennis Mixed Doubles Team
By Nick Gandy, Florida Senior Games John Shultz has established himself as the most consistent gold medalist in Florida Senior Games Table Tennis history. He has won a medal in 29 of the 30 years of the Florida Senior Games. He began winning medals in 1993, the second year of the Games, in the 55-59
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 20, 2022
CYCLING: Enter the Recumbents; The Patient Whisperer
2022 marks the year that recumbent bikes are being introduced for medal contention in the National Senior Games Cycling Time Trials being held at Florida Live in Sunrise, Florida. There are divisions for two- and three-wheel recumbents, and competitors we spoke with felt as happy to have the opportunity to ride them as much as
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 19, 2022
TODAY AT 1 PM: Your Title IX Story: The Art of The Olympians Program
View Olympic and Paralympic art from The Art Of The Olympians collection, paired with a brain stimulating interactive learning practice led by University of Miami Art and Medicine program today, May 19, at 1 pm in room 222 of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center. Prime your creativity for an enriching story sharing
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 19, 2022
ARCHERY: “I like a challenge, and recurve is a challenge”
Martha Padmore’s potential as an archer was spotted while she was rifle shooting in 2006 in her home country of Barbados. Once she picked up a bow, she never looked back. Martha shoots recurve archery, which is the most physically demanding discipline in the sport. Recurve bows do not have the mechanical assistance found in
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 19, 2022
RACQUETBALL: Teacher Turned Personal Trainer Not Slowing Down in the Fourth Quarter
Regina Bouie considers herself “late to the game” of pursuing balanced physical fitness, but the teacher turned personal trainer isn’t slowing down in what she calls the fourth quarter of life. Regina’s husband of 42 years introduced her to racquetball when she was in her late 20s, and this was her only source of physical
- Published in 2022 Games Daily News, May 19, 2022