March 2024 Athlete of the Month By Del Moon, NSGA PR Specialist Sam Barnabas, 81 Webster, New York Sam Barnabas cannot remember a time when he wasn’t playing sports with his family. He was born in India to a family whose father was a diplomat, so they moved frequently. “We always managed to play games

February 2024 Athlete of the Month By Del Moon, NSGA PR Specialist Matt Meister, 59 Kearney, Nebraska Many golfers will tell you they have a love-hate relationship with their sport. Matt Meister did not come to appreciate why some call it “a good walk spoiled” until midlife when he took up the game searching for

January 2024 Athlete of the Month By Del Moon, NSGA PR Specialist Vickie Liddell, 67 Pine Bluff, Arkansas We all know the story about the old woman who lived in a shoe with so many children she didn’t know what to do. Vickie Liddell had 10 children, but she knew just what to do with

December 2023 Athlete of the Month By Del Moon, NSGA PR Specialist Edna Siniff, 87 Mahtomedi, Minnesota When Edna Siniff was three years old, she discovered her competitive spirit and sharp eye when she insisted on shooting BB guns with her older brother. “Dad set us up in the basement shooting at hanging corks,” she

November 2023 Athlete of the Month By Del Moon, NSGA PR Specialist Hiro Moriyasu, 76 Los Angeles, California Hiro Moriyasu is one tough out, as evidenced by the two gold medals he collected in National Senior Games Table Tennis competition this summer in Pittsburgh. He has often repeated that feat since joining in The Games

October 2023 Athlete of the Month By Del Moon, NSGA PR Specialist Janet Mitchell, 67 Gaithersburg, Maryland It’s not easy to deal with the shock of a breast cancer diagnosis, but Janet Mitchell says softball and her team helped her overcome the challenge five years ago. Janet hardly knows a time when she wasn’t on

September 2023 Athlete of the Month By Del Moon, NSGA PR Specialist James Lewis, 68 Harvey, Illinois No one loves basketball more than James Lewis, and it has been a constant presence in his life. One testimonial to this is his induction into the Masters Basketball Association Hall of Fame. Yet, as deep as his

Bob Knight, 79 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Bob Knight has a lot of resilience and a sense of humor that will ease any situation. Ask him if he has bowled and played softball all of his life and he quickly replies, “Not yet!” The Pittsburgh area native has needed both of those qualities to overcome the many

Keryl Rustin, 74 Kearneysville, West Virginia You won’t find a more determined person than Keryl (pronounced “Curl”) Rustin. She adapted to being born visually impaired, finished school, raised three children and had a satisfying working career at a VA hospital in West Virginia. Then, at the age of 52 a rare neurological condition gradually took

Dr. Leopoldo Gracia Vilches, 64, Navojoa, Sonora Mexico Power Walk has been around for a long time as a fitness exercise but is new as a medal sport, having been introduced nationally at the 2019 National Senior Games presented by Humana. In the second gathering in Fort Lauderdale in 2022, it was therefore hard to know