Highlights from the 2026 Senior Games

Senior games. [cheering] We are here for the beginning of the Senior Games here in The Villages. Today we had our athletes come in by golf cart. We started all the way at Laurel Manor [cheering] and finishing right here in Eastport. We had our athletes from various sports who came in lit the cauldron to let the games begin here in Olympia. We’re going for the gold! Let the games begin. Let’s go! [cheering] [music] Thank you. Feels fantastic. Really excited. I’ve lived here for 3 years. This is my second time participating and I look forward to it every year. It’s fantastic to still be playing, to play with a great team, come to events like this that are first class. I get to meet other water volleyball enthusiasts and see other rec centers. It It’s incredible. And and how we all come together as a community is is so much fun. Oh my god. So exciting. A group of people that have an opportunity to have fun. I’ve been competitive all my life and this is a great opportunity and it’s just wonderful. There’s something more we do together here. Exactly. Another opportunity to be together. I’ve done it ever since I got here with the Senior Games. It’s something to do and be with your friends and experience what life is all about. It gave me something to look forward to. It gave me a goal to be in shape by these senior games. platform tennis, the sport that is so wild that it has to be played in a cave. Even if you’re doing bocce or you’re doing tennis or golf, you can share that experience with all your friends that might not play the same sport that you play, but you have this kind of collective, you know, athletic experience. For the gold [music] So, Senior Games, get out and play. They’re so much fun. Okay, I got to go to the next senior games event. We went for the gold and we did it. Senior games. Yay!