The Villages - February 2012 - (Page 8)

Athletes Villages athletes break records at the Senior Games John Horwath Amazing B BY KEITH K CHARTRAND CHAR CHAR CHAR From the first Florida Senior Games State Championships in 1992 at Bradenton, to those last events in December at Lakeland, residents of The Villages have been rewriting the state championship record book for 20 years. Going into the Lakeland games, 41 past or present local athletes held a remarkable 69 Florida Senior Games State Championship records. In December’s competition, 13 athletes who call Florida’s Friendliest Hometown their home kept statisticians busy with their record-breaking performances, pushing the totals to 43 athletes and a remarkable 80 records. Establishing a new record or having their record stand the test of time happens quite often to athletes whose hometown is listed as The Villages. The frequency with which these records are broken is remarkable. That a majority of the records are broken by fellow athletes or an athlete besting his or her previous record shows FEBRUARY 2012 that the atmosphere of activity and physical fitness of Villagers cannot be found anywhere else. In the archery competition, there are five events: recurve, compound and release, compound fingers, barebow compound and barebow recurve. With eight age groups per event, a total of 40 records are held. Six of those records belonged to five local archers before this year’s games took place in Lakeland. Remarkably, Villager John Horwath holds two records in the 80- and 85-year-old age group. It wasn’t the first time he picked up a bow when he moved to The Villages. He had been shooting since the early 1950s. But target archery, which is what the state games archery events are about, was something new to him.

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of The Villages - February 2012

The Villages - February 2012
Villagers up in the Air
Amazing Senior Athletes
Classic Cars
Mardi Gras in The Villages
Dreammaker
Sports and Recreation
Around The Villages
Health
Food
Shine On! Spring Performance Preview
Snapshots
Business Briefs
Major Events

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