EL PASO ? Approximately 250 to 300 senior athletes participated in the 31st annual El Paso senior games. El Paso Parks and Recreation hold the games each year during March and April.
Eligibility for the games is open to all male and female athletes 50 years old and over. They compete within their age groups, which are broken up in 5-year increments. The games include such sports as swimming, cycling, bowling, race walks, tennis, track and field, racket ball, basketball, horseshoes, washers and billiards.
The games are not only for El Pasoans, anybody can participate.
El Paso Parks and Recreation celebrated the end of a very successful senior games program with a Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet at the Hilo de Plata Senior Center on May 3. The awards ceremony serves to recognize individuals who displayed stamina, perseverance and good health while participating. The speakers for the occasion were Zafer Hayder, M.D., ABIM Internal Medicine, and Dr. Gina Nunez Mchiri, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UTEP.
The theme of their presentations was focused on how a well-rounded exercise program will help the senior athlete to successfully live a long and healthy life. They both agreed that seniors should maintain a well-balanced, healthy lifestyle- spiritually, socially and physically.
During the awards ceremony, Eva Navarro and Wright Stanton were inducted into the 2013 Senior Hall of Fame. Former Marfa resident Armando Uranga, a 2008 Hall of Fame Inductee, was honored for earning the Games? Outstanding Athlete of the Year for 2013. He earned the same honor in 2006 and 2008. He is a member of the El Paso Ex Shorthorn Association.
Armando said, ?Nothing would please me more than to see a lot of senior athletes from Marfa, Fort Davis and Presidio participating in the El Paso games?.
Armando received 28 gold, one silver and six bronze medals. He said that his best and most enjoyable events were the 20 K bike ride, 200-meter swim and the 5K race walk.
Benny Salcido, Hall of Fame inductee in 2012, also participated and won gold medals for bowling, washers and horseshoes. His main interest in the games are the track and field events and was able to take first place in the 50, 100, and 200 meter races, the standing long jump, long jump, triple jump and high jump. He also earned a silver in the shot put and bronze in the javelin.? Benny exceeded the Masters All-American standards in the long jump and the triple jump and was honored by USATF, United States Track and Field, as All-American in both events.
If any seniors are interested in the El Paso games, contact the El Paso Parks and Recreation
Information personnel: Sylvia Marquez (915) 533-3207, David Lopez (915) 240-3320, or Cody Rios (915) 503- 6544.
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