Rowan County Parks and Recreation reports that 107 area athletes have qualified for the North Carolina Senior Games State Finals after award-winning performances at the Salisbury-Rowan Senior Games.
This was the best year yet in the number of competitors with 243 athletes in 57 events, four softball teams and one three-on-three basketball team with games yet to come, according to Senior Games Coordinator Phyllis Loflin-Kluttz.
A new event was the cycling competition at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Six counties, including Rowan, brought together 78 senior cyclists.
Here were the men and women winning gold, silver or bronze medals at the Salisbury-Rowan Senior Games:
Don Anderson, Gus Andrews, David Aycoth, Carol Bachl, Fred Bachl, James Baird, Yvonne Barger, Mikal Barnes, Shirley Baucom, Rick Beattie, Clete Beaubien, Jay Boyce, Ron Boyer, James Bradshaw, William Broadway, Robert Bruce, Elizabeth Calhoun, Vincent Campbell, Lois Carter, Boyce Caudle, Margie Childers, Ann Cline, Bucky Cline, Faye Cline, Beverly Cobb, Duard Cress, Floyd Cuthbertson, Ted Doby, Rob Duffy, Phyllis Durland, Jerry Dymond, Gary Emerson, Helen Emerson, James Epperson, CP Fisher, Rita Forgione, Bill French, Joanne French, Charlie Gillispie, Jan Godwin, Bob Goodwin, Butch Grambow, Roy Green, Donald Griffin, Donna Lee Hall, Mary Hall, Robert Hall, EJ Harrison, Bill Hathcock, Richard Hatoway, Harold Hattaway, Arthur Hattaway, John Heath, Dale Hedrick, Don Heglar, Cathy Horn, Howard Horton, Ethel Horton, Robert Houck, Mary James, George Kluttz, Bill Kraigsley, Floyd Lentz, Norma Lewis, Les Loman, Wade Lowder, Paul Mehmed, Scott Miller, Kenneth Miller, Larry Morris, Jim Moysan, Phyllis Myers, Doris Oddie, Stan Osteen, Joe Overby, Thomasina Page, Ruby Parris, Eveline Patterson, Jeff Peeler, Harold Poole, Marvin Query, Carolyn Rackley, Sam Rackley, Charlie Rankin, William Ritchie, Renita Ritchie, Jeff Saleeby, Mary Seaford, Mary Showfety, Thurman Smith, Gilbert Sprinkle, Connie Summers, Karla Swanson, Thomas Talbert, Bob Tannehill, Wayne Tate, Terry Taylor, Hazel Trexler-Campbell, Bill Troxler, Clifton Walton Frances Wells, Gloria Ann Wilhelm, Dianne Wilkes, Donna Williamson, David Willingham, Clyde Young and Libby Young.
Salisbury-Rowan Senior Games is a non-profit program with Comfort Keepers and Genesis HealthCare as gold sponsors; Humana and Cheerwine as silver sponsors; and Jake Alexander Auto Sales and Rowan Regional Medical Center as bronze sponsors.
For more information about Salisbury-Rowan Senior Games, contact Loflin-Kluttz at 704-216-7780.