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cycling raceCalif. rider bursts from pack to edge rivals

at finish line of 20k eventBy Colin Becht

In competitive cycling, the difference between winning and second and third place can often be a fraction of a second. Such was the case Thursday in the 20k races of the Senior Games, where most races were not decided until the last few feet.

Such a near-photo finish was best exemplified by the men’s 50-54 race. In a mad dash to the finish line, John Platero of Thousand Oaks, Calif., prevailed by just .2 seconds over Don Stimson and by .8 seconds over Steve Matson, both of Washington.

Platero was not even the leader as the pack of riders be-gan their climb up to the finish line at Cañada College, but he pulled just ahead in the last straightaway to claim the gold, sending Stimson and Matson back to Washington, lacking gold medals by the slimmest of margins.

The state of Washington would get its revenge moments later when Tom Hackleman cruised in to claim the gold in the men’s 55-59 race. Hackleman held off Scott Sifferman of Missouri by 2.8 seconds. Hackleman was in a pack of six riders as he began his ascent to Cañada College. Mid-way up the hill, the riders hit a brief flat section, during

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Way out ahead of her competitors, Helen Schley, 81, of Fredrick, Md., Wasily won the gold medal in the women’s 400-meter run event in the 80 to 84 age group at the Senior Games Thursday. “I’m not going to let anyone take it from me this time,” Schley said, regarding her new medal. Earlier in the day, Schley won the gold in the 1,500m, with a time of 11:34, or so she thought. Ap-parently, another woman in the same age group had missed the heat, so she ran in a different one, faster than Schley, finishing in 8:32. Schley had to trade in her gold medal for the silver. “I let them know that I didn’t like it,” Schley said, referencing her complaints to the Senior Games of-ficials. The gold in the 400-meter felt “darn good,” she said, even more so because she knocked three seconds off her time, finishing one lap around the track in 2:22.

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There are Charlie’s Angels. And there was Arnie’s Army, who followed the champion-ship golfer Arnold Palmer. But one golfer at the Senior Games has his own entourage called Charlie’s Army. At 95, Charles Young is still forever young. The only competitor in his age group, Young lives up to his last name. “I’ve convinced myself that I’m not old,” he said, “I’m still young.” Young, of McCall, Idaho, finished the tour-nament with a final score of 170. He started playing golf at the age of 35 and has been play-ing consistently. “I plan to compete in Houston in two years,” he said, “Get a gold medal for being 97!”Young is the oldest athlete competing in the golf tournament. He is followed on the course by a group of 10-15 family members and friends, who call themselves Charlie’s Army. “I took Charlie out for golf on his 95th birth-day,” his neighbor Jon Walker said, “And the guys at the club were absolutely amazed! They were like ‘I hope I can hold a golf club at 95, let alone swing one.”” “It really was a coordinated effort with a

lot of the staff, the volunteers, and the course maintenance crew,” Lozares said, “There was intense preparation to organize the tournament and order extra golf carts months ago.” On Thursday, golfers played through the light drizzle to finish strong in the last day of the golf tournament.

Despite the cold weather, most golfers were sat-isfied with their scores. Carl Hancock, 79, of Louisiana, was happy with his final score of 249. Hancock has been play-ing golf for 53 years and is competing in his second Senior Games. “I could have shot better,” he said, “Then again

you never like what you shoot.”Ray Lokers, 90, of Michigan, shot a 142. Lok-ers has been playing golf for 60 years and been participating in the senior game for 20 years. “I didn’t play so well today,” he said, “I just hung in there today. I finished, that’s what counts.”

Charles Young watches his putt on the 14th green during the first round of Senior Games play at Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course

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By Sana Bakshi

Senior Games race walking is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Cobb Track on Stanford Campus, and Diane Johnson is ready. “I am really excited,” said Johnson of Washing-ton state. “I have butterflies in my stomach!” Johnson is a local champion, always winning the gold in her home state. And she took home the bronze medal in 2007 at the Louisville Games. Johnson is confident in her ability, but she doesn’t know how to assess the competition. “You never know whom you are going to go up against,” she said. Johnson will be competing in the 1,500 and 5,000 meter race walk in the age 65-69 category.

Despite a recent head cold, she expects to do well. Elsie Kallal, of Arizona, took home the silver in 2007 at Louisville, although she does not feel confident this year. “I broke my foot in September 2008,” she said, “So I’m not expecting much.” Kallal didn’t walk on her foot for six months after the break. But like any true athlete, she kept moving forward and after two months of training, competed in a marathon. “Any athlete’s going to go through physical therapy and keep going,” she said. “Any athlete is going to try harder.” Kallal doesn’t expect to win any medals this year because of her foot, but plans to do her best and give the other athletes “a run for their money.” “I am going to push the top people,” Kallal said. “I am going to push the winners.” Kallal has been competing in the Senior Games with friend, Lucy Dimarzo, and has medaled every year. ★


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Huge volleyball field will begin play Saturday

more than 550 athletes will compete over eight days in quest of gold medalsBy Colin Becht

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“At least I haven’t gotten slower,” Schley said. Schley will also run the 800m on Friday, Aug. 7. She has run these same, three races since her first games in 1991. And she is proud to say that she has never gone home empty-handed. This may be her last Games though; Schley thought she might not have enough energy for Houston, the location of the next games. Schley did not start running competitively

until she retired in 1987. There was no run-ning, let alone physical education, in her in high school or college. “It was the 40’s,” Schley said. “We were ladies; we didn’t get hot!” When the time came for Schley to pick a career, her choices were limited. She gagged at the thought of home economics. Instead, she chose to teach physical education for the next 32 years of her life, so she could be out-side, and stay active and healthy, one of her favorite aspects of the Senior Games. Of course, Schley adheres to a serious training regimen before she comes to com-pete at the Senior Games.

“I don’t just show up and say here I am,” Schley said. She runs three days a week and works out two days at the gym. Her coach, a young man who just missed qualifying for the Olympics, varies Schley’s workouts each day and runs alongside her, an aspect Schley loves. She has to work to keep up with him though, she said. Unfortunately, Schley has scoliosis in addi-tion to another spinal condition, which caused one of her vertebra to collapse. “I’ve always just done track; I have a bad back so jumping is no good,” Schley said. “The pounding hurts my back when I run, but I can put it out of my mind.”

Schley treats her back problems at a physi-cal therapist weekly. “I can’t wait to take it home and show it to my physical therapist,” Schley said, of her gold medal. While Schley has won the gold before in the 400m, the feeling of winning never gets old, she said. But, at the same time, medals are not the only reason she comes to the Se-nior Games. “I love the friendship and the camarade-rie,” Schley said. “Even if I don’t win, I’m okay with it.” ★

which Hackleman accelerated .“I gave it everything I had right there, and

that’s what created the gap,” Hackleman said.’’Hackleman said much of the race, until that

final burst, was spent in packs. Occasionally, riders would attempt “attacks,” in which they would try to break out of the pack on their own. “But it never really worked, so by the time we got about a mile from the finish, the racers were all compacted together,” Hackleman said.

Hackleman is a passionate cyclist and said he spends about 10 hours each week training. This is his first Senior Games, making him one-for-one in gold medals at the Games.

Carol Johnson, a fellow Washingtonian, added another medal to the state’s total when she won the women’s 50-54 race, finishing the course in 35 minutes and 33.9 seconds.

Lee Andrews, who traveled from Ontario to compete, got her second straight gold medal at a Senior Games, repeating her victory from 2007 in the women’s 55-59 race. Andrews blew out

her competitors, winning by more than eight seconds.

Andrews, like many of her fellow winners, trailed at the bottom of the final hill, but luckily her training had prepared her for such climbs. “Climbing is my strength,” Andrews said. “I’ve been working on my hill climbing, and it paid off for me.”

Living near Toronto, Andrews has a limited cycling season, with weather preventing her from riding outside until April. Andrews said indoor training is an option, but she finds it “bor-ing. So I don’t do much indoor training.”

Andrews, and many of the other cyclists, will also compete in the 40k race Friday and the 5k and 10k time trials on Saturday. After medaling in all three of the remaining events in 2007, in-cluding a silver medal, Andrews said she expects to be on the podium a few more times in the next two days. “I’m hoping to bring a few medals home,” she said.

In the men’s 60-64 race, Richard Alejandre of Pennsylvania crossed the finish line first to claim his gold medal with a time of 33:56.2, 20 seconds ahead of Durward Higgins of Tennes-see, who took first in the 65-69 catetgory. ★

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Cyclist John Plztero, of Thousand Oaks, won the gold medal in the 20 kilometer road race Thursday, just edging out Don Stimson, right, who won silver, and Steve Matson, the bronze winner. Stimson and Matson are both from Washington state. Cyclists will compete in the 40k race today, starting at Cañada College at 9:30.

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As the official, Pulitzer Prize-winning pho-tographer of the National Senior Games, Rick Rickman decided to communicate his newfound perspective of aging in his recently published book, “The Wonder Years.” The work is a collection of photos taken by Rickman, spotlighting stories of senior athletes written by Donna Wares in addition to a fore-word by Olympic figure skating gold medalist Peggy Fleming. On Thursday, Rickman, appeared at the Se-nior Games’ Celebration Plaza to share his in-spiration and sign copies of his book. The event also included a slideshow of his photos and a video of athletes in the book. Rickman intro-duced his friends Granville Coggs and Margaret Hinton, athletes who are featured in “The Won-der Years,” as well as competitors at this year’s Senior Games. Rickman, 58, of Laguna Niguel, Calif., gained his inspiration for the book from his deceased 94-year-old grandfather, who taught him that getting older is just another opportunity to learn something else. “My grandfather engaged in life,” Rickman said. “He had the greatest attitude about living.” Rickman decided to devote his entire book to the senior athletes who embody “The broader picture of what living really is,” he said. He want-ed to share their inspirational stories that include the life experience that only comes with age. After composing the book, Rickman held an event where a young teenage girl asked him if he felt bad taking pictures of these older athletes, when he knew they could get hurt doing what they were doing. “That’s when I realized how skewed the per-

spective of aging has become,” Rickman said. “Life doesn’t end at 30, it only just begins.” The media idolizes youth and conveys that once people become old, they become brittle and unable to do a thing anymore, Rickman said. However, the Senior Games directly contradicts this assumption and shows that there is “a richness to the older years,” Rick-man said. “As you get older, you gain a richer under-standing of self, and it is just as important to understand yourself as it is to understand every-thing else,” Rickman said. Obviously, for Rickman, “The Wonder Years” is more than just some pieces of paper bound together. Rickman believes these senior athletes have given him a whole different perspective and enthusiasm for a long life. “I have a greater appreciation for life in total,” Rickman said. He recalled what he said was a life chang-ing event for him. One of the athletes Rickman wanted to get into the book, 82-year-old surfer Doug Craig, died before he got a chance to pho-tograph him. “He [Craig] said he wouldn’t let me take pic-tures of him until I learned to surf,” Rickman said. “Now, I surf every day.” Craig was like a grandfather to Rickman, “a real character,” who taught him that it is never too late to learn something new, Rick-man said. Rickman hopes that people, of any age, will pick up his book and “Realize there is so much more depth and breath after you gather all the ex-perience over the course of aging,” Rickman said. “It’s a whole new learning opportunity.” ★

Author Rick Rickman shares the stage with Margaret Hinton and Granville Coggs, subjects in his book, “The Wonder Years,” during a presentation at Stanford Thursday.

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THuRSDAY AuGuST 6

Sarah OvertonBowling/Track & Field

Tennesseeage: 84

Salvador PanucoSoccer

Californiaage: 55

MJ Lee (Merijane) Soccer

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SCOREBOARDThe Senior Games Daily will continue sharing results from selected games throughout the

competition. For a complete list of results, visit 2009seniorgames.org/results.

CYCLINGName Age State Time Back

Female 50-541 Carol Johnson 50 WA 35:33.9

2 Dawn Neisser 51 CA +0:07.4

3 Benedicta Halecky 51 KY +0:10.6

Female 55-591 Lee Andrews 56 ON +0:01.5

2 Helena Brook 55 ME +0:09.8

3 Jane Geisse 55 OH +0:15.9

Female 60-641 Barbara Davies 60 BC +3:51.7

2 Melinda Berge 64 UT +4:02.3

3 Carol Frenck 61 VA +4:17.8

Female 65-691 Marsha MacRo 65 CO +3:18.4

2 Barbara Gicquel 69 CA +3:34.5

3 Ann Shuman 66 IA +4:07.0

Female 70-741 Rosa Seemann 72 VA +8:01.5

2 Ellie Antonio 74 CA +8:01.5

3 Eleanor Hamre 73 CO +8:14.5

Female 75-791 Joyce Quadri 75 PA +8:29.5

2 Wilma Calvin 75 CA +8:42.9

3 Dolly Williams 77 TX +19:33.0

Female 80-841 Margaret Eckenrode 81 PA +14:59.7

2 Catherine Mc Cormick 82 CA +27:38.7

3 Marilyn Olen 81 CO +30:57.1

Female 85-891Elizabeth Bramhall 86 CO +23:33.6

Male 50-541 John Platero 50 CA +31:44.0

2 Don Stimson 52 WA +0:00.2

3 Steve Matson 54 WA +0:00.8

Male 55-591 Tom Hackleman 55 WA +1:35.3

2 Scott Sifferman 55 MO +1:38.1

3 Alastair Lockett 56 WA +1:38.1

Male 50-641 Richard Alejandre 62 PA +2:12.1

2 Sverre Falck-Pedersen 60 WI +2:16.6

3 Zoltan Zsohar 62 TX +2:18.0

Male 65-691 S. Higgins 67 TN +2:32.2

2 Clifford Jackson 65 FL +2:33.2

3 Phil Needham 67 KY +2:42.2

Male 70-741 Robert Paganini 73 CA +5:17.6

2 Patrick Bunch 74 KS +5:18.2

3 Bill Vest 72 VA +5:23.8

Male 75-791 Walt Axthelm 75 CO +5:21.5

2 Louis Monacelli 76 MI +5:45.6

3 Kendal Green 75 CA +6:08.0

Male 80-841 Link Lindquist 81 CA +5:45.6

2 Robert Bergen 84 CA +8:15.6

3 Bob Malain 82 CA +16:09.2

Male 85-891 Larry Johnson 89 NM +16:35.4

2 Elton Hammond 85 OH +26:08.6

3 John Taylor 87 GA +27:40.1

Congratulations to the athletes below who were selected as a 2009 Legend from the AstraZeneca Celebration Board.

THURSDAY AUGUST 6

Sarah OvertonBowling/Track & Field

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Salvador PanucoSoccer

Californiaage: 55

MJ Lee (Merijane) Soccer

Californiaage: 59

2009 SENIOR GAMES LEGENDS

TRACK & FIELD Name Age State Final Time

1500-Meter RunWomen 65-69

1 Stoll, Margie 68 TN 6:33.842 Engle, Kathy 66 NH 7:16.153 Mihay, Louise 68 WA 7:17.70

Women 70-74 1 Moebius, Heide 70 PA 6:56.392 Kennard, Mary 70 TX 7:38.863 Moffitt, Kathy 72 OK 7:52.11

Women 75-791 Weber, Edith 78 SD 8:23.372 Barger, Frances 75 AR 8:37.983 Hollicky, Nessie 78 UT 8:40.89

Women 80-841 Benenati, Virginia 84 AZ 8:52.082 Schley, Helen 81 VA 11:33.543 Gray, Dottie 84 MO 11:36.52

Women 85-891 Bolton, Millie 88 OH 11:40.762 Dashiell, Wally 85 VA 13:36.253 Kirsling, Mary 86 NM 14:13.89

Men 65-69 1 Condon, Frank 67 CA 5:05.712 Malaczynski, Gerard 67 MI 5:26.023 White, Nat 68 AZ 5:32.18

Men 70-74 1 Sagedahl, Sherwood 70 MN 5:45.432 Grodnik, Jim 70 NC 5:45.903 Mohica, Ken 71 HI 5:52.36

Men 75-79 1 Freeman, George 77 MI 6:56.052 Bisson, Jerry 77 NY 7:28.753 Smythe, William 79 CO 7:31.36

Men 80-851 Blanchard, Ken 80 LA 7:17.342 Bell, Joseph 81 MO 7:23.133 Davidson, Bob 80 CT 7:34.89

Men 85-89 1 Dotson, Charles 86 NC 7:51.432 Green, Lowell 85 OK 8:46.653 Englert, Roy 86 VA 9:13.04

Men 90-951 Stern, William 90 MA 16:22.792 Hawkins, Claudis 92 AL 20:23.73

Men 95+1 Levine, Frank 95 PA 14:29.33

100-Meter Dash

Women 80-841 Fitzgerald, Margie 81 CA 19.342 Styles, Frances 81 CA 21.363 Smith-Griffin, Burtie 81 LA 24.46

Women 85-89 1 Bauer, Lorma 87 IL 23.912 McGowan, Ann 85 RI 25.453 Trexler-Campbell, Hazel,86 NC 33.92

Women 90-941 Mackown, Molly 91 CO 29.922 Webb, Lillian 94 FL 32.69

Men 90-941 Pellmann, Donald 93 CA 19.56 2 Bulkley, Daniel 92 CA 22.043 Stern, William 90 MA 29.01

Men 95+1 Springer, Max 95 TN 28.652 Zilverberg, John 95 SD 29.32


Stanford Hospital & Clinics and the new Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center in Redwood City, are proud

to offer medical care and services to the 10,000 athletes of the 2009 Summer National Senior Games,

held August 1 through 15 at Stanford University. Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine specializes in

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