Polk Senior Games Encourage Lively Existence

Senior athletes could wish to start their coaching regimens now to organize to compete with their friends within the annual Polk Senior Games, an annual two-week sequence of 37 Olympic-style sports activities and video games for women and men 50 years of age and older. Winners are eligible to advance to Florida and National Senior Games.

Registration for the 2026 video games will start January 2, and the deadline is Friday, February 6. Games will start February 28 and run by March 14.

The Games encourage an lively way of life; mix an curiosity in sports activities and video games with enjoyable and fellowship; promote a constructive picture of seniors and acknowledge their efforts and achievements; and encourage volunteerism.

Competitions are held at numerous places all through Polk County and embody: Archery, Bag Toss, Basketball Shooting, Billiards, Bocce, Bowling (together with Team Bowling), Bridge, Chess, Cribbage, Ballroom and Social Dancing, Darts, Euchre, Field Events, Fishing, Golf (18 Hole Singles, Mixed Doubles, and Putt & Chip), Horseshoes, Pepper, Pickleball, Punt Pass Kick, Road Race 5K, Scrabble, Senior Smarts, Shooting (Pistol, Rifle, Skeet, 5-Stand, Sporting Clays, and Trap), Shuffleboard, Softball, Sudoku, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Track, and Walking.

Gold, silver, and bronze medals are awarded in every occasion and age division.

There are two methods to register for the Games:

1. Submit a paper entry (request an entry booklet with full Games info and a paper entry type, name 863-533-0055, electronic mail [email protected])

2. Use the brand new on-line registration at http://www.polkseniorgames.org.

The base entry price is $13, and every occasion is $6. Facility charges are required for sure occasions: $40 for Golf Singles, $40 for Golf Mixed Doubles, $15 for Pickleball, $15 for Archery, and $15 $25 for Shooting occasions. A reduction is obtainable for contributors coming into greater than seven occasions.

Additional group price applies for Softball.

All contributors obtain a T-shirt.

Polk Senior Games is a non-profit group sanctioned by the Florida Sports Foundation to qualify contributors for development to the Florida Senior Games, which result in the National Senior Games.

Major Sponsors embody Silver Sponsors Publix Super Markets Charities and the Homer & Annette Thompson Legacy.

Bronze Sponsors are the James W. Sikes Family, CPS Investment Advisors, In Honor of Janie Sikes, Westminster Lakeland, and Orlando Health Watson Clinic Lakeland Highlands Hospital