Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life

Seventy-two-year-old Norman Calvo is a former successful New York mortgage executive, a certified high-performance coach, podcast host, marathon runner, cyclist, and cabaret performer. Twenty years ago, Norman weighed 247 pounds and had never considered himself a runner. At age 59, an employee challenged him to join her in training for the Brooklyn Half Marathon. What began as a simple fitness goa...

A native daughter of the genre-bending West Coast music scene, Caroline McCaskey is equally at home in the regional traditional, improvising, and classical music worlds. She is the Musical Director of the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers, and the 2019 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion. Caroline is also a two-time International Musical Saw Champion. In demand as an educator as well as a perform...

Dr. Regan Stiegmann is a former U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, lifestyle medicine expert, and lifelong athlete whose passion for performance began on the soccer field. As a young athlete, she was a soccer standout in the Olympic Development Program and earned multiple college scholarship offers for both athletics and academics. After enduring multiple ACL injuries that altered the trajectory of he...

Jeff Asay has spent the past 14 years competing in multiple sports at the Huntsman World Senior Games, including softball, basketball, volleyball, tennis, and pickleball; in fact, one year, he did all of them! Jeff served a church mission in England, where he learned to love cricket, and he was a basketball walk-on at Blue Mountain Community College. Jeff coached high school tennis for 10 years an...

South African native Dr. Sharon McDowell-Larsen is an exercise physiologist, leadership expert, and elite endurance athlete who has spent more than 25 years at the Center for Creative Leadership helping senior leaders improve performance, health, and cognitive function through lifestyle medicine. She earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, worked with athletes in the U.S. Olympic T...

Mark Ivie grew up as one of 11 children, loving any sport with a ball and a group, but especially basketball, volleyball, and baseball. He loved to play church ball and Little League. Though small in stature, now at 5’6”, he built his athleticism through relentless practice. Later in life, after realizing he could barely run around the block on a work trip, he set a goal to complete a half maratho...

Evelyn Cook was raised in a bustling, multigenerational household in Indianapolis, Indiana, where her grandparents raised 13 children and helped raise 14 grandchildren. As a child, she was a competitive and active tomboy, running, biking, and finding her stride on the track. Known as “Super Cricket” for her long legs, she was encouraged by her coach to take on hurdles. Evelyn attended the Universi...

Ronnie Figueroa has not had an easy life full of confidence. However, in his fifties, after hitting rock-bottom, he made the conscious choice to break through his insecurities and challenges and transformed his life from the inside out. At 69, Ronnie stepped into the world of DEKA Strong, a high-intensity, 10-event fitness challenge under Spartan, and placed third in the world in his age group, al...

Mike Kelley has played basketball his entire life, and his passion for the game has only grown stronger with age. A former college athlete at Fort Lewis College, he now competes at the highest level of senior athletics, helping lead Geezer Nation to multiple 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 championships at the Florida Senior Games, the Huntsman World Senior Games, and the National Senior Games. He has also play...

Linda Sappington has spent a lifetime building her community through service, leadership, and storytelling. A past Utah Rotary District Governor, she was the first female member of Rotary in Southern Utah when she joined St. George Rotary in 1993. In the workplace, she served for 16 years as Director of the Southern Utah Volunteer Center Network, overseeing six impactful programs involving seniors...

Terry Monda grew up on a quiet street where days were spent playing every sport imaginable. This passion for athletics earned him a basketball scholarship at a local college in Washington. As an adult, Terry played city league basketball and softball, even while having multiple knee surgeries to fix cartilage, but he abstained from most racquet sports to avoid ACL reconstruction. From picking up g...

Kim Washington built a successful career in public and higher education, including serving on President Barack Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee and supervising White House interns during President Obama’s administration. Her life later took a dramatic turn when she developed an autoimmune disease, gained significant weight, and faced serious health challenges, including liver fibrosis, dia...

From an upbringing in Central California to life now in northern Utah, Bill Baker has spent decades chasing adventure outdoors: road and mountain biking, climbing iconic spots like Yosemite National Park and Joshua Tree National Park, and living all-in on movement. In addition to his career in pharmaceuticals most of his life, he was a private pilot for 35 years. However, in early 2025, everything...

Carolyn Zaumeyer is a nationally recognized nurse practitioner with more than 30 years of experience in women’s health and hormone optimization. As the Founder of LowTE Florida in Fort Lauderdale, where she specializes in personalized, evidence-based hormone therapy for men and women between the ages of 35-92, who are seeking renewed balance and vitality, she is rated first in Florida as a hormone...

Dr. Mike Studer, PT, DPT, MHS,NCS, CEEAA, CWT, CSST, CBFP, CSRP, FAPTA is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in neurologic physical therapy, aging, and brain health. With over three decades of experience, Mike has spoken in all 50 states and across six continents, bringing a powerful blend of science, motivation, and real-world application to rehabilitation and performance. He’s a...

Madonna Boclair Hanna is a sprinter proving that speed has no expiration date. Over the past 15 years, she has competed in nine Washington State Senior Games and set a Women’s 70–74 50-meter state record in 2024, a mark that had stood for 15 years. She has competed in five National Senior Games, winning her first national gold in the 4x100-meter relay at age 70. Her journey to the track began at a...

Lisa Cramer, Master of Arts, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Board Certified in Neurofeedback, and Quantative EEG - Diplomate Level, is a nationally recognized speaker who makes neuroscience feel personal, practical, and deeply hopeful. Lisa helps people understand what’s really happening in the brain when anxiety won’t ease, emotional outbursts keep happening, brain fog lingers, or burn...

This week’s Active Life podcast guest is Kristen Blake, functional nutritionist and founder of Kristen Blake Wellness, a virtual root-cause practice serving clients nationwide. With a Master’s Degree in Clinical Nutrition and Human Performance and coaching certifications through the AutoImmune Protocol and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Kristen specializes in helping men and women optimi...

Rich Marquez, AKA “Pono,” was diagnosed with stage 3+ pancreatic cancer, a diagnosis where only 15-20% of patients are even eligible for the life-saving Whipple procedure. Through what he calls a series of miracles, strong medical care, unwavering faith, a disciplined approach to nutrition and prehab, and constant care and encouragement from his wife, Rich not only endured the strongest preventive...

Wendy Lumby’s journey into active living began almost as soon as she could walk. Adopted as a baby in Saskatchewan, she found her passion early: skiing just under 18 months old, excelling in figure skating, alpine ski racing, and soccer, always drawn to speed, movement, and competition. That drive carried her all the way to the Canadian National Alpine Ski Team, World Championships, and the 1988 W...

Michael Smith is a lifelong swimmer whose relationship with water began at age nine in a small Ohio town with no high school pool. Instead, he had a YMCA, grit, and a first-generation college mindset that later led him to a double major in business management and humanities, advanced graduate work, and a Six Sigma Black Belt. That early path led him to national-level swimming competition, a decade...

Paul Soroudi is someone whose life has been shaped by saying yes. He didn’t grow up in an athletic family, but a simple invitation to join cross country in 10th grade sparked a lifelong relationship with movement. After building a successful business in his early years, Paul returned to running in adulthood, completing marathons, trail races, and hundreds of local competitions. More recently, pick...

Dale Huckabee became a professional Quarter Horse jockey at 16 and later set a world record in mule racing at the Aspencade Stakes in New Mexico that stood for decades, traveling 350 yards in 21.03 seconds. When health forced him to step away from horse and mule racing, he rebuilt working ranches, managing horses, and eventually rising through the ranks at Coca-Cola, where he now serves as a secur...

Jacquie Hertlein is a powerful example of how leadership, service, and sport can shape a lifetime. A lifelong multi-sport athlete, spanning volleyball, soccer, gymnastics, track and field, and tennis, she spent 17 years with the Calgary Police Service, rising to Acting Sergeant and earning recognition for compassion-driven policing. After an injury led to her retirement from law enforcement, Jacqu...

Janette “Pink” Johnson has been living an active life since childhood, from competitive volleyball and basketball in college to earning her first-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do at age 62 and competing in bowling against people across the nation. Pink also enjoys pickleball and hiking. After a health setback several years ago with a dramatic increase in fatigue, Pink tried several homeopathic opt...