Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life

Joe Kody is a retired sales professional, lover of all kinds of sports, and a Huntsman World Senior Games athlete who demonstrates that lifelong passions can be rekindled in unexpected ways. As a teenager, Joe enjoyed archery with his father and enjoyed football, baseball, and basketball in his youth. After retirement, he picked up pickleball and quickly became hooked, then rekindled his love for archery, taking on the challenge of barebow competition, where every shot depends on skill, focus...

Robert Warden is an 82-year-old pickleball coach, community volunteer, lifelong learner, and Huntsman World Senior Games medalist whose remarkable second act began with a wake-up call. After retiring from his second successful career as a nationally recognized on-air chef, this former college baseball player expected to slow down and enjoy life. Instead, at age 75, he found himself at 275 pounds and facing serious health challenges, including degenerative disc disease, heart arrhythmia, predi...

For more than five decades, Larry Hodges has been a driving force in table tennis, as a player, coach, author, and advocate for lifelong athletic participation. He began playing at age 16, started coaching before turning 20, and went on to become one of the most influential coaches in U.S. table tennis history, helping develop more than 250 national junior champions and co-founding the Maryland Table Tennis Center, one of the nation’s premier training programs. A member of the U.S. Table Tenn...

Jean Duffy moved over 20 times before high school, including time in Algeria and Spain, and didn't discover her love of sports until adulthood. After years of triathlons, she found her true passion on the soccer field, where the camaraderie of the game kept her coming back. That passion eventually led her to the remarkable Soccer Grannies of South Africa, a group of women ages 40-80 years old who started playing in skirts and who continue to prove that age is no barrier to competition, commun...

Sue Reynolds knows firsthand that transformation is possible at any age. At 335 pounds, she struggled with everyday tasks like walking a block or tying her shoes. After years of unsuccessful diets, she tried again with a secret goal to complete a triathlon. With a purpose, she lost more than 200 pounds and discovered a love for sport. Just three years after completing her first triathlon at the back of the pack, Sue finished sixth in the world and was the top American at the World Triathlon C...