The 2022 Florida Senior Games took place at various locations throughout Pasco County, from Dec. 3 to Dec. 11, with thousands of athletes participating in multiple events.
According to Florida Sports Coast, the Florida Senior Games featured 2,350 total athletes, 428 pickleball players at Sarah Vande Berg Tennis Center, 84 athletes from Pasco County, athletes from 36 different states and 15 athletes over 90 years old.
Events included basketball, volleyball, table tennis, bowling, powerlifting, racquetball, track and field, tennis, archery, cycling, pickleball, swimming, bowling, shuffleboard and more.
Events were held at such places as the Sarah Vande Berg Tennis & Wellness Center in Zephyrhills, the Land O’ Lakes Recreation Complex, the Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus in Wesley Chapel, Cypress Creek High School in Wesley Chapel and Zephyrhills Shuffleboard Club.
Pasco County also will host the Senior Games in the first two weeks of December in 2023 and 2024, and previously did so in 2020, as well.
Pasco is the ninth community in Florida to host the games for more than one year, since the games began in 1991.
