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ASO Games Announced for 2015 Even though the Arizona Senior Olympics turned 32 years old this year, many people still believe that the game dates change each year. There is some truth in that assumption, but since the beginning, the ASO annual games have always started on the third weekend in February. Some might ask, “Why the same time every year?” The answer to that question goes back to the beginning of the games, when the founding steering committee thought that the height of the snowbird season would be perfect for an event that would include the greatest number of seniors living in Arizona. It was well known, even then, that there were snowbirds (people who come for the winter) and sunbirds (people who leave for the summer). February seemed like the ideal time for those populations. It was also obvious that the weather in February/March was ideal for sports competition. Although the games were originally one week, they were expanded to three weekends— and the days in between—to make it possible for retirees and those seniors who are still employed to participate.
ASO began as, and remains, an “open” state. Seniors from anywhere can take part as long as they are age 50 by the deadline which, at first, was the first day of the games. That rule was changed last year when, in compliance with NSGA rulings, the age determination was set at Dec. 31 of the games’ year for all sports except track and field, which had to maintain the USATF age determination date of the day of the competition. The 2015 games will once again begin on the third weekend in February—Feb. 21 through March 8.
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