Welcome!

Happy Spring and wishes for 2024 – a year full of sport, competition and friendship – a qualifying year for the 2025 Summer National Senior Games in Des Moines, Iowa.

We are celebrating National Senior Games Week – March 18 – March 24, 2024.  In recognition of this inaugural week, we have scheduled activities, Zoom calls for all, and sports clinics in California. There are also Proclamations from the State of California, the City of Palo Alto, the City of Visalia, and San Diego elected officials stressing the importance of exercise, lifelong fitness and commitment to sport!

The 2024 California State Championships feature an exciting format, thanks to an innovative partnership between the San Diego Senior Games, Pasadena Senior Games and Bay Area Senior Games /Encore Games.   Events will be held in three regions under the umbrella of the California Senior Games State Championships. Qualifying events are designated in the registration information.   Details, dates and venues are available, depending on confirmation of venues.

The Encore Games in Northern California will be held from late September 2024 to early December.  The exceptions are Track and Field, Powerwalk, Racewalk and Tennis, conducted in the spring, due to availability of venues and sports commissioners. The Encore Games are known as the “second chance to qualify” for the 2025 Summer National Senior Games to be held in Des Moines, Iowa.

A summary of sports, venues and designated qualifying events will be listed here, and also be available at the following web sites:

• https://www.sdseniorgames.org
• https://www.pasadenaseniorcenter.org/activities-events/senior-games
• https://www.encoregames.org
• https://www.californiaseniorgames.org

Thanks to our CSGA Board of Directors, the regional games event organizers and sports commissioners for their continued support as well as the sports organizations who have provided support, officials, advice and enthusiasm.

Please don’t hesitate to call our office at 650.323.9400 with questions or suggestions.  Keep training, stay in shape, and have fun – as we know, “Competition Never Gets Old” and you all are proof of that motto!  And don’t forget to join our Facebook page.

Yours in Sport,

Anne Warner Cribbs, OLY
California Senior Games Association Chair
Encore Games and Bay Area Senior Games