Picture a ceramic bowl. While relatively strong, drop it on a hard floor, and it’s likely to break. That bowl is emblematic of a person dealing with mental health issues, like our featured adult athlete, Alex Wisch. Alex suffered debilitating mental health struggles throughout his life. Now, picture that same ceramic bowl, but put the … Read more
Some people like to talk about sports as a networking opportunity. Adult athlete Tim Frazier takes it one step further. He formed an adult soccer league with the sole purpose of combining sports with business networking. He calls it–what else but–Pitch on the Pitch. Networking With a Twist After 90 minutes on the pitch, the players gather … Read more
For adult athlete Rachael Pelly, basketball is akin to reuniting with a long-lost love. Something she had fond memories of from her past but stashed away for years, only to rekindle the relationship many years later in adulthood. Rachael immediately fell in love with playing basketball as a kid in Australia. The sister of two … Read more
If you think being middle-aged, overweight, and having zero experience in a sport should be deterrents to becoming a hockey player, you’re about to be proven wrong. John Moores’ true quest to become an ice hockey player began at age 45, weighing 388 pounds and having no idea how to ice skate. Two years later, … Read more
Basketball. Golf. Pickleball. Hiking. Snowshoeing. For 48-year-old Cammas Freeman, age is no deterrent to playing sports. Her only deterrent is not having enough time to jam in all the sports she wants to play as an adult athlete. In addition to her sports activities, Cammas is the founder of a successful recruiting firm and the … Read more
When was the last (or first) time you’ve seen six players on an organized adult baseball team span three generations of father-son duos? For men’s baseballer David Carrillo, this was a surreal and magical moment in his life. In 2019, David was 39 and played an adult league baseball game with his 61-year-old dad, David’s … Read more
Some of us are born track and field athletes or soccer players. But for one woman, finding her niche in running as a teenager was serendipitous. Her venture into soccer at age 46 can be described as nothing but purposeful. If anyone thinks starting a sport later in life is impossible, the story of Kristy … Read more
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