A quarterly newsletter published by New
Mexico Senior Olympics, Inc.
| New Mexico Senior Olympics, Inc. | October 2003 |
A T H L E T E P R O F I L E
| Age: | 61 |
| Residence: | Quemado |
| Events: | Air Gun; Archery; Horseshoes; Shuffleboard |
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But it doesn’t fulfill the competitive drive for either of them.
Her husband and sons participate in rodeo. She used to, also, but she says that whenever she had a roping horse trained well, someone would buy it out from under her. “I guess they figured ‘if that grandmother can handle that horse like that’ it had to be good for themselves or their kids,” she says with a smile.
So she turned to Senior Olympics, because she felt it would give her something to compete in. And that was worth making time for. She entered all four events in air gun (bench rest and standing in both rifle and pistol), winning gold and silver in all and setting a total of four state records. But air gun is not a national event; and Karolie wanted national competition.
So she took a workshop on horseshoes...one of many such workshops on various sports offered throughout the state by New Mexico State Olympics. She started competing, and doing well in this national event.
But several years ago, she knew she was going to miss the Catron County horseshoe competition because she would be at an out-ofstate rodeo with her family. So she took another workshop offered by NMSO—this one on archery.
To say she has done well in her new sport would be a bit of an understatement. In the past three years, she has set two state Archery records in Recurve. And this year, she took fourth place in the National Games.
Karolie Green enjoys competition. She enjoys the opportunities Senior Olympics has given her to expand her competitive energies into new arenas. She intends to stay with Senior Olympics for a long time to come. How does her family feel about it? She says that every time she goes to compete, her husband tells her, “Have fun...and don’t embarrass the ranch.”
There doesn’t seem to be much chance that she ever will.
