MSO FYI
2026 MSO Events
Our 2026 season will run from April to October with around 30 sports competitions. Registration will open next spring. Click on the 2025 Events tab for details on each sport.
The Maryland Senior Olympics is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization for active residents aged 50 and above. Since 1980, we have provided safe, fun, and healthy recreation events for almost every sports interest. With your support, we can continue to grow and enrich senior fitness and wellness. Click on the image of our new 2025 sponsorship guide for the ways individuals and companies can sponsor or donate to MSO.
• Message from MSO Chairman Neal Gillen.
2025 MSO Event Photos
Highlights of our season through images at select MSO events and activities. You can also find these albums on our Facebook page and our Flickr photography site.
• 2025 Hall of Fame and Awards
• Badminton Medalists
• Men’s, Women’s Basketball
• Billiards
• Bocce
• Bocce 4-Player Teams
• Bowling
• Celebration of Athletes
• Cornhole
• Cycling Time Trials 10k
• Cycling Time Trials 5k
• Disc Golf
• Horseshoes Medalists
• National Senior Games
• Pickleball Action Photos
• Pickleball Medalists
• Powerlifting
• Racquetball Medalists
• 5k Run at Kentlands/Lakelands 5k
• Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Tennis
• Track and Field
• Trap Shooting
IN THE NEWS
MSO Programs Honored
By Commission on Aging
On Friday, Dec. 12, the Montgomery County Commission on Aging presented MSO with their 2025 Austin Heyman Community for Lifetime Award. The honor recognizes MSO’s non-profit work directly promoting senior health, wellness, and civic engagement through our sports competitions that foster a healthy and active lifestyle for seniors aged 50 and above.
Since late 2007, MSO has been based in Montgomery County for 15 years. With approximately 25 percent of the county’s 1.1 million population being seniors, MSO complements the county’s many activities by hosting 13 of our 30 sports. Montgomery County’s in-kind contributions including our biggest events, such as track and field, pickleball and bowling competitions managed by the county’s recreation department.
Vice-Chair David Schardt received the Heyman award on behalf of MSO at the Commission on Aging’s holiday luncheon at Brookside Gardens. In other words, yay for us!
MSO Donates Cornhole Boards
Fran Bass and the Orioles Bird presenting a set of MSO cornhole boards.
On Monday, Sept. 16, MSO Chairman Neal Gillen and our cornhole coordinator, Fran Bass, attended Senior Field Day at Middle Branch Fitness and Wellness Center in Baltimore. Thanks to our long-time friends at Baltimore Rec ’n Parks, we handed out MSO shirts, medals and brochures to the 200 seniors participating in a variety of activities.
MSO Photos From National Games
MSO had 527 Marylanders registered for the National Senior Games in Des Moines, July 24 to Aug. 4. We finished 8th in the medals standings. Here’s a selection of photos submitted by our athletes and MSO staff. Thanks to all who contributed to these albums.
• Facebook album (75 images):
• Flickr album (106 images)
Tulsa, Birmingham to Host
2027, 2029 National Games
After Des Moines in 2025, NSGA stays in the Midwest in 2027 while returning to Alabama 12 years later in 2029. The theme: Smaller markets, fewer headaches. Details here.
