If you want proof that age is just a number, look no further than 96-year-old Rita Price in Lakewood. via robharristv
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Every week, she laces up her sneakers, grabs her paddle and joins her fellow Ridge Pinehurst residents on the pickleball court.“It’s just a great game, and it gets a lot of old people [moving],” Price told Denver7 following a pickleball match. “We had a person that was in a walker come in. I tell people if they’re in a wheelchair, we’ll let it bounce twice. And, you can come and hit. Just to get people out, move their bodies, and you know, stay healthy.
“We talk trash,” Price laughed. “And if new people come on, we help them and, you know, say a few lines.” There’s no doubt that every tennis gold medal has prepped Price to be the Ridge Pinehurst pickleball champion. But as a matter of fact, she credits her truest passion as the source of her talents.
“The most applause I ever got was at a burlesque theater in Philadelphia. It was New Year’s Eve. And the strippers, of course, got applause, and the second strippers. I got a little smattering of applause,” she recalled. “But then, I left the stage — took my bow, and ran off — the stage manager came running up, ‘Get out there, they’re still applauding!’ The reason I got a standing ovation was because all the wives were there with the guys, and they said ‘You applaud the dancer, not the stripper.
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