Wendy Corr:
Well, hey there folks, welcome to The Roundup. We are a Cowboy State Daily podcast that focuses on really interesting people in the Cowboy State. Oh my gosh, our enthusiasm today, I'm going to apologize in advance because our guest today and I have just been chit chatting before we get started recording, and we are going to have a ball today, and we hope that you're going to have as much fun as we are.
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Now though, I want to make sure that you all know and get to know our guest today. This is De Shann Schinkel. De Shann, I hope that I'm pronouncing your last name right.
De Shann Schinkel:
You did Wendy, beautiful.
Wendy Corr:
De Shann Schinkel, she is the executive director of the Wyoming Senior Olympics. Now, I know, if you're like me, it's like, ‘Oh, Senior Olympics. That's for actual athletes, or people who've always been athletic,’ but that is not the case, and De Shann is going to tell us about that today.
But she has a great story of her own, and the people that she's met and the people that have influenced her life, and whose lives she has influenced, is just a story in itself. So I'm very pleased to introduce everybody to De Shann. Hello, De Shann! I'm so glad to have you on the podcast today.
De Shann Schinkel:
Hi, Wendy. Thank you guys so much for doing this for us and bringing me on. I appreciate it. We all appreciate it. Board of Directors for the Wyoming Senior Olympics.
Wendy Corr:
Well, I tell you, this is so fun for me, because the more that we chatted - beforehand, folks, we just had such a good time figuring out that Wyoming Senior Olympics, it's not just about these people who have been athletes and just want to continue that in their in their older years. The Wyoming Senior Olympics is about staying fit. It's about community, it's about so many things that are a part of who we are. And you don't have to be an athlete to participate.
On that note, De Shann actually is an athlete, so I'm going to let her tell her story. So De Shann, tell me how you got involved with Wyoming Senior Olympics.
De Shann Schinkel:
So I started at the age of 50. So I had heard about it. I was the recreation director in Rawlins. Heard about the Senior Olympics. Okay, you know, I'm still competing, I'm still running, I'm playing softball, playing volleyball, all that stuff. So let's see what this is about.
I looked, signed up, Wendy, for 16 events. My first go around at the age of 50, thinking, ‘okay, I can do all this. You know, I'm going to run to the swimming pool. I'm going to do the swim, swimming events. I'm going to go to the triathlon. I'm going to try out the triathlon. I'm going to go do track events.’
I went and did track events. By the end of that weekend, the individuals, the people I met, they're a family. They - you know what? That saying you don't have to be blood to be family is so true. Wendy, I met some amazing, amazing people.
Bill Stone, at the time, was the president. I met him, and I was just like, in awe of all they put on for these senior athletes. It wasn't just swimming and just volleyball or triathlon. There's volleyball, there's basketball, there's corn hole. Now we have pickleball, table tennis, golf, weightlifting, and now we've introduced power lifting.
And I remember thinking, power lifting as seniors, what? I lift weights, but how important it is for bone density, for all of us, and especially us women, as we age, the importance of bone density. So I said, ‘Okay, how do I get involved? What do I do?’
I retired in 2018, so I hadn't retired yet. I was still active, working daily. I retired in 2018 as the Aquatic director in Rawlins. And I said, ‘What am I going to do now? I'm going to travel around, I'm going to compete. I'm going to go to other senior games around the country,’ because they are offered all around the country. ‘I'm going to go to all these other games.’
So I started doing that, and I came home and I said, ‘Okay, I'm going to register for the Wyoming Senior Olympics again.’ Went online, and there's an advertisement for executive director - part time. Well, that fits. That's in my realm.
I had moved to Texas and bought a home down there, and summer, going to spend, you know, my summer and a partner there, make a go of it there too, and do the Summer Games and the Texas Senior Games. And I did. Did it all.
Applied, waiting, listening, waiting, waiting, watching, and I was hired. Okay, so what does this mean, De Shann? I've never been behind the scenes, so now I'm behind the scenes. I find out what Wyoming Senior Olympics.
Of course, I came on after 2020, COVID. So it hit everyone hard, not just Wyoming, but before that, all the rec centers throughout the state would host the senior um games, or Olympics. It depends, if you go winter, we call them winter games, because, keep it separate from the Summer Olympics. And there is a story behind us being able to keep Wyoming Olympics in our name.
So anyway, I start jumping in. Okay, so what is this all about? We go and meet with the Cheyenne mayor and his cohort, the recreation director. Funding is scarce. They don't have the staff. They don't have the manning. So here we find, the board finds that we're out on our own. A nonprofit, out on our own, relying on the knowledge of those board members at the time and myself in athletics.
So started making the contacts, and our first year was scarce, almost didn't run, but that board is so determined, and I have to give them credit. We have Joe Dedic out of Casper. He's our president. We have Doug Brendle in Cheyenne. He's our vice president.
Gay Woodhouse out of Cheyenne, she's our treasure. We have Rich McVeigh, also out of Cheyenne. He's our secretary. We have three members at large. We have Buck McVeigh. We have Steve Arnold, a lot of people would might know Skip from the athletics YMCA in Cheyenne. And we have Bruce Pederson out of Casper, wonderful board to work with.
We also have a Hall of Fame chair committee Kay Gore out of Wheatland, who runs our Hall of Fame, which we just inducted our first five inductees in 2024 and we'll go on for 2025.
So anyway, jump in. Here we are. We don't have a lot of funding to start off. We're starting, you know, we’re out there, hitting the pavement, getting the sponsors. And I have to give a shout out to those sponsors who stuck with us and who were continuing on with us. Blue Cross/Blue Shield. AARP is partnering with us. We're looking at Humana.
We currently have 29 sponsors right now throughout the state helping us. Jonah Energy LLC, out of Pinedale, they've become a big sponsor of ours. We have Gold’s gym. They do all our weight lifting, our power lifting. So we're utilizing - I could go on - we have A&B Bank out of Casper, the airport golf course, like I said, First Interstate bank, a big one. Jonah Bank of Wyoming came in this last year. They're big with us.
And Napa, we have Peppermill Bar and Grill, pepper tank, the big ones, Laramie County School District. It’s unbelievable what they're doing for us in the venues. And that's what Wyoming Senior Olympics is all about. We're bringing in the 50 plus and older to compete in these different sporting events.
And as I said, there's team events, volleyball, softball, basketball, bringing them in, we had 955 athletes participating in 2024 - our largest ever for Wyoming.
Wendy Corr:
That's fantastic. So tell me about the Special Olympics event. I mean, it happens in the summer. This year it was July into August, and then this next year, it's actually going to be in June. So tell us about what it looks like. Does it look like the Olympics that we see on TV? Is it that sort of setup?
De Shann Schinkel:
It is, Wendy. So we have the opening ceremony. We have registration where they come pick up their packets and visit. Cheyenne was so gracious in giving us the bags and stuffing those for us last year - and our winter games, Sublette County Visitor Center, they stuffed bags for us to hand out to the athletes. So it takes a village to make this happen. It really does. And everyone coming together.
But yes, so we start the opening ceremony. We have registration, everyone coming together. You know what the neatest part about it, Wendy, is seeing athletes who have not seen each other, maybe since last year, when they come together and you see them hugging one another, or they're telling their stories of what they did throughout the year, where they've been, where they've traveled, what's their families doing?
So like I said, it's not just that athletic, and you don't have to be athletic, Wendy. Anyone can go out there and start a run. We play corn hole. Pickleball is the new event out there. You know, Pickleball is huge.
Wendy Corr:
So, so popular. I mean, that's a big deal. So, how would you encourage somebody? So let me just use myself for example. Okay, so I was never an athlete, ever, ever, ever - but when I hit 40, I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna run a 5k. I didn't run it. I ran-walked it. But after that, for like, the next 10 years, I was doing a 5k a year, it was great.
Now, I've gotten busy in the last few years, I haven't done it, but I do not consider myself an athlete, but I love the camaraderie. I love the sense of community - that, to me, is the fun and the real reason to do a 5k. It's not for my own personal physical health, although it does certainly help and it gives you a purpose to train for.
But how would you tell somebody like me who is not an athlete, and say, this is something worth participating in.
De Shann Schinkel:
It's funny. You say - so I was given, at the national challenge, ‘What is your elevator conversation? Your elevator pitch? What is that, De Shann?’ And I said there'd be two. There'd be that individual who is very competitive, who wants to go to Nationals, qualified to go to Nationals, and then you have that individual who may not have that athletic experience, but they want to be a part of something bigger.
So my pitch is you don't have to be competitive, you don't have to be an athlete. You can join us for the camaraderie, the family, the social.
You know, as we get older, and I feel like we're a generation, and it's funny, I coached for 25 years.
Wendy Corr:You did? When did you coach?
De Shann Schinkel:
I coached volleyball, basketball, and my last go was swimming, and I was a swimmer athlete myself, growing up in Rawlins, so I coached swimming. 25 years I coached the student athletes, and pride and joy, obviously, and my son. I have a 31 year old son, pride and joy, coaching him and his teams.
And as I'm getting older, I'm realizing that there are other athletes out there, seniors and the middle age ones as well. And that's why the Wyoming Senior Olympics, not only are we looking at doing these events winter and summer, which are more so open to our 50 plus.
We are now expanding our program, and we are doing events throughout the state of Wyoming. We just finished a pickleball tournament in Casper at the Casper Pickleball Sports Complex last weekend, 25 and plus. Introduced those younger adults to movement, activity, what we're about and just engaging lifelong friendships that you develop, so that as we age, we're not staying at home and isolating ourselves, you know, or those illnesses that creep up.
Now Gerry Meyer, one that I love, and we'll talk about him.
Wendy Corr:
Yes, we have to talk about Gerry.
De Shann Schinkel:
We do, we do. But he would say to me, and I called him on his birthday, November 2, and he says to me, ‘There are three things in life, De Shann’ - and I sometimes have to look the way he said it, because he said it in such a way that it was so profound to me.
He said, ‘I considered there being three parts to life, and the first part, you're given your genes, or your inheritance. Your genes, inheritance, what your upbringing was.’
Secondly, he says, ‘It's through your lifestyle that you've chosen - no smoking, you know, limited alcohol or no alcohol. Nutrition, so important, our nutrition.’
And then he said, ‘There by luck, the luck.’ He's 105 saying this to me, yeah.
Wendy Corr:
That’s fantastic. So I kind of want to sidetrack here. I don't want to go too far into the weeds, but he is an example of the people who get involved in Senior Olympics. Now, you mentioned that you first did Senior Olympics when you turned 50, and so to me, that was an eye opener. It's like, Wow. I mean, I'm, I'm 54, so I guess I could participate in the Senior Olympics.
But you've got 50 year olds and you've got 105 year olds. And I love Gerry's story, because he won two gold medals this year, but he was also the only person in his age class.
De Shann Schinkel:
105 to 109.
Wendy Corr:
I can't believe there's actually an age class for 105 to 109. So tell me about some of the people that you've met, like Gerry, who have just really made this new career path that you have found yourself on, that have made this new career path so engaging for you.
De Shann Schinkel:
So Gerry is dear to my heart. Met him a couple years ago. He was a runner, and he entered the Olympics. And his family - I've met his entire family, his granddaughter, his partner, all of them, wonderful people.
But Gerry himself. He says things that are just inspirational. Talking with him and watching him, just inspirational. Talk about this, Wendy, 105 - at 104 he ran the 50 meter dash. At 105 he runs the 50 meter dash, and he betters his time from the year before.
And I'm standing there and he says to me, ‘De Shann, I think I could do the 200.’ I'm like, ‘Gerry, I don't know.’ And he's ‘No, I've been training. I feel like I can run the 200.’
I was the one that kind of put the brake on it, and said, ‘I don't know, Gerry, you've got the 50 and the 100 and you're doing the banquet tonight to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. That's two very long days.’ And he said, ‘But I rest in between.’ And I said, all right.
And I said, ‘You know what, Gerry, you're going to outlive me.’ And you know what he said? He looked right at me, right in my eyes, and he said, ‘Why not?’ Is that challenge, Gerry?
Wendy Corr:
I love that! I just the fact that we've got amazing people like that in our state, that's just something to hold up and to be so proud of. And you've met so many people like that.
De Shann Schinkel:
I was going to say, Wendy, he's just one. We have Della Works up in Casper. Amazing. Also a runner/walker. She does three miles, still in her 90s. Amazing. We also have all the athletes from Colorado, Montana, South Dakota. We had 16 states here participating this last summer. We had one from Japan, also an athlete from Japan.
So I get the privilege to meet all of these special - we have a 91 year old woman out of Colorado who runs running events and plays softball.
Wendy Corr:
I want to be her when I'm 91. I genuinely want that.
De Shann Schinkel:
Yes, here is a great - I was at the bank, and the teller notices my birthday, and she goes, ‘Oh, you and I are the same age.’ And I said, ‘What month?’ And she tells me, and I go, ‘Oh, you're a couple of months older than I am.’ And she goes, ‘I have just hated entering the 60s. It is so downright depressing.’
And I looked at her, and I go, ‘No, I have to share with you.’ So of course, I have to share with her my experiences. And I said, ‘I am looking forward to my 70s, to my 80s, to my 90s, and my one hundreds, because of the inspiration of the athletes I get to work with and deal with on a daily basis.’
When I get a phone call in the late afternoon from an athlete that they need help or a question about something or they just want to share a story that they went to the gym today and they had success there, I love it. I love it.
Wendy Corr:
You are so meant to be where you are. And I just find that absolutely heartening, heartening.
I want to take people behind the scenes and into your life just a little bit. Now, I know that you were a coach. I know that you worked at the recreation, at the Aquatic Center in Rawlins, but I know also that you just recently came back from a life changing trip, and I want you to tell us about that.
It's very related, because it's very much about athleticism. It's very much about endurance. You participated in the Camino de Santiago - you started in Portugal, in Porto. Tell us about that choice to do that.
And again, it relates to staying active, but it's also about what you're just talking about, about looking forward to the next step in life, no matter what age.
De Shann Schinkel:
Thank you, Wendy. Yes, so I had a cousin who had been wanting to go and go, and she had canceled for like, five years in a row, and it was something that was on my list as well, I wanted to do. So she invited and I said, Yep, ‘I'm all for adventure. I'm all for trips.’ I love traveling. I travel all around different countries, all over the United States. And I said, ‘Yes.’
So we flew into Porto, Portugal, and we hiked the Camino all the way to Santiago, but then we went further. We went all the way to Muxia, the end of the world. And so I'm telling you, breathtaking, life changing.
And for me, especially at the time, we all have a story, and we all have gone through challenges in life, and I have that story as well. I battled some health issues, major health issues. Like I said earlier, Wendy, I really shouldn't be sitting in this chair right now. I had an experience on I 25 in a Tesla that will stick with me for the rest of my life. I was trapped in a Tesla.
But I'm here, and there's a reason I am here, and that happened in May. There's a reason I'm here, and I know it's that higher power that is pulling me through and saying, ‘I have other plans for you, young lady, and you were not done. You're not done yet, so you need to take advantage.’
So I appreciate every morning I put my feet on the floor. I appreciate that day, and I love working with my student athletes, or my senior athletes. The Santiago, the Camino was not just a physical challenge. 370 miles, we hiked terrain that was rocks and sand and road and highways, busy, busy highways. It was a challenge in that regard.
A physical challenge, blisters, 18 miles a day, and you get a blister, and we were fortunate to prepare and take care of our feet every night so that we didn't get put down ever, not one day where we put down due to blisters or sores, or anything of that nature.
But it's not just the physical. It was also the mental and the spiritual of asking and thanking God every day that I was having this opportunity to walk his path, St. James’ path, but walk that path to Santiago.
And the people we met on the Camino are now friends of mine and will be for life. We check on each other, talk to each other. ‘How are you doing? Are you thinking about doing another one?” Inspiring others. If you haven't seen the movie ‘The Way,’ you have to watch it.
Wendy Corr:
That is an incredible movie with Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez. That's what got me so interested in that. So when you said that, that's something you'd walked -
I think that one of the wonderful things about your life experiences, including the Camino, including these other things that you've done, is that you have brought that to your interactions daily, with your senior athletes, with the communities, your enthusiasm, your real sense of purpose has been what is moving Senior Olympics forward.
I want to just kind of switch gears real quickly about going on and what are some of the things that you have goals for, for the Senior Olympics, I know you've already achieved one. You got a major award. You guys got a major award. I want you to hold up your award, because it's a great award.
So you recently, just this year, you received the National Senior Games Association Award. And I have to just assume that your enthusiasm and your passion for this, is what helped to secure that award. What were the criteria for this award?
Wendy Corr:
So it's your game's promotion, what you did in promoting your games. And we've grown. We rapidly grew - so we were 300 to 400 Athletes, to now 955 in 2024.
And obviously, Wendy, I couldn't do this alone. I have an amazing board of directors. We have volunteers. We are now with Serve Wyoming. They are helping us with the volunteers. We're going to take advantage of all the Wyoming programs that are out there.
Governor Gordon just put out there the WYGAP, we're taking advantage of the Jump Start program. We're going to jump on board with all that. We're looking for grants. We're looking for more sponsorships, because there is a need in the state of Wyoming.l
And I, we, are finding that out even more and more every day as I work with the senior athletes. They're hungry for it. They want it. They want to be in the environment - and maybe not competing. But I'm finding people who have never competed becoming athletes and wanting to go to Nationals.
So we have nationals coming up in 2025, it'll be in Des Moines, Iowa, where I was at last week, where we received this award.
And I was at the annual conference, and at that annual conference, not only did we receive this award because of all our promotional - we have an amazing board of directors, one Doug Brendle on our board, who helped design our T shirt. I don't have a T shirt on today, but our T shirt design, he helped with all of our posters, our flyers. He did our Hall of Fame. But it's all that promotion.
We do flyers. We do tri folds that we send out around the state. We do all kinds of promotional and it was how we promoted our activities in Wyoming that we received this award for 2024.
Wendy Corr:
Congratulations.
De Shann Schinkel:
Well, thank you. And then I was nominated, which came by as a surprise, nominated to be the West Regional Coordinator at the national level. So Wyoming, we are at the national level, on the board of directors. We have a spot.
Wendy Corr:
De Shann, that's phenomenal. Congratulations on that. Again, I love your passion for this.
I know that there are some other programs that you're running parallel to the summer events and the winter events and things like that. You've got something that I'd like you to talk just real quickly about, which is the SAFE initiative.
It's technically, Sustained Athlete Fitness Exam. But like you mentioned before we got started today, it could also be the Senior Athlete Fitness Exam. What is that, and why is it something that us, everyday people should know about and should be aware of?
De Shann Schinkel:
Everyone should be aware of the SAFE program and be a participant of it. So it takes into consideration your cardiovascular, so that could be swimming, running, whatever you're doing cardiovascular - we all need to have a little of that in our life, right?
It takes into your muscular - so as we age, it gets harder to get up from a chair, go down the stairs, all those things. It takes into consideration your flexibility. As we age, we get stiffer. And I know, just from my own and watching my senior athletes, by moving, that stiffness goes away, by staying active.
Then it takes into consideration our balance. As we age, we have balance issues start to play a factor in our lives. So it takes all that into it.
And it's an exam, a fitness exam, taking all of those, and it takes an athlete, and it takes you through about 20 minutes of different exams. They'll do flexibility, you know, they'll do a little bit of cardio in there, take that all.
And it gives the athlete a report card. And in that report card you'll see all your measurements. It does a strength, hand strength, so then the next time we do it, you can be a participant, and see where you're at, and you can evaluate and watch yourself grow.
And if you're not growing, you can seek a physical therapist, a personal trainer. You can join us and come do some of our clinics that we're offering around, participate in those things to increase it. It doesn't have to stop right there, and you're done, and you're on the couch, or you're in bed.
There are so many things out there, I'll tell you. Health Works, they're out of Cheyenne. They're a major contributor as well and sponsor of ours, and they provide health care for us, emergency during the games. They have an ambulance out there for us.
But there's all these avenues out there for us to take advantage of, and we're bringing on a team. I'm meeting with them tomorrow, a physical therapist team tomorrow to bring them on to help us even grow our SAFE program even bigger.
Wendy Corr:
So where can we get these SAFE exams if we're not in Cheyenne, and if we're not - where are avenues for us to take advantage of that program?
De Shann Schinkel:
So if you're not in Cheyenne with us, we're going to offer this all around the state. So we're going to offer it in Cheyenne starting, but we're going to offer this throughout the state of Wyoming, at every event we do. We're looking at a schedule.
This is kind of a crazy - I know you'll be thinking, what are you guys doing? But we're going to go February, March, April, May, June, July, and then August, with events throughout the state of Wyoming. We're looking at hosting power lifting competitions. We're looking at corn hole, we're looking at pickleball.
We're looking at swim meets. December 7, we're going to have a swim meet here in Rawlins at the Aquatic Center. We're going to do golf at the Rochelle Ranch golf course. We're going to do pickleball in Casper and in Cheyenne. We're going to do weight lifting. We're looking around Laramie.
I'd love to go up into the Cody and Sheridan area, so anyone that has contacts for recreation can get me in touch with anyone, let me know!
We want to go into those northern states as well and host all sorts of kinds of events and clinics. And with these clinics, we'll bring in the SAFE program, so we'll have a trained physical therapist with us that will test you on those flexibility, muscular, all of them.
Wendy Corr:
That’s great to know. Where can we find your schedule? I'm assuming you've got - the website that's the best place to find where you're going to be, and the different things that you've got going on, so that we can - even if you're just mildly interested in being active and being a part of this, because I'm certainly interested in it. Where can we find where these events are going to be?
De Shann Schinkel:
So we are in the process- our WyomingSeniorOlympics.org website was hacked. However, it's still up. It's still up, and you can get information on there, but we are with Wyoming.fewsport.com so it's Wyoming.fewsport.com temporarily, and you can find our information out there.
Or they can always call me, Wendy, and my information's out there, all over the place for Wyoming Senior Olympics at WyomingSeniorolympics@gmail.com. You can get me there if you have questions about it, if you want to become a part of our board of directors, or you want to be a volunteer.
We have amazing commissioners that run our events. We have commissioners from Rawlins and Cheyenne. We have commissioners that come out of Colorado to help us out, and as my role, it is as regional director, regional coordinator. I have Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, all within our umbrella that I can have.
I have more tools out there to help us get anything we want, and we have it all right here in Wyoming. You know, I have to give a shout out to the Department of Health, Aging division, they kept us going with a grant application that they awarded us last year and kept us going.
So Wyoming has the tools and the resources right here. We just have to continue to capitalize on them, and we plan on doing that, and we're open for any partnership that wants to join in with us. We're open for it.
Wendy Corr:
De Shann, this has been a phenomenal conversation. I don't think you and I are done talking. I think you and I have a lot more to talk about when we're not doing the podcast here, but I'm so glad to be able to introduce you, to really highlight the Wyoming Senior Olympics.
So many of us, and so many of the people who are watching this podcast fall into that demographic. And so I think that there is just so much for us to learn about ourselves, not just if you're athletic, not just if you are - I just think that there's a lot here for us, and what a thing to be proud of for us here in Wyoming, to have an amazing, active, passionate director for Wyoming Senior Olympics. So De Shann, thank you.
De Shann Schinkel:
Wendy, thank you, Todd and Abby. You guys are amazing. What you are doing for the state of Wyoming and getting the news out there, and I even get goosebumps just talking about it. I love watching you every day. I love waking up to you and watching you and hearing what you have to say about our state and what's going on in our State of Wyoming.
Wendy Corr:
We have a fantastic team here, our reporters and our editing staff, and we're just, we're so blessed. But again, folks, this is Wyoming, this right here, and the conversations that we're having with De Shann, with others. This is Wyoming, and this is why we're so proud to be part of the cowboy state. And so, De Shann, is there anything else that you wanted to make sure we talked about before we get off? Because we've covered so much, and I just wanted to give you a chance to put another plug in there.
De Shann Schinkel:
You know, I want to make sure - we have the swim meet coming up December 7 here in Rawlins at the Aquatic Center, and then our big winter games. We have skiing, we have pickleball, we have indoor mile walk. We have all of it happening in Pinedale, February 20 through the 22nd and the Pinedale Aquatic Center. Yeah, amazing group of people there that we work with.
Wendy Corr:
A phenomenal facility.
De Shann Schinkel:
Yeah, a beautiful facility. But Amber Anderson, what a great partner to have. She helps me with all of it and putting it all together. And we have a big banquet, celebration banquet there, as well as in June, we'll have our celebration banquet in Cheyenne. So please come join us.
Wendy Corr:
And don't forget, folks to get on the website - or you have a Facebook page De Shann?
De Shann Schinkel:
We do. We have Wyoming Senior Olympics, and we have Instagram.
Wendy Corr:
Okay, then you've got lots of ways to get a hold of De Shann to see what the Senior Olympics are all about. Again, you don't have to be an athlete. You just have to want to better yourself physically, emotionally, and take that step for a healthy, healthy senior years.
And so I just think it's great what you're doing. Folks, thank you for tuning in to The Roundup. Thanks for being a part of our conversation today. Don't forget, Wyoming Business Alliance "Business From the Basement" podcast. If you're in the business world, there's another phenomenal way that you can help better your Wyoming business.
Thanks for tuning in. Thank you De Shann. Folks, we'll see you next week.
