Former Junior Olympian and college football player Tim McMahon has been a masters track athlete since age 32, having competed nationwide in sprints, hurdles, long jump, and decathlon. He recently expanded his athletic pursuits by competing in masters swimming for the first time at the Huntsman World Senior Games. Just three years ago, Tim was diagnosed with stage-3 lymphoma, and he also underwent a total knee replacement last year at the age of 65. However, this New Jersey decathlete, ocean lifeguard, and lifelong competitor continues to shine bright. Now in remission and cleared to sprint again, he’s rebuilding strength, working through residual neuropathy, and training to return to world-class form. 

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James Neider is the Executive Director of Cardiovascular Services for Intermountain Health’s Desert Region, leading a team of more than 75 cardiology providers and 300 caregivers. He focuses on advancing cardiovascular care, operational excellence, and team development across the region.

Previously, James directed the Heart Specialty Care & Transplant Center at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas and managed the Comprehensive Epilepsy and Neurodiagnostic Programs at the University of Utah Hospital.

He began his career as a registered nurse specializing in heart failure, heart transplant, and cardiac diagnostics, and holds both a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and an MBA from Brigham Young University. An educator and innovator, James has served as adjunct faculty at Ensign College and co-founded the Utah END Institute and the Rocky Mountain Neurodiagnostic Society.

Outside of work, he enjoys long-distance running, reading, hiking, camping, and spending time with his wife and four children.

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At 70 years old, Bee Kilgore is proof that adventure doesn’t come with an expiration date. A retired trauma ICU nurse of 20 years who completed three international medical missions, she’s also a mountain climber and a regular on 100-mile cattle drives. Bee began competing in tennis at age eight and was a highly-ranked player from the ages of 8-21 before transitioning to pickleball five years ago. Since then, she has embraced the sport as another avenue to live boldly, traveling the world to play, compete, and teach in places including Japan, Mallorca, and England. Her achievements include three national titles, six U.S. Open titles, and the 2024 English Open Women’s 65’s Singles Championship, and she is currently ranked #6 in the Masters Senior Pro Women’s Doubles division. Here at the Huntsman World Senior Games, she competed at the top level and earned gold in all three doubles events in the combined 60’s to 70’s. Pickleball has given Bee new purpose, lasting friendships, and an ever-widening world to explore.

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At 65, Debbie Barry is a powerhouse and benefactor of people who believed in her. Once a high school drum major and avid reader, she didn’t start her fitness journey until age 39, when she lost over 50 pounds with the help of a friend. Debbie ran distance races, including a marathon and several half marathons, cycled, and learned to swim. When she was 61, Debbie tried the Sierra Gold Track Team and instantly fell in love with discus. Less than a year later, she faced aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, but kept walking, healing, and fighting. Now she’s back in the ring, breaking her discus pre-cancer personal record, and still working full-time as a certified fitness trainer. She inspires her clients and proves there is always something you can do at any age.

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Merilee Bingham is a first-year gift shop superstar at the Huntsman World Senior Games and a passionate, certified group fitness instructor who has turned her own journey into inspiration for others. While helping her children through some struggles, she realized she too should make some changes; as a result, she erased an unhealthy habit and replaced it with fitness, community, and purpose. Fitness is her anti-drug. Now, with more than eight years of sobriety, she brings her contagious positivity to every UpBeat Barre class at the St. George Recreation Center, helping others find balance, fun, and freedom through movement.

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Larry Kiser is a lifelong athlete whose passion for movement started on the football field, where he walked on, played, and lettered at Brigham Young University. These days, you’ll find him golfing with friends, hiking, or mountain biking around St. George, Utah. After surviving a heart attack in 2020, Larry made a commitment to take control of what he could: his health, mindset, and daily habits. In August 2025, he even conquered the “29029 Everesting challenge,” climbing the height of Mt. Everest by hiking Whistler Mountain in British Columbia, Canada eight times in 36 hours. Married to his best friend Julie for nearly 40 years, and a proud dad of five and grandpa of ten, Larry now channels that same focus and purpose into helping others as a financial planner.

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This week's show features an update on our 2025 Games and features our Director of International Hospitality, Mindy Case. Mindy and Kyle discuss how our Games provide translation and transportation to anyone participating in our event for free. Mindy also discusses a recent undertaking called "Dear Sport," where athletes were invited to write a letter to their sport. Kyle and Mindy also describe various festivities that take place during our Games outside of the sports competitions, including the Cauldron Lighting.

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Born in New York and raised in Texas, Joe Gray, has spent a lifetime blending passion for competition with dedication to teamwork. A lifelong ballplayer, he started on the baseball diamond and never really left it, transitioning into softball, where he’s been part of two senior national championships, a senior world championship, and countless regional titles. At the Huntsman World Senior Games, his teams have earned two silvers and a gold, and while he’s now spending more time coaching than playing shortstop, his competitive spirit still shines. He’s also added pickleball to his repertoire, even finishing sixth at Nationals in Indian Creek, California.

After retiring from a long and distinguished career with the Department of Defense and later as a university instructor, he’s found renewed purpose in senior sports, where camaraderie, sportsmanship, and family always come first. For him, winning is a byproduct of doing things the right way, and the real reward comes from the friendships, teamwork, and lifelong memories made along the way.

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Pat Davies enjoyed participating in a variety of sports in his youth, including Little League and swimming. As an adult, he found new outlets for his competitive spirit, spending a decade in karate, moving into marathons and ultrarunning, hiking, and even competing in the unique “ride and tie” races that combine running with endurance horseback riding. He has completed over 100 hikes to the top of Lone Peak, over 11,000 feet up in the Wasatch front in Northern Utah. Now 68, Pat embraced gravel biking a year ago, and this summer, he completed a 4,000-mile solo ride across the United States from Anacortes, Washington to Maine. While members of his family would sometimes meet him at stops along the way, he braved storms, equipment breakdowns, headwinds, and long lonely roads, averaging 76 miles a day and chronicling the journey through daily YouTube videos. Pat lives in Sandy, Utah with his wife and four children and continues to prove that adventure doesn’t have an age limit.

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Steve Claflin’s life in racket sports is one of resilience, reinvention, and passion. A former nationally-ranked table tennis champion and Port Huron Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Steve’s competitive career was nearly ended by a devastating knee injury and infection in 2002. After years of rehabilitation, he found his way back to the game in 2010 through hardbat ping pong, a slower, strategy-driven version of table tennis that relies less on explosive movement and more on stamina and tactics. What began as a chance substitution at the U.S. Open turned into a second career. In 2022, Steve founded and became Chair of the International Classic Table Tennis Federation (ICTTF), which now organizes world events across Mexico, China, and Brazil. At the 2024 World Cup in Mexico City, he earned a silver medal in the Over 55 Championship. Today, Steve continues to champion ping pong globally, proving that active aging means adapting, competing, and thriving.

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