Florida Swimmers Glide to Medal-Winning and Record-Breaking Performances at National Senior Games

Florida swimmers continued to show their excellence in the pool at the 2025 National Senior Games. The 30 registered swimmers combined to win a total of 39 medals over three days of competition, that concluded Sunday at the WellMark YMCA, in downtown Des Moines, Iowa.

In the last two National Senior Games, 2023 and 2025, there has been no better swimmer in backstroke events than Linda Fulton, of Celebration (pictured at right).

Fulton set new National Senior Games records in the 70-74 age group, in the 50 and 200 yard backstroke events and narrowly missed setting a new record in the 100 yard backstroke.  In those events, she either broke, or almost broke, her own records.

She has the top two times in the 70-74 age group 50, 100 and 200 yard backstroke events in the history of the National Senior Games, times she recorded in 2023 and 2025.

Fulton also broke her own record in the 50 yard butterfly with a time of 35.33, her final event Sunday. Her gold medal-winning performance came at the slightest of margins as she topped the silver medalist, who touched the pad with a time of 35.55.

Besides her excellence in the backstroke in the National Senior Games, Fulton holds four backstroke records in the 65-69 and 70-74 age groups, and eight total records in the Florida Senior Games.  She was named the 2022 Florida Senior Games Female Athlete of the Year.

Overall, at the 2025 National Senior Games, Fulton won four gold medals, a silver and a bronze, over three days of swimming. In the last five National Senior Games since 2017, she has won 21 gold medals, three silver and a bronze medal.

“What’s great is I’m swimming better times and breaking my own records even as I get older,” Fulton said, at the end of the competition on Sunday.

Other standout Florida swimmers included, Michael Aubrey, of Wilton Manors, who won five gold medals in the 55-59 age group, and Nancy Nevid, of Sarasota, who won five gold medals and a silver in the 70-74 age group.

Aubrey posted new records in the 60-64 age group in the 50 and 100 yard breaststroke events.  He holds the Florida Senior Games records in the 55-59 and 60-64 age groups in the 50, 100 and 200 yard breaststroke and a total of 10 Florida Senior Games age group records.

Nevid had record-setting performances in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle. All totaled, Florida swimmers won 39 medals over days in the Wellmark YMCA pool (23 gold, 12 silver, 4 bronze).

The 2025 National Senior Games will be in competition daily through August 4 in Des Moines.  A total of 713 athletes from Florida, the most of any state in the U.S. will be in action.  For full National Senior Games results, please visit www.nsga.com/nsgresults and follow the accomplishments of the Florida athletes on Facebook at www.facebook.com/playinflorida.