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Betty Emery and husband Gerry serve up some table tennis at Monterey Recreation Centre. Betty scored three gold medals in the Senior Games in Burnaby. Christine van Reeuwyk/News staff
Senior Games sweethearts
Decades of practice keeps Oak Bay couple going for the gold Christine van Reeuwyk News staff
Five decades together doesn’t dampen a partnership according to one Oak Bay couple. Betty and Gerry Emery started their table tennis pairing as high school
sweethearts at Mount Douglas secondary. “We play really well together. We’ve been married 57 years so we should have those things worked out now. We’ve had a lot of practice,” Betty said. She, however, has more gold medals from the 2012 B.C. Senior Games than Gerry does. Betty scored three golds, one alongside her husband, during the Games in Burnaby. Gerry earned a gold and a silver. Betty’s played table tennis since her childhood days of rumpus room ping pong, right through to three previous
Games. Now she’s among the 140 members in the Monterey 55-plus club. “I think there’s a waiting list to get in,” she said. The husband-wife team had a fan club at the games, with kids and grandkids gathering in the stands for the mixed pairs finals that went to five matches. PLEASE SEE: Monterey team up to the challenge, Page A6
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