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“BRING A FRIEND” and receive a card
which allows both of you to receive 10
free units of Botox! It’s a WIN-WIN!
im Berk wrote yet another success
story last month at the Michigan
Senior Olympics.
The West Bloomfield resident won
three gold medals and one silver
medal swimming in four events at
Oakland University, giving him 15
golds, three silvers and one bronze
over six years.
He’s been in 19 events and won a
medal in each one of them.
Berk’s most recent golds came in
the 50-, 100- and 200-yard breaststroke
and his silver was in the 100-yard indi-
vidual medley in the 60-64 age group.
The IM consists of butterfly, back-
stroke, breaststroke and freestyle legs.
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TOP: Jim Berk shows off the swimming medals he
won last month at the Michigan Senior Olympics.
ABOVE: Jim Berk catches up with ex-Detroit Tigers
star and new Baseball Hall of Famer Alan Trammell
on the day Trammell was honored by the Tigers
this summer.
Thanks to his medal haul last
month, Berk, 64, qualified for the 17th
National Senior Games next June in
Albuquerque, N.M., where he plans to
compete in the 100 and 200 breast-
stroke.
Back in 2015, Berk won a silver
medal in the 100 breaststroke and
placed sixth in the 50 breaststroke
in the National Senior Games in
Minneapolis.
Last year at the National Senior
Games in Birmingham, Ala., Berk
earned a ribbon and a spot on the
podium for his eighth-place finish in
the 200 breaststroke.
While he’s excited about adding to
his Michigan Senior Olympics medal
collection, Berk is equally pumped
about how he did in a 5-kilometer
(3.11-mile) competitive swim last
month in Halfmoon Lake in the
Pinckney Recreation Area.
It was his first open water competi-
tive swim.
“My goal was to finish the lake swim
in less than two hours, and I did it,” he
said. “My time was one hour, 51 min-
utes and 20 seconds. It was exhilarat-
ing, but the last mile was challenging. I
could feel my arms getting tired.”
It wasn’t a windy morning, Berk
said, so the current didn’t pose many
problems.
“But the water wasn’t clear. It was
murky,” he said. “I did mostly breast-
stroke; I could see where I was going. I
saw swimmers doing freestyle veer off
the course.”
Even though it was a long day — he
got up at 4:30 a.m. so he could be at
Halfmoon Lake in plenty of time for
the 8 a.m. start of the race — Berk said
he’d do another competitive lake swim.
And he’s considering adding lake
swimming to his training regimen.
“Anything that’s difficult to do can
help you,” he said.
Berk is a familiar face and voice to
Detroit sports fans.
As a sports broadcaster, he’s worked
for every local TV station except
Channel 7, done morning drive-time
sports broadcasts on WWJ Newsradio
950, and called play-by-play for
University of Detroit basketball games
on the radio.
He still does a show on the Detroit
Tigers on Comcast cable.
Berk transitioned to a new full-time
career 18 years ago. He’s a personal
trainer and exercise teacher, doing
much of his work in retirement homes.
The National Senior Games is a
19-sport, biennial competition for men
and women age 50 and older. It’s the
largest multi-sport event in the world
for seniors.
Member organizations of the
National Senior Games Association
like Michigan Senior Olympics hold
qualifying competitions in the year
preceding each National Senior
Games. •
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