Amelia Baldo with her coach Bill Strynkowski
Grandfather Dan Baldo
Grandmother Gwen BaldoBaldo Granddaughter Wins National Championship
Retired Sullivan County educators Dan and Gwen Baldo are swimming with pride these days as a result of the outstanding success their 10-year-old granddaughter Amelia Baldo had in winning the 9-10 year-old softball throw in the 34th annual Hershey's Track and Field Games North America Finals held August 6 at Hershey, Pa.
Amelia, daughter of Anthony and Jane Baldo of Palmyra, Pa, is in the fifth grade at Lingle Elementary School at Palmyra.
Anthony is Dan and Gwen's oldest son and is a 1988 graduate of Roscoe Central School and received his BA and Masters degrees from Virginia Tech. He is employed as an industrial engineer for Hershey's.
Roscoe grandparents Dan and Gwen Baldo are both retired from educational systems, Dan retired nine years ago as Director of Admissions at Sullivan County Community College and Gwen retired 12 years ago as Head Librarian at Livingston Manor Central School.
Dan was an active baseball umpire from 1980 to 2009 and started the Sullivan County Softball Umpires Association and ASA in 1987 and still officiates high school and ASA games which have included many New York State championship games. He is also an avid big game hunter and has hunted in both the United States and Canada and just several weeks ago returned from a 10-day backpacking hunt in the NWT's.
Both Dan and Gwen have also been very active in the sport of golf with Dan formerly serving as President of the Roscoe Twin Village Golf Club (TVGC) where he presently serves as Greens Chairman.
Gwen has twice won the Ladies TVGC Championship.
The Hershey's Track & Field Games is the largest youth sports program of its kind in North America. The event starts out with some 450,000 competitors in 8 zones in the United States and Puerto Rico finishes with 450 in the final events at Hershey.
Amelia was part of the zone 7 competition where she won the local event, regional and zone event which qualified her to enter the finals at Hershey.
Her favorite sports are basketball, field hockey and track and field and although she has indicated not a lot of interest in playing softball in school her decision to enter the softball throw came about because she has a strong arm.
The strong arm paid off as Amelia won first place in the 9-10 year-old softball throw with a distance of 114 feet and two and three quarters inches beating out her closest competitor who threw 113 feet and 0 inches.
In this event each competitor had three throws.
Last year Amelia competed in the 100-yard dash event and qualified second at the district level.
These North American Final games have produced many Olympic medalists and competing athletes and this year Olympic greats Rafer Johnson and Carl Lewis returned to this years event as ambassadors of the Hershey's Track and Field games.
Grandparents Dan and Gwen noted that the message of these games is helping to get kids on the right track, teaching lifelong lessons and having fun along the way.
Retired Sullivan County educators Dan and Gwen Baldo are swimming with pride these days as a result of the outstanding success their 10-year-old granddaughter Amelia Baldo had in winning the 9-10 year-old softball throw in the 34th annual Hershey's Track and Field Games North America Finals held August 6 at Hershey, Pa.
Amelia, daughter of Anthony and Jane Baldo of Palmyra, Pa, is in the fifth grade at Lingle Elementary School at Palmyra.
Anthony is Dan and Gwen's oldest son and is a 1988 graduate of Roscoe Central School and received his BA and Masters degrees from Virginia Tech. He is employed as an industrial engineer for Hershey's.
Roscoe grandparents Dan and Gwen Baldo are both retired from educational systems, Dan retired nine years ago as Director of Admissions at Sullivan County Community College and Gwen retired 12 years ago as Head Librarian at Livingston Manor Central School.
Dan was an active baseball umpire from 1980 to 2009 and started the Sullivan County Softball Umpires Association and ASA in 1987 and still officiates high school and ASA games which have included many New York State championship games. He is also an avid big game hunter and has hunted in both the United States and Canada and just several weeks ago returned from a 10-day backpacking hunt in the NWT's.
Both Dan and Gwen have also been very active in the sport of golf with Dan formerly serving as President of the Roscoe Twin Village Golf Club (TVGC) where he presently serves as Greens Chairman.
Gwen has twice won the Ladies TVGC Championship.
The Hershey's Track & Field Games is the largest youth sports program of its kind in North America. The event starts out with some 450,000 competitors in 8 zones in the United States and Puerto Rico finishes with 450 in the final events at Hershey.
Amelia was part of the zone 7 competition where she won the local event, regional and zone event which qualified her to enter the finals at Hershey.
Her favorite sports are basketball, field hockey and track and field and although she has indicated not a lot of interest in playing softball in school her decision to enter the softball throw came about because she has a strong arm.
The strong arm paid off as Amelia won first place in the 9-10 year-old softball throw with a distance of 114 feet and two and three quarters inches beating out her closest competitor who threw 113 feet and 0 inches.
In this event each competitor had three throws.
Last year Amelia competed in the 100-yard dash event and qualified second at the district level.
These North American Final games have produced many Olympic medalists and competing athletes and this year Olympic greats Rafer Johnson and Carl Lewis returned to this years event as ambassadors of the Hershey's Track and Field games.
Grandparents Dan and Gwen noted that the message of these games is helping to get kids on the right track, teaching lifelong lessons and having fun along the way.
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