The following is an excerpt from the June 23 column in The Wichita Eagle featuring former Shocker basketball player Lyle Timmons.
From the vault of old-guy sports stories comes 81-year-old Lyle Timmons, a 1949 Andover High graduate and a walk-on player for Wichita State's 1952-53 basketball team that included Cleo Littleton and was coached by Ralph Miller.
Fifty-eight years later, Timmons, 81, is still taking his shot. Lots and lots of shots, as it turns out.
Last year, he won two gold medals in three-point shooting and free-throw shooting at the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah, where he now lives with his wife of nearly 61 years, Jeanne. He defeated everyone in the 80- to 84-year-old age group, which included more competitors than you would imagine.