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Who are these lads? Why they are the Sex-e-generians, a volleyball team at the National Senior Games. Photo courtesy National Senior Games.
By Del Moon
One of the things we look forward to every two years is to see the funny, ironic and self-deprecating team names that show up on the brackets. Volleyball leads as the first team sport to play in the 2025 National Senior Games presented by Humana, and our unofficial survey says they have the most fun names to share.
Nine male senior volleyball players in matching uniform t-shirts pose for silly team photo.
The Men’s 60+ Sex-e-genarians show off their best moves.
The men have some good names, like the Bone Setters which features an orthopedic surgeon who has operated on many players on his team. B Movie devotees will cheer for the Killer Tomatoes. Handymen will grab onto WD-70. Country music fans sing along to the spicy Trace Adkins song Brown Chicken, Brown Cow. The Curmudgeons and Geezer Boys make fun of age in an active way. But the men’s name that rose to the top for 2025 is the Sex-e-genarions, a name that team captain Ike Fabunan explains came out of his head.
“Well, we were putting a new 60+ team in a senior event in Nevada and the online registration asked for a team name, which we really didn’t have at that time,” Ike explains. “I had just finished watching a show on centenarians about how they got to 100 years old and it got me thinking, what do you call 60-year-olds? It was sexagenarian. We’re a bunch of unsexy 60-year-olds so I thought we’d poke fun at ourselves to call us the Sex-e-genarians, putting the hyphens in there to emphasize the sexy.”
There are more female volleyballers than male, so we found a treasure trove of witty team names. You might say the list is 50 Shades of Greatness, as one clever team conjured up.
Eight senior women volleyball players in matching uniform pose with mock shocked/scared expressions. The Scared Hitless women’s 55+ team isn’t really scared – look out, opponents!
Many names play on volleyball terms. “Dig” is the most popular term for teams, and the puns abound: Can You Dig It…Dig This…One Dig At A Time…Been There Dug That…but wait! There’s more! Music fans will like the Grateful Diggs, and paleontologists will love the Fossil Diggers. Clearly, these volleyballers are Diggin’ Life! “Set” spawned these clever team names: All Sets Are Off, Set to Kill, Setzy Ladies and Sets Appeal.
But our attention turned to one team that also makes fun of themselves – Scared Hitless, which has teams in the 55+ and 60+ divisions. Team Captain Kris Schroeter says it was a democratic process. “When it came time to pick a name we looked up everywhere and compiled a list of names and made sure it didn’t duplicate anyone else,” she says. “The team voted and that was the best and was the best.”
We agree, Kris. NSGA applauds all the sport teams for their creativity. You might say we consider all of them our Net Assets.
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