--- --- # Woman Celebrates Her 109th Birthday By Partying With the Harlem Globetrotters  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 8, 2018 11:04 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 8, 2018 11:04 PM UTC [Virginia McLaurin](http://time.com/4234902/virginia-mclaurin-white-house-dancing-people-interview/) just celebrated her 109th birthday by hanging out with the [Harlem Globetrotters](http://time.com/4734984/harlem-globetrotter-stadium-shot/), proving that having a rollicking good time definitely has no age limit. McLaurin may be best known to the world as the woman who went viral for having [a dance party with the Obamas](http://time.com/4232192/obama-white-house-virginia-mclaurin/) during a visit to the White House on her 106th birthday. For this birthday, however, she chose to celebrate at Brightwood Elementary in Washington D.C.. According to the [_Huffington Post_](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virginia-mclaurin-109-birthday-harlem-globetrotters%5Fus%5F5a9ee9a3e4b0d4f5b66b0ca2), the Globetrotters gave her a pretty sweet birthday gift: a basketball jersey numbered 109 and a donation of 109 tickets to Globetrotter games given in her name to local underprivileged youth. > [](https://twitter.com/NBC4Sports/status/971050925912678400) Watch Virginia’s birthday festivities with the Harlem Globetrotters below. Woman Celebrates 109th Birthday with Harlem Globetrotters ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5192106/virginia-mclaurin-celebrates-109th-birthday-with-harlem-globetrotters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5192106/virginia-mclaurin-celebrates-109th-birthday-with-harlem-globetrotters/"},"headline":"Woman Celebrates Her 109th Birthday By Partying With the Harlem Globetrotters","datePublished":"2018-03-08T23:04:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:15.224Z","description":"Living her best life","url":"https://time.com/5192106/virginia-mclaurin-celebrates-109th-birthday-with-harlem-globetrotters/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5192106/virginia-mclaurin-celebrates-109th-birthday-with-harlem-globetrotters/","name":"Woman Celebrates Her 109th Birthday By Partying With the Harlem Globetrotters"}}]}] ```