World Fit Featured Students

Christopher Gurrola is a 15 year old 9th grader at Elizabeth Learning Center in Cudahy, California. His favorite physical activities are Soccer, Volleyball, and Water polo. Presently, Christopher participates in a competitive Soccer League, in which he competes in rigorous tournaments on the weekends. He also enjoys Motor cross and off-roading with his family and friends.

Matt, Ben, and Joe Schapker are triplet brothers who are 7th graders at RRMS. Judy Hoehn, gym teacher and World Fit leader selected the boys because they are outstanding representatives of the school and tremendous participants in World Fit during the 2010-2011 school year.

Ariel Conde is a highly motivated 12 year old 7th grade boy. He has 4 sisters and 2 brothers, and has lived in South Gate California his entire life. Ariel enjoys playing soccer and running at least 10 miles everyday. Motivating students is something he looks forward to doing during the World Fit Walk. He sometimes challenges other students to see who can walk/run more miles during World Fit on campus.

Julian Clark is a 13 year old seventh grader at Beaumont Middle School in Lexington, Kentucky. Julian is one of 1,050 Beaumont students that together completed 220,882 miles in the 2011 World Fit Walk. World Fit touches the lives of every participating kid to one degree or another. However, Julian Clark is a special story. Julian is on the autism spectrum and has cerebral palsy.

At first, I wasn’t too thrilled about the World Fit program, but as the program progressed, so did my motivation to be more active. The World Fit program is a terrific program in which students, parents, teachers, and the whole community pitch in to get their school to the top.

I go to St. Patrick School in Miami Beach, FL. I have a younger brother and two wonderful parents. My dad and brother walked with me almost every day for World Fit. My favorite sport is volleyball, and I love going to the beach and hanging out with friends.

My experience with World Fit in 2010 was very positive. I logged in over 1200 miles during the event. The activity that I participated in most was track. Everyday I would get on the World Fit web site and log in my miles; it was fun and easy. I had a blast doing World Fit in 2010 and hope that we can do it again next year.

I was born in Washington State and I like to play a specific sport and that is soccer. All of my family plays soccer, when I play soccer I feel like I am flying. At Ririe Middle School in Idaho, World Fit has helped me because I can play soccer and get fit. I think that World Fit was a motivator to me to keep on going and I like to play sports.