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As Southside Elementary School students logged miles in their school’s marathon, they had Cowboy State destinations in mind.
With a Wyoming theme, “classes set goals of …
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As Southside Elementary School students logged miles in their school’s marathon, they had Cowboy State destinations in mind.
With a Wyoming theme, “classes set goals of ‘running’ to certain destinations within Wyoming,” said Waleryan Wisniewski, who teaches PE at Southside.
“We hoped it was a fun way to encourage the students to run as well as show them all the great places our state has to offer,” he said.
The Southside Community Organization (SCO) used their artistic skills to construct a map of Wyoming with all of the major landmarks, he said.
Over the course of the school year, 194 Southside students qualified for the marathon.
“We had 66 percent of our students qualify,” Wisniewski said. “However, out of 292 students, 289 ran laps during our 2018-2019 school year for the marathon.”
On Southside’s “track,” five laps equal 1 mile.
Throughout the school year, kindergarten and first-graders had to log 60 laps in order to qualify. For second- and third-grade students, 90 laps were required, while fourth- and fifth-graders needed 120 laps to qualify.
Southside recognized the top boy and girl in each grade who ran the most laps:
• Kindergarten: Paele Rapp (154 laps) and Itzury Resendiz (103 laps)
• First grade: Tucker McDonald (270 laps) and Grace McIntosh and Sophie Villanueva (tied with 125 laps)
• Second grade: Isaiah Torres (242 laps) and Bentley Streeter (216 laps)
• Third grade: Landon McDonald (174 laps) and Abigail Visocky (125 laps)
• Fourth grade: Tanner Seifert (185 laps) and Caydee Eden (180 laps)
• Fifth grade: Brighton Streeter (192 laps) and Kate Williams (228 laps)
In addition, Southside held a Turkey Trot before Thanksgiving and gave the top boy and girl for each grade level turkeys for their running efforts.
Wisniewski thanked the sponsors for Southside’s annual marathon.
“Without their support we couldn’t pull this off!” he said.
When students qualify, they get a T-shirt and at the finish line are awarded a medal, “which wouldn’t be possible without the generous donations from local families and businesses,” Wisniewski said.
