Team Teen’s mission is to help “at-promise” high school students develop greater confidence and self-esteem through training and participation in 5K races and sprint triathons.
While working a long term substitute teaching position for girls P.E., I came up with the idea for Team Teen. At first, the girls did not like to workout AT ALL. In fact, most of them seemed to fear sweat! After a few weeks though, they began to enjoy the workouts and looked forward to P.E. They developed more self-confidence and began to feel good about themselves. While out for a walk/run one day (yes I said run) one of the girls told me how she loved to run. She said it had been over a year since she had run as family obligations got in the way now. I thought about this while on my way to Dallas one weekend to visit a running buddy of mine that had just moved. I started thinking that maybe I could train this one student to run a 5K race. Maybe even the Turkey Trot that would be held in the neighborhood Thanksgiving morning. Then it evolved to training more of the girls to run. I knew if I could get them to cross a finish line that it would change their lives forever! And it has!
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