ARLINGTON, VA — Claremont Immersion Elementary College in Arlington is a single of the five elementary universities in Northern Virginia selected to been given the 2020 Healthful College Award from the Marine Corps Marathon Organization.

To good quality for the 2020 Wellbeing School Award, pupils from each individual of the schools had to take part in the one particular-mile Maritime Corps Marathon Entertaining Operate digital-only party for youngsters, jogging with their parents or guardians between Sept. 27 and Nov. 10. Claremont led all of the collaborating faculties with the most pupils to finish the digital exciting operate.

In this article are the schools with the most pupils to take part in MCM Semper Fun Mile:

  • Claremont Immersion, Arlington – 202 pupils
  • James K. Polk Elementary, Alexandria – 123 college students
  • Hampton Oaks Elementary, Stafford – 117 students
  • Crossroads Elementary, Division of Defense Education Exercise (DoDEA) college aboard Maritime Corps Base Quantico – 106 college students
  • George Mason Elementary, Alexandria – 86 college students

“Claremont has participated in the MCM Exciting Run for the last 9 years,” claimed Jason Cash, actual physical training teacher at Claremont Immersion Elementary University, in a launch. “We are specially happy of our college students and mom and dad for heading the added mile all through this pandemic and for continuing to place the entertaining in health and fitness. I couldn’t be a lot more very pleased of our motivation to this excellent event.”

Winners of the Healthy College Ward will received a $1,000 from MCM husband or wife Sodexo to go toward the schools’ actual physical instruction departments. Each individual college student will also receive health and fitness treats.

“It is great to see that even through a world-wide pandemic we have all these young ones that want to be wholesome,” stated John Beck, Sodexo’s standard supervisor of Maritime Barracks Washington. “It is really crucial to keep healthful and training consistently, but far more so throughout a pandemic.”