Oak Ridge Schools Office of Coordinated School Health hosted the annual Turkey Trot on Wednesday, December 1st.

The event, typically scheduled for the Thursday before the Thanksgiving holiday, was delayed this year due to poor air quality.  Nevertheless, we had great participation, and many families came out to support our 166 student runners. We had representation from all elementary schools and both middle schools.

The winners in each group are as follows:

    Girls Boys
Pre-K-1st grade 1st Vivian Rose Ben Greear
 (65 total) 2nd Caroline Sharp Luke Damen
  3rd Samara Ibanez Neven Kerekes
2nd & 3rd grade 1st Hayven Laurendine Adam Weston
 (53 total) 2nd Nyire Pennywell Casen Jenkins
  3rd Ava Underwood Connor O’Neil
4th and 5th grade 1st Jenna Johnson Emmett Lee
 (48 total) 2nd Sade Lee Landon Trisler
  3rd Kate Laffoon Aidan James

 

We would like to take the time to thank the following sponsors and volunteers for making this event a continued success:

Sponsors

  • Anderson County Health Department, ASAP of Anderson County, and the #ActiveAnderson campaign
  • Oak Ridge Track Club
  • Aramark Food Service Provider
  • Chick-Fil-A
  • East Tennessee Orthodontics
  • Threds of Knoxville

Oak Ridge Schools staff

  • Betsy Jernigan, nursing
  • Marcia Rose and Larrissa Henderson, pupil services
  • Bruce Lay, administration
  • Shonna Kidwell, maintenance and operations
  • Volodia Crettol, food service
  • Holly Cross, communications

Oak Ridge High School

  • Allen Etheridge and Ed Wright, cross country coaches

Jefferson Middle School

  • Steve Reddick and John Smith, cross country coaches

Robertsville Middle School

  • Garfield Adams & DT Hobby, administration
  • Janet Easterday, cross country coach
  • Jill Prudden, physical education teacher
  • Jeremy Dyer and Michael Laurendine, custodians

Elementary School and community helpers include the following as well as many other staff members:

Roger Ward, Heather Jenkins, Tara Kneiser, Dorn Kile, Brent Lee, Kirk Beckendorf, Josh Johnson, Stacey Pratt, Kathy Scruggs, Reagan Beard,  Dr. Shirley Holt-Hale, Kaleb Sluss, Joey Weston, Jaiden Weston,  Alex Dahl, Evan Eidemiller, Sierra Eubanks, Tyler Giannelli, Elijah Hoffman, Jarred Julien, Chloe Kirk, Anna Moran, Tucker Smith, Carter Valencia, Thomas Naughton, Shannon Ochiltree, Jose Villegas, Jake Etheridge, Dalton Morgan and Dillon Nowatchik.

 

Tennessee Coordinated School Health connects physical, emotional and social health with education through eight inter-related components. This coordinated approach improves students’ health and their capacity to learn through the support of families, communities and schools working together. Coordinated School Health works with many partners to address school health priorities – See more at: http://www.tennessee.gov/education/topic/coordinated-school-health#sthash.t3YRNUQn.dpuf. 

 

Attached photos courtesy of  Tara Kneiser