RHS NATIONAL AND PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS AWARD WINNERS

 Some of the recipients of the prestigious National and Presidential Fitness Award.

(June 2008) RHS PE teachers, Ms. Braune and Ms. Dounelis, invite the girls in their physical education classes to set goals, to challenge themselves physically and to reach for excellence. This year, Steve Gevinski, a boys PE teacher challenged the guys in his class to do the same. One of the programs they use to help their students strengthen their bodies and their commitment to physical achievement is the Presidential Fitness Challenge.

• The President's Challenge is the cornerstone program of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Beginning with the Presidential Physical Fitness Award (PPFA) in 1966, the President's Challenge program has served as a fitness recognition program whose goal is to motivate all children, ages 6-17, to begin and continue an active lifestyle leading to enhanced physical fitness. Through participation in schools, clubs, community/recreation groups and on an individual basis, over 70 million youth have received Presidential recognition for their accomplishments in the program's three areas: active lifestyle, physical fitness, and health fitness.
  
  Physical Fitness Awards
  This program recognizes children and youth on their level of physical fitness by testing the student on a battery of tests measuring physical fitness components. The events include: curl-ups or partial curl-ups, shuttle run, endurance run/walk, pull-ups or right angle push-ups, and V-sit or sit and reach. Three awards are available for children and youth depending on their level of physical fitness:
  
• Presidential Physical Fitness Award for a score above the 85th percentile on all five events;
• National Physical Fitness Award for a score above the 50th percentile on all five events; and
• Participant Physical Fitness Award
  
  The students sitting in the front row won the Presidential Fitness Award, and those sitting behind them won the National Fitness Award. Congratulations!
  
  Check out the challenge at http://www.presidentschallenge.org

CONGRATULATIONS to this year’s recipients of the prestigious National and Presidential Fitness Award winners:

THE FOLLOWING RIVERHEAD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HAVE QUALIFIED FOR THE NATIONAL OR PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS AWARDS.

Presidential Physical Fitness Award
Diresta, Samantha
Hernandez, Caroline
Markewitz, Ellie
Murphy, Kate
Nordland, Dane G.
Rincon, Sharon
Schlosberg, Brittany
Skinner, Katherine
Bell, Ashley
Czelatka, Amelia
Constandy, Nick
Dillingham, Drew

National Physical Fitness Award
Bilunas, Courtney
Breitenbach, Emil
Burch, Emily
Burgio, Brigit
Clinton, Ashley
Cooper, Emily
Cordero, Sinead
Cuadrado, Liz
Ehlers, Katie
Fasanelli, Christine
Finnegan, Erin N.
Fox, Natalie
Futch, Charmaine
Gablenz, Tyler
Hardin, Tylete
Harris, Venice
Houghton, Caitlin
Ingram, Alexandra
Kelly, Drew
Kent, Emma
King, Kayla
Markel, Alexa
Mckee, Brandon
Messina, Samantha
Mullen, Robert
Racaniello, Kristen
Rambo, Kelly
Ren, Juaying K.
Robichaud, Alyssa
Roslick, Jessica
Rus, Wioletta
Sorto, Christopher
Sousa, Haley
Stephens, Kymberlee
Tinter, Ashley
Tooker, Bryan
Yearwood, Vania
Zilnicki, Beth
Brady, Kristin
Kelly, Dillon
Corrine Matlak
Woerner, Carissa
Gillian, Brianna
Kelly, Kaitlin
Sauter, Kristen
Bieling, Josh