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Win With Wellness Fit Club is a health and physical fitness promotion program that originated in 2012 at Ludington Area Catholic School as “FIT Club”. It was started as our “Faith Inspired Trek” by members of the LAC Wellness Committee: Kathy Grierson PA-C, Joy Reisterer RD, Michelle Mahler, and Elizabeth Allard. The goal of the program is to provide health education in the form of fun, health topic assemblies and health challenges which were designed to enhance the current education curriculum and also offer physical fitness opportunities through a school 100 mile challenge. The students are taught about important health topics and are also challenged to stay active and walk or run 100 miles from September to May. The school was one of 1,000 schools awarded a one year, $1,000, Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) wellness grant for the
2013-2014 school year. This grant allowed the expansion of our wellness initiatives to offer incentives for mileage earned with this physical fitness opportunity. The students had great success with the program and it has since been adopted by Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital (SHLH) and rebranded as “Win With Wellness Fit Club”. SHLH offers the program free of charge and the program has expanded to elementary schools in Mason, Lake, and Oceana County. The program currently provides health education and physical fitness opportunities to 14 elementary schools and almost 4,000 children. LAC is proud to be the origin of this fantastic program which helps improve the health and wellness of children.