Students get moving with Evergreen Fitness program
The Evergreen Fitness Team seeks to keep students active when school is not in session. The free fitness program gives students access to weights, treadmills, ellipticals and rowing machines. The fitness team is led by Evergreen Jr. High P.E. teacher and basketball/football coach Ross Darner, who founded the program about 20 years ago. (Courtesy photo)
Evergreen Fitness Team participants Talon Maher, left, and Tristan Hall, right, lift weights during the 2022 summer session. Weightlifting is one component of the Evergreen Fitness Team. Participants also access cardio equipment and play popular games such as basketball and dodgeball in addition to making up games that keep them active during each session. (Photo provided by Ross Darner)
The Evergreen Fitness Team takes a group photo during its 2022 summer session. (Photo provided by Ross Darner)
The Evergreen Fitness team has been exercising its way through 20 years of fitness and fun.
“The objective of the program is to make lifelong healthy individuals,” Evergreen Fitness Team founder Darner Ross, who is a health and PE teacher and football and eighth-grade boys basketball coach at Evergreen School District...
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