Alameda School Wins 'NFL Play 60' Challenge

Announcement submitted by Alameda Unified School District:

NFL players will visit Maya Lin School on Tuesday, Feb. 2 from 9-11:30 a.m. to reward them for winning the Super Bowl 50 edition of the NFL PLAY 60 Challenge, a fitness program co-developed by the NFL and the American Heart Association.

Fifth-grade students at Maya Lin completed more minutes than the 12,000 other students who participated across Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, or Solano counties. The Maya Lin students also showed the most enthusiasm, an NFL source said.

On Tuesday morning, the Raiders players, NFL representatives, and the Raiders’ youth ambassador mascot (the dancing Raider’s helmet) will help lead an assembly and clinic for the students.

Maya Lin School will also receive a $2,500 NFL PLAY 60 grant from the NFL and American Heart Association to be used to support the school’s health and fitness education efforts.

In the course of NFL Play 60 Challenge, the students committed to getting 60 minutes of exercise both in and after school. Teachers had to lead the exercise in class and also log the total minutes students completed. The challenge is part of the league’s larger NFL Play 60 program, which is designed to tackle childhood obesity by getting kids active through in-school, afterschool, and team-based program, as well as online child-targeted outreach on NFLRush.com.

You can find more information about the NFL 60 Challenge on the NFL website and the American Heart Association website.

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