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PE Coach Pairs Unmotivated Students to Run with Shelter Dogs–Adoptions Soar
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<blockquote data-quote="Michie" data-source="post: 77645581" data-attributes="member: 628"><p>A California gym coach who was looking for ways to drum up motivation for the students on his cross-country running team as they went away for the summer break came up with a brilliant idea: pair them with shelter dogs.</p><p></p><p>It was eight years ago when <a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/high-school-cross-country-team-take-shelter-dogs-run/" target="_blank">GNN first reported on it</a>, and ever since it has become a mainstay of the training program at St. Joseph High School in Santa Maria, California.</p><p></p><p>It became so much more, however, after a simple video of the kids running with the dogs went viral, causing athletic directors around the country to phone St. Joseph and ask how they organized the program.</p><p></p><p>Steinbrenner High School in Lutz, Florida, was the second school that picked up on the shelter dog runs, and others followed suit like Rock Island High School in Rock Island, Illinois; all because of the viral video that occasionally resurfaces on social media to the delight of thousands.</p><p></p><p>“It was 60 seconds of genuine, organic kindness,” St. Joseph cross country coach Luis Escobar, who filmed the video, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/04/16/shelter-dog-running-student-athlete/" target="_blank">told the Washington Post.</a> “The world needs kindness.”</p><p></p><p>Continued below.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pe-coach-pairs-unmotivated-students-to-run-with-shelter-dogs-adoptions-soar/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michie, post: 77645581, member: 628"] A California gym coach who was looking for ways to drum up motivation for the students on his cross-country running team as they went away for the summer break came up with a brilliant idea: pair them with shelter dogs. It was eight years ago when [URL='https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/high-school-cross-country-team-take-shelter-dogs-run/']GNN first reported on it[/URL], and ever since it has become a mainstay of the training program at St. Joseph High School in Santa Maria, California. It became so much more, however, after a simple video of the kids running with the dogs went viral, causing athletic directors around the country to phone St. Joseph and ask how they organized the program. Steinbrenner High School in Lutz, Florida, was the second school that picked up on the shelter dog runs, and others followed suit like Rock Island High School in Rock Island, Illinois; all because of the viral video that occasionally resurfaces on social media to the delight of thousands. “It was 60 seconds of genuine, organic kindness,” St. Joseph cross country coach Luis Escobar, who filmed the video, [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/04/16/shelter-dog-running-student-athlete/']told the Washington Post.[/URL] “The world needs kindness.” Continued below. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pe-coach-pairs-unmotivated-students-to-run-with-shelter-dogs-adoptions-soar/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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