Heather's Glide Track Lap-A-Thon

Glide High School is a tiny school in rural Southern Oregon with limited resources. We are a group of alumni and former track and field athletes organizing a lap-a-thon to raise money for the Glide Booster Club, in order to finance the repair of the old and weathered track and field facility. We will walk as many laps around the track as possible in a 12 hour period and are seeking donors to invest in a new state-of-the-art track facility for current and future student athletes to discover new potential. I’ll be competing with other Glide Track and Field alumni to see who can finish the most laps and raise the most money. To see where I rank, check out the Glide Track Lap-A-Thon leaderboard.

Pledge an amount per lap, or a fixed amount. Every dollar raised will be matched by the Oregon Community Foundation!

This campaign is about more than replacing a surface for students to run and practice on. It’s about rebuilding a sense of pride in a facility that has been a nucleus for the community for decades. We were students and athletes in Glide that spent hundreds of hours on that track, building character, friendships, strength, and our own pride for a renowned landmark that attracted sports teams from around Oregon. The Glide Track and Field program thrived because of dedicated coaches and hard working students, but also because the track that was available to us was modern and beautiful. We strove to be better athletes and competitors because the world-class track called us to that pursuit. And while the benefits of that time on the Glide track still pay off for us as adults today, the track is in disrepair, and the small town pride in this community facility has waned. The goal of our lap-a-thon is to support the Glide Booster Club fundraising campaign to resurface the Glide track and gift current and future students the pride and encouragement we felt racing across a new track surface.

Thank you.