Valley 5th-graders earn elite run club status

The Sonoma Valley Unified School District elementary school physical education program for fifth-graders from five Valley schools recently had 16 student runners qualify for entry into the elite 7:00/7:30 Running Club, including Prestwood’s Dominic Girish, Tony Martindale, Gavin Rognlien, Adam Duffield, Keira Sheldon, Joey Fiorito, Aidan Demmin-Griggs and Bennett Steiger;|

The Sonoma Valley Unified School District elementary school physical education program for fifth-graders from five Valley schools recently had 16 student runners qualify for entry into the elite 7:00/7:30 Running Club, including Prestwood’s Dominic Girish, Tony Martindale, Gavin Rognlien, Adam Duffield, Keira Sheldon, Joey Fiorito, Aidan Demmin-Griggs and Bennett Steiger; Sassarini’s Heidi Zaragoza-Villa, Jared Pacheco and Jose Luis Barriga ( not pictured); Dunbar’s Sierra Pine and Angel Marquez-Soto; El Verano’s Isaac Cristobal and Alex Anguiano; and Flowery’s Kylie Lugger. The mile run is part of the California state-mandated physical fitness tests that are administered every spring to students statewide in grades five, seven and nine, with the boys needing to run the mile in the time of seven minutes or less, while the girls need to achieve a time of 7 minutes and 30 seconds or less.

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