Courtney and Keegan Taylor enjoy the jogging class at SJHS.Abi Santiago
SJHS Staff Writer
At Springville Junior High, there is a jogging class. It’s an elective, which means that the students get to pick their classes. “We run A LOT, everyday with occasional running games,” Ms. Carrie Parker, the jogging class teacher, said. The class is designed to help the students to strengthen their running skills and distance. Ms. Parker helped the students to increase their ability to run further and faster.
"It’s not tough enough,” Ms. Parker said, “but it depends on who you’re asking.” So it’s not too tough according to her, and students said it’s really fun. “She always pushes us to do our best. It’s definitely harder than PE,” Braden DeFreese, an eighth grader in Ms. Parker's class, said. The students in that class think it’s pretty hard, but really fun. Ms. Parker can get kind of tough though. “Sometimes when we do push-ups and we fall, we have to start all over again,” Courtney Taylor, a seventh grade student, said.
They have certain days when they do their exercises. “We run on Mondays and Wednesdays, lift weights Tuesdays and Thursday, and we play games on Fridays,” Keegan Taylor, an eighth grade student, said. They lift weights to strengthen their arm and leg muscles. The class is only during sixth period. The semester is almost over, so its time for different students to start the class.
