Here’s to 21 years of Walk Across Texas! (WAT) in Brazos

County! The WAT! Taskforce proudly boasts its 21st year of

offering the fun and fitness program. Let’s begin by giving a

shout out to the 170 teams and 14 solo walkers so far.

Welcome to Walk Across Texas 2018

Important Dates–at-a-Glance

Celebrating 21 Years of WAT Brazos County

T e x a s A & M A g r i L i f e E x t e n s i o n

Brazos County Walk Across Texas 2018

February 15, 2018

Team Captains record your team or individual physical activity weekly by Tuesday at 12:00 noon for newsletter purposes.

Let’s lace up and WAT!

If you have snapshots of your team in action, upcoming team or community fitness events, or stories please email them to Flora Williams at fewilliams@ag.tamu.edu. Weekly e-blast will arrive on or before Thursday of each week.

WAT dates—February 10- April 6, 2018 Week 1: February 10-16, 2018 Week 2: February 17-February 23, 2018 Week 3: February 24-March 2, 2018 Week 4: March 3-9, 2018 Recharge Event, March 8, 2018; Wolf Pen Creek Week 5: March 10-16, 2018 Week 6: March 17-23, 2018 Week 7: March 24-30, 2018 Week 8: March 31-April 6, 2018 Last day to enter miles and wrap up forms—April 13, 2018

Welcome Organizations and Worksites

Brazos County Employee Brazos County Health Department Brazos Valley Council of Governments Center for Regional Services City of College Station Community Services Team Lincoln Recreation Center Seniors Mays Business School New SM Test K Texas A&M EHS Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service

(TEEX)

Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service Em-ployee Wellness

Texas A&M Foundation Texas A&M Health Science Center Employee

Wellness Texas A&M System Office Employee Wellness Texas A&M Transportation Institute Texas A&M University Texas A&M University System Weight Watchers: statewide If your organization is not listed, team captain should edit the team’s registration to include it.

Meet this year’s sponsors! Thank you to our sponsors!

1 STEP FORWARD 2 STEPS BACK

1st Team All Expo 3 Dean Soup 7 Deadly Shins 8 2 Much Bunch 979 Walkie Talkies A Team A Walk to Remember A Walking We Will Go! AABS Above And Beyond

Strides ALL EAHRs 2018 ARCH Marchers ARCHI 8 Are We There Yet Beast Mode Recsters Beckys Toddling Troop Benchletes Benchlikins Beutel Beauties Beutel Strudels Bluebonnet Bunch Brazos County Walking

Warriors Bryan ISD TSC Team A Bryan ISD TSC Team B Bryan ISD TSC Team C BTHO Walking Bush School Office of Ener-

getic Exercisers Bushwalkers BUSI Walk Implementers Business As Usual Catholic Charities CATs CEDP Movers and Shakers CEOS Chemistry Staffers Chicks with Kicks Chocolate Walkers Christopher We Be Walken! Cirque de Sore Legs CLRC Ironmanikins CONquerors CONtinual Motion

Crazy 8 CS Squares Team One CS Squares Team Two CVM Busy Bees DARS Detour de Arlington Devastating Divas Diamonds in the rough Division of ReSOREch Duces Tecum Dynacisers 2018 Easier Said Than Run Elliott Big Hat EOTC Clan Ewok in the Park Family Fitness Feud Fit for Duty Flab U Less 8 Fleet feet FUMC FTLPlus Heart And Sole Holy Walkamole Holy Walkamolies Holy Walkamolies HROE Professional Develop-

ment IBT Roadrunners IGY6 In A Walka Da Vida In It to Thin It JustDOIT Justin and the Pussycats Keep Austin Walking Weird Keep On Steppin Kendalls army Kickin Asphalt Kickin Asphalt Kiss My Asphalt Kiss My Asphalt LAW AND ORDER SPE-

CIAL FITNESS UNIT Left TAP Shoe Lets Get Fiscal Look whos Walking Marcommas Marthas Minions

Master Walkers Miles in Mascara Nervous Recs Not Fast Just Furious Not Fast Just Furious ODSL Bluebonnets ODSL Lonestars Off Like a Kilt On your Left Ponderous PPRI School of Walk PPRI Walkers Rad Runners Red Team RELLIS Racers RELLIS RAMBLERS Residence Life Team 1 Right TAP Shoe Risky Resources Rock the Pavement Runforestrun SBS Kiss My ALS Seven Groovy Chicks and an

Old Dude Shes Got Legs Shut Up And Walk With Me Sim Sinners SimWalkers Small Animal Dream Team SOBAcisers Sole Patrol Sole Sisters Sole Train Stack Stompers Stat Steppers Step Potential STEPS Do The Math Straight out of BVCOG Stress Walkers StuAct Steppers Student Health Services MC2 Swifties Tail Draggers Take a Walk on the Mild

Side Talent Ed

TCALL Trailblazers TCALL Walkers 1 Team Blue Team Grit Team StuAct Team Walk This Way Texoradotana the abc team The APCC Team The Dogs Are Barking The Hugbanks Hikers The Left Overs The Pharmacy Sole Train The Poor Unfortunate Soles The Walking Dread The Walking Ped The Walking Workers The Wanderers The Wayfarers There’s no BS, U, in these

shoes! These Dogs Are Made For

Walking TTI ViPs U Stud Unfortunate Soles Vixen Voyagers VSCS Happy Feet W.A.I.T. 8 Walk Force 1 Walk It Out WALK THIS WAY Walking our Asphalt Walking So We Can Eat Walking Warriors Walking with Brazos Wannabes WAT a Bunch of Losers! Will Walk For Wine Women Warriors WW Warriors Your Pace or Mine

Each year the Brazos County Walk Across Texas! Taskforce sponsors an event. The start date this year was February 10, 2018. The following teams have registered.

Alicia Garcia Ally Vu Ana Perez Aneliz Chapa Anita Lang Annie Williams Arianne Alvarez Ashlee Treadway Ashley Galvan Ara Begum Barb Herrman Bonita Magby Brian Pham Bridget Sebesta Bryan Fruge Cassandra Sanchez Catherine Campbell Cee Ellis Cierra Robison Cindy Keleka Clanikel Flores Claudette Davenport Connie Paul Consuelo Mendoza Deborah Daniel Deborah Krusekopf Diana Cover Diana Omenge Diane Vulgamott Donna Rice Dorothy Rainwater Edith Arambula Elani Duzich

Elizabeth Stewart Ellen Fox Erica Nunez Flora Williams Gayle Patranella Griselda Vazquez Gustavo Roman Helen Wolf Hsaio-Ping Lui J.J. Macias Janet Gooden Janice Couts Jasmine Schoellman Jessi Forrest Jinel Flores Joe Paul Johana Martinez Johanna Roman Juanita Burton Judith Miller Julie Brooks Kailey Oliver Karen Giles Katie Cook Kay Lightsey Kayle Torres Kelley Melcher Kevin Moore Kit Darling Kylie Meyer Kylie Schaper Laura Nunez Leah Ker Lesley Ward Leslie Espiricueta Lucile Young Madelyn Lang Maria Malaga Marla Madison Martha Manoucheki Martha Surhg Martha Watson Mary Parrish Matthew Rodriguez

Mia Conrad Michelle Bunch Michelle Herren Michelle Zuckert Mike Lopez Nancy Saldivar Natalia Hinojosa Nathan Garrow Pablo Rodriguez Pam Edgerley Paola Morales Pat Nichols Pat Pierson Patricia Perry Paul White Peria Barrera Petra Rodriguez Rebecca Burgner Renee Wiens Rose Mesecher Said Manoucheki Sara Loyola Shelia Robinson Sheri Meyer Sherra Jank Sue Boyette Susie Pruinus Sylvia Pursley T.J. Robie Ta’Lisa Fuller Tania Gomez Tara Powers Trudi Ely Valeri Gibbs Vonda Morrison Wendi Peterson Wendy Kreider Yaquelin If your name is misspelled, please send the correct spelling. Some spelling may have been lost in trans-lation. Apologies offered in advance.

Kick off to WAT 2018-Who’s Who Among Walk Across Texas! List

On February 10, 2017 at 10:00

a.m. at Post Oak Mall 115 signed in

at the Kick off Event. Thank you

for gracing us with your

presence.

Kick off Event Snapshots

Kick off Event Snapshots

Check out this time lapse video of finishing up the first mile and

receiving the KIND Bar https://youtu.be/He-eEAcgyG4

Thank you for registration, the warm up, and the first mile! Texas A&M University Health and Kinesiology students. You ALL are awesome!

Get Your WAT T-SHIRTS

2018 Walk Across Texas! t-shirts are available for purchase at the Brazos County Health Department. Short-sleeve only S - XL $10.00 2X - $12.00 3X - $13.00 For t-shirt purchases, contact Sara Mendez at SMendez@brazoscountytx.gov or 979-361-5730. Please be aware, we may be out of some sizes, but plan to place a second order, if needed.

REMINDERS

Report your miles weekly-Aim to have miles to the captaon by Monday and captains report no later than Tuesday of each week for newsletter purposes

Like us and post a comment on our facebook page: Walk Across Texas - Brazos Valley. We are at 232 likes right now.

If you are part of a worksite wellness or other group, make sure you follow their guidelines for tracking miles and other participation requirements.

Chair/BLT Nutrition Education Extension Assistant: Katie Cook-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Treasurer: Sheri Meyer-Texas A&M University System FCH County Extension Agent/Advisor: Flora Williams-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Members: Alice Kirk-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Ashley Hernandez-Texas A&M University Intern Barb Herrman-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness Volunteer Christina Bookout-Texas A&M University Intern

Connie Arden-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness Volunteer JJ Macias-Texas A&M University System Kelley Melcher-Blue Cross Blue Shield Kendall Kulhanek-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Intern Kourtney Martin-Texas A&M University Kylie Schaper-Brazos County Health Department Intern Lesley Ward- City of Bryan Mary Parrish- Brazos County Health Department Michael Lopez-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Pat Pierson-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness Volunteer Sara Mendez-Brazos County Health Department Sue Boyette-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Master Wellness Volunteer

Educational programs of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service are open to all people without regard to race, color, sex, disability,

religion, age, or national origin. The Texas A&M University System, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the County Commissioners

Courts of Texas Cooperating.

For more information contact: Flora Williams at fewilliams@ag.tamu.edu or Katie Cook at Katie.Cook@ag.tamu.edu

Brazos County Office of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service or at 979-823-0129 HAPPY TRAILS!

Some team members have requested this tracker form. Here it is.

http://walkacrosstexas.tamu.edu/pdfs_dwnload/2016%20WAT!%20Individual%20Mileage%20Log.pdf