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Proceeds of 2013 July 4th Race will go scholarships for Glynn County High School track students and to the St. Simons Land Trust.  Sign up today!

Runners from Brunswick High School and Glynn Academy who demonstrated quality academic performance, proven leadership and a demonstrated sincere commitment to community service are awarded $1000 scholarship from the Golden Isles Track Club.     PLUS GITC supports the Brunswick High and  Glynn Academy Cross Country Team by donating track shoes donations.  Brunswick High School's Coach Dustin Carpenter said "I cannot stress to you how much I and the team thank you for the shoes. When I gave the shoes to the varsity runners before the region meet I was amazed at how excited they were."

Our commitment to helping children does not stop there.  We also provide funds to the Brunswick Blazers. 

Photos of the winners from proceeds of 2012 4th of July Sunshine 5K and 1 Mile Run.
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PostHeaderIcon Children with incurable illnesses get Racing Medals

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In 2009, Shelly B. Bydlinski became the Medals4Mettle (M4M) chapter coordinator for Georgia. This volunteer position has allowed Shelly to facilitate the gifting of donated marathon, half marathon, and triathlon finishers' medals to children and adults fighting debilitating illnesses. She works closely with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston to coordinate presentation ceremonies.  To find out more about M4M, go to

http://www.medals4mettle.org

Medals4Mettle (M4M) is a non-profit organization founded in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2005. Its mission is to celebrate and reward the individual and collective courage of all human beings by facilitating the gifting of marathon finisher’s medals from marathoners to people who have demonstrated similar mettle, or courage. The recipients can be any age and might have exhibited such mettle by dealing with disease, handicaps or any similar challenge. Runners give their medals to Medals4Mettle then M4M's nationwide network of physicians and others award these medals to those who might not be able to run a marathon, but are in their own marathon to continue to live their life.  Shelly says "The children feel as if they had won the medals themselves and wore them proudly."  GITC has provided medals from the Disney Marathon and the Boston Marathon, alongside surfing medals and sand-dollar shaped medals from a Tybee Island Marathon. 

Originally from North Carolina, Shelly moved to St. Simons after living 25 years in Atlanta and  works for the Glynn County School System as the K-12 Mathematics Coordinator. Prior to this position, she was a middle school mathematics teacher and an Academic Instructional Coach. Shelly has 20 years of experience in the education profession.  As for marathoning, Shelly began walking in 1990 as a way to quit smoking. It did not take long for Shelly to decide to try running from one mailbox to the next in her neighborhood. One run led to the next and soon she was looking forward to her daily runs. One of her favorite memories is the day she ran an entire mile without stopping! That was more than 20 years and 65 marathons ago! Plus, she said "so long" to cigarettes, too!

 

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Last Updated (Saturday, 29 December 2012 14:58)

 

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