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weight training where all learners are challenged to pursue excellence.” To accomplish this goal for its more than panning 248,300 square feet, this school is so 1300 students, Fort Dodge has instituted balanced expansive you might expect it to be in Texas. curricula “that develop each student’s ability to com- Its stadium, which is a product of President Franklin municate, think critically, and effectively work with D. Roosevelt's plan to get America back to work others.”

after the Depression, covers more than 18 acres and Seeking to balance its academic curricula with could easily accommodate several professional sport an equally fine physical education program, the Fort Dodge School District applied for and won a Carol Webster County, lowa, and are part of Fort Dodge M. White Physical Education Grant in 2003.This Senior High School. And wait until you see their grant, which was awarded to only four other school weightroom! districts in Iowa that year, provided the additional The school is fully committed to its mission statement “to provide a safe and healthy environment financing necessary for the school to fulfill its goals for excellence.

Winning the grant was a team effort. On the district level, Sue Wood, Director of Curriculum, The school’s goal was to restructure its physical Instruction and Assessment of the Fort Dodge education program to include an increased emphasis on fitness under a program the high school refers to Community School District, provided her leadership as Hallmarks of Excellence. Fort Dodge’s newly to bring the grant home. The dream was also shaped restructured PE program was intended to extend far by the vision of Sam Moser, a retired 25-year veteran beyond fitness, however, and to help service the of the Fort Dodge school system and the school’s school’s 18 varsity sports as well. mer football coach.

Because the school was moving One of the keys to achieving the program’s into the Central lowa Metro League, Moser knew goals was the development of a new weightroom; and they had to make a commitment to get a new weightlike everything else at this school, it had to be huge! room to be competitive. Matt Miller, the current head Based in a facility that is 90 feet long by 38 feet football coach and a 17-year veteran of the school wide, the weightroom would combine the school’s system, also shared Moser’s vision. existing equipment with many new picces. Jeff Sellers, a BFS clinician who runs the BFS Midwest ofÏce, helped bring the weightroom, as we like to “From Concept to Completion.”

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In addition to essential core pieces such as ulti- Sellers launched the facility with a BFS mate racks, power clean platforms and three addi- 150 athletes attended, and many of the teachers and excitement around our school right now is amazing,” at Fort Dodge became BFS certified.

Coach Miller. planned to accommodate several new selectorized dream of having a first-class workout facility is machines for circuit training workouts. In addition to funding these projects at Fort Dodge, the grant also Tt was an ambitious dream befitting a school of enabled the district to build a new total physical consuch size. Now, not only is Fort Dodge able to keep ditioning facility for the students and student-athletes at Phillips Middle School. Roxy Swenson was the men and women—with its new weightroom, this is a key facilitator at that school. great place to be an athlete! commitment to developing well-rounded young 65.

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From BFS Magazine — January/February 2005. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).