A race
on an eight-mile challenge course will help raise money for a student
scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
The inaugural “Reeder’s Ruck March” will
be held from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, April 18, starting at Mathias Mitchell Public Square in downtown
Stevens Point and following a loop of the Green Circle Trail. The event is
sponsored by the UW-Stevens Point Ranger Club as a fundraiser for the Alexander
H. Reeder Memorial Scholarship, named for
a senior psychology major from Wisconsin Rapids who died in a motorcycle
accident last spring. The scholarship will support ROTC students like Reeder.
The
march is open to 200 contestants who will wear a “ruck sack,” a backpack
weighing at least 35 pounds, as they complete the course. The club hopes to
make this an annual event, said Lt. Colonel Gary Thompson, chair of the
UW-Stevens Point Department of Military Science.
For
more information and registration, go to reedersruck.eventbrite.com.
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