Second annual Reeder’s Ruck planned
3/25/2016
 

A race on an eight-mile challenge course will help raise money for a student scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. 

The second annual “Reeder’s Ruck March” will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 30, starting at Mathias Mitchell Public Square in downtown Stevens Point and following a loop of the Green Circle Trail. This year’s event will begin with ceremonial cannon shot by Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza. 

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 in 2014. Reeder was in ROTC, and the scholarship will support ROTC students. 

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.  Individual awards will be given to the top male and female finisher in two classes: age 40 and under, and 41 and older.

For more information and registration, go to http://reedersruck.eventbrite.com.

 

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