Blog post # 3

Ethan and I are still in the research part of our project so these next few blog posts are going to consist of interviews and findings. We were able to set up and interview with Endsworth high school in Nashville Tennessee where we spoke to Megan Mitchell their assistants AD. To start off I want to give some background on Endsworth, they are a school in similar size with Hawken, and their tuition is about the same give or take a little bit. However, they are a football powerhouse and athletic run school where a lot of their money goes, have state of the art facilities which includes fields, pools, and multiple weight rooms. We found through your interview that they have 6 or 7 classes a day and integrated into those classes is HP so no matter the grade or time of year the students are always participating in HP. In addition, they also have different kinds of HP which includes lifting, boxing, self defense, yoga, and even meditation. They also have a refuel station, where after those heavy lifts they refuel their athletes with shakes from shamrock farms, and they get weekly shipments of these shakes so that they don’t run out and have enough. To add to that they are very invested in their schools nutrition, they have SAGE dining services and they work with them to feed the best possible meals and only healthy foods along with snacks. It took them a year to get to the point that they are with SAGE, but it proves that it is possible. In conclusion, this interview gave Ethan and I a good insight on what it takes to be that athletic powerhouse school, and it also proved that it’s not that far away for a school of our stature. We are going to take the info that we got from Megan and use it to better put fuel station, and hope to get in contact with this shamrock farms company! 

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