Athens Academy Named President’s Challenge Demonstration Center

has been selected to serve as a President’s Challenge Demonstration Center by the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition. 

The award states, “By promoting physical activity and fitness your school serves as a role model to other schools within your community, state, and throughout the nation.”  Athens Academy is the only school in the state of Georgia to be selected for this honor.

According to the presidentschallenge.org, a school must submit an application to a designated state coordinator who reviews the application, chooses to visit the site or conduct an interview and determines if the school meets the requirements.

 “As more and more attention is paid to the principal of healthy activity being a crucial component for well rounded student development, we can all be proud that our students have many opportunities each day in physical education, recess, and the athletic program to reach for personal wellness,”Physical Education Department Chair Don Chuboff said in a released statement.  “I would like to thank all of the instructors for their tireless work in creating, evaluating, and executing the program that we currently enjoy. Our parents, students, administration, teachers have all worked together to create a program which faithfully serves the mission statement of the school, assists and trains students in the concepts of fitness for life, consistently reaches and exceeds national best practices, and which is uniquely Athens Academy in its scope and sequence.”