Redskins' Play 60

#57, Nick Sundberg, Leads Students In Play 60 Style Jumping Jacks at Redskins Park. Photo/CD Brown

The Redskins hosted more than 150 District of Columbia Public Schools 6th graders at Redskins Park last week to participate in a PLAY 60 Challenge mini-combine.

The PLAY 60 Challenge began on May 3 when DC area 6th graders were given planners to track their daily physical activity minutes every day over the next four weeks. Physical Education teachers and after-school coordinators will work with the students and parents to track their progress and provide ideas on ways the students can incorporate 60 minutes of physical activity into their daily lives.

Throughout the four-week challenge, students are being incentivized for successfully meeting different criteria with various Washington Redskins team items and memorabilia.

The 150 students attending the PLAY 60 Challenge Mini-Combine were selected from a drawing of students that met or exceeded 60 minutes of physical activity during at least 75% of the challenge.

Sixth grader, Naquon Tyler said of the event, "I learned that exercise is good for us", while another student was pleased with the opportunity she was given to meet some of her favorite players.

"It's so much fun. I'm so glad we won. There was a raffle pick at our school. It's really fun meeting all the Redskins."

The camp was also fun for Redskins players like Kareem Moore, the newly signed Chris Draft, and Logan Paulsen, all acting as team leaders for the groups of kids as they worked on different football-style drills.

"It's awesome, said Skins' TE Paulsen. We just want to see them run around out here and have a good time."

And indeed a good time was had by all, even with a few minor student injuries that saw one student showing up with a broken arm the youngster was still able to run the ball around the cones and participate in the other field activities.

The PLAY 60 Challenge Mini-Combine was issued to schools at 19 educational sites representing all 8 wards across the District of Columbia.

Said LB Chris Draft, who joined the Redskins May 7th, "It's not about just this one day that's going to transform all these kids, but it's about reminding them, their parents, and hopefully their schools and communities that this is important, so hopefully by us doing this out here we'll have a lot of backup from a lot of the adults to make sure they're throwing [foot]balls with their kids on the next day."

Read more about the Redskins Charitable Foundation's efforts at Redskins.com.