Move Over Blackhawks - There's a New Champ in Town
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October 18, 2010
Move Over Blackhawks - There's a New Champ in Town
10-year-old Daria Twarowski Attempts to Break Own Record
The children of Washington School in Schiller Park will cheer on their fellow schoolmate, fifth-grader Daria Twarowski, during the all-school ribbon-cutting ceremony on their new Project Fit America fitness equipment.
Daria outscored 400,000 students in 40 states for the national champ position. Chicago Bulls mascot, Benny the Bull, and 200 students, teachers and community members will participate in demonstrations for each unique piece of equipment in the music-filled ceremony.
Daria Twarowski, 10, is the established national monkey bar champion, having completed 37 roundtrips in less than 30 minutes. Daria will demonstrate her winning technique at the ceremony and challenge all media members.
Washington is the ninth recipient of a grant from Loyola Gottlieb Memorial Hospital to receive the exercise and education program that teaches and promotes good health.
Join us Tuesday, Oct. 19, from 2-3 p.m. for the official ribbon-cutting and exercise demonstration at Washington Elementary School, 4835 N. Michigan Ave., Schiller Park, Ill.
Project Fit America is winning the war on childhood obesity. PFA fitness tests show an average increase of 44.9% in upper body strength, 14.7% in abdominal strength and
11.2 % in cardiovascular endurance in participating students.
Loyola University Health System (LUHS) is a member of Trinity Health. Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, LUHS is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and more than 30 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald® Children's Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park includes the 255-licensed-bed community hospital, the Professional Office Building housing 150 private practice clinics, the Adult Day Care, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center at Melrose Park.
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