15th annual event welcomes students from more than 25 Minnesota schools
(MINNEAPOLIS)鈥� Augsburg College physical education and exercise science students will use聽knowledge gained in the classroom to deliver smiles to more than 250聽grade-school and middle-school children who will聽be聽at the 15th Annual Sports Extravaganza, a one-day event through which children with physical, cognitive and learning disabilities play on campus.
The success of Sports Extravaganza, slated for聽November 18, hinges upon the participation of Augsburg students. Together, students and faculty members create activity stations in the Augsburg Athletics dome and then assist children with each activity.
鈥淎ugsburg students take what they鈥檝e learned in the classroom and then go out and do this event,鈥� said Carol Enke, Sports Extravaganza director and Augsburg College HPE instructor. 鈥淭he young students come to campus, and they help [Augsburg] students grow.鈥�
The Minnesota Coalition of Women in Athletic Leadership, organizers of the Minnesota Girls and Women in Sports Day, recognized inspiring and influential leaders on February 4. Carol Enke, an Augsburg College health-physical education instructor, was honored聽at the event with the Marie Berg Award for Excellence in Education and later appeared on KSTP-TV in聽a story about the event.
Since 1999, Augsburg Students from the Health and Physical Education Department (HPE) hold an annual one-day event for children with disabilities called 鈥淪ports Extravaganza.鈥澛� Children with both mental and physical disabilities get the unique chance to use Augsburg鈥檚 dome to participate in activities and games, including: parachute, cage ball, soccer, beach ball volleyball, relay races jump rope, and dance.