With the faculty, families and volunteers here, we have the best village.” We’re about the whole child here and we believe in the concept that it takes a village to raise a child. “You can walk, run, even be in a wheelchair and you can get a card and be part of the program. “What’s great about the program is that anybody can participate,” said Carrillo Principal Fran Pistone. The program is so successful, it has become a model for other campuses in the San Marcos Unified School District, and it has made the school a perennial victor at district track meets. Nearly half of the school’s 1,100 students participate in the Carrillo Elementary Running Club, where a crew of 22 parent volunteers use colored cards to log the miles students run each day before school and at recess.
“He’s really famous at our school,” said third-grader Ava Bynes, who joined the running club this year. Then, after tearing through a paper banner on the finish line at 8:37 a.m., Kai disappeared in a sea of congratulatory hugs and high fives. I’ll miss the running club,” Kai said, just before setting out on a single celebratory loop around the quarter-mile track, which threads between classrooms and a supply shed in its home stretch.Īs Kai emerged from behind the buildings, the chanting students began to roar with excitement and jump up and down. That’s about the equivalent of running from San Diego to Bangor, Maine. Since he joined the school’s running club in first grade, the soon-to-graduate fifth-grader has logged 3,595 miles. Hundreds of students, parents and faculty gathered with balloons, banners and bagels to celebrate the 11-year-old’s achievement as Carrillo’s all-time top runner.
“Kai! Kai! Kai!” The rhythmic cheering started well before long-distance runner Kai Sims was even visible to his fellow students lined up along the track at Carrillo Elementary School on Friday morning.
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