Here’s to 22 years of Walk Across Texas! (WAT) in Brazos

County! The WAT Taskforce proudly boasts its 22nd year of

offering the fun and fitness program. Let’s begin by giving a

shoutout to the 246 teams (possibly 282 teams).

Welcome to Walk Across Texas 2019

Important Dates–at-a-Glance

Celebrating 22 Years of WAT Brazos County

T e x a s A & M A g r i L i f e E x t e n s i o n

Brazos County Walk Across Texas 2019

February 18, 2019

Team members may record your mileage daily. Report by each Tuesday at 12:00 noon for newsletter purposes.

If you have snapshots of your team in action, upcoming team or community fitness events, or stories please email them to Flora Williams at fewilliams@ag.tamu.edu.

Weekly e-blast will arrive on or before Thursday of each week.

WAT dates—February 9- April 5, 2019 Week 1: February 9-15, 2019 Week 2: February 16-22, 2019 You are here. Week 3: February 23-March 1, 2019 Week 4: March 2-8, 2019 Week 5: March 9-15, 2019 Week 6: March 16-22, 2019 WALK ACROSS TEXAS MIDWAY BOOT CAMP-March 21, 2019 Week 7: March 23-29, 2019 Week 8: March 30-April 5, 2019 Last day to enter miles and wrap up survey—April 9, 2019

Welcome Leagues

AgriLife Employee Wellness Berkeley Research Group Brazos County Employee Teams Brazos County Master Gardner Association Bryan ISD Technology Services BVCOG CHI St. Joseph Health City of Bryan CSTR Red Cross EHS Get off da Couch Health and Kinesiology Lincoln Center Seniors

Lincoln Center Seniors Lohman Learning Community PPRI! Public Partnership & Outreach TAMU Wellness Works TAMU Wellness Works! TAP Shoes TEEX Texas A&M System Offices Texas A&M University Libraries The Mixed Nuts TTI URPN 370 - Health System Planners!

Meet this year’s sponsors! Thank you to our sponsors!

D1 Training-College Statation Camp Gladiator-College Station

""X"celerators" #TeamFabulous #Workout 5th Floor Flashes 7 Groovy Chicks and An Old Dude Aggie Ambulators Agony of De Feet ALL EAHR's 2019 All Hail the Blood Sucking Gods All The Other Teams Were Full ARCH Marchers arde el camino Are We Schmalriede There Yet? Arlington Ambler Alert (Team AAA) Average Joe's BCHD Team Gold BCS A Team: I pity the Food! Becky's Toddling Troop Been there, Run That Ben E. Fit's Off His Rockers Between A Walk And A Hard Pace Between A Walk And A Hard Place Beutel Beauties Binge Walkers BiologyWalks Blazing Bullets BLT Walk This Way BLT Walk This Way Too Bluebonnet Bunch bod squad Brazos County Walking Warriors Breast Intentions Broke Down Seniors BTHO 800 Miles BTHO Mike's Team Bushwalkers Busy Bees 2019 C Dem Dash C DOS Run Cass County Crawlers CATs (COGers Across Texas) Center for Teaching Excellence Chad Got Married? Chasing the Ice Cream Truck CHCMommas Chidult Cirque de Sore Legs Cirque Du Sore Legs Clin Path Cruisers COLA College Station Whatnots CONtinual Motion Contracts & Gains

Crawl Across Texas Crazy 8 CSSquares Team 2 CSSquares Team One CSTR1 CSTR2 Cupcakes Anonymous CVM Red Hot Chili Steppers CVM These Dogs Are Made For Walking CVM Walkers Dallas Dandy Diggers DAS Dashing Divas Dashing Doxies Desperately Needing Uber Diet Coke District 2 Winning Team Donna and the DYNAMOS DOR Dynamic Divas DOR Rebel Walkers Dream Team DreamTeam DRL Get ‘Er Run EAST Steppers EIS Every Lil Step I Take Export Controls Office Fearless on Every Crosswalk Feets, Don’t Fail Me Now! FIt For Duty Follow the Leader G&G Rockers Game of Moans Game of Soles Geosciences Gimme Three Steps Girls Running In The South Globe Trotters Globo Gym Purple Cobras Golden Eight Groovy Grape Steppers Happy Feet (Captain is Kayla) Happy Feet Happy Feet Happy Hikers Healthy Hustle Heart & Sole Heart and Soles HECM: Let's Walk & Roll! Holy Walkamolies

Holy Walkamolies Holy Walkamolies Holy Walkamolies! (Captain is Diana)

Hot Circuits HSC Walkers Hugbanks Hikers I Thought This Was a Parade In It To Thin It InItToWinIt Intellectually Dangerous Walkers IODP Pubs Crawlers Jimbo's Howdy Walkers JustDoIT keeping up with the Kol-dusians Kiss My Assessment! Kiss My Pace L500 Ladies Landies Left TAP Shoe Legs Miserables Legs Miserables Liar, Liar, Legs of Fire Logistics Mail Steppers Lost in Pace Lubbock AgriLife Maestroteers Make America Healthy Again MatureWell Walkers MatureWell Working Walkers Mind Over Miles Mind Over Miles Mixed Bag of Nuts Moonwalkers Most Wanted MSC You In My Dust! Neville's Longbottoms

Each year the Brazos County Walk Across Texas Taskforce sponsors one event. The start date this year was February 9, 2019. The following teams have registered.

News team, assemble! Not Fast or Furious Not Fast! Just Furious! Not Fast, But Kinda Furious Not Fast, Just Furious Not Last Place Not Last Place Oak Wilt Annihilators OGAPS Oh my MRSA! Oldies but Goodies OMQ - Oh My Quad One Bite at a Time O-T- to the L Our Giga Hurts Our mouths run more than our feet Pfluger Pfleet Pflyers Pimp My Stride Poor Unfortunate Soles PSO Walkers Pub Crawlers Rambling Weed Whackers Rapid Thigh Movement Rather Be Mowing Raven Walkers Rec Skywalkers Rec-ing Balls Rec-ing Havoc Recsters Red Hot Chili Steppers (Captain is Tim) Red Hot Chili Steppers Red Hot Chili Steppers Red-Hot Chili Steppers RegiSTRIDES Alpha RegiSTRIDES Bravo RegiSTRIDES Charlie RegiSTRIDES Delta RegiSTRIDES Echo Relentless ResLife Walker Texas Rangers Right TAP Shoe Rockin Rebels RTC Run BIC! (Bryan Imaging Center) Run Like the Winded Sags and Wrinkles SAPO Tater Trots Save The Turtles Scrambled Legs Scrambled Legs & Achin' Self-Faith She's Got Legs Small Animal Walkers

SOLE Searchers Sole Sista's & One Mo' Sole Sisters Soon to be Dr. SPs Spevtaculars St Joes Ultrasound Stack Stompers StatSteppers Step By Step Sweetwater Sweetwalkers! TAMU CAREER CENTER 1 TAMU COE Retention Team Tater Trots TCALL Trailblazers Team Buenger Team Christland Team Stayin Alive Team Student ACTIVE-ivities Team Tenacious! TeamSTEPPS Texas Tough Trailblazers Texas Water Running Institute The Best Lil' Warehouse In Texas THE BEST TEAM! The Breathless Club The girls of 29th The Misfits The Mixed Nuts The Motivateds The Motley Crew the pacemakers The Sassy Steppers The Skywalkers The Smyer Smurfs The Trotters The twinkle toes The Volun-tolds The Walking Dread The Walk-Ons The Weightaways The Young and The Breathless The young and the breathless Thee "HOLY" Walk-a-Molees Thighs of Texas Too Ponderous Toole’s Trekkers TOPS on the Move! TTIers Who Run Like the Winded Turn Down for WAT! Turn Down for WAT! Turtle Herders U Studs UltraLights

Urban Search & Resuscitate Valley Walkers ViP Walkers W3 = Working Women Walking W8Less Waist Management Walk for fun Walk The Walk Walk This Way Walk This Way (Captain is Meagan)

Walk this Way! Walk? Zim Can! Walka, Walka, Walka walkabili-team Walkaholics Walker, Texas Aggies Walkers without Borders Walkie Talkie Catalogie Walkie Talkies Walkie Talkies Walkie Talkies Walkin Miles of Miles of Texas Walking Downloads Walking for Wellness (WFW) Walking Skeletons Walking Warriors Wandering Wildlanders WAT are those? What A Team! White Creek Walkers Why not? It's Free Points Will Walk For Queso WINbo for Jimbo Working Out On The Wild Side You Can't spell DoCTor without CT

Hmmm! Some names are quite popular. *Teams in red do not have 2-9-2019 start dates. They will not be

included in next newsletter.

Team Names(Continued from page 3)

Agarita Aduopoice Ana Teresa Dengo Anita Lang Annie Williams Anya Mariante Ara Begum Barbara Winckler Benjamin Zoniya Bill Couts Bill Heath Brandy Kosh Bridget Sebesta Catherine Yancy Cee Ellis Charlie Sauced Cheyenne Mige Cierra Robison Connie Paul Crystal Wolfe Davis Orozio Diana Cover Diana Miller Diane Vulgamott Dorithie Thomas Dorothy Rainwater Edith Soto Elizabeth Freeman Ellen Fox Fawn Preuss

Faye Simpson Flora Williams Gus Roman Imelda Gutierrez J.J. Macias Jackie Williams Jana Wolfshohl Janet Stine Janice Couts Janie Rodriguez Jay Childers Jennifer Hudspeth Jessica Amaro Jill Geary Jim Collins Joe Paul Johanna Roman Jonathan Garvia Juan Chavez Kara Goldreyer Karen Giles Karen Hodges Kathy Bounds Kayla Titus Ken Spencer Kiki Konderla Kimberly Paton Kit Darling Kristen Goodson Kristin White Lesley Ward Leslie Salas Lindsey Hannemann Lucile Young Lynn Reed Madelyn Lang Marci Collins Martha Manonchehri

Martha Watson Mary Parrish Mattie Nichols Mayra Morales Mike Lopez Nathan Glary Oscar Acuna Pablo Rodriguez Pat Pierson Paul Borboa Paul White Pauline Spencer Petra Rodriguez Priscilla Ofori Rachel Kim Rosa Villasana Rosalinda Mavez Ruth Heath Ryan Vurliceu Rynda Sission Saeid Manonchehri Samantha Villagran Samora Ofori Santos Sarabin Sara Jo Parenski Sara Mendez Scott Wilde Sean Buchanan Shannon Williford Sherra Jank Stephanie deVilleneure Sydnee Giles Thelma Isenhart Wendi Peterson Woddy Isenhart If your name is misspelled, please send the correct spelling. Some spelling may have been lost in trans-lation. Apologies offered in advance.

Kick Off to WAT 2019-Who’s Who Among Walk Across Texas! List

On February 9, 2019 at 10:00

a.m. at Post Oak Mall 100 signed in

at the Kick off Event. Thank you

for gracing us with your

presence.

Kick off Event Snapshots

Click here to enjoy the sights and sounds

of the WAT Kick Off https://

vimeo.com/316593341?activityReferer=1

Click on the logo for the KBTX coverage of the

Kick Off

More Kick Off Event Snapshots

It All Counts...

Save the Date

Thank you for handling registration

Texas A&M University

Health and Kinesiology students!

Support the Taskforce. Purchase a WAT T-shirt.

2019 Walk Across Texas! t-shirts are available for purchase at the Brazos County Health District/Department. Short-sleeve only S - XL $10.00 2X - $12.00 3X - $13.00 For t-shirt purchases, contact Sara Mendez at SMendez@brazoscountytx.gov or 979-361-5730.

REMINDERS

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Chair/ Lesley Ward- City of Bryan Treasurer: Sara Mendez-Brazos County Health District FCH County Extension Agent/Advisor: Flora Williams-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Advisors: Alice Kirk-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Michael Lopez-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Brian Faries- Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Members: Adriana Acosta-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Intern Allie Connell-Brazos County Health District Barb Herrman-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness Volunteer Christina Bookout-TAMU Wellness Works! Connie Arden-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness Volunteer Dana Dewveall-Texas A&M AgriLife

Dorithie Thomas-Texas A&M AgrLife Fawn Prouse-CHI St. Joseph Health Jana Wolfshohl-volunteer Jessica Palacios-Texas A&M University System JJ Macias-Texas A&M University System Kara Goldreyer-TAMU Wellness Works Kaitlin Gray-CHI St.Joseph Katherine Houle-Texas A&M University Kelley Melcher-Blue Cross Blue Shield LindseyDauer-CHI St. Joseph Health Liz Summers-Brazos County Health District Mary Parrish- Brazos County Health District Pat Pierson-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness Volunteer Sheri Meyer-Texas A&M University System Sue Boyette-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Master Wellness Volunteer

Educational programs of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service are open to all people without regard to race, color, sex, disability,

religion, age, or national origin. The Texas A&M University System, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the County Commissioners

Courts of Texas Cooperating.

For more information contact: Flora Williams at fewilliams@ag.tamu.edu

County Office of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service or at 979-823-0129 HAPPY TRAILS!