Santa Rosa Key Club members volunteer at Mud Run

By Emily Hoos
Menifee 24/7 Intern

Santa Rosa Academy’s Key Club volunteers at many events throughout the year. The first event this school year was the Survivor Mud Run on Saturday. It was designed to "test your all-around toughness, strength, stamina, fitness, and mental determination," according to the website survivormudrun.com.

As volunteers, Key Club members were put in charge of setting up obstacle courses and cheering on runners throughout the course.

"It’s strange. It’s not the ending in itself that motivates me to push forward, but the kids who are spending their weekends out there on the sidelines, cheering us on with all they got. Their excitement pushes me to get to that next level and it’s pretty amazing," said Naomi Avery.

One of the major aspects of Key Club is supporting the community and promoting leadership through serving others. With this event, members were encouraged to help make every athlete feel like their best self throughout the race.

"Last year, Santa Rosa Key Club volunteered at a terrain race and no matter what age, gender, or race they were, we treated them like the athletes they had always dreamed of being and in return, it showed in their overall performance." said Vy Pham.

This year, the survival run was abundantly similar. Vice President of the Key Club Faith McCullough’s outlook on the event was that, "It went pretty well; every event that you go to is going to be different. Some of the events have you on water stations, check-in, bag check-in, and/or merchandise sales. At this specific event, they put me on the bag check-in. This was where you check in people's bags so they don't get muddy.

"Every time you go to the event you will have a different experience with the people running the event. I was pretty disappointed to see no vendors at the event. At most events, there are vendors selling/giving out their products. This race just had a DJ, beer garden, and food truck. Other than that, it was a great opportunity to do the bag check-in."