Whose the Fittest of Them ALL!

3^rd ROTC Bde. cadets wait for signal to start before the run portion of the Jared Southworth Fitness Challenge at the first 3rd ROTC Brigade Gaspers-Cahill Ranger Challenge Saturday morning, March 17. The challenge was named for two of the brigade’s 11 alumni who died in combat. Both University of Nebraska graduates, 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers and Capt. Joel E. Cahill, were killed in Iraq. The challenge named for 1^st Lt. Southworth, an Illinois National Guard, killed with one of his Soldiers February 8, 2009 by an improvised explosive device during road clearing operations near Kabul, Afghanistan.

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The Army Physical Fitness Test results are in and the APFT scores are off the chart. Wheaton college took first in the 9 person team with a combined average of 345; Iowa State took second place with a 343 average.

Individual winners are:

Push-ups - male: 111 - Kyle Ippensen - Truman State University; female: 76 - Ashley Collier - Northern Michigan University

Sit-ups - male: 119 - Rafael Alverio - Iowa State University; female: 103 - Amanda Veen - Iowa State University

2 mile run - male: 10:43 - James Greene - Wheaton College; female:12:52 - Carolyn Rice - Marquette University

Overall Score: Extended Scale (300 is 100%) -  male: 387 - John Heisler - Truman State University; female: 367 - Ashley Collier - Northern Michigan University


2012 U.S. Army APFT Score Card

Creighton University cadet Jenifer Edmondson, 20, holds, Katherine Joyce, 19, during the sit-up portion of the Jared Southworth Fitness Challenge at the first 3rd ROTC Brigade Gaspers-Cahill Ranger Challenge Saturday morning, March 17. Joyce did 70 sit-ups.