The Votes Are In!
2024 Readers' Choice is back, bigger and better than ever!
View Winners → Olympic Medalist to Assist with 12th Annual Monrovia Unified Elementary Olympic Games
Monrovia Weekly Mar 23, 2017
by
share with
– Courtesy photo
Kim Rhode, a six-time Olympic medalist in double trap and skeet shooting, will join nearly 900 Monrovia Unified fourth- and fifth-graders from the District’s five elementary schools for the 12th annual Monrovia Unified Elementary Olympic Games.
Monrovia Unified students, teachers, District administrators and community members will join Rhode in cheering on students as they compete in a 100-yard dash, 4×400 relay, softball throws, football punt and jump rope, among other events.
Audience members will have the opportunity to dance with the California Dance Institute and jump rope for the American Heart Association.
Rhode will help present medals to the winning students and teams.
This event takes place on Thursday, March 30, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Monrovia High School, 845 W. Colorado Blvd.
Each of Monrovia Unified’s five elementary schools held team tryouts to fill the slots for 15 boys and 15 girls who will compete in the Elementary Olympics track and field events.
About 100 Monrovia High School students will participate as hosts and mentors to their younger peers.
