61 Club Good Health Challenge

Teaming up with the Columbus Dispatch Newspapers in Education program, #61 Rick Nash, is encouraging kids throughout Central Ohio to make good choices and develop healthy habits.

Each season Elementary and Middle Schoolers can download a healthy habits scorecard (below), keep track of their healthy choices for one month, and return the cards to the Blue Jackets to receive 2 tickets to a Jackets home game in the 61 Club section, 2 61 Club t-shirts, and a chance to host Rick Nash at their school!

Congratulations to Immaculate Conception School - 2010 winners of the Rick Nash school visit!  View video of the visit.

The 61 Club Good Health Challenge has concluded for the 2009-2010 season.  Please check back in October 2010 for next season's Scorecard

How It Works:
1) Download the Score Card
2) Make 61 healthy choices over a month's period of time and keep track of them on the Score Card
3) Send the completed Score Card to the Blue Jackets
4) Blue Jackets will send tickets, t-shirt vouchers, and a letter from Rick to participants mailing address
5) Enjoy a Blue Jackets game in the 61 Club!

Updates from Rick:
My teammates and I know that it is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle both on and off the ice. Sometimes it is hard to make healthy choices, but I want to help you set and reach that goal!
You can start down the road to great physical shape and a better diet by making small changes in your lifestyle. In fact, if you make just one or two small healthy choices a day in the next two months, I guarantee you will feel better, have a great sense of accomplishment, and make healthy habits for the rest of your life!

Here are a few helpful hints to get you started:
• For your first exercise, challenge a friend at school to a race during recess. Then do it again on Day 61 and see how you’ve improved.
• Judy Dodd, a nutritionist for Giant Eagle, offers a great tip: Eat breakfast! Start the day with the energy your brain needs to think and your body needs to be active. If you can’t eat at home, carry a whole-grain snack bar or fruit with you to eat on the way to school.

Have fun and be creative! The best exercises are the ones you don’t even realize you're doing