Corporate Team Challenge Standings 1/25/12

What is the Corporate Team Challenge?
The Corporate Challenge is a friendly competition for area businesses and organizations to demonstrate their employees’ commitment to fitness and their community. This competition provides businesses with a resource to teach employees key aspects of a healthy lifestyle and tips to maintain or improve fitness and wellness. Businesses will create a team and compete to see who can achieve the highest employee participation rate in Festival Foods La Crosse Fitness Festival events and earn bragging rights as the healthiest business in La Crosse! The range of events included in the Corporate Challenge will be the Marathon, Half Marathon, Marathon Relay, 5K Run/Walk, Bike tour, Cycling Criterium and Cycling Time Trial.

Any business, profit or non-profit, and all employees, full or part-time, may participate in the Corporate Challenge. Based on size, your business will be recognized in one of the following categories:

• Small: Less than 25 employees
• Medium: 25 - 99 employees
• Large: 100 - 499 employees
• X-Large: 500 or more employees

What’s in it for me?
Team-building throughout the workplace, healthy lifestyle choices, increased goodwill for your organization, and some good old competition. Studies have shown over and over again the benefits of workplace wellness programs for both employees and employers, including lower health care costs, reduced absenteeism, higher productivity, and higher morale. So why not have your workplace recognized for its high levels of health and fitness? Oh, and there are some prizes!

Corporate Challenge Awards
Corporate Challenge awards are based on the percentage of participation in Fitness Fest events by employees in your company, with the exception of the XL category. The team with the highest percentage of employee participation in each of the size categories will win a commemorative, personalized 1st place Corporate Challenge Plaque. The team with the highest raw numbers of participation in the XL category will win the plaque. And new this year, we will also be giving out prizes to the one winning team of our Team T-Shirt Contest and Team Spirit Award!

What does a Team Captain do?
The Team Captain is designated by each participating Corporate Team. This person serves as the point person between their organization and the Festival Foods La Crosse Fitness Festival regarding registration, questions, and coordinating details to help make the Corporate Challenge run smoothly for their company.

What if my company created a team after I already registered for an event?
Notify your Team Captain that you have already registered, what event you will be participating in, and have them add you to their roster. The La Crosse Fitness Festival will email Team Captains periodically to confirm their rosters, at which time you would be officially added to the team.

How can I register my business?
Simply download the Corporate Challenge Registration form, provide the requested information, and send it back to us.
For more information: email schaarr@cityoflacrosse.org, or call (608) 789-7304

2011 Results:

• Small Company division: The Nasty HABits of HAB, Inc.
• Medium Company division: St. Rose Convent
• Large Company division: Mathy Construction
• X-Large Company division: Franciscan Skemp

Thank you to all of our participants in the 2011 Corporate Team Challenge!