Janiya and India, pictured left, helped one other finish a long walk. They were a part of a trek team in Connecticut last year! Teams like this, kept us inspired.
If you would like to go above and beyond to organize a trek team in your hometown, GirlTrek can help! The season starts soon, so sign up now!
In addition to inspiring 500 solo trekkers, GirlTrek aims to support 15 trek teams this year!
CHECK OUT OUR 2010 TREK TEAMS
1. Freedom Walkers Trek Team, Hartford, CT, led by Nikia Pinkney
2. Sweaty Divas Trek Team, Jacksonville, FL, led by Ywana Allen
3. Divine Bodies Trek Team, Sacramento, CA, led by Kendria McKnight & Ashayla McKnight (Jr. Leader)
4. Circle of Sisters Trek Team, Milford, CT, led by Kallima Clarke
5. Harlem Honeys Trek Team, New York, NY, led by Morgan Dixon
6. D.R.E.A.M. Girls Trek Team, Glendora, MS, led by Valeria Hawkins & Monika Thomas (Junior Leader)
7. SCALE UP (Sisters Caring and Lifting Each Other Up), Sacramento, CA led by Sonya Wynne & Makaila McClinton (Jr. Leader)
8. Sistas Uplifting Sistas Trek Team, Jacksonville, FL led by Angela Harris & Viara-Janae (Jr. Leader)
9. DSM Workout Partners Trek Team, Des Moines, IA led by Tracy Hendrix
10. Atlanta Social Butterflies- We Keep It Movin' Trek Team, Atlanta, GA led by Andrea Amir
11. Busy Minds of North Carolina Trek Team, Cary, NC, led by Alicia Cuthbertson
12. Oakland Hot Steppers Trek Team, Oakland, CA, led by Shannon Holbrook
13. One Meal One Mile Walking Club, Los Angeles, CA, Charlene Muhammad
14. The Syracuse Shakers and Bakers Trek Team Trek Team, Syracuse, NY, led by Melody Holmes & Denise Cole
15. The Baton Rouge Victors Trek Team, Baton Rouge, LA, led by Ronnie Edwards & Autumn Edwards (Jr. Leader)
16. The Capitol Hill Beauties Trek Team, Washington, DC, led by Enchanta Jackson & Haniyyah Sharpe
17. BVSGA Walking Club, Atlanta, GA, led by Traci Thomas
18. Veggie Gals Trek Team, Miramar, FL, led by Charlene Collins & Quakish Williams Liner
19. The Nawiri Walkers, Los Angeles, CA, led by Marci Halili Akoma & Ms. Vyk
20. Brooklyn Beauties Walk-it-Out Trek Team, New York, NY, led by Sonya Hooks
21. Jersey City Steppers Trek Team, Jersey City, NJ, led by Wanda Jean Lewis and Sarah Joyce
22. OraDelt Lioness Trek Team, Deltona, FL, led by Anita Farrington and Jamira (Jr. Leader)
23. Step Sisters Trek Team, Beacon, NY led by Colleen Bullock and Atia Harvin
Start A Trek Team Today! It's Easy.
Starting a team is simple. It's just a walking group of your friends or people in your neighborhood. It can be as big or small as you want it. It can meet as often as you decide and where ever you want. The benefit is sisterhood and encourgement. Over the course of our 12 week season teams meet once or twice a month - just enough to encourage one another to meet the bigger standard when they are by themselves: walking 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week!
If you've already a trek leader and you need to UPDATE any team information, please email us.
Note: We no longer partner with schools. Instead we support individual women who stand up as health leaders in their families and communities.
Here are 11 more reasons women like you have started trek teams.
"I started a trek team because...
- it was an easy way to give back!
- the girls I know needed it.
- I used to play outside! Why don’t kids play outside anymore?
- it sounds like fun!
- I'm big and I wanted girls to know that Trek Leaders come in all shapes and sizes.
- if I didn’t, no one else would have...eek.
- I want my community to be healthier.
- I believe in sisterhood.
- I asked 3 women I knew to bring their daughters. It was an easy way to start.
- 80% of Black women are currently overweight.
- I want to be part of a practical solution!"
