Share why your Team Captain is GREAT! ALL nominated Team Captains will be recognized by UI Wellness and will be entered to win one of ten fabulous prizes including massages, resistance bands, insulated coffee mugs, and more!
To nominate your Team Captain, please submit a comment below this post with the Team Captain's FIRST NAME and TEAM NAME. Please identify what he/she does to keep your team motivated in Live Healthy Iowa. Nominate your Team Captain by Wednesday, April 4th. Names will be drawn Thursday, April 5th.
Amanda / DSP Black.
ReplyDeleteAmanda is the best Captain! She provides very motivational (and hilarious) emails each week to help us stay motivated. She includes links to "healthy" recipes and sports activities and also recognizes members of the team making good progress!
Melanie Phat Pharm
ReplyDeleteKeeps us posted on all up coming 5K and 10k events and gets as many of us as possible to commit.
Team Captain: Denise Baird
ReplyDeleteTeam Name: Fast Trackers
Denise tries to keep the whole team motivated and energized. She is the epitome of ENERGY and she sends us positive, motivational e-mails of encouragement. She is an excellent role model to move, keep moving and never stop moving!
Katie/Running from Romney
ReplyDeleteKatie is an inspiring team leader! She is training for a marathon and makes gym dates with team members. She is supportive and posts on our facebook page when it is time to log in, as well as motivational messages. She calls and checks up to see how others are doing and passes on great recipes and ideas. She is a model of healthiness!
Susan = TEAM EATSALOT - Blue - UIHC
ReplyDeleteSusan does a wonderful job as a team captain. She keeps us motivated by creating newsletters for our team which she sends out once a week detailing what are members are doing to stay active. She also coordinates outing for us as a way for us to exercise as a team.
Amanda/DSP Team Black
ReplyDeleteAmanda makes sure that each week we have some motivational email from her. She reports on our progress as a team and she provides encouragement and humor in this process. She has also provided individual feedback from time to time including race information and nutritional hints.
Susan Bye, Team EATSALOT. Susan is AWESOME!! She make use of EVERY opportunity to motivate everyone on our team to get active. The weekly newsletter she produces for our team is something I look forward to every weekend. It's always informative and entertaining. Susan is such a wonderful person and co-worker overall that it is not surprising that she has become a fantastic team captain.
ReplyDeleteMarge Mitchell/ Team Captain Activ8 Security..Marge is a great team motivator. She post encouragement in our Dispatch News Letter and informational news for the team. Marge has been Captain since we started the Live Healthy. Marge does a wonderful job specially when she has a Tean of mostly males..ha ha.
ReplyDeleteRegina Snyder is the captain of three teams: Hurricane Squad:we will blow you away, Bye Bye High BMI and Downsizing. She does a wonderful job of motivating the members to keep us all in shape...lots of extra work for her in her busy life. We have been in the top 25 of UIHC teams and sometimes all of us have been in the top 10...Thanks Gina for all that you do for us! We think she deserves a BIG prize!
ReplyDeleteDenise Schieffer / Losing It at the Library is coordinator for 3 teams and this is her third year of offering this service to library employees. In addition to keeping us posted on possibilities and encouraging us all the way along, she helps to coordinate a healthy potluck for all three teams to celebrate our achievements at the end of the 100 days. Last year the potluck included recognition certificates for each team for most activity, most pounds lost (as a % of total weight) and other categories!
ReplyDeleteDenise also happens to be the 2010 "Wellness Ambassador of the Year" so not surprising she does such a great job! Keep up the good work.
DeleteSusan/Team Eatsalot!!
ReplyDeleteSusan is truly an AWESOME captian! She keeps everything casual and fun, allowing everyone to be involved at their own level, and building office camaraderie with office/team outings, amazing weekly team newsletters, and a positive outlook.
Rita/TEAM GET FIT!
ReplyDeleteRita is a positive person who assumed the position of Team Captain when nominated. I am very grateful she agreed to be Team Captain for we would not have had a team without her efforts. She has kept us informed and provided support and encouragement.
Kathy of team Trump Towers Trimming Down
ReplyDeleteKathy is not only our team leader, but also a great workout partner. She leads by example. Always motivating us to stick with our exercise plan and suggesting healthy meal ideas. We are fortunate to be partnered with her, and the results have been fantastic!
Femme Five/Valerie
ReplyDeleteValerie is a great team CAPTAIN! She is way motivated and her energy keeps us all on track. She is inspirational in her efforts to increase activity which encourages all of us to follow her example. She sends us information on 5k runs and activities that we can all participate in.
Renee Gould is the best team captain! Since she has been successful in the "battle against the bulge" she inspires all of us on her team and even others to be the best they can be!
ReplyDeleteI believe that Renee is a great captain! Love the team name!
DeleteSusan / Team Eatsalot
ReplyDeleteSusan is a terrific captain. There were so many people that wanted to be on her team that we had to create 2 teams - Eatsalot Blue and Eatsalot Green. She goes beyond what most captains would do. She creates a weekly neswsletter with a very professional look. Each newsletter has an interview with one or more of the team memebers from both teams and plans to get everyone interviewed before LHI is over. She tries to highlight some little known fact about each member, asks what they do for exercise, and of course as our name implies, what our favorite food and restaurants are. She motivates us to get exercise by scheduling outings for lunch where we walk from the UIHC to downtown. This has given us the opportunity to get to know team members we otherwise don't take the time to chat with very often. She also tracks everyone's time and reports on our standings in the newsletter. We all have our own secret code name for these charts. She's a little demanding but incredibly fun to have as a captain!
Kristi/Chicks Doing Exercise
ReplyDeleteKristi does not only motivate our team, but she leads by example. She lives a healthy and active lifestyle that we can all look up to! She values others in being active, even if it is a 10 minute walk, she encourages that! She has been supportive of me especially since I had knee surgery and she was motivating for me not to give up!
Linda/4RC HeartThrobs
ReplyDeleteLinda is great! She is focused on getting our numbers updated and motivates us to stay on target with our goals. THANKS LINDA!!!
Amanda / DSP Team Black
ReplyDeleteThe Amazing Captain Amanda really helps us stay motivated with encouraging emails full of great ideas, tasty recipes and fun! She's a great role model and always ready with helpful tips and advice.
I nominate our fantastic team leader Gina Snyder. She's been our leader for every year of the program. She's organized, motivational and leads by example. Chris Goerdt from the Bye Bye BMI team.
ReplyDeleteSusan of Team Eatsalot. The best captain! Makes it all fun, keeps us motivated, and keeps it all interesting!
ReplyDeleteI nominate Ruthina West of the Princesses of UIHC. She took the initiative to form the team. This enabled me to join and I give her credit for my weight loss because it was the jump start I needed. She is a positive person who takes the time to send fun and encouraging emails to members.
ReplyDeleteFrank/Indemnified and Dangerous-Frank recruited and coordinated members for 3 teams. Each week he creates challenges for the 3 teams to compete against each other and posts the results.
ReplyDeleteDonna of Team Devo has been motivational from the beginning. She occasionally drops by in person to see how the team members are doing. She is awsome!!!
ReplyDeleteStacia of Team Perpetual Motion Squad (PMS) has been an awesome team leader! She sends weekly progress emails and motivational messages, as well as organizes team activities (such as short walks during lunch hour) to help keep us motivated and active. She also shares delicious recipes and yummy healthy treats with her team! Stacia ROCKS! :)
ReplyDeleteGREAT TEAM NAME! VERY FUNNY!
DeleteI would like to nominate Lori Smith of ITS BeeGee's as a GREAT leader. She not only motivates all of us with her "little reminder" emails and meetings, but also has proven by example that through exercise and healthy eating you can turn into the size of half the person you once were.
ReplyDeleteKatie Schroeder is the captain of "The Shrinking Johnson's". Katie is busy with a baby & working full time yet she finds time to e-mial her team & keep us motivated. Katie has a background in exercise physiology which makes her a positive team leader! She shares exercise tips, recipes, & other ideas with us. Katie rocks!
ReplyDeleteMatt Whittaker is a great captain. Even though he has the skinniest legs around, he keeps moving and keeps us moving. He constantly is offering encouraging words. He even had softball team practice in March to help us keep active. Matt leads in both word and action. Thanks, Matt!
ReplyDeleteJennifer Stacy-Adams/Chocolate Dancing Vegetables
ReplyDeleteJenni encourages us all to set goals and meet them. She initiates smaller challenges for us to try for to keep us motivated. We keep going and posting our results for the team because of her leadership! Way to go, Jenni!
The ITS BeeGees couldn't ask for a better captain than Lori, which is why we're so grateful to her for agreeing to lead our team for a second consecutive year. This veteran LHI leader recruits a team and plans gatherings, including brown bag lunches and a healthy potluck. She keeps us motivated with entertaining reminders to log our progress, reminds us about LHI resources, encourages us to share success stories and recipes, and even rewards us with occasional prizes. Our captain leads by example in her commitment to Weight Watchers. The BeeGees are very grateful to Lori for keeping us on track to achieve our fitness goals!
ReplyDeleteTeam Captain: April Seaba
ReplyDeleteTeam Name: Pair-A-Normal Girls
April is an exceptional leader. She keeps me motivated by checking on my progress daily (we carpool together)and by her own motivation (she's bypassed her own goal). We joined a fitness club together and I'm proud to say she is also my best friend.
Julie Nealson
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Julie is a great team captain. She sends emails each week to remind us to post our activites. She keeps us motivated and focused on our goals.
Ronnie Chalupa
ReplyDeleteSubstance Shrinkers
Ronnie is a great team captain. He's always keeping us up to date on things!
Ronnie Chalupa
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He is a good team captain and motivates ALL the teams at Student Health!
Bridget Adams, Compliance Alliance, inspires us all to push on even though we have had several people with feet problems and illnesses. She is never condescending and encourages us to keep on with our progress. Her positive nature is worthy of recognition.
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