The Mandeville Movers have taken a firm grip on the UNMC Walks to the Olympics Challenge. The Movers get to wear jeans for a second week in a row after they notched 1,859,917 steps to lead all teams for the weeks.
Schneider steps up
The Movers benefited greatly from the efforts of Marlene Schneider of the UNMC Faculty Employee Assistance Program, who racked up 290,000 steps last week to take home the Blue T-shirt.
Because of the holiday, we weren’t able to touch base with Schneider to see how she got all those steps. That said, knowing Schneider, we suspect golf was involved.
An oversight
It also should be noted that during a previous week, Schneider walked more than 257,000 steps but because of an editor’s oversight, she was not awarded that week’s Blue T-shirt.
Rankings
This week’s full rankings are below (Team’s medal status indicated by color, “Jean Team” in blue):
1. Mandeville Movers — 16,929,860 (1,859,917 steps for the week)
2. Team Yomper Trompers — 14,144,021
3. Team Ortho — 13,834,536
4. OlymPENS — 13,203,091
5. Take the ‘rad-path’ to the Olympics — 12,699,241
6. Team Get There Eventually — 12,674,476
7. International Delight — 12,436,601
8. Team Phar Out — 12,243,298
9. Molar Strollers — 11,772,583
10. Team Cake Walk — 11,333,251
11. Bolting to London — 11,281,326
12. Wenlock — 10,800,199
13. Holy Walkamolies — 10,772,678
14. Dental Divas — 10,705,257
15. Team Research — 10,522,246
16. The Ramblers — 9,961,455
17. London Britches — 9,439,391
18. Perpetual Motion Squad — 9,424,026
19. Pedi-ometers — 9,034,028
20. Walking Band of Misfits — 8,931,176
21. Olympic Team MMI — 8,898,040
22. COPH Groundbreakers — 8,729,133
23. Team Printer Sprinters — 8,681,127
24. HGL TEAM GUANINE — 8,659,857
25. London Walking Sole Surfers — 8,392,864
26. Are We There Yet? — 7,926,259
27. Passport Agents — 6,684,975
28. SLC Sidewalkers — 5,445,956
29. The Proclaimers — 5,005,748
30. Coast Busters — 2,119,700