INFORMATION
For more information or questions, please contact Jasmina Miller at 605-681-8329 or jnmiller@embe.org.
INFORMATION
For more information or questions, please contact Elizabeth Cordell at 605-681-8349 or ecordell@embe.org.
We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun experienced-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Heart and Sole is a transformational physical activity-based positive youth development program for girls in 6th to 8th grades. We teach life skills through dynamic interactive lessons and running games. The program culminates with the girls being physically and emotionally prepared to complete a celebratory 5K run. The goal of the program is to unleash confidence through accomplishment while establishing a lifetime appreciation of health and fitness.
The “Girl Wheel” is the central concept of the program and focuses on the whole girl. In each lesson, girls participate in activities related to the Girl Wheel components – body, brain, heart, spirit and social. The wheel helps demonstrate the parts of themselves that impact their lives, their families, their schools and their neighborhoods. Girls learn to use the girl wheel to identify changes they would like to make within themselves and ways they can contribute to change around them.
Another element of Heart & Sole is the concept of small acts of kindness. It’s a way to help girls develop their empathy by noticing opportunities to be kind, appreciating these acts in their lives and engaging in these acts with those in their home, school and neighborhood.
Girls on the Run comprises over 200 councils across the United States and Canada. We want girls to have the opportunity to participate in Heart & Sole and Girls on the Run wherever they live.
*If you do not see your site, they may have not been confirmed yet. We are currently working on confirming sites for the Spring 2025 Girls on the Run and Heart & Sole season. Please check back again for an updated list as we continue to update it through November and December.
HEART & SOLE TEAMS – SPRING 2025 SITES
GOTR TEAMS – SRING 2025 SITES
Alcester-Hudson Elementary
Baltic Elementary
Beresford Elementary
Bishop O’Gorman – St. Mary’s Elementary
Bridgewater – Emery Elementary
Brookings – Dakota Prairie Elementary
Brookings – Medary Elementary
Chamberlain Elementary
Chester Elementary
Colman-Egan Elementary
Custer Elementary
Dell Rapids Public School
Fort Pierre – Stanley County Elementary
Harrisburg – Endeavor Elementary
Harrisburg – Journey Elementary
Hermosa Elementary
Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary
Irene – Wakonda Elementary
Kimball Elementary
Lennox Elementary
Madison Elementary
Marion Elementary
Mitchell – Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary
Mitchell – John Paul II Elementary
Mitchell – LB Williams Elementary
Montrose Elementary
Pierre – Boys & Girls Club
Pierre – Buchanan Elementary
Rapid City – Black Hawk Elementary
Rapid City – Horace Mann Elementary
Rapid City – Wilson Elementary
Rock Rapids Elementary
Sioux Falls Christian
SF – Discovery Elementary
SF – John F. Kennedy Elementary
SF – Laura B Anderson Elementary
SF – Laura Wilder Elementary
SF – Lowell Elementary
SF – Oscar Howe Elementary
SF – Terry Redlin Elementary
Spearfish – Creekside Elementary
Tea – Legacy Elementary
Tea – Venture Elementary
Tri-Valley – Colton Elementary
Tri-Valley – Crooks Elementary
Watertown – Intermediate School
Watertown – McKinley Early Childhood Center (Open to 3rd and 4th Graders)
West Central – Humboldt Elementary
Yankton – Beadle Elementary
Yankton – Lincoln Elementary
If you are interested in starting a Girls on the Run team in your community, please contact Jasmina Miller at jnmiller@embe.org or at 605-681-8329
Are you interested in bringing Heart & Sole to your school or community?
Importance of Girls on the Run:
At Girls on the Run, we know that girls’ self-confidence begins to drop at nine years old. Physical activity levels begin to decline at ten years old. We also know that 50% of girls start to experience bullying at ten to thirteen years old.
Girls on the Run strives to change these statistics with an evidence-based curriculum to promote social-emotional health and creatively integrate running games in each lesson.
What you need to know:
Teams are made up of 16 girls and 5 volunteer coaches.
Sites will be given recruitment materials and flyers to spread awareness of the program at your site.
Teams meet twice a week for 75 minutes or once a week for 120 minutes
There is no cost to bring the program to your community. Fees will be paid by the families during the registration process.
Full or partial scholarships are available
STEP 1:
Reach out to Jasmina Miller, jnmiller@embe.org, to learn more about how to bring Heart & Sole to your community!
STEP 2:
Complete New Site Application
Become a Heart & Sole Coach!
Heart & Sole strives to help every girl activate her limitless potential and ensure that she is free to boldly pursue her dreams. You can help make this possible by becoming a Heart & Sole Coach and making an investment in the life of a girl! Each season, Heart & Sole has a dynamic group of coaches that volunteer their time to guide and mentor girls so that they are prepared to become happy, healthy, self-confident adolescents and adults.
Each team consists of 8 to 15 girls that meet after school around 3:30 or 4:00 pm. Each Heart & Sole team meets twice a week throughout the season. Each team will have 5 – 6 coaches to lead the girls with a minimum of two coaches at each practice. Coaches lead the team through a comprehensive, interactive fun curriculum. All materials are provided. It’s our volunteers that bring this program to life!
Heart & Sole Coach Requirements:
- Must be 18 years old or older
- Lead a healthy lifestyle
- Interest in mentoring girls and being a positive role
- Can commit to one, 75-minute practice a week
- Able to complete National Coach Training
You do not need to be a runner to coach a Heart & Sole team!
Register HERE to become a coach for the Spring 2025 season.
Side by side and sneaker by sneaker, we’re better
together! At the 5K celebration, we gather as a community to celebrate the accomplishments of every GOTR girl. On this day, teams unite to recognize how far participants have come and how far they will continue to go. So register early, lace up your sneakers and get ready to witness greatness.
Support Runner Cost:
Adults (13 years and older): $20
Youth (12 years and younger): and $15
All fees support our Girls on the Run program.
Sioux Falls 5K – Saturday, November 2nd
Yankton Trail Park at 10:00 AM
Register as a Support Runner HERE
Register as a Volunteer and receive a free t-shirt HERE
Rapid City 5K – Saturday, November 9th
Founders Park at 10:00 AM
Register as a Support Runner HERE
Register as a Volunteer and receive a free t-shirt HERE
Race information is sent out one week before the race.
Scholarship opportunities are available. EmBe is committed to being accessible to all regardless of ability to pay. On the online participant registration, you can find an income-based sliding fee scale built in. If you need additional assistance, contact Jasmina Miller at jnmiller@embe.org.
National Sponsors
Girls on the Run International is proud to partner with adidas, Gamma Phi Beta, Rite Aid Healthy Futures, and BAND as we work to deliver life-changing programs to more than 120,000 girls each year. These companies are vital to advancing our mission and provide financial, in-kind and volunteer support while leveraging their brand’s assets to raise awareness about the program across North America.
5k Sponsors
Girls on the Run International is proud to partner with adidas, Gamma Phi Beta, BAND, Rite Aid Healthy Futures, Fleet Feet, and 26.2 Team Milk as we work to deliver life-changing programs to more than 120,000 girls each year. These companies are vital to advancing our mission and provide financial, in-kind and volunteer support while leveraging their brand’s assets to raise awareness about the program across North America.
