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Show Valley View Is 1976 Physical Fitness Champ Valley View Elementary School of Pleasant Grove is (.lie 1976 State Champion Physical Fitness Award winner, win-ner, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS) announced today. The State Champion Award goes to the school in each state which has the highest percentage of students studen-ts qualifying for the Presidential Physical Fitness Award. The PCPFS recognizes these schools as All-Americans in Physical Fitness. The State Champion Award school receives a certificate of commendation and a plaque for display in its trophy case. Each Presidentail Award winner in the school is presented a T-shirt with the State Champion Award emblem em-blem on the front. By recognizing achievement, the award program is designed to encourage physical fitness testing in the schools. More than 12 million boys and girls, ages 10-17, attempted attem-pted to win the Presidential Physical Fitness Award during the 1975-76 school year, and over 450,000 of them succeeded. The winners scored at or above the 85th percentile on each of the six items of the National Youth Fitness test. (National norms are established by testing a representative sample of 10,000 boys and girls.f To win the Presidential Award, a 14-year-old boy must, among other things, do 9 pullups, sprint 50 yards in 6.5 seconds, and run 600 yards yar-ds in one minute, 47 seconds. Girls' standards are comparable com-parable to those for boys through age 12, but they diverge sharply thereafter. |