Texans and TCH award PLAY 60 grants

HOUSTON – The Houston Texans and Texas Children’s Hospital were proud to award $50,000 in PLAY 60 grants to six local schools at the Sunday, October 2 Kids Day game. All schools were honored in an on-field check presentation with Jamey Rootes, president of the Texans, and Mark Mullarkey, executive vice president of Texas Children’s Hospital. PLAY 60 is the National Football League's campaign to encourage kids to be active for 60 minutes a day in order to help reverse the trend of childhood obesity. Nearly 80 local schools applied for the grants, which are worth up to $10,000, to help purchase the equipment they need to get kids moving throughout the school day and in after-school programs. Five of the schools selected for grants are Title I and all have demonstrated a commitment to getting kids active and on the path to developing healthy habits that will last a lifetime. In the four years of the program, the Texans have awarded $170,000 in PLAY 60 grants to local schools for PLAY 60 projects.

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