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Participants can pick their own course, run the 5K or 10K options, or choose not to run at all. Since 2007, this UAB National Alumni Society race has raised more than $930,000 for UAB student scholarships.Run, walk or just join in the fun for the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s National Alumni Society Scholarship Run, presented by VIVA HEALTH, from April 22-24.
Since 2007, the UAB National Alumni Society has hosted its annual Scholarship Run each spring. The annual run — for alumni, friends and the public — is an opportunity to further student success and enhance students’ college experience. So far, the run has raised $930,000 to help support student scholarships.
Participants can blaze their way and run anywhere they want — it is your course, so it is up to you. The NAS will still have options for a 5K and 10K, along with a non-running option. The course can be flat, fast, brutal with hills, completed on a treadmill or not at all.
Early-bird registration is $30 until March 11; $35 March 12-April 21; $40 April 22-24. Register online. Complete the distance you registered for and log your time through the RunSignUp website. Each participant will get a race T-shirt and a finisher medal. The last day to secure your race T-shirt size is April 8. Visit alumni.uab.edu for more information.
The UAB NAS Scholarship Run is presented by VIVA HEALTH; additional sponsors are Liberty Mutual Insurance, UAB Collat School of Business and Heersink School of Medicine, along with TherapySouth, Quality Correctional Health Care, Mary and Trey Cummings, D’Ann and Bill Somerall, Medical Properties Trust, Alabama Power, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, and the UAB Honors College, School of Engineering, School of Health Professions and School of Nursing.