Episcopal School of Knoxville participates in Covenant Kid’s Run

  • Junior kindergarten 3 class from left, Madelyn Pollard, Blair Strutner, Cai Compton, Bowman Miller, Auggie Martin, Shane Lee, Reed Sterchi, Henry McElrath, Joshua Ladd, Fleur Jones; teachers are Anna Ottaviano, left, and Michelle Compton. - ~ Photos by Tammy Cheek and Caroline Wood

  • Sixth-grader London DeBusk - ~ Photos by Tammy Cheek and Caroline Wood

  • From left, Amelia Jarnagin, Juliet Hacker and Ginger Wolski - ~ Photos by Tammy Cheek and Caroline Wood

  • Kate Winston, left, and Zeta Aaron, 3-year-old friends - ~ Photos by Tammy Cheek and Caroline Wood

  • Fourth-grade runners, front row from left, are Abigail Franklin, Katherine Hutchens and Max Alley. Back row, from left, are Mark Medlock Mia Kennedy, Faith Franklin, Ginger Wolski, Benjamin Alexander, Charlie Carr, Rob Sills and Hudson Hill - ~ Photos by Tammy Cheek and Caroline Wood

  • Huston Balest, age 4 - ~ Photos by Tammy Cheek and Caroline Wood

  • From left, fourth-graders Mark Medlock, Jaylen Fitzgerald and Lucas Bowden - ~ Photos by Tammy Cheek and Caroline Wood

  • Ida Roberson, third grade - ~ Photos by Tammy Cheek and Caroline Wood

Episcopal School of Knoxville students, ages 3 to fourth grade, were on the move to stay fit, taking part in Covenant Health’s virtual Covenant Kid’s Run Thursday, Nov. 12, at the school, 950 Episcopal School Way along Gilbert Road.

Pansie Evans, ESK’s lower school physical education teacher, organized the school’s event in which students from each grade ran in waves, starting at 1 p.m.

“Each year we participate in the Covenant Kids Run,” Evans said. “It’s normally (held downtown) in March, but because of COVID, they had to postpone it to November (and go virtual).”

“The event normally takes place with other schools, but this year since (Covenant Health wasn’t) able to host it, Pansie reached out to the Covenant Kids director and asked if there was any way we could host it for our kids at ESK,” said Caroline Wood, ESK communications coordinator.

“We had almost 100 percent participation from all of our lower school kids,” Wood said.