Stroller Warriors®, Friends, and Fans:
 
I am extremely excited to say that we have made it through another year.  2020 was challenging for the Stroller Warriors community— the COVID Pandemic rocked the world and drastically reduced the capabilities of each chapter.  However, in true Stroller Warrior fashion, running and gathering as a community continued in several dynamic formats— hosting virtual meetups via Facebook Live or Zoom, setting goals through online challenges, communicating and posting running pictures on chapter social media outlets, continually hosting virtual C25K sessions, getting creative with ROM workouts, etc. Stroller Warriors shined with brilliance during trying times.
 
I am always proud of our Coordinators and Chapters.  I am in awe and motivated by their resilient and optimistic demeanor, which transfers to all our members.  Thank you for being a beacon of light for so many within the Stroller Warriors community.

​Here I have for you a showcase of the incredible accomplishments from the Stroller Warriors community during 2020.  The Stroller Warriors HQ leadership would like to extend our utmost gratitude to our vendors and supporters within our community— your continued support helped the Stroller Warriors community thrive! 
 
Without further ado, I present to you SW by the numbers 2020!
 
2 B210K Sessions
8 Gift of BOBs
9 Chapters participated in Team Relay Races
12 Chapters participated in the Stroller Loaner Program
19 B210K graduates
39 C2C finishers
46 sessions of C25K
65 meal trains provided
75 Coordinators
89 Special events Coordinated by Stroller Warriors Chapters
137 hours of manpower donated
162 donations to warriors
181 mini miles finishers
193 C25K graduates
216 Volunteers (not including Coordinators)
273 Mileage Incentive Program participants
735 active members who regularly attend workouts.
1,576 Items donated to various charities
3,194 miles ran by mini warriors
$11,761 donated to various charities.
161,400 miles ran together as a team
 
Unmeasurable: The positive impact of Stroller Warriors, not just on its members, but also positive ripple effect the Stroller Warriors mission imparts on each family, our military members, and the surrounding community!

ABOVE:  SW Lackland collected food, clothing, diapers, and personal hygiene items for two local organizations- St. Stephen’s Care Center and The Texas Diaper Bank.  

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​Stroller Warriors took part in dedication runs and workouts for the following causes:
 
Run for Steph
Dedication Run for the Tidwell Family
Operation Gratitude
Memorial Day Virtual Run
Children of the Fallen Patriots
Hope for the Warriors
Purple up for Military Children
#RunwithMaud
Wear Blue: Run to remember
Black Lives Matter Workout
Cure SMA
Essential Workers
Miles of Smiles
 
 
A HUGE Thank you to these vendors, businesses and organizations. They have provided excellent support and partnership with our Stroller Warrior Chapters:
 
BOCO
Coastal Carolina
Sabrina's Unique Boutique
Friends of Sarah’s House
Want Different Do Different
Leave No Paws Behind USA
Keesler Airman & Family Readiness Center
Keesler SAPR
Keesler USO
The Treadmill
Katie's Coldpress Juice
Inside Trail
Lululemon
Coast to Coast Sugar Cookies
Operations Homefront
Shimazu-san - Okinawan Glass Medal maker
UltraGraphic
Stafford Media
Ramstein USO
Headsweat
Hodges Badges
VA Fisher House
City Of Saginaw, TX
 
I want to close out this chapter of SW by the Numbers by sharing some of the messages from our Coordinators.
 
“We've all had an exceptionally challenging year, what with COVID and the restrictions placed upon our chapter. However, our Warriors have persevered!” -SW Miramar
 
“This year was hard! Looking at it by the numbers, it doesn't feel like we did much. And actively, as a chapter, we really didn't. By the summer everyone was burnt out with virtual workouts. But we did all support each other as friends through texts, calls, FB messages! And Stroller Warriors is what brought us all together, and for that we were all so thankful for!” -SW Oak Harbor
 
“We Survived 2020!” -SW Pensacola
 
“It was a difficult year for all! I am proud of the SW here who kept showing up even virtually.” SW Lakenheath
 
“Our chapter stayed busy despite COVID. We came up with monthly challenges, craft times (aka no run fun day), and chapter check ins to keep our chapter engaged with one another virtually. “ -SW Fort Meade
 
Thank you Stroller Warriors, Friends, and Fans for enduring with us through a challenging year. We look forward to the future and seeing what other good we can do in the world. Not just for us, not just for the military, but for our entire community and the world.
 
Happy Running!
Kelly 

Our Fearless Founder, Stephanie Geraghty, started a yearly tradition of looking back at the numbers our Fearless Leaders (also known as Chapter Coordinators) have been keeping track of all year. This is a way for us to try to quantify the work of our world-wide team. It is hard to capture the awesomeness our leaders are doing on the chapter level, but I’m certainly going to try! 

So, without further ado, I present to you SW by the numbers for 2019! 


184,325 Total miles ran by our team through the Runopoly Mileage Incentive Campaign!

• 18,155 Dollars raised for charities around the world
• 6,699 Items donated to charities around the world 
• 1,574 Members actively attending workouts 
• 811 Hours of time donated 
• 416 Toys donated to Toys for Tots
• 379 Runopoly participants 
• 370 Mini Miles participants
• 356 Couch 2 5K Gradates 
• 243 Leadership (not including coordinators ) at year end
• 102 Meal trains provided
• 102 Coordinators 
• 78  Couch 2 Crazy Graduates 
• 76 Races or streaking/bingo events hosted by our chapters 
• 51 Couch to 5K Sessions  
• 43 B210K Graduates
• 35 Causes for dedication runs 
• 30 Chapters gave back to their fellow Stroller Warriors; prizes, race entries, gift of Garmin, gift of BOB, etc.
• 19 Relay Races ran as a team
• 12 Gifts of BOB
• 10 Chapters have stroller loaner programs where they lend strollers to those PCSing or in need  of a stroller to participate in a workout. 
• 8 Global staff members
• 6 B210K Sessions
• 5 Awards given to chapters 
• 1 New chapter founded in 2019

As you can tell, Stroller Warriors around the world have been working hard to make our world a better place. As I looked over the numbers, a few special efforts by our teammates jumped out at me and I wanted to take a minute to highlight them. 

When the government had a partial shut-down and families were without paychecks, the Stroller Warriors of Pearl Harbor donated 400 items of assorted food and household goods to the Coast Guard Spouse Association. They worked together to support a need they saw in their community. 

The Stroller Warriors of Yorktown saw a very different need in their community — SW members collaborated with Operation Deploy Your Dress and collected formal dresses and jewelry items. Together they rallied and donated 42 dresses! We are sure that many military spouses felt beautiful and special as a result of their kind donations to Operation Deploy Your Dress. 

Seventeen chapters joined in on the global event supporting the Toys for Tots. Together Stroller Warriors from around the world  donated 416 toys to Toys for Tots.  Thank you Stroller Warriors from Iwakuni, Okinawa, Parris Island, Scott, Lackland, Fort Benning, Hurlburt Field, Oak Harbor, Cherry Point, Quantico, Fort Belvoir, Keesler, Elsewhere, Yorktown, Virginia, 29 Palms and Camp Pendleton for brightening Christmas Day for so many children.

The USO, United Services Organization, has long been supportive of military families. At bases and airports around the world there are USOs in place to strengthen America's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country. Stroller Warriors are routinely active with their local USO branch. The Stroller Warriors of Pearl Harbor donated 428 items of assorted individually packed food items donated for USO JBPHH. The Stroller Warriors from Pensacola donated 25 pounds of food to their local USO. The Stroller Warriors of Keesler donated 198 snack items donated to USO. The Stroller Warriors of Quantico donated $210 in gas gift cards to the Metro USO. The Stroller Warriors of Oak Harbor donated 10lbs of snacks to the USO. Stroller Warriors Hurlburt Field donated 65 items to the USO, and the Stroller Warriors of Yokosuka volunteered man hours at two different USOs. Stroller Warriors around the world are working hard to make the world a better place!

Below you will find a list of organizations to which Stroller Warriors donated — either through donated items, man hours or direct monetary contribution . These organizations are presented in no particular order. Every single one touched our hearts in a special way. We are honored to help these groups  achieve their mission just as they help us achieve ours.

In 2019 we were proud to support these incredible charities through donations of funds, supplies and time:

• A-T Children’s Project
• Boot Memorial Hero
• Cure SMA
• HelpOki
• Hope for the Warriors
• Iverson Foundation for Active Awareness
• KaBoom!
• LBSL
• Make a Wish
• MUSC Toy Cart
• Pierce Family Road to Recovery
• Semper Fi Fund
• Toys for Tots
• USO
• Wreaths Across America

As a running club, WE RUN! Running is proven to release endorphins and to relieve stress. But running is so much more; you can run for a cause and help great organizations. You can educate and inform others and bring these causes into the limelight. Together, as a team, we ran in honor of the following causes: 

We ran in honor of these causes:

• "Purple Up!" Month of the Military Child
• 4th July Red, White and Blue Run
• 9/11 Remembrance
• A-T Children’s Project
• Breast Cancer
• Breast Cancer Awareness
• Childhood Cancer Awareness 
• Cure SMA/Bravery for Cole Dedication Run
• Dedicated workout for the victims of the Virginia Beach shooting
• Esophageal Cancer Awareness
• Flag Day
• Hope for the Warriors
• KaBoom! Dedication Run
• LBSL/Madison Voight
• Lung Health Dedication Run 
• Memorial Day MURPH 
• Memorial Day Wear Blue to honor the fallen and veterans
• Mental Health Awareness Month Dedication Run 
• Mental Health Awareness Run
• Military Kid Dedication Run
• Military Spouse Appreciation
• Plogging workouts
• Run for Cole Dedication Run, September 13, 2019
• Run for Stephanie
• Team Ashlynn Dedication Run
• Toys for Tots Dedication Run
• USMC 244th Birthday
• USO Dedication Run
• Wear Blue 9/11 Run 
• Wear Blue: Run to Remember
• Wear Purple for Epilepsy Awareness
• Workouts to Everett
• World Down Syndrome Day

We ran in the following Relay Races/Events as a TEAM: 

• Big Sur Marathon Relay
• Hilton Head Island Marathon Relay
• Hoku Relay
• Honolulu Ekiden
• Iwakuni Friendship Relay
• Ragnar Chase the Moon 
• Ragnar DC Sunset
• Ragnar So CAL Trail Relay
• Ragnar Sunset 
• Ragnar Triple Peak Challenge
• Ragnar Wattenmeer
• Round the Bay Relay 
• SW 31 mile Relay for the Semper Fi Fund
• Trail, Tread, and Track Relay race
• Viking Challenge (24 hour Relay for Fisher House)
• Wolfson Children's Challenge 55K Relay
  
• Yokohama North Dock Relay

We could not do all of the things we do for our community and for the world without the support of others. We want to extend a big THANK YOU to these organizations, businesses, and individuals for their support:

• 56 Civil Engineering Squadron
• Army MWR
• Biloxi Visitor's Center
• BOCO
• Chick Fil A, Hanover Maryland
• Coast to Coast Sugar Cookies
  
• Coastal Carolina Designs - Especially Toni!
• Face First
• Fisher House
• Fleet Feet Monterey
• Fleet Feet San Diego
• Fort Belvoir MWR - Graves Fitness Center
• Girls on the Run - Bexar County
  
• Glass House in the Forest - Glass Medal Maker - Mr. Shimazu
• Grounded Running 
• Gulf Coast Half Marathon
• Hawaii Running Lab
• J&A Racing 
• Katie's Coldpress Juice
• Keesler Airman & Family Readiness Center
• Keesler Youth Center
• Kroc Center
• Lachmanns
• Little Herb Girl, Inc.
• Lululemon Monterey
• MCAS Beaufort MCFTB
• Meg Barge Photography
• Oahu Spine and Rehab 
• Peggy McLenagan of Wake Village Community Center (Atlantic MCC)
• Pensacola Sports
• Ramblas Run
• Revival Ice Cream 
• Run With It (Fort Walton Beach)
• Screenprint Designs, LLC 
• Seaside School
• Semper Fi Fund
• The Back Porch
• The Mermaid Series
• The RAF Mildenhall Gym 
• The Treadmill
• UltraGraphic - Local Screen print company in Okinawa, Japan
  
• USO
  
• USO of South Carolina

***With so many chapters and events going on year-round worldwide, it's quite possible we may have missed a name or two. We apologize in advance, and please feel free to comment and add to our list as needed!***

We have a few more important thank yous to extend...

Our service members: We are able to be as awesome as we are because of the support of our spouses! They build us up, help us to believe in ourselves, and allow us to invest in each other. Their support enables us to make our families stronger, teach our kids about fitness and friendship, and make the world a better place!

Our military installation personnel/leadership: We commend our military installations for embracing our presence and building and maintaining trails and play equipment. We are extremely grateful for local and affordable opportunities to compete in the base-sponsored races. We also love seeing the addition of stroller divisions! We hope our relationship with these military installations continues to grow and deepen for years to come.

Our Fearless Leaders and Volunteer Staff: You are the heart of this organization. You give more hours than our members will ever know and you do it with joy. Your role is not without challenges and sometimes even tears. You weather the ups and downs with strength and grace. You dream big and keep working to make our SW villages even better, even stronger. Keep being fearless. THIS IS WHY.

Our Headquarters Team and Global Staff: These women are the unsung heroes behind the scenes who literally run the club on a global scale.  HQ establishes and upholds our club guidelines so we can continue to meet the mission we hold so dear. They hire and mentor coordination staff and provide ongoing guidance and support. They oversee chapter activity and provide feedback. When needed, they handle the hard stuff and they do so with professionalism and kindness. They often balance their HQ duties with roles at their respective chapters. They receive very little reward or recognition aside from the personal satisfaction of knowing they're making a positive difference in the world. Oh, and they also make sure they have fun doing it! 

2019 was an exciting year for sure for the Stroller Warriors team! Thanks so much for taking the time to recap 2019 with us!

Happy Running! 
Kelly

by: Kelly

I feel like I should start off this blog with an apology. I’m sorry for getting this to you so late! Stroller Warriors Coordinators around the world keep track of how awesome their club is and send all of this data in to us at SWHQ. One of my jobs is to compile all of this data into a wonderful snapshot for you all to see just how INCREDIBLE our worldwide team is!
 
This year, my family PCSd to Okinawa, Japan and in the midst of the packers and chaos of an overseas move, the data for SW by the Numbers got put down and didn’t get picked back up until now.

However, that doesn’t change how amazing our club is, nor does it negate any of the positive work we do around the world. My motto has always been, that it is better late than never! Whenever we compile these lists, we are always surprised by the sheer magnitude of the story that the numbers tell. It is absolutely inspiring! So here we are without further ado, we excitedly present to you:  
 
Stroller Warriors Running Club by the numbers for 2018!
5 Chapters held a Gift of Garmin
9 Sessions of Bridge to 10K (B210K) with a total of 50 graduates
9 Gift of BOB
9 Chapters have Stroller Loaner Programs
11 Chapters participated in Wreaths Across America
13 Bags of trash picked up through plogging Events
14 Chapters participated in team Relays with their chapter including: Ragnar Relays, Round the Bay Relay, Wolfson Children’s Hospital Relay, Big Sur Marathon Relay, Iwakuni City Friendship Relay, Yokohmam North Dock Relay, Ekiden Relay, Trail Treads and Track Relay, Little Apple Marathon Relay, and the Viking Challenge Relay
25 Sessions of Couch to 5K (C25K) with a total of 202 graduates
25 Chapters gave back to their fellow Stroller Warriors
37 Race donations gifted
46 Active Chapters
81 Man hours laying wreaths at Wreaths Across America events
107 Meal trains provided
110 Coordinators (aka “Fearless Leaders”)
121 Warriors who went Couch 2 Crazy by completing a 5K, then a 10K, then a half marathon (13.1 miles) in one calendar year!
299 Volunteers
312 Cookies baked for the RAF Mildenhall Cookie Drive
357 Toys donated to Toys for Tots
362 Participants in our Mini Miles Program
375 Pairs of shoes donated (Soles 4 Souls, Jenkins Donelson Foundation and Valoha)
400 Items donated to the fire fighters charity
422 Wreaths were donated to Wreaths Across America
455 Participants in our mileage incentive program - Runopoly
1,132 Volunteer hours at various charity events
2,548.5 Miles ran by our Mini Warriors
10,182 Likes on our global page
10,418 Items donated to charitable organizations around the world
27, 289.35 Dollars raised for various charities
211,625 Miles ran as a team for Runopoly
 
Priceless: The positive impact of Stroller Warriors, not just on its members but on the surrounding community too!
 
I want to take a minute to highlight just a few of the things Stroller Warriors has done for our world. 375 pairs of shoes were donated through the Stroller Warriors! As runners, we know the importance of a good pair of shoes. The wrong pair of shoes will stop forward progress. You wouldn’t want to put one foot in front of the other if it resulted in pain and blisters. Having the right pair of shoes that are the right size can make a world of a difference in someone’s life! And we are so proud of our chapters for making a difference.

Many of our chapters supported Wreaths Across America, both in Volunteer hours and in purchasing of wreaths. Wreaths Across America says this about their mission, “In many homes there is an empty seat for one who is serving or who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. We show our veterans and families that we will not forget. We will never forget.” I think this message of always being looked after, never forgotten has touched the heart of many Warriors in our military community. Eleven of our chapters participated in Wreaths Across America events. As a team we raised $6,582 dollars for Wreaths Across America, which enabled the purchase of 422 wreaths. To accomplish the task of laying the wreaths, we provided a minimum of 81 volunteer hours. I am so proud of our team and of their dedication to remembering all of our veterans!

The Stroller Warriors of Fort Worth came up with a unique idea to support their local community. They decided to adopt a spot and signed up for the long term cleaning and care of a local playground that they and their children use. Periodically the chapter holds extra events there and members come out to clean up the playground and make it beautiful again. We are so proud of our team for not only taking the time to clean up our world, but also for picking a long term project that doesn’t end in one day; it’s an on going and continued commitment they have made. WELL DONE STROLLER WARRIORS!!

Stroller Warriors around the world regularly host Dedication Runs. They run in honor of those who can’t and they help to raise money or awareness for certain causes or organizations. This year numerous dedication runs were held and we’d like to highlight those causes now.
 
Dedication Runs/Workouts hosted by the Stroller Warriors:
 
A-T Children’s Project
Autism Awareness
Breast Cancer Awareness
Charity Miles to USO
Dedication Run for Carter Staley
Dedication Run for those lost in the KC130 crash and FA18 Collision
Depression Awareness
Fisher House
Geraghty Gallop
Global Running Day
Green Beret Foundation
Meg’s Miles Dedication Run
Memorial Day Run
Miles for Mollie
Miles for Peyton
Month of the Military Child
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Run
Remember the Fallen
Run for Steph (Suicide Awareness)
Semper Fi Fund
TACP 24 Hour Memorial Run
The Murph Challenge
Toys for Tots
Wear Blue: Run to Remember

The Month of the Military Child is always a cause near and dear to our hearts. We are so proud of our mini warriors!

The Semper Fi Fund provides direct financial assistance and vital programming for combat wounded, critically ill and catastrophically injured service members and their families. We are so proud of many of our chapters joining together to support such an important cause to our military community.

Numerous SW chapters participated in Toys for Tots, collecting a whopping 357 brand new toys for the toys for tots program! Great job Stroller Warriors!

A HUGE THANK YOU to these vendors, businesses and organizations. They have provided excellent support and partnership with our Stroller Warriors Chapters:

ASYMCA of Hawaii
Beach and Bay YMCA
Bishop Events
Blue Star Families
Coastal Carolina Designs
First Command Financial Services
Fitapnia  and Josh Anderson
Fort Riley Spouses Club
Grounded Running
Hawaii Running Lab
Hodges Badges
Honolulu Marathon
Manhattan Running Company
Mike Ryan, Certified Athletic Trainer & Registered Physical Therapist
Oahu Spine & Rehab
Paradise Screening Printing
Pensacola Sports
Point 2 Running Company
Red 7 Tees
Road Runner Sports, Falls Church
Run with It
Samantha Lee Photography
Seaside School
Whitside Gym Staff
Women’s National Half and 8K
 
As you can see by this snapshot of numbers, Stroller Warriors Chapters around the world are making a positive difference in the lives of others. We are always excited to share these numbers because it helps to break it down for our members just how MUCH they impact the world!
 
The “priceless” list item at the end recognizes the positive impact and the immense reach of the unique combination of activities that Stroller Warriors offers. It includes the countless workouts, races, relays, book club gatherings, Exceptional Warrior dinners, Warrior Night Out events, play-dates, Prayer Warrior meetings, deployment support groups, Swap Shops, PCS mentoring, and general advice and recommendations about anything and everything. If you could see the amount of support and encouragement our members give and receive on a daily basis, your heart would be warmed just like ours is!
 
WELL DONE STROLLER WARRIORS! WELL DONE!!