Marc Mares

A Coast Guard officer and middle school/high school distance running coach, Marc Mares believes fitness can do more than just improve health. It can serve as the backbone to strengthen adolescent communities.

For the past year Marc has been running a fitness group in Oakland, CA for adolescents of all athletic abilities. This year Marc will create and test a plan to scale his wildly successful model to adolescent communities across the country. Marc believes that even with very limited resources these communities can move forward and unite around the values of hard work, courage, and humility.