Schulyer and Amy are both longtime GOTR supporters. They have given us their time as volunteers, use their influence to increase awareness of our program, and kept in touch throughout the hardships of the pandemic. Amy owns a fitness studio here in Philadelphia, near our council’s office, and Schuy is one of her staff members. They approached our council in December 2020 with an idea for a fundraiser that they were willing to help plan and execute. Schuy had a friend who owns a yoga studio in Los Angeles and suggested that we use the connection to develop a fundraising event in partnership with the two fitness studios and GOTR Los Angeles. With their help, and the help of our peers in LA, we planned the very first Coast to Coast Relay! Our two councils agreed to a friendly competition in which we’d recruit team members to log the most miles and raise the most money in the month of February 2021. The goal was that each team would cumulatively log 2,697 miles – the distance between Philadelphia and Los Angeles – through any physical activity.