Nebraska PE Coach Seeks Support for More Physical Activity in Schools

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Bekcy Hamik, a P.E. Coach from Hastings, Nebraska is looking for ways to bring more physical activity opportunities to her students.

She says that the Promoting Health for Youth Skills in Classrooms and Life (PHYSICAL) Act would bring more funding to PE programs and make PE part of a student’s core academic requirements.

Hamik, who has been teaching P.E. for 30 years, will soon be headed to Washington to raise awareness about the need for more physical activity programs in schools.

She says she would like to see P.E. offered on a daily basis to students, but if she can’t make that happen, she would still like to see kids moving more throughout the school day.

“Our goal is to have kids be successful at physical activity so that they want to make it a lifelong activity for themselves,” she said in an interview with KHGI-TV.

Although Hastings had a relatively small Hispanic population (9.8%) in 2010, the percent of Latinos here has nearly doubled since 2000.

Find out more about what Becky Hamik is doing to get more P.E. for her students from this KHGI-TV news report.