Project Description

Join the SWFL Spartans Team and walk in the Lee County 2026 American Heart Association Heart 5k Walk

• Save Lives - help fund lifesaving science. Science that can create an artificial heart valve. Prevent a stroke. Put scientific advances into doctors’ hands. Correct heart defects in newborn babies. And someday, find a cure for high blood pressure. Science that can teach us all how to live longer and healthier.
• Be Healthy For Good - learn how to live healthier with proven, science-based tips and information on how to eat smart, add color, move more and be well. And you get to be a trailblazer in our Healthy For Good movement.
• One Million Strong - join more than a million Heart Walk Heroes in more than 300 locations across the country, funding the kind of breakthrough science that saves lives every day. Who wouldn’t want to be part of that?

• Up-to-the-minute research into doctors’ hands so they can better prevent and treat heart disease among patients.
• Groundbreaking pediatric heart and stroke research that is key to saving babies’ lives. Providing life-saving information that can save a life – like how to eat better, how to recognize the warning signs of heart attack, and how to talk to a doctor about critical health choices.

Community Partner - American Heart Association

American Heart Association Accommodations

• Additional registration or documentation required: https://www2.heart.org/site/TR/HeartWalk/GSA-GreaterSoutheastAffiliate?pg=team&team_id=999899&fr_id=13258
  Team Name: SWFL Spartans Coach: Kevin Snyder

About American Heart Association

Did you know that cardiovascular disease occurs every 39 seconds and is the No. 1 killer of all Americans? Heart disease also kills more women than all forms of cancer combined. And congenital cardiovascular defects are the most common cause of infant death from birth defects. When you join Heart Walk, you join more than a million people in 300+ cities across America in taking a stand against heart disease and helping save lives!

Website: https://www2.heart.org/site/TR/?fr_id=13258&pg=entry