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At Springville Junior High School, a new thing is happening in the P.E. classes. Mr. Michael Parker, boys’ P.E. teacher at SJHS, came up with the idea at a disk (frisbee) golf tournament and decide to try it out at SJHS. His classes are participating in a tournament where the best disk players go against each other to find out who is the best. Mr. Parker got three green suit jackets and whoever wins gets to wear the jackets and be king for a day. He hopes that it makes the boys and girls compete harder in class. He did it once with an old Springville High School jacket when the boys played badminton. According to Mr. Parker, the kids loved it, and everyone played harder to get the jacket.
Mr. Parker hopes that it will teach them more about golf. Mr. Parker said, “The real golf masters get about six million dollars, but since I don’t have that much, I thought that jackets would work instead.” He thinks it will catch on. This is his first year trying it with disk golf, because this is the first year that disk golf is at the SJHS.
Some of the students do really well and try to win the jackets in P.E. Skyler Spencer, a ninth grader at SJHS, said, “The green jackets are fun and give us something to work at in P.E.” Aaron Myers, another ninth grader at SJHS, said, “The green jackets are real spiffy and I wanted to win one when we played disk golf. I think that other kids played harder for them too.”