Team Marist Champagnat Day Run 2022

Thank you to everyone who took part in this year’s 2022 Team Marist walk/run. 779 participants took part across the five South African Marist Schools, with 171 participants from St David’s. International participants (including St David’s Old Boys and Past Staff) took part from Framlingham, UK; Knoxville Tennessee, USA; London, UK; Madrid, Spain; Perth, Australia; Trou Aux Biches, Mauritius; Walton on Thames, UK; and New York, USA. All participants have been sent their 2022 Team Marist participation virtual medals.

This year’s Team Marist Champagnat Day 2022 ‘virtual’ Run, uniting all five of the South African Marist Schools – St David’s Marist Inanda, Sacred Heart College and Marist Brothers Linmeyer in Johannesburg, St Henry’s Marist College in Durban, and St Joseph’s Marist College in Cape Town – took place from Monday 6 June (Champagnat Day) to Monday 4 July. It was great to have our St David’s community, and all members of our Marist schools’ communities, take part – pupils, parents, staff, alumni – both in South Africa and around the world.

The participation distance was 4km - this was the distance that St Marcellin Champagnat, Founder of the Marist Brothers teaching order, walked each day between The Hermitage and La Valla-en-Gier (where his first school was situated). One-fifth of each school’s funds raised will go to either Marist Mercy Care (in the Eastern Cape) or to the Three2Six Programme at Sacred Heart College.

Team Marist will return in 2023, and this time will include further Marist schools around the world, through the Champagnat Global/Agora initiative: https://www.champagnat.global/