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Former Warhawk athlete plans to race against childhood cancer

BELOIT — Beloit physical-education teacher Bridget (Georgeff) Witt, a former award-winning basketball player at Beloit Catholic High School and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, began competing for the first time this spring and summer in marathon-style races called duathlons.

Most duathlons consist of a two-mile run, 20-mile bike and another two-mile run.

Next year, she plans to join the CORE team for Racers Against Childhood Cancer and personally raise at least $1,000 for the Waukesha-based charity.

“We run for the kids who can’t,” Witt said of RACC. “If I’m going to do this racing, it shouldn’t be about me, but about helping out these kids.”

The 82-member CORE team has raised more than $60,000 in three years.

Competition is nothing new to Witt. The 1995 Beloit Catholic graduate was a three-time all-conference basketball player for the Crusaders and an All-Area Player of the Year as a senior. She also played volleyball, softball and soccer at BCH. She played one year of college basketball at UW-Parkside and three years at UW-Whitewater where she was a conference all-academic player and the Warhawks’ Sportswoman of the Year.

Children’s health is important to Witt, a physical-education teacher for seven years at Wright and Merrill elementary schools in Beloit. Childhood cancer hasn’t affected her family directly, but she’s seen how it affects others.

Read the full story in the Nov. 14, 2010 e-edition of The Sunday Stateline News, HERE.