February 1 - 28, 2025

Calling all Jesuit faculty and staff – mark your calendars for February 1, 2025, the start of the 13th annual Go Move Challenge in which AJCU institutions compete to determine which is the most active!

Challenge Details

Help your university win by recording your moderate to vigorous physical activity minutes on the GoMoveChallenge.org website throughout the month. The more you are physically active, the better the chance your university has of winning any of these titles:

  1. The university with the most minutes.
  2. The university with the highest average number of minutes per participant.
  3. New this year: Shout outs to participating universities with the highest average minutes per participant, categorized by employee size: large, medium, or small.

While the challenge emphasizes the importance of physical wellness, it also reminds us to connect with our colleagues, our university, and the entire AJCU as we work towards a common goal. Please share your team building pictures and stories throughout the month on the challenge’s Facebook and Instagram pages with the hashtag #GoMoveChallenge.

Participating AJCU Institutions

Thank you to all  Jesuit institutions who have signed up to play in 2025! If your university would still like to participate, please contact Suzy Kisylia, the challenge administrator and Senior Health and Wellness Manager for the University of San Francisco. Previous champions.

Notes and Fun Facts:

  • Collectively, we tracked 3,677,569 minutes of movement in February 2024, over 500,000 minutes more than 2023.
  • Creighton is the first university outside of the west coast to win!
  • In 2024, the average number of minutes per person per day of those who participated in the challenge was 47 minutes. Impressive!
  • Read the final recap from the 2024 challenge

Why Participate in the Challenge?

  • Fun! So fun to have the healthy competition among the Jesuit Schools! - Creighton University
  • The challenge creates camaraderie amongst our faculty and staff and helps motivate people to move more - Fairfield University
  • Serves as a way to get employees from all areas of the university connected. It provides motivation for the cold month of February to get moving - St. Peters University
  • The challenge creates some joie de vivre against a gray wintry backdrop - Seattle University
  • The activities during the month are extra fun - Le Moyne College
  • The challenge was fun and engaging. It helped promote fitness and gave an extra bit of motivation throughout the month - University of Detroit Mercy
  • It creates a community between the Jesuit Universities and a great way to engage our faculty and staff - Saint Louis University
  • Gets people moving in the Northeast in February - Fordham University
  • Easy to log time and activities and it's fun to challenge colleagues and create teams - John Carroll University