Peer Power Big River Crossing Race
8:30 am - Half Marathon & 10K
8:45 am - 5K & Family Fun Walk
On November 2, 2024, the Peer Power Foundation will present the 8th Annual Peer Power Big River Crossing Race. Sign up for the Half-Marathon or 10K, and you'll make the interstate trek across the Mississippi River’s longest public pedestrian bridge. Also, join us for the 5K or Family Fun Walk for a fun 1-mile course along the river in Tom Lee Park.
All the Benefits
Your entry fee is more than a fee — it contributes to Peer Power Foundation’s largest fundraiser of the year. The Peer Power Foundation is a first-of-its-kind partnership with the University of Memphis and Memphis Shelby County Schools to recruit, train, and employ high-performing college scholars to tutor and mentor public high school students within the classroom. And it works well. In addition, you gain these great benefits:
- Medals for all participants
- Incredible views of Downtown Memphis and the Arkansas floodplains
- Dry tech, long-sleeve race shirt for all runners
- A newly, fully paved half-marathon course on the Arkansas side of the race
All photos provided by ©Blair Ball Photography.
Peer Power Foundation
These races fund Peer Power’s mission to empower and inspire scholars through their innovative student-to-student tutoring program.
Peer Power's transformative work provides tutoring and mentoring assistance directly in the classroom that increases graduation rates, public safety, and youth employability. Since 2004, Peer Power has been setting the stage for success and providing inner city youth opportunities to excel. Additionally, Peer Power’s ACT Prep University improves ACT scores by an average of 3.2 points, which then elevates college scholarship opportunities for local Shelby County Schools students. Each year, this improvement helps students collectively earn close to $1,000,000 in Tennessee HOPE scholarships.
Peer Power hires Success Coaches – or high performing University of Memphis students – as tutors and mentors, who receive college credit, gain real world experience and are paid for their work. Our Success Coaches have an 84% college graduation rate and 1 in 7 go on to become educators after they graduate. So while Peer Power is positively impacting the lives of high school students in 12 Shelby County Schools so far, we’re also building the pool of future educators for Memphis.
PEER POWER FAST FACTS:
- Surpassed 1,400,000 hours of tutoring and mentoring since founding
- Serves over 10,000 students at 12 high schools every day
- Expanding by two high schools each year
- Success Coaches have higher graduation rate than the U of M honors college
- 100+ Success Coaches have begun careers in education as teachers, guidance counselors, or administrators
- Second-largest employer of University of Memphis students, only behind the University itself
- ACT Prep University students see an average increase of 3.1 points on the ACT
- ACT Prep University students qualified for more than $6 million in TN Hope scholarships each year
SEE IT FOR YOURSELF
Shirts & Medals
Top donors
| No. | Name | Amount |
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| 1 | Coleman Connell | $1,065.85 |
| 2 | Michelle and Todd Brown | $1,000.00 |
| 3 | Thomas Nenon | $534.20 |
Top teams
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Team CharlieRaised:$4,763.80 |
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#GTGRaised:$1,168.88 |
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Idlewild Presbyterian ChurchRaised:$763.70 |
Top fundraisers
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View fundraiser page for Rudolph
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Rudolph Gray$2,428.03 Raised$5,000.00 Goal |
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View fundraiser page for Danielle
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Danielle Nelson$2,302.08 Raised$2,000.00 Goal |
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View fundraiser page for Jalen
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Jalen Washington$2,051.80 Raised$7,000.00 Goal |
Contact information
- Event contact
- Start 2 Finish Event Management
- s2finfo@s2fevents.com
- Phone
- 901-274-2202
Registration fees
Prices are inclusive of mandatory charges, items, and fees
Half Marathon Closed
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Purchase a Shirt ONLY Closed
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