This year marked the 11th offering of the “Become an ACC Exercise Star” Challenge coordinated by the ACC Employee Wellness Program to promote increased activity among our employees.
Now, here are some exciting stats from this year’s challenge to put our efforts into perspective:
🎉 This was our 10th year of Exercise Stars!
🏃♀️ 479 employees registered with participation from all 11 ACC sites
✅ 326 participants completed the challenge by reaching their goals
📈 This year’s completion rate of 68.1% is the highest achieved since 2017, reflecting a significant level of participant engagement and commitment.
💪 Together, we logged 1,011,010 minutes of movement.
⏱️ That’s 16,850 hours of physical activity.
📅 That’s 702 days of continuous movement.
🗽 That’s enough to walk from Austin to New York City and back more than 16 times, or circle the Earth at the equator just over twice.
🏊 This could be the equivalent to swimming roughly 20 million yards at a moderate pace, enough to swim the length of an Olympic pool almost 365,000 times.
🌟 Together, employees logged enough exercise time to fill nearly 17,000 standard workdays
❤️ That’s more than one million opportunities to improve health and wellbeing. Every minute of physical activity contributes to benefits such as improved heart health, reduced stress, increased energy, better sleep, and enhanced overall well-being.
The Challenge ran from January 26 through April 5, 2026…10 weeks of friendly competition between our 11 campus locations.
Awards for the Top Individual Stars and Most Active Campuses we presented at the Wellness Fest on Friday, April 24.
Overall top “stars” for the ten-week challenge were:
Click HERE to view the TOP Campus Finishers
Most Active Campuses
Click HERE for complete campus standings
Top 25 Overall Finishers
For more information about this event, contact Mauri Winters in the HR Benefits office at 512-223-7577.