EcoAthletes Collegiate Cup nominated for Campaign of the Year 

We are very proud to have supported the EcoAthletes Collegiate Cup which has been nominated forCampaign of the Year at the prestigious Sport Positive awards.

More about the campaign

In this third annual edition of the EcoAthletes Collegiate Champions Cup, 29 EcoAthletes Champions recruited their teammates, friends, and family to sign up for their team in the Climategames app.

On our app the participants’ exercise — running, walking, swimming, cycling, rowing and gym workouts — was converted into an environmental currency. Put simply, for every kilometre or mile run/walked/swam/cycled/rowed, and every minute of gym workouts, participants earned contributions toward an environmental project.

Funded by EcoAthletes partners ProtectWhere We Play and Earth Day Network, this year’s contributions supported vital coral restoration projects from the Coral Gardeners nonprofit.

The final Collegiate Cup scoreboard was impressive:

• 579 Cuppers took part, exceeding the combined total of the 2023 and 2024 Collegiate Cups
• They exercised for 7,721 hours, with a total distance of 43,523 km or 27,044 miles, which is greater than one trip around the world!
• The most impactful metric is that the combined exercise generated the planting and restoration of 3,373 corals in the South Pacific!

As a grassroots athlete-led campaign, theCollegiate Cup is perhaps the most important training ground for climate activism that exists in all of sport and we are very proud to host this on our platform.

The winner of the Campaign of the Year award will be announced in London 7-8 October.  

Find out more about how EcoAthletes hosted the Collegiate Cup on Climategames here.

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