On March 31 last year, we showed the incredibly inspirational movie A Million Miles Away to the kids and their families. It's the true story of Jose Hernandez, the son of migrant farm workers who became an astronaut and flew into space for a stay on the International Space Station.
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January 24, 2025 newsletter covering our
2024 Scholarships & Awards Party!
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Cherie and the EE kids were featured on the 2022
NBC IRONMAN World Championship television special.
Click below to see a video excerpt plus a photo montage
of the kids in action during 2022.
In 2020, Cherie was inducted into the
USA Triathlon Hall of Fame. The part of her acceptance speech during which she spoke about the EE kids was the highlight of the evening. Click below to see it.
Our Mission
Exceeding Expectations, a program in San Bernardino that serves an inner-city population, is designed to encourage at-risk kids to move their lives in a positive direction, using the sport of triathlon as the vehicle.
The goal is not to develop the kids into elite athletes, but rather to offer them opportunities to participate in a lifestyle that is healthy, goal-oriented and very unlike that which they experience in their everyday lives. We strive to replace negative influences with positive role models and to instill in the kids a powerful new discipline of setting measurable goals and working hard to achieve them.
Our highest priority is education, and our ultimate objective is to ensure that every one of the kids graduates high school and goes on to college. We make this promise to all the EE kids: When you get into college, we'll make sure money isn't an obstacle.
EE is donor-funded and run by volunteers. We have no paid staff and no professional fund-raisers. With the exception of insurance costs, we have no administrative expenses: Every penny we collect directly benefits the kids.
Our most important objective is EDUCATION. Check out our Jan. 15, 2023 Awards & Scholarships celebration to see how that's working.
Donations are most welcome! Just click below.
2025 Events
- Jan. 19: Awards & Scholarships party
- Feb. 1: "Be a Hero" 5K
- Feb. 16: Palm Desert Half Marathon & 5K
- March 2: Training-Kickoff for 2025 EE/CAF team
- March 15: Swim training, pool
- March 23: Run/bike training
- March 30: Swim training, Lake Perris
- April 6: Run/bike training
- April 27: Swim training, Lake Perris
- May 4: Spring Sprint triathlon, San Diego
- April-August: Summer training
- September: EE race for CAF slots
- Oct. 18: San Bernardino Sheriff's Mud Run
- Oct. 26: CAF "Best Day In Tri" San Diego
- Nov. 8: Tram Road Challenge, Palm Springs
- Dec. 7: Tinsel Tri & 5K
- Dec. 16: Santa Paws 5K
More to come...!
2024 Events
- Jan 15: Awards & Scholarships party
- Feb 12: Palm Desert 5K & Half Marathon
- Feb. 25 Run for Ukranian Refugees
- March 5: Run for Ike
- Apr 2: Kick off summer run/bike training
- Apr 30: PossAbilities (Canceled by host!)
- May 21: Summer Run/Bike training
- June 10: SBD Sheriff Dept. Mud Run
- July 9: Summer Run/Bike training
- Aug 20: Summer Run/Bike training
- Sep 3: Summer Run/Bike training
- Sep 17: Summer Run/Bike training, Race for CAF, and awarding of slots to CAF "Best Day in Tri" in San Diego!
- Oct 21: Tram Road Challenge in Palm Springs
- Oct 22: CAF "Best Day in Tri," San Diego
EE kids at the 2024
Challenged Athletes Foundation
"Best Day in Tri"
(Click on the photo below to see some pictures of the event.)
Recent Newsletters
We email a newsletter about 5-7 times a year. They contain news about recent events, accomplishments and educational progress, along with photos of the kids in action.
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