Spartan Race for Sandy Hook Promise

ASpartan Race for Sandy Hook Promise

At Mooresville High School in Indiana, students are walking the halls with heart-shaped balloons, chocolates, and lots of awkward teenage moments. It's a normal morning.

What they don’t know is that a fellow student—18-year-old senior Trinity Shockley—has chosen this day for a massacre.

Inspired by the Parkland shooter. She chose the same date as the 2018 Parkland massacre. She had written letters to him in prison. She's studied the tactics. She's picked her targets. The plan is in place.

‘Shockley had even created a collage of mass shooters on her bedroom wall. She called her plan “Parkland part two.”

But it never happens.

Because someone noticed. ‘Someone spoke up.

A tip came through Sandy Hook Promise’s anonymous reporting system—Say ‘Something—and law enforcement intervened just in time.

Not one life was lost. Not one parent had to receive that call.

This is real. This happened in February 2025. And it didn’t make national headlines—because the tragedy was stopped before it could start.

That's why I'm here today.

To support the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation, the organization that trained the people who recognized the signs.

They equip students, teachers, and communities to prevent school violence before it happens.

And I want to do my part. funds for Sandy Hook Promise.

It's muddy. It's intense. It’s packed with obstacles—rope climbs, heavy carries, too many burpees—and here’s the catch:

Because nothing says “I care about preventing tragedy’ like willingly dragging myself through mud, failing to climb ropes, and doing burpees until | question all my life choices.

I've never done anything like it.

But I signed up anyway. Because if we want to prevent the next tragedy, we have to choose to take action.

Even when it’s uncomfortable. Even when it’s hard.Just like this race.

Prevention Takes Work—Just Like Training

‘Stopping violence doesn’t happen by accident. Just like I need to train—run, lift, stretch, hydrate—Sandy Hook Promise trains others.

They don't just hope kids will speak up—they teach them how. They build programs in schools that equip students with tools to spot the warning signs of violence or suicide and report them safely.

It’s an effort. It's uncomfortable. And it’s effective.