History

Sound Body Sound Mind was founded in 1999 by Cindy and Bill Simon in response to the appallingly low fitness levels of students in Los Angeles.

• At the time, only 12.2% of ninth graders in the Los Angeles Unified School District were considered fit according to standards set by the state-mandated Fitnessgram test.
  
  
• Bill and Cindy took action by donating state-of-the-art fitness equipment to their local high school, Palisades Charter High School.

Today, the first Sound Body Sound Mind school is still enthusiastically involved in the program along with 50 other schools that Sound Body Sound Mind has grown to include over the years.