Calling all adventure seekers! Do you love a good obstacle course? How does a 5k course, packed with over 15 obstacles and set along downtown Evansville’s Ohio River sound? This course is for anyone-from athletes to families with kids -looking for a FUN Saturday morning challenge. Even better? This race supports our Evansville Police Department, specifically the SWAT team. What does the EP SWAT Team do? Well, here’s a response to that question, directly from the race website:

“Founded in 1975, the EP SWAT team trains and prepares for missions involving barricaded gunmen, hostage rescue, high risk warrant service, active shooter response and more. The team is on-call 24 hours a day and responds immediately to calls for service. SWAT officers are selected from within the Evansville Police Department. Officers must serve a minimum of three years before they can apply for the team.” (https://www.adventuresignup.com/Race/IN/Evansville/EPDFoundationSWATChallenge)

Since Sonitrol was founded by a retired police officer and his inventor friend, our company simply wouldn’t be here without the police. When one of our alarms is verified by our Central Station monitoring team, police race to the scene to apprehend the intruders. And what would an alarm company do if they never caught criminals? We honestly don’t know.

Even without our history and decades of partnership with law enforcement, we’d still throw a team together for the EP Foundation SWAT Challenge. They had us at obstacles. Besides, we just never know what our boss man, Sam Standring, is going to do when he represents Team Sonitrol. Last year, we caught a photo of him doing a battle cry on top of one of the cars he jumped on top of. Sam always brings the fun with him to the race. *(See photo below). If you haven’t signed up as a team or with a group of friends, it isn’t too late.

This year’s event is Saturday, May 7, 2022. We hope to see you there. Here is the link to sign up:

https://www.adventuresignup.com/Race/IN/Evansville/EPDFoundationSWATChallenge