Editor's Note: This story about a local school administrator running in the Boston Marathon was submitted prior to Monday's event. Explosions at the finish line of the race killed two and injured a least two dozen others. Patch was unable to reach Andrew Winter, a Rockville school principal who participated in the marathon, but an administrator at Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary School said Winter was unhurt and that he had finished the race before the explosions.
A principal at a Rockville elementary school will be running in the 117th Boston Marathon in support of his 8-year-old daughter, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2008.
Andrew Winter, the principal at Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary School, will be participating in the marathon with the help of JDRF, formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Winter said he hopes that running will help bring awareness to diabetes research.
"Diabetes affects so many people, especially children, that it's important to bring awareness that can help support research to find a cure," Winter said.
This is Winter's second consecutive Boston Marathon, and he said he was "thrilled to do it again." The marathon is on Monday.
"I was able to achieve my goal of running in the marathon and I was able to support my daughter," Winter said of his first experience at the marathon. "It was the perfect combination."
Winter, his family and friends have supported his daughter Amelia for four years as a part of the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes, for which their group adopted the name "Amelia's Army."
According to the JDRF website the organization is the "leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes research" and is currently sponsoring $530 million in scientific research in 17 countries.
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