Jordan Turnwall

Nebraska Fuel Up to Play 60 Student Ambassador, Jordan Turnwall hopes more schools become active in the program, more kids start eating healthier lunches and that chocolate milk should be left as a choice for the kids to drink with their school lunch.

As a seventh grader at Bishop Neumann Junior High School, Jordan does not take her role as Fuel Up to Play 60 Student Ambassador lightly, she states that, “It means to me that I am a spokesperson for the program and it is my responsibility to encourage kids to eat healthy and stay active.”

She hopes that the Fuel Up to Play 60 program continues in her school and has yet another successful year. She is working hard to make that wish come true as a lead-by-example model of eating healthy and staying active.

Away from her role as the state Fuel Up to Play 60 Ambassador, Jordan stays busy with playing softball, quilting with her grandmother and showing her beef cattle in 4-H.

She smiles wide when admitting her favorite dairy food is “any flavor” of ice-cream; however Jordan understands the importance of having three daily servings of milk, cheese and yogurt. Her preferred way to stay active is by practicing and playing softball, and she also enjoys going for a bike ride.

Jordan thoroughly enjoys being a state spokesperson for the Fuel Up to Play 60 program and appreciated being featured on her local TV station regarding her role. She also loved traveling to Washington, D.C. this past summer, where she and others alike developed their leadership skills and collaborated on ways to make Fuel Up to Play 60 even better at a Student Ambassador Leadership Summit. “I loved meeting kids from all over with a common goal of eating healthy and staying active,” she reports.

Jordan’s parents are Kim and Brian Turnwall and she has one sister, Allissa.