“These big fundraisers provide us the ability to reach a greater audience,” hospitality business junior and fundraising director of Spartans Rebuilding Michigan Carla Boffa said.

Stiggys Dogs is an organization that trains rescue dogs to be psychiatric service dogs for military veterans. These dogs are assigned to a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury at no cost to the veteran.

More than 100 runners participated in the event, and the group was able to raise more than $1,000 for Stiggys Dogs. The course included many obstacles, such as requiring runners to flip tires, climb over walls, do pushups and more.

International relations senior and marketing director of Spartans Rebuilding Michigan Courtney Bourgoin said the organization received a lot of positive feedback after the race.

“I think people really liked it because they said they were really challenge by the obstacles,” Bourgoin said. “The idea was to market it as a race that challenged you like service members are challenged.”

Spartans Rebuilding Michigan came to campus three years ago and since then has tripled in size, with attendance at meetings going from 20 people to about 200. This size increase has pushed the club to host larger events so more people can get involved.

They also strive to help a variety of charities.

“We benefit a very diverse group,” Bourgoin said. “It’s a really cool, diverse group of organizations that we can help out, and I think people would be able to find what they wanted to work with in our organization.”

The next event the club is holding is a stair climb at Breslin Center in February. Because of the huge success the event was last year, they’re hosting it again and this will likely benefit the Children’s Miracle Network.

“We’re a very cool organization — just a lot of people trying to change the world,” Boffa said.