Southern Cross University (SCU) is hoping to have more than 150 participants in its team across the Gold Coast Airport Marathon events this year.

Last year, Team SCU had 138 runners take to the start-line with the majority lining up for the SCU sponsored 10km race.

“We are hoping for in excess of 150 runners this year and perhaps push close to 200,” Team SCU organiser Dave Graham said.

“The staff, students and even Alumni are embracing the Marathon event and we definitely have a good time as a team along the way. Actually, we even had an external (distance ed) student from Singapore attend last year and he ran in the Marathon and he’s backing it up again this year.

“Many of our team have started training already with a regular running group that trains two times per week and we will also use the Darrell Chapman Fun Run, which is held in Lismore out of the SCU campus, as a stepping stone to the Marathon.

“Last year our team won the Corporate Team Spirit Award and we will be going all out to do that again this year. We have big things planned for our tent including plenty of food for our team-members while we will also be offering treatments from naturopathy and osteopath students after the races.”

The Darrell Chapman Fun Run, which is organised by students from the School of Health and Human Sciences, offers runs of 3km and 6km. It will be held on Sunday May 26.