(KLZA)--Governor Pete Ricketts and fitness icon Jake Steinfeld, Chairman of the National Foundation for Governors' Fitness Councils (NFGFC) announced the three Nebraska Schools that were selected to each receive a state-of-the-art $100,000 DON'T QUIT! Fitness Center.

The multi-million dollar DON'T QUIT! Campaign named Johnson County Central Middle School in Cook as one of the recipients along with Gothenburg School in Gothenburg and Millard North Middle School in Omaha as the state's most outstanding schools for demonstrating leadership in getting and keeping their students fit.

This year the NFGFC program will have gifted fitness centers to 40 states and the foundation plans to reach all 50 in the coming years.