A Chaminade High School senior is bringing together a winning team and the hard work is all for heart awareness.

Noah Marotta, of St. James, is a rower for Chaminade’s crew team.

“I knew February was heart awareness month, heart health month, so I was like, I can get people moving with me,” says Marotta.

Marotta said everyone would send him their meters and the goal was to see how many meters they can do as a group.

Moving is the number one way to reduce heart disease.

Marotta says both of his grandfathers have had serious heart surgeries in the past three years.

“I just wanted to give back and raise heart awareness as well as meters and money for the American Heart Association,” says Marotta.

Marotta had a goal of $10,000 and he exceeded it.