Member Testimonials

Love the early-morning workout classes with Kelly Muthiora! Kelly is one of the best things about the YMCA. Staff is responsive and flexible especially youth sports staff. Love the community outreach being done by volunteers like Cathy Halliwell.

Cons: Workout area is overcrowded at certain times of the day, it’s time for an expansion. As the population of our area has grown, YMCA size has not kept up accordingly. Open gym times for Basketball are limited by other groups needing to use the gymnasium. This basketball space is the only reason two of our family members retain their membership and very often unable to use it.

Need more space!

I enjoyed soccer and the coach

We adore Cross Country with you guys! You guys have such an amazing coaches! We keep coming back! 😊
My son is very happy and he also got so good at running with your team!
Appreciate everything you do guys!
Nedelkovich family

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Great variety and staff very friendly

Best place for family healthy activities👏

Basketball Spring clinic is an excellent program. Also, summer basketball 3x3 provided an opportunity to practice the skills learned from the clinic and see how other teams/students play the game.

Love YMCA

We love the YMCA sports, it's always a great time, coaches are always amazing and dedicated as they are 100% volunteering their time. The communications, practices and updates are always great. We love the YMCA sports and will continue to do them.

We had wonderful coaches-Sean O'Boyle & Will Shuart are amazing! Our kids really learned a lot and were nurtured by the best!

Great team

Soccer

The trainer and the director of the aqua depth are great

This was our first year doing Y Sports. We were lucky enough to be on a fantastic team. Team Canada - Girls Soccer. The coaches always showed up. They were positive, taught the girls great skills, were professional and kind to everyone.

We also had great support from the families of all of the girls playing on the team.

Coaches, organization, everything was wonderful!

my girls loved their volleyball leagues at shady grove YMCA and would love to be a part of more such programs during this summer. Please plan to organize more of these programs, which can certainly help them improve their skills, thank you !!

The refs are always very supportive to the kids and explain when they mess up.

Super positive coaching staff!!!

Really appreciated that the YMCA accepted feedback this year when there was a situation with a player who was making the sport unsafe for others. I don’t know that child or family personally and have no vendetta against them, but I hope she will not be allowed to enroll again for a few years. The poor sportsmanship was a concern, but really I was more worried about my child and her teammates being injured. You can move on from witnessing poor sportsmanship, but a broken leg (from being shoved) will ruin someone’s summer and can affect performance in future sports. Please consider a red card system for this age group.

My only other feedback is to please bring back the youth triathlon! I would be happy to volunteer to help with some of the course prep for this.
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Coach was great. Everything very organized and love the positive vibe. My granddaughter had a great time at soccer. Thank you

Tommy and Chris at Shady Grove do a great job with organization, communication with Coaches and parents, and prioritizing player safety and sportsmanship. They are also very flexible and positive and under their leadership, the YMCA has a strong sports program. We are thankful for Tommy and his team and will be back and recommending SG ymca to others.

you have activities for the youth to do?

Safe group and great coaches!!

Basketball spring clinic was awesome.

Staff, volunteers and overall team development & dedication for our youth!

Great experience so far

We loved our time doing flag football at the Y. It was a very positive environment, and my son learned a lot about the sport.

Everything.. the coach was great.. the facilities were emazing

My family is 35 year members starting with 2 children and overtime added 3 grandchildren. We are still very active members.

I love letting my daughter explore activities to find what she's truly passionate about!