YMCA Receives “Moving the Needle” Award from Austin Mayor’s Fitness Council
The City of Austin Mayor’s Fitness Council recognized the YMCA of Austin with a “Moving the Needle” Award in a virtual ceremony with Mayor Steve Adler on Friday, September 17. The Y received the award for Community Engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, adapting its services to meet rapidly evolving community needs.
The YMCA of Austin has played an integral part in assisting communities across Travis, Hays and Bastrop Counties throughout the coronavirus pandemic. We have provided health and wellness activities for tens of thousands of neighbors, helped feed those experiencing hunger, cared for children of essential workers, provided a safe and healthy outdoor
YMCA + Athlete Foundry = College Success
Is your child a middle school or high school athlete looking to chart a path to college and beyond?
The YMCA of Austin has partnered with Athlete Foundry to provide its premium student athlete platform to all active Austin Y members as a free member-benefit.
Athlete Foundry is not a recruiter, but an educational technology company that has built a powerful online student athlete platform to help parents and their 6th through 12th grade student athletes:
- Increase their odds to become a collegiate athlete,
- Increase their college financial assistance potential, and
- Help prepare for life after sports.
Bottom-line, AF delivers a holistic on & off the field approach that gives you full command of your
Returning to Group Exercise Post Quarantine
The last time I went to a group exercise class in 2020, I was trying out something new. It was a step-dance cardio class that fit my schedule and my 2020 resolution to participate in things that fell outside of my comfort zone. When I arrived in class, I looked around to see what kind of equipment others had set up. I said generally to the few people in the room, “so, I need a step, a mat…. Anything else? It’s my first time in the class.” A woman named Pam helped me get my bearings and as we set up we
Add These Vegetables to Your Kid’s Smoothies
It’s an age old problem: kids don’t like veggies. Maybe it’s the color, maybe it’s the texture, maybe there’s absolutely no reason at all. If your child loves veggies and gladly eats them at dinner, that’s great! But if you feel like you’ve tried everything and your child still won’t eat his veggies, this post is for you.
Smoothies are the secret weapon to getting vegetable nutrients into your little one. Smoothies are delicious, easy to make, and the recipe options are endless. There are quite a few surprising vegetables that you can add to smoothies without hardly tasting. Instead of serving
Pride Origins: A Look at Our Leaders
Happy Pride Month! We celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride in June because of the Stonewall Riots in Manhattan of 1969. The Stonewall Riots served as the catalyst for the gay rights movement all around the world. Pride is all about the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual/ally community. The goal of Pride is to promote LGBTQIA+ self-affirmation, dignity, and equal rights as well as increase their visibility as a social group, build unity, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance.
Let’s meet two legendary leaders of the Stonewall Riots where Pride originates. As the police
Surprising Benefits of Outdoor Teambuilding
The experts have weighed in, and “Zoom fatigue” is real. But corporate managers and group organizers are still left to grapple with the challenge of building rapport and cohesiveness among their teams while still being COVID-safe.
New venues like YMCA Camp Moody may be just the answer, providing opportunities for in-person gatherings while enabling ample social distancing in indoor and outdoor spaces across the 85-acre facility. Better still, organizational leaders will appreciate the many unique and surprising benefits that teambuilding activities in an outdoor setting can provide.
Located just off IH-35 in Buda and only 15 miles from downtown Austin, Camp Moody features dramatic
