Lifted Restrictions Creates More Opportunities for Fitness
We are immensely grateful for your patience, resilience and understanding throughout a year of COVID-19 safety measures, closures and limitations never before experienced.
Since the state has lifted COVID restrictions in many areas, your Y has implemented these changes:
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No masks required in the facility (Please offer extra space as you pass Youth Development children and staff, who continue to wear masks according to separate child care guidelines).
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No physical distancing requirements.
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No COVID-19 capacity limits.
Aquatics Center
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Reservations NOT required for Lap Swim, Hot Tub, Small Pool or Aqua Exercise. Lap swim etiquette: Please choose the appropriate lane for your pace. 2 in a lane split or circle swim. 3+ in a lane must circle swim.
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Basketball Gym
Tennis Center
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Programs --- like drop-in Fun & Fitness --- have started! Stay up-to-date HERE.
Group Exercise
Health & Wellness Center
Please note:
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Sauna & Steam Room Coming SOON!
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Drop-in child care, called PlayCare, will not return until October.
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The racquetball and squash courts are unavailable for use: they continue to be used for storage and production of virtual fitness classes.
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New schedules are being updated regularly! Check HERE. We will not be printing schedules for members to take home --- we are saving paper and our forests! Please stay up-to-date on our website or the Y app.
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The MEMBER ENTRANCE remains the same (the doors closest to the vending machines). Our other entrance is used for Youth Development.
Please note our new hours:
Main Y Facility Hours
M, Tu, W: 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Th & Fri: 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sat: 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sun: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tennis Center Hours
M & W: 8:15 a.m.-9:15 p.m.
Tu & Th: 7 a.m.-9 p.m.
Fri: 8:15 a.m.-6:45 p.m.
Sat: 8:15 a.m.-5:15 p.m.
Sun: 12 -5:15 p.m.
August Marks a Post-COVID Celebration
After more than a year of significant restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, your Y celebrates emerging from this pandemic!
We celebrate your resilience and flexibility as we closed our doors and provided our services in unfamiliar ways.
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We celebrate your dedication to your Y and your generosity to help us continue child care, virtual fitness and outdoor classes.
We celebrate you and your commitment to help us reach 70 percent vaccination --- a way to protect the vulnerable and immuno-compromised individuals in our community. THANK YOU!
We invite our current members to stop by the Y Welcome Center in AUGUST to claim a free t-shirt!
Calling All Hoopsters!
Your Y and Bushnell University are partnering this summer to offer a boys basketball camp for 3 days from Monday, July 19 to Wednesday, July 21.
The Basketball Camp is led by Bushnell coaches and players and other local coaches. There will be a morning session for 2nd to 5th graders from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and an afternoon session for 6th to 8th graders from 1 to 4 p.m.
Learn more and register HERE.
The gym at Bushnell University (formerly Northwest Christian University) is the Morse Event Center on the corner of Alder and East 11th Ave.
Please note: On the heels of COVID-19, the Y and Bushnell University are only able to offer boys basketball camp this summer. Next summer, we expect to offer our typical array of camps, including volleyball, girls basketball and coed soccer.
Art for All Wall Features Sophie Navarro
Your Y's Art for All Wall is now filled with colorful, bright artwork by Sophie Navarro, a local artist who recently painted the Little Free Pantry installed near the entrance of the Eugene Family YMCA.
"My work honors themes of women goddesses, LGBTQI communities, multiculturalism, spiritual connections, honoring self, celebrating self-care, & self-worth," she says. "I love adding layers & taking the time to step back from my art to add more layers later. Each painting is a portal that looks at the inside of our hearts and souls. I love to add poetry or words of encouragement that celebrates the viewer! Each painting is in essence, a mirror."
Her ART WALL FOR ALL exhibit features acrylic and mixed media paintings.
Stop by to visit Sophie's exhibit, which is in the long hallway between the pool and the gym.
Enjoy a Night at PK Park with your Y
Our friends at the Eugene Emeralds are offering our Y members and program participants discounted tickets to the game on Wednesday, July 21, at 7:05 p.m. against the Hillsboro Hops.
Click HERE to put in coupon code YMCA, then select tickets and purchase them!
Enjoy the game!
YMCA's New Board Officers Began July 1
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Please join us in welcoming Joe Carmichael as our new Board President.
During the 2-year term, Matt Longtin will serve as President-Elect, former Board President Chip Radebaugh will take on the role of Treasurer, and Katie Gatlin will serve a third term as secretary.
Carmichael has served on the YMCA's Board of Directors for the past 10.5 years. He is a Vice President and Commercial Relationship Manager at Oregon Pacific Bank and a 2015 Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce's 20 under 40 award winner.
"I joined the Board because I understand the power of our YMCA in this community," Joe said. "If it weren't for the YMCA, my grandmother would have likely died of heart failure in the 60s. Instead, I got 31 years with her and was able to see how much fuller her life was because of the Y."
Walk It Off with the Y Brings People Together, Gets Them Moving!
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Join us every Wednesday this summer at Alton Baker Park for Walk It Off With the Y!
Every week features a different theme and a different mini-class to get you warmed up for your walk!
There are still FREE t-shirts available for those who register --- sign up soon!
What: Walk It Off with the Y
Where: Alton Baker Park by the Pavilion
Dates: Wednesdays from June 16 through August 25
Time: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Thank you to our sponsors: PeaceHealth, Mix 94.5 FM, Bigfoot Beverages and City of Eugene Parks and Open Space.
Congratulations, Y Tennis Players!
Captain Sheryl Brown and her team played so successfully that they made it to the finals of sectionals! CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to the 55 and up Women's Y tennis team! After a successful weekend tournament, they were invited to Sectionals in Edmonds, WA, on June 24. At Sectionals, they won their flight and went to the finals where they narrowly lost to a North Seattle team, Lower Woodland in a third set tiebreaker. Go Y!
Finals players:
Sharon Markham, Kathy Gibbs, Jill Schoner, Deb Delong, Staci Schipporeit, and Sheryl Brown.
Not pictured: Co-Captain Connie Clark and Irene Wang.
Heard Around Town
The Register-Guard reported on the generosity of the Chambers Family Foundation in its gift of $1.5 million to the new Y.
"Michelle Allen, executive director of the Chambers Family Foundation, said the Y's project "embodies the values of the Chambers Family Foundation in an exceptional way."
"It is clear that the Y's impact on the community is significant - from youth sports and cancer survivors to afterschool programs and disease prevention," Allen said in the announcement. "The Y has a vision for what they see in the new building. Once it is a reality, even more amazing good is going to come to pass." "
The Register-Guard revealed the challenges in training lifeguards and staffing pools this summer.
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Because of the pandemic keeping people inside and pools closed, it's kept people out of the water and thus less likely to meet the (lifeguard) skill requirements, according to Victor Tilghman, the Eugene Family YMCA interim aquatics director.
"Without lifeguards, there will be more drownings because more pools will be closed due to the lifeguard shortage, and people will find other places to swim - like lakes, ponds and rivers," Tilghman said. "And people, especially kids, haven't had opportunities to practice swimming in more than a year because of COVID closures."
News about the state's reauthorization of $15 million for the new Y made the front page of The Register-Guard!
Brian Steffen, CEO of Eugene Family YMCA, said this was the largest single amount ever awarded in the organization's 134-year history and would be a crucial step toward completing funding for a new YMCA building.
"This was a seminal piece of funding for the new Y, and again we are humbled and grateful for the confidence and support of the legislators," Steffen said. "From here our focus is directed toward the final major gifts for the new Y, and we feel like we can have clarity on those by the end of the summer."
The Register-Guard highlighted the generosity of our local school districts (Eugene 4J, South Lane, Springfield), Oregon Community Foundation, Y members and donors who supported summer programming tuition-free for families!
