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It employs 19,000 staff and is supported by 600,000 volunteers, and YMCA branches have about 10,000 service locations. [1] The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary.
Carl Samuelson swam freestyle for Springfield College and was the swim coach for Williams College from 1966 to 1999, leading Williams to 14 Men's New England Championships, and 13 Women's New England Championships.
Lakewood Aquatics (1969, 1971) Big 10 Coach of the Year. Ohio State (1985, 1991) Jim Montrella (born circa 1941) is an American former swimmer and a Club, College, and Olympic swim coach, best known for coaching the Lakewood Aquatics Club from 1959-78 in the Los Angeles area, and the Women's Swimming team at Ohio State from 1980-1997.
May 23, 2024 at 8:57 PM. NEW YORK — Emma Hayes peered out the window of a third-floor conference room overlooking Madison Avenue, out across the bustling city where her coaching career first ...
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. [1] It was founded in London on 6 June 1844 by George Williams as the Young Men's Christian Association. The organization aims to put Christian values into practice by developing a ...
Patrick Hite, Staunton News Leader. May 14, 2024 at 1:20 AM. Slim Hite, a longtime area official as well as the head of the YMCA and VSDB's athletic director, was recently diagnosed with cancer ...
Female variants are widely common while organized female sports by comparison are rare and include team sports such as netball, throwball, artistic (née synchronized) swimming, [7] and ringette. In female sports, the supposed benefits of gender parity, [8] gender equity, and gender equality feminism are controversial.
The Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States. [1] A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs. [2] It has more than 700,000 members nationwide, including more than 100,000 volunteers. [3]