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The Kiel family is a very close-knit family that love spending time together and having fun! A few years ago, Bernard and Jane were looking for a place for their sons to play basketball and they came across the Glendale YMCA. Therefore, they put them on some teams and they absolutely loved it! About a […]

His dad is a truck driver and his mom is a secretary at an elementary school. He has an older brother and an older sister. His sister was the first in their family to graduate from High School and she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Business at UCR and is currently working on her Masters. […]

She hated the thought of dropping them off to be placed in front of a TV screen and found herself wondering if there was anything else out there for her family. After the birth of her third child two years ago she found the Chris-Town YMCA and immediately found a sense of relief. The Amazing […]

He loved being in the water and showed absolutely no fear. At age 2, Nabor started swim lessons and was swimming full stroke freestyle before he turned 3. Every two weeks, Nabor would pass to the next level of swim lessons. By age 5, he had passed all of the swim levels except for the […]

My husband had recently deployed to Afghanistan, and I moved back to Arizona to be around family. My sister got me to join the Southwest Valley YMCA so we could be workout buddies.

Mom Ashley, Dad Ryan and their four adorable children, Maximiliano, age 1; Genesis, age 3; Malik, age 5; and Malakai, age 7. They are from a French Creole background and moved from Louisiana to Arizona in 2014. They love to travel, being outdoors and staying extremely active, which is how they ended up at our […]

It is funny how we go from celebrating summer time and the freedom it offers in our youth to celebrating as parents the routine that the school year brings. It is time for us to get back to our routines of getting the kids up and dressed for school and out the door on time […]

The Y-Achievers program brought me to my current internship with the Y. I have worked with Elena Steinbeiss in the Achievers program. She helps me with my goals in life and work experience. My YMCA work family has taught me a lot. They showed me how to keep my anxiety under control in stressful situations. […]

Darren and Liane Campbell became members, as so many people do at the beginning of the year in January, with resolutions in mind. They have been members at the Northwest Valley YMCA since January of 2018, and have no plans to stop being members for a long time. Since joining, the Campbells have been taking […]

Faith is active at the Northwest Valley YMCA in so many ways. In addition to playing on a club volleyball team for the last 4 years, she also coaches a 14’s club volleyball team. Faith is not going to stop there either. She plays volleyball for Imagine Prep school as well.