Tag: youth sports
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Healthy Living / Lakeshore Family YMCA / Livonia Family YMCA / North Oakland Family YMCA / Youth Development
Healthy Kids Day Brings Family Fun
If your local Y seemed even more busy than usual this weekend, there was a reason for that…all the YMCAs across the Metro Detroit Association celebrated Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, April 26. The annual event is meant to draw attention to the importance of physical activity for children
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One lucky kid from the YMCA will get to be a ball boy (or girl) for the Detroit Pistons on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, and around 50 more Y kids will be special guests at the game.
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A new cheer team made up of students from Detroit Leadership Academy Middle and High schools are making an impression out in the community — and could use some help to be able to achieve their goals.
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Boys get a chance to build their endurance, strength and most importantly, character through a new running program called STRIDE (Success, Teamwork, Respect, Inspiration, Determination, and Excellence of Character) that’s just for them. The program for boys in grades 3-5 kicks off with a 6 p.m. session Monday at the South Oakland YMCA, where parents…
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While the Boll Family YMCA is in the shadow of Comerica Park, it didn’t have a baseball team of its own. That is, until this summer, when Y staffer Larry White recruited a dozen kids to represent the Y in the Detroit PAL baseball league.