The Finish Line Waits For You
May 17, 2012
Ronnie Noojin Race to the Courthouse
Saturday, June 23 | 8 a.m.
Click here to registers YMCA Downtown's annual 5K through the streets of Birmingham.
Benefits
All proceeds from the Race to the Courthouse will provide financial assistance so deserving kids and adults can become a part of the YMCA family
Awards
Technical shirts are given to all 5K participants. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in each age category will receive medals.
Medals will also be given to the Fastest Lawyer in both male and female categories. Shirts will be awarded at the finish line after return of chip.
Age Categories
MALE 14 - under, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60+ | FEMALE 14 - under, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60+
Cost $25 pre-registration | $30 day of race| Participants can also register online at www.active.com.
Registration Deadline Teams must register by June 24.
Here's why ... YMCA summer camp for your kids
May 15, 2012
1. Adventure
2. Healthy Fun
3. Personal Growth
4. New Friendships
5. Memories
Turn to page 5
here, in the current issue of
YLife Birmingham, to see them all.
Alabaster YMCA begins expansion
May 15, 2012
The Alabaster YMCA is looking to
more than double the size of its facility off Alabama 119 and add a new, six-lane pool by early 2013, said YMCA District Vice President Lane Vines.
Two weeks away: REGISTER for summer camp now!
May 14, 2012
FREE TO BE ME! All summer at your YMCA.
Click here, to then click over to see what's happening and to register online.
ACTIVE: describes "Healthy Kids Day" on Saturday
May 14, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The Birmingham YMCA Youth Center annual
"Healthy Kids Day" today used video games, hula hoops and foam noodles to show kids that staying healthy doesn't have to mean a boring workout routine.
Relive the fun, the activity, a purely YMCA day, here:
PHOTO by Michael Tomberlin, The Birmingham News
How did the Hoover YMCA 11-year-old boys basketball team celebrate?
May 01, 2012
What do 11yr old boys do when they win the second basketball tournament in a row, after playing their hearts out in overtime games, close games…in hot gyms and unforgiving opponents?
Jump around, whoop, holler and celebrate? That would be what everyone expects from competitive basketball. I mean, who could blame them…after all they had been beaten several weekends in a row…this was vindication and they deserved to rejoice…right?
They did rejoice, just not quite that way.
After they get handed the championship trophy and medals, and had posed for a few obligatory pictures, something unusual happened. Without instruction, they gathered around the trophy, for what looked like another team picture. They all huddled in, reaching to get at least one finger on the trophy. Then ... they bowed their heads, closed their eyes and began reciting the Lord’s Prayer… not quietly as if it were a secret- with the same enthusiasm they had chanted their team name before they played.
It got everyone’s attention in the gym, fans stopped as they were walking out, the gym fell silent and as everyone took a minute to process what they were seeing.
The boys finished the prayer, let out a final ‘Go Canes’ and walked out of the gym as if it were nothing unusual.
This weekend was special, for the first time, both our teams, 4th and 5th grade, won the championship in the same tournament. The boys on both teams handled themselves with honor and grace.
Go Hoover YMCA Canes.