The coach assigned to Everett's team was not capable of teaching basketball, or even letting them play basketball at practice. No skills development was attempted... Everett decided to leave the team after a few weeks - we let the coach know why. I think it would have been difficult for YMCA staff to predict the outcome in accepting this coach. Nonetheless, Everett loves basketball and all team sports. He will continue with YMCA basketball in the spring season.

Our coaches were great and communicative. They were patient and able to keep my daughter engaged in learning the sport and playing together in a team

First team experience for my child and it went pretty well. They want to sign up again.

The referees didn’t call out players who were being over-aggressive. A few times opponents were guarding my son by literally wrapping their arms around him in a hug restraint. The refs saw this and did nothing, nor did the coaches of the opposing team.

The matches were well organized, my son gained skills and had fun. My one complaint is the practice times. 7:00-8:00 pm is difficult for kids who often go to bed by 8:00. If practices could be earlier, that would work better for kids.

The frequency of the practices and games is just right. The environment is encouraging.

Just wish the teams here Nicer and friendlier.

Basketball rules were not enforced at all games. They need to be more enforced as kids get older they need to know the rules.

We have been generally happy with the program in terms of ease of use and good communication, as well as overall friendliness of the kids and parents. The downside is that the coaches don’t actually have to have skill in the sport they are coaching. So there is a disparity of what skills the kids come away with depending on what team they are placed with.

Good coaching and strong development of skills and sportsmanship.

Love the program. It did at times feel like there were teams who were being favored by staff

I purchased basketball for my son. I asked for a change in coach. Called and left 3 messages. No one returned my call. My son did not play due to this. My son was placed on a team where a child was added the last week and that child physically assaulted mine and sent my son to the hospital. I did not find this a safe team for us to be on due to the conflict. The bare minimum that the ymca could have done was call. I will not recommend the y due to this. We used the YMCA for 3 years before this.

With not having real refs at a higher age level has been awful. The "refs" only call some things on teams and everything on another team and the kids arnt learning. Hire real refs again.

My child had a great experience playing Y basketball - I'm sure he'll play again in the future!

Coach Rick was great with the kids!

Coaches were amazing, the Y allowing games to be fun and allowing cheering is much different than previous seasons and created such a fun environment.

We thought coach Marty was great, very inclusive, great communication, super nice! Perhaps more elaborate questions on player skill during registration to more fine tune where to put players would be beneficial to all. My son felt that half of his team were very fresh to basketball and it was unfair to him and the other half of the team to carry a lot of the responsibility of the success of the team.

About 1/3 of our practices were canceled because the YMCA did not make sure the gyms were avalible through the local schools. It seems there should be more thoughtful planning. There are so few practices, having them canceled because of school conflicts of the location should be preventable. Also, sharing gym space with another team is not conducive to learning, it doesn’t work.

We had a great coach and refs were friendly and helpful

I was disappointed in how scheduling was handled. We had a shared gym that was crowded and no place to sit besides outside of the gym. There were two occasions where practice was cancelled last minute because of shared gym scheduling issues.

Then practices went to one day a week because of the gym schedule. Shouldn’t this be figured out Ahead of time? Of course things happen but it just seemed sloppy.

There were times when the middle schoolers would come in to prep for their practice and would hit volleyballs back and forth, these would regularly almost hit others and almost hit my 8 month old in his head. It’s annoying that the coaches didn’t ask them to not do that, or whomever is responsible for them.

Some parents are also not friendly or flat out rude, so I was disappointed in that - but that’s not a Y issue. I think there should be more encouragement for parents to engage somehow since their kids are becoming friends.

Lastly. The photos were haphazardly scheduled before a game and my child could not attend due to another thing we had going on. This upset her immensely. Please consider scheduling photos ahead of time during a practice instead of before a game.

My child had fun which is all that matters, but improvements to logistics are majorly needed.

Great coach and assistant coach! Reliable and consistent

Very inclusive

I think the Y is a great place to start learning skills without being super competitive. Best for grade school kids I think!

YMCA volleyball has become much less

For the most part it’s fantastic but I have noticed the last few times we’ve played basketball we get to practice to find out the gym is unavailable and the coach knew nothing about it. The last season we missed 3 practices due to gym issues, and now this season practice 2 was cancelled due to the gym being unavailable. It’s a bummer when we pay for the kiddos to play, but then numerous practices are cancelled. For that reason it makes me think twice to recommend or come back.