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Somerset Valley YMCA - Somerville and Hillsborough
The YMCA Youth Sports uses a game approach to teaching sport skills. The games approach is more exciting for young players than the traditional progression from drills to game play. For children, participating in sports is more than just playing a game. It’s about personal development, learning responsibility, and developing positive values and attitudes-as well as sports skills and tactics. YMCA Youth Sports focuses not only on skill development, but on the overall development of the youngster in the areas that are important not just for the season but for a lifetime.
The Somerset Valley YMCA offers the following youth programs, please check program guide for day and time.
Kids Aikido
You child can learn the basics of Aikido in a fun, friendly, non-aggressive, and non-competitive atmosphere. The values and philosophy of Aikido make it the perfect martial art for growing bodies and minds.
Basketball – Rookies and Winners
Learn how to play basketball in a positive and constructive environment. Your child will build the basic basketball skills necessary to play the game. Our games style approach keeps your child’s attention as they learn their basketball skills through actual game time.
Circuit Strength and Conditioning – Introductory and Teen levels available.
Your child will develop upper and lower body strength that will tone muscle, improve balance, flexibility, coordination, speed, and agility. These fun total body workouts will provide the skills and tools your children need to excel in all sports in an age appropriate environment
Fit Kids
Children are presented with the importance of fitness, nutrition, and practicing a healthy lifestyle. Let your children explore the world of fitness and health in an exciting and dynamic environment.
Flag Football
All of your favorite things about football without contact. Your kids will learn to pass, throw, catch, punt, block and screen.
Little Gymnast
This class will focus on the rudimentary skills of gymnastics. Designed for the young gymnast, we work on pencil rolls, forward and backward rolls, tucks, jumps, balance beam and proper posture.
Kids Lacrosse
We teach children the fundamentals of lacrosse through a fun, positive, and enriching experience. Your children will learn how to pick up the ball, the correct stance, how to hold the stick, basic passing and catching technique and drills to improve passing and catching.
Soccer
Put the fun in fundamentals in the 45 minute class. Children will learn the basics of passing, dribbling, shooting and field positioning in a nurturing atmosphere.
Sports Sampler
Designed for the attention span of the young child, this class moves quickly while teaching children the basics of soccer, basketball, and tee-ball and softie hickey.
Tee ball
Batter up! Your child will learn how to play tee ball and the basic of baseball. Children will learn how to hold and safely swing a bat, how to throw and catch a ball and how to run the bases.
Tennis
This basic skills class will teach your child how to hold the racket, hit the ball, and volley.
Tumbling Tykes
Let you toddler explore movement in a safe, nurturing environment. Children will run over and under the obstacle course and playing fun parachute games. On Saturday combine with a swim for a fun filled adventure. See Aquatics for pricing.
Art Classes:
Cartooning
Learn to develop your own characters, and the basics of format, lettering, storylines and drawing in a supportive and creative environment
Drawing
Great for the beginning to the advanced artist as the instructor covers contour drawing, first and second point perspective, 3D drawing, still life values shadows and life drawing.
Painting
Discover your own inner artist! Learn how to mix color, manipulate perspective, and perceive values and proper cleaning techniques.
Dance and Acting Classes:
Acting out amateur theater
For the budding young actor or actress children will learn all about the theatre, play simple games, use propos and costumes to create fun characters, and construct short skits using their imaginations.
Creative Movement
This class will explore the exciting world of dance. Children will learn how to express themselves through movement and learn the basic ballet positions.
Gymnastics programs
From rolling to tumbling, to flipping to spinning, balancing and jumping…come experience the sport designed to give you full body strength and flexibility. From parent toddler introductory classes all the way to pre-team and competitive team for boys and girls1 this is a great program to grow in!
We offer all boys and girls teams with coaches approval.
Fencing -
Youth and Adult
Everyone from beginner to the most experienced fencer will gain knowledge and experience in the YMCA fencing program. Classes are open to all levels of experience, form beginners through advanced. Instruction will be provided in foil/epee. Students will learn proper foot work and blasé work to help advance through the levels. Electric bouting will be offered on Friday nights for the more experienced fencers. All classes will be taught by Chuck Hurley Prevost D’Armes.
