Category: Blog

Dear friends, I wanted to take a moment to update you on our Y’s status due to the gas emergency that has impacted so many of our friends and families in our region. Most importantly, I hope everyone is safe and if you have been displaced from your homes and not able to yet return,...

The Merrimack Valley YMCA is proud to announce that Anne Whalen is the new Executive Director of the Camping Services branch.  She has been working for the Merrimack Valley YMCA for the past 10 years as the Executive Director of the Methuen YMCA and previously worked for the YMCA of the North Shore for 18...

The Merrimack Valley YMCA is pleased to announce that Claudia Soo Hoo has been named Senior Executive Director of the Andover/North Andover YMCA. Soo Hoo replaces former Executive Director Alex Turek, who left earlier this year to become CEO of the Southern District YMCA in Exeter, NH. If it seems like Soo Hoo is already...

The Merrimack Valley YMCA will join Welcoming America and hundreds of YMCAs and other organizations nationwide in hosting events to celebrate immigrants’ contributions to communities and bring together all residents in a spirit of unity. Welcoming Week activities will take place at all of our branches and are open to the public. Please check the...

Alumnae Amari King was the featured speaker at graduation ceremonies for the Tom Sager Golf Academy this summer. The WSU senior was among the first participants in the program, which was started in 2011 in memory of Tom Sager, an avid golfer who passed away in 2009. Barbara Sager says she hopes the experience will have...

Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera has agreed to be the honorary chair for the Merrimack Valley YMCA’s HERE FOR GOOD capital campaign, which is raising funds for the renovation and expansion of the Lawrence YMCA. This expansion project will be transformational for the YMCA and for the greater Lawrence community by allowing the Y to expand...

Kelly Lennon, a distance swimmer who started her career swimming with the ANA YMCA Hurricanes swim team, has been nominated for an NCAA Woman of the Year award. This award honors graduating female college athletes who have distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers. The winner will be chosen this...

Congratulations, Gabriela Taveras! Gabby is an amazing young woman that we met at the Lawrence Y when she was 10 years old. She won the first ever Lawrence Music Clubhouse – Clubhouse Idol Competition. She was actually just old enough by one day to even be eligible for the competition…it wasn’t even close…she won by a...

Members of the Andover/North Andover YMCA’s Synchronized Swim Team (ANA Synchro) came home with a gold medal following the 2018 U.S. Synchronized Swimming Junior Olympic Championships earlier this month. Earning first place in the 16-17 age group duet category were Olivia Malloy, of Hamilton, MA, and Sofia Puchniak, of Manchester, MA. The unique choreography and...