YMCA of Collier County

Now that the YMCA is expanded, they did away with the Silver Sneakers program.
When will it return?

My experience is with the new upper management at this Naples YMCA and the swimming pool.
We are no longer members of the YMCA after having left in disgust when the Y basically kicked Swim Florida (a swimming club for kids that has been training kids to swim for over 30 years in this area) from the YMCA pool.
IMO its all because of poor upper management that could care less about those that have done their time, community time, in Naples.
The pool, how teams used the pool, how members used the pool was a disaster.
It was also dangerous.
At one time there were so many kids in the pool, they stood in line 10 deep, to swim a lap and there are 7 lanes! YMCA management allowed this very chaotic and dangerous situation to happen. They overlapped swim teams and didn’t have the balls to tell the visiting team that they messed up and to go away.
Another dangerous practice was allowing adults to sprint around the pool. Even though the sign says ‘no running around the pool area’, YMCA staff ignored this and allowed it to continue day after day. All it takes is one adult to t-​bone a kid next to the pool and you have a potential drowning.
There is usually one lifeguard at the pool, but they have no authority to do much other than tell people to get out of a lane, so that one of their parasitic teams can dominate one and everyone else suffers.
Lets hope that the YMCA gets its act together.
The place burned down a few years ago and it’s all new now and it appears to me that the good olé Christian values went up in flames that day. Out with the old and in with the new. Its so much better now!

Great Y! Awesome staff and many classes offered.