{"id":27375,"date":"2015-10-05T20:37:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T20:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstcoastymca.org\/?p=27375"},"modified":"2017-03-30T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T18:35:14","slug":"the-jaguars-foundation-names-gymnasium-in-new-riverside-ymca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/the-jaguars-foundation-names-gymnasium-in-new-riverside-ymca\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jaguars Foundation Names Gymnasium in New Riverside YMCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>-New $500,000 gift names gym and continues support of St. Augustine community pool-<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 5, 2015\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation pledged $500,000 to name the gymnasium in the new Winston Family YMCA and continue its support of the Willie Galimore Community Center pool in St. Augustine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team\u2019s investment in the new Winston YMCA and recommitment to the Galimore pool is part of a wider partnership the Jaguars organization has with the First Coast YMCA to support the health and wellbeing of our community, particularly for children and families,\u201d said Peter Racine, President of the Jaguars Foundation. \u201cFrom playing basketball inside the gym to learning how to swim and everything in-between; throughout Northeast Florida, the First Coast Y strengthens our community by providing safe spaces for health and fitness programs for adults and children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Programs and activities offered at the gym in the new Winston Family YMCA will contribute to the YMCA\u2019s goal to provide new and innovative opportunities for youth by directly impacting 5,000 Westside, Downtown and East Jacksonville children through healthy habits curriculum.\u00a0The Jacksonville Jaguars Gymnasium will be a 7,800 square foot indoor gym featuring a full basketball court, two short courts and one volleyball court. It will be open year-round and will host youth, adult sports leagues, as well as open gym games, and other programmatic offerings such as group exercise and child care activities.<\/p>\n<p>This gift will also continue The Jaguars Foundation\u2019s support of the Willie Galimore Community Center pool, which is operated by the the St. Augustine YMCA. Since 2013, support from the Jaguars Foundation has allowed the Y to waive pool entrance fees for all guests and extend the pool\u2019s hours. The Galimore pool serves nearly 4,000 swimmers in St. Augustine every year.\u00a0 In addition, the Y has provided swim lessons to more than 500 children at the Galimore pool over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this gift, The Jaguars Foundation is supporting much more than a gym and a pool,\u201d said Eric Mann, President and CEO of the YMCA of Florida\u2019s First Coast. \u201cThe foundation is helping create environments where children in our community can learn, achieve and begin to develop a healthy lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new Winston Family YMCA is on schedule to be complete in August 2016. Naming opportunities are still available. For more information, contact Eric Mann at 904.265.1780 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:emann@FirstCoastYMCA.org\">emann@FirstCoastYMCA.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Y<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more than 100 years, YMCA of Florida\u2019s First Coast has been providing men, women and children of all ages, and from all walks of life, opportunities to build stronger bonds, live healthy and become more engaged with their communities. Learn more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcoastymca.org\/\">www.FirstCoastYMCA.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-New $500,000 gift names gym and continues support of St. Augustine community pool- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 5, 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 The Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation pledged $500,000 to name the gymnasium in the new Winston Family YMCA and continue its support of the Willie Galimore Community Center pool in St. Augustine. \u201cThe team\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 19:08:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.curran-connors.com\/FCYMCA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}