Greenmeadow Community Association Swim Lessons and Kids’ Day Camp
Greenmeadow Community Association (GMCA), 303 Parkside Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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Greenmeadow Community Association Swim Lessons and Kids’ Day Camp offers swim lessons, a kids’ Day Camp program, and Learn-to-Swim lessons. The program takes place at a swim club that also offers lap swim, recreational swim, swim team, yoga, picnics, seasonal parties, progressive dinners, parades, concerts in the park, food trucks, and a July 4th Parade and celebration.
• Schedule: Year-round lap and recreational swim in a heated pool
Club Manager Loree Watanabe is a Bay Area native who grew up at a neighborhood cabana club, has a background in competitive swimming, is a Masters swim coach who works with adult swimmers of all ages and abilities, and has work experience in nonprofit management and fundraising, including managing a local YMCA and grant writing for a library foundation. Program Coordinator Anna Contreras has over 10 years of experience in aquatics, has provided Learn-to-Swim lessons for youth of all ages, began working as a swim instructor at Santa Clara Swim Club, gained experience with the swim program’s special abilities program, and has served as a Deck Supervisor, Admin Staff for the Swim School, and pre-competitive swim coach. Assistant Manager and Head Coach Kent Stietzel is a certified Aquatics Facility Operator, has managed pools including Fairbrae Swim & Racquet Club in Sunnyvale and Camp Campbell in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and has Head Coaching experience with Summer League, High School, and USA Swimming teams.
Greenmeadow Community Association is a non-profit civic organization formed around a community center, pool, and park, and is a tightly knit diverse community of neighbors who work together on a volunteer basis to organize and run programs that members and their guests can enjoy. From its start in 1954, Greenmeadow was designed to be a family community, and more than fifty years later it has evolved into a tightly knit diverse community. The association describes itself as a family-oriented community association and swim club in a historic Eichler neighborhood and states that it is a warm, open community with much to offer both kids and adults. Membership includes access to a beautiful pool, a new clubhouse, aquatics programs, picnics, seasonal parties, discounted facility rental, and active online discussion groups, and anyone may join, including residents and families or individuals living outside Greenmeadow. Greenmeadow is on the National Registry of Historic Neighborhoods.
Last updated July 3, 2026.
• Schedule: Year-round lap and recreational swim in a heated pool
Club Manager Loree Watanabe is a Bay Area native who grew up at a neighborhood cabana club, has a background in competitive swimming, is a Masters swim coach who works with adult swimmers of all ages and abilities, and has work experience in nonprofit management and fundraising, including managing a local YMCA and grant writing for a library foundation. Program Coordinator Anna Contreras has over 10 years of experience in aquatics, has provided Learn-to-Swim lessons for youth of all ages, began working as a swim instructor at Santa Clara Swim Club, gained experience with the swim program’s special abilities program, and has served as a Deck Supervisor, Admin Staff for the Swim School, and pre-competitive swim coach. Assistant Manager and Head Coach Kent Stietzel is a certified Aquatics Facility Operator, has managed pools including Fairbrae Swim & Racquet Club in Sunnyvale and Camp Campbell in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and has Head Coaching experience with Summer League, High School, and USA Swimming teams.
Greenmeadow Community Association is a non-profit civic organization formed around a community center, pool, and park, and is a tightly knit diverse community of neighbors who work together on a volunteer basis to organize and run programs that members and their guests can enjoy. From its start in 1954, Greenmeadow was designed to be a family community, and more than fifty years later it has evolved into a tightly knit diverse community. The association describes itself as a family-oriented community association and swim club in a historic Eichler neighborhood and states that it is a warm, open community with much to offer both kids and adults. Membership includes access to a beautiful pool, a new clubhouse, aquatics programs, picnics, seasonal parties, discounted facility rental, and active online discussion groups, and anyone may join, including residents and families or individuals living outside Greenmeadow. Greenmeadow is on the National Registry of Historic Neighborhoods.
Last updated July 3, 2026.
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