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Summer Sports Camps offers basketball, flag football, and soccer camps, along with other youth sports programs. The program also connects families with swim lessons, swim team, and an Adaptive Swim Program for children who are confined to wheelchairs. Additional offerings connected to the program include educational summer day camps, afterschool programming, and full-day, summer youth development and life skills opportunities.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
• Schedule: Basketball Camp July 8–12; Flag Football Camp August 5–8; Soccer Camp August 19–22
The Summer Sports Camps are part of the Family YMCA of Marion and Polk Counties, which has been dedicated to giving people of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life the opportunity to reach their full potential with dignity for all since 1892. The program is guided by the YMCA’s core values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Sports Coordinators for these camps are listed as M-I Y, Megan Freeborn; Salem, Dakota Smith; and Woodburn, Daniel Castaneda.
The broader organization connected to Summer Sports Camps offers programs such as Healthy Weight, Healthy Child; Livestrong® for Cancer Survivors; Pedaling for Parkinson’s; Arthritis Programs; Fall Prevention programs; and Youth in Government. It continues generations-long traditions of YMCA swim lessons, swim team, and youth sports programs, and facilitates Youth in Government, a program designed to teach young people the value of civics and democracy.
The organization reports that 58% of members receive financial aid of some kind and that no one is turned away for an inability to pay. It offers free family memberships to all foster families in Marion and Polk Counties and provides children from refugee families with free access to educational summer day camps. It also offers access to free healthy meals through the Friday Meal Box Program for families, provides over 1,300 youth with full-day, summer youth development and life skills opportunities, nurtures potential and improves academic engagement by offering afterschool programming at 22 schools, and offers discounts for military families.
Last updated January 6, 2026.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
• Schedule: Basketball Camp July 8–12; Flag Football Camp August 5–8; Soccer Camp August 19–22
The Summer Sports Camps are part of the Family YMCA of Marion and Polk Counties, which has been dedicated to giving people of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life the opportunity to reach their full potential with dignity for all since 1892. The program is guided by the YMCA’s core values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Sports Coordinators for these camps are listed as M-I Y, Megan Freeborn; Salem, Dakota Smith; and Woodburn, Daniel Castaneda.
The broader organization connected to Summer Sports Camps offers programs such as Healthy Weight, Healthy Child; Livestrong® for Cancer Survivors; Pedaling for Parkinson’s; Arthritis Programs; Fall Prevention programs; and Youth in Government. It continues generations-long traditions of YMCA swim lessons, swim team, and youth sports programs, and facilitates Youth in Government, a program designed to teach young people the value of civics and democracy.
The organization reports that 58% of members receive financial aid of some kind and that no one is turned away for an inability to pay. It offers free family memberships to all foster families in Marion and Polk Counties and provides children from refugee families with free access to educational summer day camps. It also offers access to free healthy meals through the Friday Meal Box Program for families, provides over 1,300 youth with full-day, summer youth development and life skills opportunities, nurtures potential and improves academic engagement by offering afterschool programming at 22 schools, and offers discounts for military families.
Last updated January 6, 2026.
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