Enrichment Classes

We offer Enrichment Classes for children 6 months through adults. Parent and child classes are offered for 6 months through 3 years. Preschool and grade school children can register for games classes, general sports classes, specific sport classes or combination sports and games classes. Golf and tennis lessons are offered for adults. Most classes are led by full time JCC Sports & Recreation staff. Our soccer classes are led by staff from Sonesoccer and tennis classes are led by staff from Hot Shot Tennis. Louis Ruina offers golf lessons to children age 7 through adults.

Basketball Leagues

We offer an in house Basketball League for children in kindergarten through grade 4. The league typically runs November through March. For those in grades 5 - 12, we offer a traveling Basketball League. Tryouts are typically held in October and League games normally begin in December. Adult Basketball Leagues run year round. Our options include either 18+ Leagues or 35+ Temple leagues. Players can sign up as a team or as an individual and be placed on a team.

Recreation Programs

Times are reserved throughout the week for adult, teen and family recreation. Our Recreation Programs are no fee and no advance registration required (except adult table tennis). They include: badminton, obstacle course, pickleball, soccer, table tennis, volleyball, and more. Check the Margulis gym schedule for a complete listing and days and times offered

Sports Specific Training

We offer private and semi private instruction for children, teens, and adults looking to improve their skills in basketball, golf, raquetball, soccer, and tennis.

Junior Maccabi Program

We participate in the regional Junior Maccabi Games. This program is a one day event taking place on a Sunday in May. Jewish athletes ages 10-12 compete in a variety of sports including baseball, basketball, soccer, swimming, and tennis. Tryouts take place beginning in January.

JCC Maccabi Games

Maccabi is a one week Olympic style athletic competition for Jewish teens ages 13-16. Tryouts take place beginning in January. Athletes that make one of our JCC teams travel with us one week in August. This is an international competition and different communities throughout the country host each year.

Special Events and programs

Throughout the year, special events may be offered. For Fall 2009, we feature soccer clinics led by Sonesoccer staff for children ages 8-12 during the NJ Teachers Convention on Thursday, November 5 and Friday, November 6.

In conjunction with Atlantic Health, we will offer a lecture on September 15 on youth sports. Topics will include proper nutrition and hydration, warm ups and injury prevention-endurance training, and care of/treating sports injuries.

Birthday Parties

Birthday parties for children ages 3 and up are offered. Our Gym Jam Party for ages 3 and 4 features a moon bounce and age appropriate activities. Sports and/or games parties are offered for children ages 5 and older. Our parties feature one hour in the gym with JCC staff leading the activities and one hour in a special room for you and your guests to celebrate.

Comments

We want to hear your feedback on special events, birthday parties, Enrichment Classes, Basketball leagues, anything else at the JCC! Contact Sherri Feldscher at sfeldscher@jccmetrowest.org