HEALTH
& WELLNESS
AMY DOWE | DIRECTOR OF WELLNESS
2018 was exciting and brought some big changes to the Health
and Wellness department! In April, Debbie Claggett joined the
team as our Sports and Rec Director and then expanded her
role quickly to the Sports, Rec and Aquatics Director in July of
2018. Michael Lorimer, who has been the Masters swim coach
on a part-time basis joined on full-time as our Head Stingray
Swim Coach in May of 2018. We are so excited to have such a
strong team in the Wellness Department!
The biggest success in 2018 was the addition of our run series.
In September we kicked off with the Rosh Hashanah Honey
run followed by a Hanukkah Hot Chocolate run in December.
These runs are a collaboration with the Jewish Life and Learning
department. The hot chocolate run was a huge success and
will become one of our signature runs. With more than 100
runners/walkers out there, everyone had a great time!!!
Many programs experienced revenue growth from 2017 to
2018. Some of the highlighted growth areas in 2018 – The
Aquatics department with the addition of a new program
called Glide Fit. You may have seen people standing on the
water on these bright yellow boards! We offer both high
intensity classes as well as yoga classes. Our tennis program
also had a significant revenue boost by almost 10% from 2017.
The excitement is now centered over the tennis court remodel
coming in 2019! The J’s community partnerships continue to expand. In the
fall of 2018 we had the return of our partnership with Jr. El
Tour which brings a youth cycling program to The J for kids
who are trying to lose weight, get active or overcome learning
differences. This program trained the kids to ride the 43 mile
El Tour event in November. More than 30 kids participated!
We also partnered with Pima Council on Aging to bring a Fall
Assessment program to the members at the J. We are working
in 2019 to expand to more community partners with the wide
variety of programs that we offer.
Personal Training continues to grow year to year! With an
increase in revenue, the trainers were exceeded goals every
month in 2018! This team of 13 trainers work so well together
and continue to bring new and innovative ideas and training
to their clients! The Group Fitness department continues community outreach
with “A Taste of The J” at The Core at La Encantada and at
the TMC Senior Center. These free classes are offered to
the community 1 time per week at each location. Offering a
variety of outreach programming to the community.
The most notable increase from 2017 to 2018 was in our
Elder Rehab program-with the increasing need for cognitive
programming, the Elder Rehab program grew 90%! We are
working to make this a sustainable program that we can also
share with other JCC’s around the country. In addition to the
2 semesters we offer, in 2018 we added a summer program that
was highly attended and showed returning participants.
We have added new and exciting programs to Youth
Enrichment. Debbie has expanded the pee wee soccer program,
added lacrosse, as well as a few others. There is a lot of planning
for more programs in 2019 to grow this department.