A Google User
April 22, 2018 15:14
If I could give this place and its staff a minus 5 stars, I would. The staff are appalling, the teens they hire make fun of the kids that go there, the adult staff are unresponsive to the point that they want to roll their eyes at you. There is a racist vibe to the staff also that is unmistakable. The insane parents particularly the dads who "volunteer coach" on their kids' teams just so they and their children can abuse the other kids is unreal, and the staff bully you if you complain. Members and camp counselors proselytizing on the YMCA property un-checked by staff.
Everything this person wrote and more: Irving 85
2 reviews
a year ago-
* Decent facility, not super clean.
* Pretty overcrowded and disorganized.
* Nice new pool.
* Gym floors are always slippery because they need to be cleaned more frequently.
* Worst case of Dadball I've come across in S. Tampa.
Don't know what Dadball is? It's when the dads who coach sports teams clearly favor their own kids over all the other players. Every kid pays the same amount of money to be on that team but that's where any fairness ends.
Dadball coaches never rotate their kids out of the game. They play them nonstop, even when they suck, while players who aren't coaches kids ride the bench.
People warned us about this kind of stuff at this branch and after two seasons of my kid playing there, I can't deny that they were right.
Do your kids a solid and send them somewhere else... unless you're coaching, of course.