Brookfield YMCA Mako Swimmers Go the Distance for the Community Pool

On November 5, 53 swimmers from Brookfield’s Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut’s Mako swim team swam for a total of 3 hours as part of the annual Donna Ragatz Swim For the Y event.

The Brookfield YMCA hosted the fundraising event, which played a major role in 2015 and 2016 in raising money for a new youth development and aquatic center building, and a seasonal bubble enclosure for the facility’s outdoor Olympic-size pool. Current plans will provide the Mako swim club as well as the surrounding communities with the space needed to both house the swim club and offer aquatic programs year-round.

Currently, there is limited space for both the community and the swim team to share pool facilities, so the bubble will be a boon to the surrounding area. So far this year the team has raised more than $10,000 toward the project.

The Mako competitive swim team program includes local swimmers ranging in age from 7 to 17, many of whom set up a fundraising page on the web to meet the individual fundraising goal of $200 per swimmer.

For more information about the Mako swim team visit the Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut Makos website.