Olean YMCA

Specialties

The Y: We’re for youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. As a leading non-​profit, no one is denied membership due only to the inability to pay. We serve over 6,000 people annually and teach swimming, gymnastics, group exercise, leader in child care, youth sports, adult sports, personal training and more!

History

Established in 1886.

The YMCA was established in the Olean and Bradford communities in 1886 as separate chartered non-​profit organizations. Nearly 120 years later, the two community YMCAs merged into one. In 2007, the Olean-​Bradford Area YMCA was born and grew into an organization that has a vast array of resources to meet the growing needs of the people in our communities. In 2012, we collaborated with Upper Allegheny Health System and opened our Gymnastics Center in Limestone, NY. With this stand-​alone gym for our Flames Team and progressive program, we are able to serve over 250 youth and change their lives with YMCA sports. That same year, we entered into an agreement with the Town of Wellsville and the Wellsville Central School to provide programming in Wellsville. We started by staffing a fitness center at the high school and an aquatic center at the elementary school as well as managing all of the recreation programs that were previously run by the Town. Everything fell into place and by January of