Hello Gators! Hope you are all keeping busy and practicing your Social Distancing while getting your workouts in. This last week or two has been a roller-coaster for a lot of us, but please know we are all here for one another and feel the lack of one-on-one socializing and how it is affecting us all. It’s GREAT to see so many of you figuring out how to deal with the current situation and make the best of it. This is what will keep us moving forward and prosper through these times. On Sunday night the Leadership Team and our Head Coaches virtually met up to discuss a few of the changing and evolving things that are currently going on in regards to the Spring Valley Y and the Spring Valley Multisport Gators. To remain transparent, we would like to let you know what is going on in regards to our Leadership Team, Coaches and the Spring Valley Y facility. As you are all aware, the Spring Valley Y is currently closed and at this point in time we have no idea when it will reopen. As part of a staff reduction due to the Coronavirus, our coaching staff’s jobs at the Y were temporarily eliminated. We believe this is temporary, but won’t have any answers to the eliminated positions until they reopen. Our entire Leadership Team are all unpaid volunteers and our coaches remain dedicated to our club even through these uncertain times when they are not being compensated for their time and expertise. We will continue to communicate through our Facebook Page, our Website and Email distributions regardless of how long the Spring Valley Y is closed. I encourage you to keep sharing all your inspirations on our group page. The Training Peaks workouts will still be available and several of our coaches will be doing some un-coached virtual workouts as well. Some have already been popping up on our page! As we are moving forward, we’ve put a few initiatives in place including a Buddy System. A member of our Leadership Team will be reaching out to each and every one of our members individually so we can keep you in the loop and informed one-on-one addition to a weekly update on what is going on with the Gators. As you will see on our Facebook page and email posts – we are planning for the future already! This week we welcomed Keswick Cycle as one of our new sponsors and are putting our Volunteers together for the Women’s Philadelphia Triathlon in July. Once we are over the quarantine, we will be distributing our 2020 Gators Shirts and distributing our cool Gators Headband Swag! We would like to thank everyone for your positive energy through these uncertain times. Thank you, Gina Stango, The Leadership Team & Coaches