Founded by former All American swimmer Adrienne Mattos in 2007, the Aquatech Swim School is housed in the Mariner Square Athletic Club on Alameda's West End. Aquatech offers classes for all levels of swimmers with a focus on small groups. Students advance up the ranks from tadpole to orca in a carefully-designed system for skill development and a summer intensive offers opportunity for more concentrated lessons.
Alameda Table Tennis Center is a table tennis facility that offers a wide variety of training programs for children and adults. The facility features a large gymnasium with 14 professional tables, as well as a pro shop open Wednesdays and Sundays during operating hours. The center welcomes players of all abilities and hosts non-competitive open play five nights a week, as well as competive round robin twice weekly and monthly tournaments. Membership and drop-in rates are available.
In a spa-like setting by a lagoon, Harbor Bay Club offers a panoply of sports and workout options. The 25-meter heated pool is open for free swim, laps, lessons and classes such as water aerobics. The gym features a bountiful array of cardio and strength equipment. Pursue your own routine, work with a personal trainer or take a class – such as spin, zumba, kick boxing, yoga, Pilates or Tai Chi.
With 19 courts, tennis rules at Harbor Bay Club. Improve your backhand with lessons from their tennis pros. Sign up the kids for basic instruction or tennis camp and who knows? They may be interested in competing in the East Bay Junior League.
Harbor Bay Club is decidedly kid friendly. For daily fun, register for after-school kids club and summer camp. Childcare is available for infants (six weeks) through preschoolers.
Ready to relax? Treat yourself to a massage or a facial; get a body wax or a pedicure with non-toxic nail polish.
The Clubhouse fits 200 seated and can be rented for special events.
This traffic school is run by one owner. Ms. Wong offers the basic services needed to fulfill the requirements resulting from traffic violations. Beverages are sold during break time, although several stores are within immediate walking distance. The business is located in a tiny old wood-shingled, one-story building. The interior space consists of a meeting room and a single co-ed bathroom.
Bladium Sports Club has beautifully restored an old Navy hanger into a multifaceted sports center. Since 2001 at its Alameda location, and in the bay area since 1996, Bladium has served as a sports arena for soccer and hockey leagues, hosted sports-centered birthday parties, offered gym memberships with full access to the entire facility, run Group X classes with pilates and yoga workouts, offered boxing training, and taught rock-climbing with a 35-foot wall and a 10-foot boulder. Upstairs in the facility, overlooking the entire grounds, is a sports bar, complete with flat-screen televisions, food and alcohol. Bladium Sports Club proudly promotes its unique combination of children and adults as a family-oriented gym in which children take gymnasium classes and interact in numerous athletic activities at the same time as their parents use the facility. For kids 8 & up, there is also a Kid's Club room, which has flat-screen televisions and Nintendo Wiis with interactive games, a karaoke system and parentally controled computers.
An Alameda institution since 1949, when it was founded as the Alameda Boys Club by local businessman Leonard E. Lee, the Club began to incorporate girls into programing in the 1980s and officially became the Alameda Boys & Girls Club in 1991.
Operating in partnership with many other community groups, the Alameda Boys & Girls Club aims to "inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential," providing them with recreational and educational opportunities in a safe and welcoming setting.
In 2006, the Club began a capital campaign to replace the organization's Lincoln Avenue building, and in 2010 it broke ground at a 1.5-acre site. The new west end facility will include a gym, teen center, game room, computer lab, learning center, music and dance areas, a dental clinic and a health clinic.
The site for Alameda football for more than a century, Thompson Field is a local landmark. The field itself has a "decidedly hometown feel," layered with thin grass and flanked by two metal bleachers. During the Alameda high school and youth football seasons, there is a snack bar with food and beverages served with a smile. In September 2005, the Oakland Tribune ranked Thompson Field amongst the top six venues to watch a high school football game in the East Bay. An aging gem of Alameda athletic history, football fans recently raised the funds to refurbish the stadium's scoreboard in honor of legendary Alameda High coach Forrest Klein.