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The Houston Texans YMCA was built on 5-acre (2.0 ha) of land, [20] on the site of a previous building that had been abandoned; this building had the original Palms Center sign. [18] The YMCA announced plans to open the new Texans YMCA, which replaced the South Central YMCA, on March 25, 2008. Groundbreaking occurred in December 2008. [3]
The Houston Texans YMCA, serving the Third Ward, is located in Palm Center. [131] The previous YMCA facility in the Third Ward was the South Central YMCA, between the two universities. [132] This YMCA, in the era of de jure racial segregation, was open to African-Americans. Civil rights activist Quentin Mease found a previous facility and ...
The Houston Texans organization is also a supporter of the character education program, Heart of a Champion. [114] In 2017, the 15th annual Houston Texans Charity Golf Classic raised more than $380,000 for the Foundation. More than $27.2 million has been raised for the Foundation since its creation in 2002. [115]
South Texas Junior College (STJC) was a junior college located in Houston, Texas . The YMCA opened STJC in 1948 and operated the two-year coeducational liberal arts school; no tax money supported the school. The YMCA pioneered the concept of night school, providing educational opportunities for people with full-time employment.
The Weekley Family YMCA is in the area. It opened in 1951 as the Southwest YMCA, [61] in West University Place. The current facility in Braeswood Place, Houston broke ground in 2001. [62] In 2023, Helix Park opened as part of the Texas Medical Center complex with six parks shaped around a double-helix and a campus collaboration building.
He is a member of the board of the foundation named for his parents, as well as a director of the Houston Texans Foundation. [3] [5] In September 2018, after their son Jackson died during infancy, Cal and Hannah McNair hosted a benefit at a Houston restaurant for the 80th anniversary of March of Dimes which raised $450,000.
The Texans are members of the South division in the American Football Conference (AFC) of the National Football League (NFL). They were founded in 1999 and began play as an expansion team in 2002 . The team was owned by Bob McNair until his death in 2018; following McNair's death, the majority ownership of the team went to his wife, Janice .
The 2024 season was the Houston Texans' 23rd in the National Football League (NFL) and the second under head coach DeMeco Ryans.The team introduced new uniforms for the first time since the franchise's inception.