Driving to Achieve
The Walt Gutowski, Sr. YMCA Golf Outing
Thank you to Acrisure Benefits Group for being our 2022 Title Sponsor!

Driving to Achieve is a golf outing hosted by the Y to raise charitable funds for teen leadership programs of
all types which guide teens toward success in middle school, high school, college, and the workforce by developing the skills that help our future neighborhoods and businesses thrive.
Event Details
2023 event details coming soon!
Your participation in this exciting event includes a breakfast upon arrival, a brief program to help you get your day on the green started promptly, food stations on the course to satisfy your appetite, games, and a great conversation with your team. We look forward to sharing with you all the great things about our teen programming via your inbox and the tee box.
Our Teen Leadership Programming
Teen Learning Academy
Summer Teen Learning Academy
The Summer Teen Learning Academy program is an exciting and unique experience designed to decrease the effects of summer learning loss and prepare high schoolers for success in school, higher education, and prosperous careers.
Youth participating will cultivate the values, skills and relationships that lead to positive behaviors, better health and educational achievement. Students in our program explore career paths and post-secondary options through workplace tours, guest speakers, and project-based learning. The program is organized into multiple components, each focusing on building different skills.

Impact Program
Visser Impact Program
Teens explore talents and interests while gaining leadership skills and confidence in a safe, nurturing atmosphere through homework help, physical activity, volunteer activities, community service projects, and mentoring with Visser Family YMCA families.

Leaders In Training (LIT)
Leaders In Training (LIT)
The LIT program allow teen campers to explore their leadership skills while developing good character qualities, participating in service learning and enjoying camp activities. This two-week program focuses on developing leadership skills during the first week as a group. The second week, the LITs will participate in a South Manitou Island backpacking trip. This program is a must to become a Counselor-in-Training or Junior Counselor.

Youth in Government
Youth in Government
Students learn YMCA core values, while also navigating the world of politics (local, state, national, and international) with peers.

Thank you to our 2022 Sponsors!
Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors
Mercantile Bank
Varnum, LLP
Silver Sponsors
Life Fitness
Litehouse Foods
Wolverine Building Group
Scorecard Sponsors
Charles & Julie Frayer
Tee Sponsors
Advantage Mechanical-Refrigeration
Beverage Cart Sponsors
SpartanNash
Bronze Sponsors
Feyen Zylstra
First United Credit Union
Founders Brewing Company
Huntington Bank
KeyBank
Pure Architects
Rockford Construction
Swift Printing
UFP Industries
University of Michigan Health – West
Foursome
Assist 2 Sell Realty
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Central Michigan Paper
Edify North
EV Construction
First National Bank
H&S Companies
Independent Bank
Key Bank
Lake Michigan Credit Union
Lighthouse, An Alera Group Co.
Maple Hill Golf
Matrix Fitness
Pondera Advisors
Precor/Peloton
Progressive AE
West Michigan Whitecaps
Thank you to our 2022 Planning Committee:
Mike Verhulst
Harold Burrell
Curt Mulder
Nolan Gottschalk
Mike Wooldridge
Chad Morrow
David Kistler