Southwest Christian Excessive Faculty is now working a brand new addition to its campus.
For years, Southwest Christian has struggled with the area accessible for its college students. With greater than 75% of her college students collaborating within the athletic program at Southwest Christian, the necessity for added area was evident.
In 2022, the varsity and administration determined to alleviate this area drawback and approved the development of a brand new constructing venture. That dream got here true this previous December when Southwest Christian's Athletic Complicated opened.
The college and group held an open home on Saturday, January 6 for college kids, services, alumni and space residents to view the brand new facility.
The Athletic Complicated is a greater than 50,000-square-foot facility that includes a new entrance, concession stand, three further locker rooms, a multipurpose room for instruction, conferences and movie classes, a 5,000-square-foot weight room, three courts (two wooden and one multi-purpose ), grass space with batting cages and hockey quick fingers.
“The brand new athletic complicated is a major addition to our college and athletic program,” mentioned Southwest Christian Athletic Director Darin Keizer. “All of those new additions will assist alleviate the numerous area pressures we face in our athletic applications. With the earlier rigs, we bought into lots of time constraints as a consequence of early morning and late night time coaching classes.”
Keizer continued, “The brand new athletic complicated permits our groups to expertise higher apply instances and other ways to construct group by enjoying girls and boys basketball video games on the identical night time. It can additionally allow us to higher fulfill our college's mission of looking for, understanding, dwelling and proclaiming the reality and glorifying God by means of tutorial, creative and athletic excellence.”
Along with serving to clear up the area drawback at Southwest Christian, the addition might be made accessible to space youth applications.
“This athletic complicated will be capable of higher serve our larger group,” Keizer mentioned. “We have now partnered with some youth associations in Chaska and Chanhassen to assist alleviate their area wants. We hope this area may be an unimaginable blessing to all who use it.”
