Griffon Indoor Sports Complex
On July 21, 2010, the Griffon Indoor Sports Complex was completed and officially opened. The facility serves Griffon football, softball, baseball, soccer, men's golf and women's golf teams, and is the summer training camp home of the Kansas City Chiefs. The facility features a full 100-yard turf indoor field, a state-of-the-art locker room for the Griffon football team, which can accommodate up to 120 players, as well as coaches offices, a dedicated weight training facility for Griffon student-athletes, meeting rooms, a 120 seat theater, equipment room and athletic training room. The facilities available to Griffon student-athletes rival those of any collegiate or professional sports organization.
Total cost of the building portion of the Griffon Indoor Sports Complex was $10.3 million.
GISC Amenities:
Indoor Field
The major "wow" factor of the facility is the indoor field portion of the complex. The field includes markings for football and soccer. Overhead netting allow the Griffon softball, baseball and golf teams to conduct practices if needed. The facility is large enough to accommodate a regulation softball field. Climate control affords comfortable practice conditions 365 days a year.
Herzog Strength Training Room
The 5,500 square foot Herzog Strength Training Room is located adjacent to the indoor field. The latest technology in Hammer Strength Equipment lodged with Griffon decals is available for the exclusive use by Griffon Student-Athletes.
KCP&L Theater
The 120 seat KCP&L Theater allows Griffon teams to hold full team meetings and film sessions, or with the use of a partition, the ability to split the room and have a separate offensive and defensive meeting at the same time. This room is equipped with state-of-the-art audio visual equipment including two large projection television screens and surround sound.
Preferred Hotel Partner of the Griffon Indoor Sports Complex
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St. Joseph News-Press/St. Joseph Cablevision Classrooms
The facility houses ten smart classrooms which are used by MWSU students and are also perfect for position meetings or other team functions.
Griffon Football Locker Room
Each Griffon football student-athlete has the exclusive use of their own NFL quality oak locker. All lockers were designed and built by Chiefs staff to match lockers at Arrowhead Stadium and include ample space for equipment, gear and other personal belongings. Each locker also includes an electrical outlet. In all, the area houses 120 lockers, an equipment room, spacious showers and restroom facilities and training room located just steps apart.
Athletic Training Room
The professional quality training room features ample taping stations, training tables and other equipment essential to the health of student-athletes. A triage area is located in the room of the room along with two walk-in hydro therapy pools.
