Melissa CHAMPIONSHIP CENTER

Project By the Numbers

#1

Texas’ largest sports facility to date, exceeding notable college and professional football facilities including Texas A&M, University of Texas at Austin, as well as The Ford Center at the Star in Frisco.

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Locker rooms, a weight room, a treatment area, training rooms, theater classrooms, wrestling area, VIP meeting areas, an indoor turf practice facility, and an eight-lane competition track and football/soccer field.

5,200

Square-foot injury rehabilitation clinic located inside the Melissa Championship center is the first of its kind in northeastern Collin County and offers sports injury services to all residents throughout the region.

Project Details

Location: Melissa, TX
Size: 134,200 SF
Cost: $23M
Completion Date: 04/01/2021
Role: CM Agent

Project Summary: HWH recently completed the Melissa Championship Center, a $21.3 million, 134,200-square-foot practice facility on the Melissa Independent School District (ISD) high school campus. Melissa is located in North Texas’ Collin County, one of the top 10 fastest-growing counties in the nation according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Center, the largest of its kind in Texas, surpasses in square footage notable college-level facilities, including those at Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin, as well as The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, a pro-level football practice facility.

The University Interscholastic League (UIL) certified college-level center includes an indoor practice facility that can accommodate multiple practices simultaneously. It also features nine locker rooms, a weight room, a treatment area, training rooms, theater classrooms for lectures and film review, wrestling rooms and VIP meeting areas, an indoor turf field and an eight-lane competition track and football/soccer field. With a unique building design that features no columns inside the facility, the Center can facilitate various sports and meets, including football, baseball, soccer and band competitions using different nets, cages and platforms that descend from the ceiling.

In partnership with the largest health system in North Texas, Texas Health Resources, the 5,200-square-foot injury rehabilitation clinic located inside the Melissa Championship Center is the first-of-its-kind in northeast Collin County and offers physical and occupational therapies and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) services to all residents throughout the region. In addition, Texas Health Resources offers students participating in the Melissa ISD occupational health program to shadow physical therapists and doctors as they treat sports injuries.

From the state-of-the-art sound system to the Wi-Fi-enhanced leak detection system that protects the building from flooding, the Center was developed using the most current materials and top-of-the-line technology that creates a safer environment for all home and visiting athletes. State-of-the-art technology extends throughout the facility and into the Center’s outdoor practice field. The new wood chip pellet material it is made up of offers extra cooling, key in Texas temperatures, and cushioning, which already has resulted in fewer sport-related injuries.

“There’s a quote that I use by Lane Kiffin that says, ‘If you are going to do the impossible, you must be able to see the invisible’ and we had a vision. we saw the invisible.”

— Duke Sparks, Director of Athletic Operations and Community Partnerships

Recent News

The Melissa Championship Center was recently recognized by the Metal Building Contractors & Erectors Association (MBCEA) with an Award of Merit in the Educational and Recreation Category.