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Freed Center for Leadership
Replacing “The Pit” in 2024, the Freed Center for Leadership and Service serves as the indoor home for Vanguard Athletics.
The Freed Center opened for its first game on September 20 for a women's volleyball match against Azusa Pacific, making the event the first Pacific West Conference game in the building's history. The official dedication took place on Friday, October 4.
The Freed Center is a bustling source of pride for the entire Vanguard community and is a place where students, alumni, faculty and staff, and the local community will gather in camaraderie during sports games, chapels, worship gatherings, and campus events.
A hybrid of arena and learning laboratory, the three-story Freed Center contains all the offices for VU Athletics on the second floor and the main arena can hold over 1,200 people for home contests. The new weight room gives all student-athletes a dedicated strength and conditioning facility that features 10 weight racks, four posterior chain developers, and a slam ball wall all provided by PowerLift. The building holds a stand-alone broadcast room that serves the main arena, allowing upwards of four cameras to be deployed for all events in the space full production capabilities.
In addition to athletics, the University’s ever-growing Kinesiology academic program is housed in the second and third story and now has 5 new classrooms, interactive labs, and study spaces–adding dynamic and flexible spaces for learning across disciplines. Lastly,
More information about the building and the fundraising campaign, click HERE.
