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East Liverpool Athletic Facility Enhancements

McKinley Sports partnered with East Liverpool City Schools to deliver a series of impactful upgrades to their athletic facility, focusing on enhancing both functionality and aesthetics. The project centered around the redesign of the synthetic turf field, modernizing the playing surface to improve safety, durability, and year-round usability for student-athletes and the broader community.

In addition to the turf improvements, McKinley provided design and engineering services for upgraded walkways, entry points, and circulation areas throughout the complex. These enhancements improved accessibility, provided a more welcoming spectator experience, and elevated the overall appearance of the facility. The result is a refreshed and revitalized venue that reflects the district’s commitment to student athletics and community pride.

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Carter Field

The Carter Field project in Titusville, Pennsylvania, is a comprehensive athletic facility renovation led by McKinley Sports (formerly JTSA Sports), in partnership with Churches Engineering, LLC. McKinley Sports is a full-service sports architecture and engineering firm with over 60 years of combined experience, specializing in sports and recreation design, engineering, and construction management across professional, collegiate, scholastic, and municipal projects nationwide.

This project focuses on converting an existing natural grass football field into a high-performance synthetic turf field engineered for durability, enhanced playability, and effective drainage. Due to the field’s location in a sump with limited natural outflow, the design raises the playing surface with structural fill to enable positive stormwater drainage directed to a municipal inlet on South Brown Street. Retaining walls are engineered around the field to support the fill and prevent structural impacts on existing grandstands and stadium infrastructure.

The synthetic turf system design will provide a modern, all-weather surface capable of supporting multi-sport use with improved safety and maintenance benefits. The scope includes grading and drainage engineering, detailed construction documents for field subgrade, stormwater management plans, erosion and sediment control measures, permitting coordination including NPDES, and ongoing construction observation to ensure quality and compliance.

McKinley Sports leverages extensive expertise to deliver sustainable, high-performance sports facilities that meet community and regulatory needs, improving athletic infrastructure and user experience.

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John F. Wiley Stadium

In the winter of 2016, Waynesburg University experienced a catastrophic flood that severely impacted its football stadium. The flooding caused significant damage as silt and debris swept across the playing surface, which later froze and bonded to the artificial turf—rendering the field unsafe and unusable.

In response to this critical situation, the university enlisted the expertise of McKinley Sports to assess the extent of the damage, determine insurance valuations, and guide the recovery process. McKinley Sports conducted a thorough evaluation and played a key role in designing and managing the restoration of the facility.

The result was a comprehensive field upgrade completed in 2017. In addition to addressing the immediate flood damage, the project resolved longstanding drainage issues that had plagued the site. The redesigned field also introduced a bold, modern aesthetic that significantly enhanced the visual appeal of the stadium.

The grand reopening of the stadium marked not just the return of athletic activity, but a symbolic moment of renewal and progress for the university’s athletic program. The upgraded facility now stands as a testament to resilience, thoughtful design, and the successful collaboration between Waynesburg University and McKinley Sports.

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Point State Park

Point State Park is a 36-acre landmark located at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers in downtown Pittsburgh. Completed in 1974, the park is part of the Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District and is both a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Developed as part of Pittsburgh’s mid-century urban renewal efforts, the park transformed a former industrial site into a vibrant public green space. It stands as a lasting example of thoughtful city planning and design.

McKinley Architecture + Engineering, formerly MCF, played a key role in the development of Point State Park over a nearly 30-year period, from 1945 through its completion. Charles M. Stotz, Chief Architect and Partner at MCF’s predecessor firm Stotz & Stotz Architects, was one of four professionals selected to design the park.

A signature feature of the site is the Point Fountain, which sends a powerful jet of water more than 150 feet into the air — a visual symbol of Pittsburgh’s natural beauty and strength.

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Wheeling Park High School Sports and Athletics

Since the 1990s, we have completed a multitude of projects for Ohio County Schools. This has included several sports and athletic projects (athletic fields, field houses, gymnasiums, associated structures, etc.).

Many improvements were completed at Wheeling Park High School. The additions and renovations project took place over two years, with a fully occupied and functional student body.

For athletics, there is an addition of a new wrestling practice facility. The mats are laser cut to fit precisely.

All the existing locker rooms were updated to better accommodate the extensive sports program in the county, including new lockers, flooring with logos, individual shower stalls, and more. There are brand new locker rooms dedicated for the swim teams, as well as referee locker rooms for both men and women – more and more referees are female, and need their own changing areas. There is also a training room with a desk for the trainers, a Physical Therapy table, tape tables, ice baths, ice machine, refrigerator, and storage cabinets.

In the gymnasium, we completed bleacher renovations with a custom design that includes “WP” for their school name.

The Overlook – aptly named for it has a great view of the dramatic cascading hillside of the park – a new school store, sells everything a student (and Alumni) needs to be a Park Patriot, including shirts, hoodies, and more. Some of the Patriot apparel is even designed by the students.

We also completed a new Athletic Complex for Wheeling Park High School in 2022. We designed this multi-sport field primarily for softball and soccer. Still, they will accommodate several other athletic departments and educational needs.

This field included synthetic grass system fields. Dugouts, bullpens, press boxes, concessions/restroom building, bleachers, scoreboards, custom painting, lighting, parking lot, and more are included. Construction cost is approximately $2.5 million.

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Weirton Elementary School Gymnasium

The new Weirton Elementary School, for Hancock County Schools, includes a 5,460 SF gymnasium with an adjacent storage room to hold all of the gym equipment needs.

There are multiple activities to be housed in this gym, including sports, health, and physical education.

There is an adjoining 850 SF stage (on the same level as the gym floor) with proscenium opening, and an adjacent storage room for all equipment needs. This includes stage curtain and valance, along with an Smartboard for interactive learning.

There are paint schemes for a 40’x60’ basketball court and a 30’x60’ volleyball court. There are basketball backboards and hoops, along with wall safety padded mats centered behind the backboards. The scale of this gymnasium, having a clear interior ceiling height of 20’ at the sides sloping upwards to over 28’ at the center, allows for the volleyball (and other activities’) playing space to be free from any obstructions.

The center of the gym contains an electrically operated gym divider “curtain” to allow simultaneously gym usage by multiple classes. There are retractable bleachers with seating for 500, with 3 sections for wheelchair and companion seat spaces; when the bleachers are collapsed, it creates multi-use space and can be used as a shared space with its adjacency to the cafeteria. The gym has a sound system and outlets for microphones on several walls.

There are also some special environmental considerations, such as the HVAC system, adequate lighting to prevent dark areas, and the floor is made to be soft on the legs. This wood athletic floor system consists of two layers of plywood with 3/4” ProFlex natural rubber pads affixed to the bottom and maple flooring attached to the top.

Nearby is a 1,770 SF multi-purpose room which is used as a secondary gym. This also has the wood athletic floors. There is a painted exposed ceiling structure and decking, along with large windows to allow natural daylighting to enter the space.

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Stifel Field House

The Linsly School, founded in 1814 and formerly known as the Linsly Military Institute, is a boarding and day school for students in grades 5-12. With a 100% college placement, Linsly’s record as an excellent College Preparatory academy speaks for itself.

The school planned various campus improvements for their 200th Anniversary Campaign. This Campaign started with a master plan, involves multiple buildings, and will involve 3 Phases of construction.

The first phase was the Stifel Field House and Behrens Memorial Gymnasium renovations. This includes improvements to the building aesthetics, HVAC, entry way, structural steel, outside drainage, lights, bleachers, floor, Kalwall, window replacement, locker rooms, restrooms, ADA upgrades, and exterior.

There are multiple “energy efficient” designs, such as natural daylighting with the Kalwall system.

Moreover, the new “Hall of Fame” addition recognizes outstanding athletes from Linsly’s history.

The project encompassed 14,382 SF of renovations.

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Parkersburg High School Gymnasium

Parkersburg High School was founded in 1867 and was one of the first high schools in the state of West Virginia. This structure was originally built in 1917, making it one of the oldest school buildings in WV, and it is now grown to be one of the largest high school campuses in the state. PHS was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 (NRHP Reference #: 92000895).

This $20 million addition / renovation project, for Wood County Schools, encompassed all of the original building, an addition of a gymnasium and a three story science and cafeteria wing.

The gym included a center court for basketball, with 2 cross courts, 2 scoreboards, PA & Sound System, wall mounted safety pads, bleachers, and more.

Being a historic school with a strong alumni association, it was paramount that the original historic caricature of the building remained intact. The original building features extensive stone work and exquisite interior plaster work detailing. Our design protected the grand front façade in favor of additions to the rear of the building. We carefully matched the profiles of the stone and matched the brick to give a seamless transition from the old and new structure on the exterior.

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Johnson Elementary School Gymnasium

At Johnson Elementary School, a Harrison County Schools project, the extended gymnasium is separated from the dining area in the school and incorporates two sets of bleachers with a total seating capacity of 438.

The 6,000 SF gymnasium is designed with a resilient athletic flooring, a youth sized basketball court, and a volleyball court.

The youth sized basketball court, which is 74 feet long by 42 feet wide is used for younger players to maximize their performance and learning abilities.

The basketball court contains two backstops for the full-sized court and four backstops used for half-sized courts.

Custom bleacher design includes “JES” for their school name, and their logo was imprinted on the mats.

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Tyler Consolidated High School Athletic Complex

The new Tyler Consolidated High School Athletic Complex was recently completed in February 2021.

McKinley worked with J.T. Sauer & Associates, Musco Sports Lighting, and FieldTurf USA to create this complex.

The project included a football / soccer field, baseball field, softball field, and practice field. There is a synthetic grass turf system. An 8-lane track circles the football field, and there are additional track & field fixed athletic equipment. There is also a field house / concessions facility, ticketing, press boxes, 3,000 seat grandstand, scoreboard, sound system, playclocks, LED field lighting, and more.

City Construction Company did a tremendous job in building these fields.

The Knights are thrilled to have these new athletic fields.

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