Rick Kilps Center

The Rick Kilps Center is a 6,300-square-foot indoor turf facility that offers a state-of-the-art practice field for the Ranger men’s and women’s soccer, baseball, and softball teams in addition to serving Parkside staff, students, and the community.

The Rick Kilps Center is named after Parkside’s all-time winningest coach in any sport. Kilps compiled a 363-137-40 record in 27 seasons with the Rangers. The 1975 Parkside graduate put together 26 consecutive winning seasons behind the performance of 37 National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-Americans. Kilps had 113 players named to the Great Lakes Valley Conference All-Academic team, five GLVC Academic All-Americans, and three GLVC All-Academic Player of the Year recipients.

Formerly the aquatics center, the Rick Kilps Center was completed on September 25, 2021 and cost 1.8 million dollars.

The state-of-the-art Rick Kilps Center was an immediate game changer for Parkside Athletics, providing a first-class practice facility for men's soccer, women's soccer, baseball, and softball. These student-athletes – who regularly feel the adverse effects of the Wisconsin winters and have previously been routinely forced off campus for indoor practices now have a training center just steps from their locker rooms.