Guilford College Athletic Facilities

Guilford College practices and competes year round on some of the top athletic facilities for a school of its size in the region. Here is a look at the primary athletic facilities used by the Quakers varsity student-athletes.

Armfield Athletic Center, McBane Field, The Physical Education Center, Ragan-Brown Field House, Guilford College Pool,

Guilford Tennis Courts, Alumni Gym, Haworth Fields, The Cardinal Golf & Country Club, Hagan-Stone Park

Armfield Athletic Center: Home to the Guilford's football, men's lacrosse and women's lacrosse teams; Armfield Athletic Center is a 2,200-seat stadium located on the southeast corner of the campus. The stadium has both aluminum bleacher seating and stadium seating. The stadium is equipped with a state-of-the-art scoreboard, sound system, and lights for night games. The playing surface is covered with Bermuda grass and is fully irrigated.

The Armfield Athletic Center was originally constructed with funds from the Armfield family and friends and dedicated in honor of William J. Armfield Jr. and in memory of Britt M. Armfield and William J. Armfield III. The elder William Armfield, who died in 1968, played on the college's first football team in the late 1800s. Both William Armfields were Guilford alumni.

In 2006, Armfield Athletic Center received the first phase of an estimated $2.5 million renovation project.  The first phase included a new press box, stadium seating, refurbished bleacher seating, a multi-function scoreboard and exterior fence.  The Armfield Athletic Center's game field was renamed in honor of Dr. Herbert T. Appenzeller, who worked with the Armfield family 45 years ago to build the athletic complex. In his nearly 40 years at Guilford, Appenzeller’s work as a professor and administrator produced many scholars, athletes and leaders in their fields. In 2007, the field received new visitor bleacher seating and field lights. Subsequent phases are slated to include field turf, additional seating and exterior improvements.  Click here for more information about the project.

McBane Field: Guilford's baseball team plays and practices on McBane Field, named for one of the school's top baseball players, Edgar McBane '14. He donated much of his time to the baseball program and at one time attended at least one Guilford baseball game for 73 straight years.

McBane Field is located next to Alumni Gym on Guilford's campus. The field has permanent dugouts for home and visiting teams, a new padded backstop, new bleacher seating for spectators, a new state-of-the-art inning-by-inning scoreboard, a brick dust warning track and a new eight-foot vinyl coated fence and windscreen. The infield was resodded with Bermuda grass in 1992, making it one of the finest playing surfaces in the area. The field measures 320' down the lines, 360' in the alleys and 385' to straightaway center field. In 1998, the bullpens were improved by the construction of two regulation pitching mounds in each bullpen and the infield received a new layer of red clay.

The Physical Education Center is a $4-million complex that was dedicated in 1980. In addition to the Ragan-Brown Field House, the P.E. Center houses a 25-meter six-lane pool, a renoveated weight room, locker room facilities, team rooms for seven Guilford sports, and a fully equipped training room that was upgraded and expanded in 2004. Adjacent to the P.E. Center are the Guilford College Tennis Courts and the Alumni Gym, the site where Guilford played basketball and volleyball from 1940-80.

Ragan-Brown Field House: Home court to Guilford's men's basketball, women's basketball, and volleyball teams. The recently renovated 2,500-seat arena is part of the College's Physical Education Center. Named for Herbert and Elizabeth Ragan and Edwin and Dorothy Brown, the arena was dedicated in 1980. Ragan-Brown Field House has received $75,000 worth of renovations since 2003 and features a refurbished Robbins Bio-Cushion maple floor. A new sound system and new baskets were installed in 2003. A new multi-panel scoreboard, shot clocks, and scoretable were installed in 2007. With retractable bleachers, new floor graphics, and a cathedral-like wooden ceiling, the Quakers' home ranks among the top small-college basketball facilities in the Southeast.
Guilford College Pool: Home to the Quakers' women's swimming team. Guilford practices and competes on campus in the Guilford College Pool, which is part of the College's Physical Education (PE) Center. The pool runs 25 meters in length with six lanes and newly installed Paragon starting blocks. It also houses a small warm up pool. The facility received extensive renovations in 2005, worth an estimated $85,000. In January of 2008, a new Daktronics 2000 scoreboard was installed for swimming competitions.

Guilford College Weight Room
Locker Rooms
Guilford College Training Room

Guilford College Tennis Courts: Home to the men's tennis and women's tennis teams. The Quakers compete and practice on eight Lay-Kold tennis courts adjacent to the school's Physical Education Center. The courts, all of which have been resurfaced over the last few years, are surrounded by windscreens.
Alumni Gym: Home to Guilford College basketball and volleyball from 1940-80, Alumni Gym was refurbished in the summer of 2004, and received new windows, new paint and a renovated playing surface. It is still used by the men's and women's basketball teams for practice. Affectionately known as the "Cracker Box," the gym hosted many memorable basketball contests and served as the home of future National Basketball Association players Bob Kauffman '68, M.L. Carr '73, World B. Free '77 and Greg Jackson '74. The Quakers' men often played local rivals such as Elon, High Point, and Winston-Salem State before standing-room only crowds.

Haworth Fields: Home to the men's soccer, women's soccer, and softball teams, located on the northwest corner of the College, consist of two regulation soccer fields, a practice field, a softball field, an intramural field, public rest rooms, bleacher areas, bench areas, and permanent scoreboards on the soccer and softball game fields. The intramural field is lighted and hosts a number of rugby and Ultimate frisbee contests. The competition fields are sodded with Bermuda grass and used exclusively by Guilford’s varsity teams. Haworth Soccer Field has been significantly upgraded with a locker room/press box and fan seating. Haworth Softball Field was built in 2003 and received a new scoreboard in the spring of 2006 and new dugouts in the spring of 2008.

The Cardinal Golf & Country Club: Home to the Quakers' golf team. For the past 25 years, Guilford College has been fortunate to call The Cardinal Golf & Country Club its home course. The par-70 Pete Dye-designed course measures 6,640 yards from the back tees with a 137 slope and 73.4 U.S. Golf Association rating. Dye is overseeing the course's extensive renovations that will run into early 2007. The Cardinal is also the site of the annual Tom O'Briant Memorial Tournament hosted each fall by Guilford College and named for Guilford Hall of Famer Tom O'Briant. Guilford thanks the Cardinal's PGA Professional Scott Stratton and his staff, course superintendent Gary Stafford, club president Grayson Southerland and all of the Cardinal's membership for their generous support of the Quakers' golf program.