BOBBY MURCER INDOOR TRAINING FACILITY
Dedicated in September 2011 (Video: https://vimeo.com/29499867), the Bobby Murcer Indoor Training Facility serves as the home of OC’s rising baseball program. It is named after the Oklahoma City native and New York Yankees player and broadcaster, who died in July 2008 at age 62 after battling brain cancer. Murcer, a five-time All-Star, was one of Oklahoma’s most famous baseball players and a friend to many on the OC campus.
The facility was developed – and partially built – by Chuck White, who served as the Eagles’ coach for the first five seasons after the university revived its baseball program in 2008. The 12,800-square-foot facility includes 8,000 square feet of workout space, including batting cages. It also includes a clubhouse with showers, an athletic training area, a weight training area, laundry facilities and coaches’ offices.
The lobby includes photos and memorabilia from Murcer’s playing and broadcasting careers, special wallpaper that depicts various scenes from OC’s baseball history and plaques honoring the 14 Oklahoma Christian baseball players who have received NAIA, NCCAA or NCAA All-America honors through the years. Two seats from old Yankee Stadium – donated by the Yankees – are displayed in the lobby.
DAVE SMITH ATHLETIC CENTER (THE BARN)
OC's old gymnasium is affectionately called "The Barn." It housed the Eagles' men's basketball team from 1960 to 1970.
The Barn -- renovated in 2010 after a generous donation from OC basketball alum Dave Smith, the founder of MTM Recognition -- now houses the university’s Physical Education for the Exceptional Child, Recreation for the Handicapped Child, and Teaching the Disabled Child courses, which serve children from the surrounding community. The facility also serves as an auxiliary gym during OC’s famous Cage Camps.
DOBSON FIELD
OC’s baseball facility is named after legendary Eagle baseball coach Max Dobson and his late wife Ramona. When completed, it will be a first-class facility with lights and other amenities that will make it an attractive venue for night games and for state, regional and national tournaments. It already has been the host site for the 2013 and 2014 NCCAA Central Region tournaments. The stadium, which opened for the 2008 season, will be completed in three phases.
JACKSON FAMILY INTRAMURAL FIELD
Jackson Family Intramural Field
JUNIOR LORENTZ GOLF CENTER
OC officially dedicated the Junior Lorentz Golf Center, located in the space that used to house Enterprise Square USA’s Hall of Giants, in September 2016. The facility, at the time of its opening the only one of its kind in Oklahoma, has a 3,000-square-foot putting and chipping green with another 1,000 square feet of rough and fringe surrounding the green. It also includes four golf simulator bays (which feature TrackMan and Foresight technology) with launch monitors, screens and computers and projectors. The simulator bays allow OC's teams to play full rounds of golf on many different courses and practice on the range. Also included are offices for OC's golf coaches and a storage area. The facility is named for Junior Lorentz of Ardmore, who donated the $250,000 for its construction.
TOM HEATH FIELD AT LAWSON COMPLEX
In addition to serving as home to the Lady Eagles' softball team, OC’s softball facility -- which opened in February 2014 -- has been a preferred practice site for 2014 and 2015 NCAA Division I champion Florida during the annual Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City. In 2015, it hosted the semifinals and title game of the NCAA Division II Softball Championship, as well as an NAIA Opening Round tournament final and the Oklahoma Class 6A high school slow-pitch tournament. The $3.9 million Lawson Softball Complex features 311 chair-back seats, an all-artificial turf playing field, an indoor practice facility, a plush locker room, a press box, coaches' offices and an events room. Tom Heath Field at Lawson Complex also served as the home sit of the professional softball Oklahoma City Spark for its 2025 season.
PAYNE ATHLETIC CENTER
Constructed in 1970, the Payne Physical Education Building serves as home to the Athletic Department and the Department of Physical Education. Crowds enjoy Eagle men's and women's basketball and Eagle volleyball in the Eagles' Nest gym and students use the facility for intramural sport programs. Mr. W.T. Payne donated generously to the project.
EAGLE SOCCER FIELD
The Eagle Soccer Field has been the home of OC soccer since the men's team began competition in the 1986 season. Before the 2012 season, team shelters were added. The field also has lights, allowing OC teams to play at night.
RAY VAUGHN TRACK
Once described in Sports Illustrated as the “windiest track in America,” the track facility is named for the athletic department’s late patriarch, Ray Vaughn, Sr. Vaughn served Oklahoma Christian for 40 years as a coach and athletic director. Vaughn Track has spawned 22 NAIA national championships in individual events or relays and has been home to some of the university’s greatest athletes, including U.S. Olympian Jeff Bennett (1972, Munich) and Erich Momberger, who represented Papua New Guinea in the 1996 Olympics in Barcelona.
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