Smeds Tennis Facilities

Thanks to a $1 million gift from Edward W., '57, and Alice, '57, Smeds, Carthage College opened the Smeds Tennis Center in October 1999, on Alford Park Drive, just northwest of the campus and across the road from the Carthage Softball Field. The new tennis complex includes 10 courts, six of which feature lights and stadium seating.

The salvaged restaurant building on the site houses locker rooms, restrooms, a team-meeting space and a concession area. Prior to 1999, Carthage played its home matches on a site just west of the Carthage Physical Education Center, which was converted to parking space as part of the N.E. Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center construction project in 2000-01. Prior to 1964, the team played at an on-campus facility in Carthage, Ill.