The Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex, a LEED Gold Certified building, includes a three-story building on the mauka side of the existing Clarence T.C. Ching Field. The facility supports a wide variety of activities and events as the only on-campus all-purpose track and field, football, soccer, beach volleyball and recreational facility and provides grandstand seating for approximately 2,500 fans for the track/field.
The interior of the building features offices, locker rooms and a meeting room for women's soccer, cross country, track and field, and beach volleyball. The complex also has a sand volleyball venue with 778 seats and two competition courts. For football, the complex seats approximately 15,000.
The second and third floors of the complex were completed in July of 2016. The second level features a large multipurpose room that can be used for receptions, meetings, conferences, etc. The third floor has four separate rooms that are set up as press boxes for sporting events.
The late Clarence T.C. Ching was a developer, realtor, banker, affordable housing pioneer, and philanthropist. He was born on Kaua'i in 1912. His father, an immigrant from Canton, China who came to Hawai'i to work in the rice fields, sent his sons to St. Louis School because he wanted them to get the best education they could. Clarence graduated in 1932, and later entered a business school for evening courses. He was well known for developing the areas around Honolulu Airport, Salt Lake, Moanalua, Ft. Shafter and Tripler with noted Hawai'i businessman and former St. Louis classmate K.J. Luke. In 1970, he built Kukui Gardens, one of the largest affordable rental projects in the state, home to roughly 2,500 residents in 857 units on 22 acres in downtown Honolulu.
In 1967, Clarence founded The Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation to support charitable and educational functions. The foundation has provided support for St. Louis School, Chaminade University, St. Francis Healthcare System, and the University of Hawai'i, among many others. He organized the non-profit organization that built the Chinese Cultural Plaza and was appointed by Governor John A. Burns to serve on the board of the University of Hawai'i Research Corporation in 1965.
DRIVING DIRECTIONS & PARKING INFORMATION
From East
- Take H1 West / Lunalilo Freeway West
- Take the University Avenue exit, EXIT 24B
- Take first slight right onto Lower Campus Road.
- After you go through the guard kiosk, take first left to park in the lower campus Parking Structure
From West (Ewa)
- Take H-1 East
- Merge onto University Avenue via EXIT 24B
- Turn right onto Dole Street
- Take first right onto Lower Campus Road
- After you go through the guard kiosk, take first left to park in the lower campus Parking Structure
From Windward Side
- Take H3, Pali Highway, or Likelike Highway
- Merge onto H-1 East / Lunalilo Freeway East
- Take the University Avenue EXIT 24B
- Merge onto University Avenue
- Turn right onto Dole Street
- Take first right onto Lower Campus Road
- After you go through the guard kiosk, take first left to park in the lower campus Parking Structure
