Robert Ellis Young Gymnasium

Robert Ellis Young Gymnasium serves as home of the Lions volleyball team. The 1,700-seat facility was built in 1968 and opened in time for Missouri Southern's inaugural year of play on the senior-college level.

Young Gymnasium became the home of the Lions when women's athletics was instituted at Missouri Southern in 1974. Since joining the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division II and the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) in 1989, the facility has been the host of both the men's and women's basketball teams, as well as the volleyball team. The court received a redesign shortly after the basketball teams moved into the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center as volleyball was the primary sport playing inside the facility.

The first sport to utilize Robert Ellis Young Gymnasium was men's basketball, on December 9, 1968. That night, the Lions dropped a 62-55 decision to Kansas State College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University).

With the construction of the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center adjacent to Young Gymnasium, Young Gym is now used solely by the Lions volleyball team and Missouri Southern's intramural athletics program. Renovation of the floor took place during the 1999-2000 school year, giving Missouri Southern one the premier home volleyball courts in the nation.

Robert Ellis Young Gymnasium also serves as the site of various high school camps and tournaments each year.