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Tennis, Gymnastics, Swimming and Ice Facilities in Kansas City

Where Kansas City's tennis centers, gymnastics gyms, swim clubs, ice rinks and sports performance centers are, what each one offers, and how far each is by car from nearby city halls.

By Tom Staats Updated October 4, 2026 7 min read

Not every sport runs through a tournament complex. Tennis, gymnastics, swimming, skating and sports performance training usually happen at one facility, often several days a week, so the drive from home to that building matters more than the drive to an occasional meet. This guide lists the main facilities in the Kansas City metro for these sports, what each one offers, and how far each is by car from nearby city halls.

Drive times come from OpenStreetMap routing and assume no traffic, so allow more at rush hour. They are measured to city halls, which are fixed points, not to every part of a city.

Tennis

  • Elite Tennis and Wellness, 14481 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, Kansas. Nine lit indoor and outdoor tennis courts, pickleball, a wellness center and a junior program, The Academy @ Elite Tennis.
  • Overland Park Racquet Club, 6800 W. 91st Street, Overland Park, Kansas. Open since 1974, with 14 indoor courts, outdoor hard and clay courts, padel and pickleball, and high performance junior tennis classes.
  • Plaza Tennis Center, 4747 Mill Creek Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri. A City of Kansas City public parks facility with 14 lighted outdoor hard courts, managed by USTA Missouri Valley.

Approximate drives from each tennis center, without traffic:

  • Elite Tennis and Wellness to Leawood City Hall: 4.8 miles, 10 minutes
  • Elite Tennis and Wellness to Overland Park City Hall: 10 miles, 15 minutes
  • Elite Tennis and Wellness to Olathe City Hall: 9.3 miles, 18 minutes
  • Overland Park Racquet Club to Overland Park City Hall: 1.8 miles, 5 minutes
  • Overland Park Racquet Club to Prairie Village City Hall: 3.2 miles, 8 minutes
  • Overland Park Racquet Club to Leawood City Hall: 4.7 miles, 10 minutes
  • Plaza Tennis Center to Kansas City, Missouri City Hall: 4.9 miles, 10 minutes
  • Plaza Tennis Center to Prairie Village City Hall: 5.8 miles, 13 minutes
  • Plaza Tennis Center to North Kansas City City Hall: 9.4 miles, 16 minutes

The area guides for Overland Park, Leawood and Prairie Village cover the cities around the two Overland Park clubs.

Gymnastics

  • Impact Gymnastics, 9063 Bond Street, Overland Park, Kansas. Recreational classes and boys' and girls' competitive teams, including compulsory and Xcel levels.
  • Pinnacle Gymnastics, 7703 Meadow View Drive, Shawnee, Kansas, with a second location at 2929 N. 103rd Terrace in Kansas City, Kansas. Gymnastics, tumbling, dance and ninja classes and a competitive team.

Approximate drives, without traffic:

  • Impact Gymnastics to Overland Park City Hall: 2.5 miles, 6 minutes
  • Impact Gymnastics to Lenexa City Hall: 4.2 miles, 10 minutes
  • Impact Gymnastics to Shawnee City Hall: 5 miles, 10 minutes
  • Pinnacle Gymnastics (Shawnee) to Lenexa City Hall: 5.1 miles, 11 minutes
  • Pinnacle Gymnastics (Shawnee) to Olathe City Hall: 8.8 miles, 16 minutes
  • Pinnacle Gymnastics (Shawnee) to Shawnee City Hall: 11 miles, 21 minutes

Both gyms are in northern Johnson County: Impact near the line between Overland Park and Lenexa, and Pinnacle on the west side of Shawnee, about 11 miles by road from Shawnee City Hall.

Swimming

  • Kansas City Blazers, Johnson County, Kansas. A competitive swim team established in 1975 as a department of the Johnson County Park & Recreation District. The team does not train at a single pool, so check its practice schedule for the pools your group uses.
  • Tsunami Swim Team of Kansas City, 8814 NE 97th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, in the Northland. A USA Swimming club with Level 3 club recognition. The listed address is the club's, so ask which pool your group trains in.

Ice sports

  • Cable Dahmer Arena, 19100 E. Valley View Parkway, Independence, Missouri. Home of the Kansas City Mavericks of the ECHL. Youth hockey, learn to play and learn to skate programs run through Independence Community Ice at the same address.
  • KC Ice Center, 19900 Johnson Drive, Shawnee, Kansas. An NHL-size rink (200 by 85 feet) with seating for 800, and the home of the Kansas City Stars Hockey Club.
  • Line Creek Community Center and Ice Arena, 5940 NW Waukomis Drive, Kansas City, Missouri. A 34,000-square-foot Kansas City Parks recreation center with an ice arena, in Frank Vaydik Park off I-29 in the Northland. It is home ice for the Line Creek Figure Skating Club and KC Fighting Saints Youth Hockey, with Learn to Skate KC classes, public skating, freestyle and stick time. KC Parks posts a public skating calendar each month, and the figure skating club describes the rink's programs as year-round. In 2026 a facility pass was $8 a day and skate rental $3.
  • The AdventHealth Sports Park at Bluhawk in south Overland Park, which opened in October 2024, also has an NHL-size rink. Its operator says a second sheet of ice is planned.

Approximate drives from each rink, without traffic:

  • Cable Dahmer Arena to Blue Springs City Hall: 6 miles, 11 minutes
  • Cable Dahmer Arena to Independence City Hall: 7.1 miles, 14 minutes
  • Cable Dahmer Arena to Lee's Summit City Hall: 9.9 miles, 16 minutes
  • KC Ice Center to Lenexa City Hall: 6.2 miles, 10 minutes
  • KC Ice Center to Shawnee City Hall: 5.8 miles, 13 minutes
  • KC Ice Center to Olathe City Hall: 14 miles, 21 minutes
  • Line Creek Ice Arena to North Kansas City City Hall: 5.3 miles, 11 minutes
  • Line Creek Ice Arena to Kansas City International Airport terminal: 13 miles, 19 minutes
  • Line Creek Ice Arena to Liberty (Clay County Courthouse): 14 miles, 22 minutes

The rinks are spread around the metro: Independence and the eastern suburbs such as Blue Springs, Shawnee in Johnson County, the Northland near North Kansas City, and south Overland Park.

Sports performance and multi-sport training

  • AdventHealth Sports Park at Bluhawk, 16201 Shawnee Drive, Overland Park, Kansas. A 420,000-square-foot indoor complex with courts, a turf field, an ice rink and a sports performance training center.
  • Parisi Speed School of Overland Park, inside the KS Athletic Club at 14875 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, Kansas. Classes grouped by age and level for speed, strength, agility, power and conditioning, plus individual coaching. It is about 11 minutes from Leawood City Hall and 16 minutes from Overland Park City Hall, without traffic.

Planning around daily training

Whatever the sport, the method is the same. Pin the facility where most training happens, set a weekday drive you can keep up, then look at homes inside that drive. Check the school district for each address on the district's own boundary map, using the school districts page as a starting point. For sports that train most days, lean toward a shorter drive, because you will make it often.

Homes near your training facility

Tell me where training happens most weeks, and I'll set up a home search that keeps the daily drive reasonable, on either side of the state line. Call or text 913-777-4461, browse the full facilities map, or read the guide to moving to Kansas City for youth sports.

Common questions

Where are Kansas City's main tennis centers?

Elite Tennis and Wellness (14481 Metcalf Avenue) and the Overland Park Racquet Club (6800 W. 91st Street) are both in Overland Park. Plaza Tennis Center, at 4747 Mill Creek Parkway near the Country Club Plaza, is a City of Kansas City public facility with 14 lighted outdoor hard courts, managed by USTA Missouri Valley.

Where are the gymnastics gyms, swim clubs and ice rinks?

Impact Gymnastics is at 9063 Bond Street in Overland Park, and Pinnacle Gymnastics is in Shawnee and Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City Blazers swim club is a Johnson County Park & Recreation District program, and Tsunami Swim Team is in the Northland. Rinks include KC Ice Center in Shawnee, Cable Dahmer Arena in Independence, Line Creek in the Northland and the rink at Bluhawk in south Overland Park.

How should I pick a home around a sport that trains most days?

Pin the facility where most training happens, set a weekday drive you can keep up, and look at homes inside it. Check the school district for each address on the district's own map. Tom can search the whole metro, in Kansas and Missouri.

Sources

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