The Thomas H. Seither Sportscenter opened to events, athletic and social, in the fall of 1986. Since then it has served well as home for Mustangs and Lady Mustangs Basketball and Volleyball games, Baseball, Track, and Cheerleading practices, dances, concerts, school assemblies, and a myriad of social events and fund-raisers.

Not until August of 2004, eighteen years into its existence, was it asked to host a funeral visitation. It was then that Sophomore Grant Janszen returned to his alma-mater after losing his twenty-two month battle with cancer. The SyCenter did itself proud in providing a dignified setting for Grant’s family, friends, and classmates to gather and pay their respects to this valiant young man, the most courageous of Mustangs to ever grace the SyDome hardwood, without ever having played a game on it.

Less than four months later, the community and Brossart High School family would be rocked with the tragic news that Nathan Seiter, our school’s preeminent athlete and most popular Mustang had been taken from us in the prime of his life in an early morning single car accident within sight of his home while returning from work at DHL. It was simply unbelievable that someone so alive, so active, so vibrant, and seemingly so immortal could be killed so suddenly and in such a freakish manner. Nathan returned to the floor which had served as his stage as he set school record after school record, taking the Brossart Basketball program to new heights as our facility once again was transformed to a venue commemorating the life of Brossart High School’s only member of the 10th Region Boys Basketball Hall of Fame. Undertaker Ken Cooper called the Nathan Seiter visitation the largest single day funeral event in the history of Campbell County. Over 3,000 came that day to pay their respects.

Most recently, within a year of Grant Janszen’s visitation and just a few months removed from the Nathan Seiter tragedy, as though it were some cruel joke, the Brossart High School Family would again be dealt another severe blow as again one of our best and brightest former stars, 2003 Graduate Lindsey Sendelbach, holder of eight individual fast-pitch softball records, a former Snowball Queen, and sweetheart of Boys Basketball Assistant Coach and sports icon Curtis Bezold, would lose her life in another fatal automobile accident leaving an incredible void in the lives of those who knew her. For a third time in less than a year, the venue where our fans gather to worship and cheer for their heroes in athletic competition or to socialize at a school function, was asked to stand-down as a sports facility and yet again host a funeral visitation for one of our own.