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YAVAPAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE ATHLETICS PREPARES FOR ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND, SEPTENBER 18-22

Athletics Department, which partnered with the Yavapai College Foundation, is set to host its annual Alumni Reunion Weekend while inducting the Class of 2024 into the Roughrider Hall of Fame. One event scheduled at the Verde Valley campus for Wednesday, September 18

The Athletics Department at Yavapai Community College has  partnered with the Yavapai Community College Foundation to host its annual Alumni Reunion Weekend while inducting the Class of 2024 into the Roughrider Hall of Fame. The Alumni Reunion Weekend is set for Wednesday, September 18, through Sunday, September 22, and is chock-full of fun events.

The Schedule, as announced by the Community College follows:

On Wednesday, the Verde Valley Campus in Clarkdale will host the Allied Health Alumni Mixer from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Southwest Wine Center.

On Thursday, the Prescott Campus will host the Alumni Small Business Summit in Partnership with SBDC from 9 a.m. to noon. The RAD Tech Alumni and Friends will host a mixer at the Prescott Valley Center from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

On Friday, the Athletics Alumni Mixer is set for 5 p.m. at State 48 Hometown BBQ in Prescott. To RSVP, please go to yc.edu/mixer.

Also on Friday, award-winning country artist Josh Turner performs at the JLLPAC at 7 p.m. and the Yavapai Community College Art Gallery at the Prescott Campus is hosting a special exhibition.

On Saturday, the Community College  and community partners are hosting an Hispanic Heritage Month celebration featuring traditional dance performances, children’s activities and more. The free event is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Prescott campus.

Also Saturday, the Roughrider Athletics Hall of Fame Athletics Banquet will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the Prescott Resort where nine individual Roughriders and/or teams will be enshrined in the Yavapai Community College Athletics Hall of Fame.

On Sunday, at Antelope Hills Golf Course in Prescott,  the Roughrider Athletics Association Golf Classic that will feature an 8 a.m. shotgun start. To register your foursome please go to yc.edu/golf.

To register for any ARW event and to find more info on these events, please visit yc.edu/alumniweekend.

Athletic Events as announced by the College

Yavapai Community College Volleyball will start off the weekend by competing against Southern Nevada at 7:00 pm in the gym at Walraven. Before the Hall of Fame Banquet, on Saturday, the Yavapai College soccer teams will take on Community Christian College at Ken Lindley Field with the Men’s game set for an 11 a.m. start while the Women will kick off at 2:30 p.m. Also taking the field on Saturday will be the Community College  Softball team as they will host the Hotshots-Donte at Bill Vallely Field at 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm.

Hall Of Fame

The Yavapai College Athletics’ Hall of Fame Class of 2024 will feature ten inductees:

Hugh Bell (1992-2018): 6X National Champion men’s soccer coach

Kisha Spellman White (1993-94, 1995-96): Women’s Basketball standout

2011 Softball Team: 67-4 National Champions

Tom Tellmann (1973-74): Baseball standout, former MLB player

John Fulgham (1976): Baseball standout, former MLB player

John Butcher (1976-77): Baseball National Champion, former MLB player

Rick Kranitz (1977): Baseball National Champion, former MLB player

Danny Townsend (1976-77): Baseball National Champion, former MLB player

Greg Pastors (1976-77): Baseball National Champion, former MLB player

Ernie (posthumous) and Janet Jones: Yavapai Prescott Indian Tribe, President’s Award Honorees

To register and attend our Hall of Fame Banquet please go to yc.edu/hof.

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND FEATURED ONE EVENT ON THE VERDE VALLEY CAMPUS AND ELEVEN EVENTS ON PRESCOTT CAMPUS

Single event on Verde Valley Campus was a luncheon of alumni who worked at Verde Valley Campus

Yavapai Community College’s third annual Alumni Reunion was held from Thursday, September 21 to Sunday September 24.  According to the events planned for the reunion, as announced by the Community College, one event was scheduled on the Verde Valley Campus while eleven events were scheduled on the Prescott Campus.

The event on the Verde Valley Campus was a luncheon for former staff, which was held on Friday, September 22, 2023.

The events on the Prescott campus covering Thursday thru Sunday included the following;

  • YC Alumni Small Business Summit in Partnership with SBDC

  • Are YOU a RAD Alum mixer

  • YC Staff Alumni lunch

  • Athletics Alumni Mixer

  • Athletics Volleyball Game

  • Phi Theta Kappa Fun Run

  • Come celebrate National Hispanic Heritage month at YC!

  • Learn why NOW is the perfect time to join the trucking industry.

  • Hall of Fame Athletics Brunch

  • Soccer Games Men’s and Women’s

  • Prescott Film Festival

YAVAPAI COLLEGE CREATES OFFICE OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS

Hires Kammie Kobyleski as Director

Yavapai College Photo

Yavapai Community College has created an office of Alumni Affairs.  It has hired Kammie Kobyleski as the Director.  An office of Alumni Affairs is not the norm among community colleges.  However, the decision to create one by College President Penelope Wills is intended to assist the College in maintaining relationships with its graduates.  Wills believes that the Community College is missing out on big opportunities by not having a mechanism in place that allows the College to stay in touch with its alumni.

Ms. Kobyleski graduated from Lindenwood University in St. Charles Missouri.  She worked at Lindenwood for seven years while completing her Masters degree.  She moved on to Arizona State University where the College press release says she was involved in “relationship building, audience engagement and marketing.”  She also worked with recent and longtime alums on career transitions and job search. 

At ASU, she was the Director of Special Programs at the Center for Entrepreneurship and served as a Director of Dean’s Graduate Career Coach of the Graduate Business Career Center through the W.  P.  Carrie School of Business.

One of the biggest challenges facing her at Yavapai community College, in terms of identifying and connecting with alumni, is that she is starting from scratch.