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Funding type
  
Junior College

Grades
  
13th through 16th

Phone
  
+1 806-894-9611

Graduation rate
  
22.1% (2014)

President
  
Dr. Robin Satterwhite

Mascot
  
The Texans

Total enrollment
  
9,563 (2013)

Colors
  
White, Royal blue, Orange

South Plains College

Rivals
  
Odessa CollegeMidland CollegeHoward College

Address
  
1401 South College Avenue, Levelland, TX 79336, United States

Undergraduate tuition and fees
  
Local tuition: 2,584 USD (2015), Domestic tuition: 3,446 USD (2015)

Notable alumni
  
Similar
  
Lubbock Christian University, Texas Tech University, Wayland Baptist University, Western Texas College, Odessa College

Profiles

2016 south plains college texan basketball


South Plains College (SPC) is a college located in Levelland, Texas. It operates satellite branches in Plainview and at the Reese Technology Center, formerly Reese Air Force Base, in Lubbock. SPC also has many classes in the Byron Martin Advanced Technology Center in Lubbock as part of a joint venture with the Lubbock Independent School District.

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SPC also has distance education centers located in Muleshoe, Littlefield, and Denver City.

In addition to their distance education programs, the school also provides online (distance education) courses to its students, as well as dual credit courses to high schools in the West Texas area.

In 1989, the college honored the Mayfield Brothers, Smokey Mayfield (1924–2008) and Herbert Mayfield (1920–2008), for their contributions to Bluegrass music in West Texas. A third Mayfield, Thomas Edd Mayfield (1926–1958) died of leukemia while on tour with Bill Monroe.

As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of South Plains College is:

  • The Whiteface Consolidated Independent School District,
  • All of Bailey, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Motley, Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosby, Yoakum, Terry, Lynn, and Garza Counties, and
  • All of Gaines County, excluding the portion within the Seminole Independent School District.
  • South plains college basketball well represented on signing day nov 9 2016


    Sports

    South Plains College plays as part of the Western Junior College Athletic Conference in athletics. It is also part of the National Junior College Athletic Association Region 5. The school participates in men's and women's basketball, cheerleading, cross-country, track and field, and rodeo. All the men's and women's basketball games are broadcast as part of the High Plains Radio Network under HPRN Sports on KLVT and at http://www.hprnetwork.com.

    Notable alumni

  • Don Allison, musician and vocalist
  • Waylon Jennings, Country singer
  • Sally Kipyego, championship runner for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, first Kenyan woman to win an NCAA cross-country individual championship
  • Natalie Maines, country singer (Dixie Chicks)
  • Renaldo Major, NBA player
  • Bo Outlaw, NBA player
  • Corinna Ripple, fiddle player for Flying J Wranglers of Alto, New Mexico
  • Phil Stephenson (Class of 1966), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Wharton County west of Houston
  • Sheryl Swoopes, championship basketball player for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, WNBA player
  • Lee Ann Womack, country singer
  • Renny Quow, Olympian, sprinter
  • LaToy Williams, sprinter
  • Rondell Bartholomew, sprinter
  • W. Earl Bledsoe, Bishop of the United Methodist Church
  • References

    South Plains College Wikipedia


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