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South Plains College

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Sports
Notable alumni
References
External links

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South Plains College (SPC) is a college located in Levelland, Texas. It operates satellite branches in Plainview, at the Reese Technology Center, formerly Reese Air Force Base, in western Lubbock, and the Lubbock Center near central 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.

SPC 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:^[1]

The Whiteface Consolidated Independent School District
All of Bailey, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Motley, Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosby, Yoakum, Terry, Lynn, and Garza Counties
All of Gaines County, excluding the portion within the Seminole Independent School District

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

Waylon Jennings, Country music singer
Tranel Hawkins, track and field - 1984 Olympic Games 400MH
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
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
Fred Kerley, track sprinter, seventh-fastest man at 400 meters
Philemon Hanneck, Olympian,middle distance 1500 meters and 5000 meters{{cn|reason=np mention of this school in his article|date=June 2018}}

References

1. ^Texas Education Code, Section 130.198, "South PlainsCollege District Service Area".

External links

Official site
Live Sound Certificate
Plainsman Press - Student Newspaper

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