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.
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:[1]
- 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.
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
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