We invite you to join us for KWU’s Homecoming 2026 and share in the 140th anniversary of Kansas Wesleyan!
Order Homecoming and Alumni Shirts
Get your tickets for the Jerry Jones Athletic Hall of Fame and Alumni Awards Ceremony!
Thursday, Oct. 15
5:30 p.m. | Downtown Pep Rally Campbell Plaza
7:30 p.m. | Theatre Production: The Iliad, The Odyssey and all of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less Fitzpatrick Auditorium
8 p.m. | Developmental Men’s Soccer vs. Sterling JRI Stadium
Friday, Oct. 16
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Homecoming Headquarters Student Activities Center
10 a.m. | Theatre Production: The Iliad, The Odyssey and all of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less Fitzpatrick Auditorium
10 a.m. | Coyote Golf Outing Salina Country Club
Play golf with your classmates, friends or KWU faculty/staff; Cost to play: $73 + tax
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Art Gallery Display The Gallery in Sams Hall of Fine Arts
10 a.m. – 3 p.m. | Alumni College (Check out the schedule at Homecoming Headquarters)
11 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Campus Tours Student Activities Center – Check out what’s new and exciting since you graduated.
11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.| Kickoff Luncheon for Students and Alumni Bieber Dining Hall; $15/person
12 p.m. | KWU Women’s Basketball Scrimmage vs. Hastings College – Mabee Arena
1 – 2 p.m. | 140th Anniversary Edition 7x7x7 Lecture Series Peters Science Hall 201 – Speakers will share their experiences and historical knowledge of the university, by decade, dating back to the founding
Seven speakers, seven minutes and seven different topics. Q&A after the seventh speaker.
2:30 p.m. | Homecoming Kickoff Worship Service Student Activities Center
Speaker: Natalie Soukup ’20
3 p.m. – 5 p.m. | Self-Guided Campus Tours Student Activities Center – Check out what’s new and exciting since you graduated.
5 p.m. | KWU Men’s Basketball Intersquad Scrimmage Mabee Arena
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Golden W 50 Year and Beyond Alumni Tent at Kirwin House
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Science Cafe: Trial by Fire: How Extreme NASA Labs Prepare Us for Venus Red Fern Booksellers, Downtown Salina
Dr. Erika Kohler is a planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Deputy Project Scientist and Acting Deputy PI for the DAVINCI mission to Venus. As the Principal Investigator of the Hot Environments Lab, she designs experimental studies that simulate high-temperature environments to investigate exoplanetary clouds and Venusian surface-atmosphere interactions. Her laboratory work provides the critical ground-truth data needed to enhance the accuracy of planetary models and observations.
7 p.m. | Music Concert and Hall of Fame Induction with reception to follow
Hall of Fame Inductees: Don Donaldson ’60, Jake Montoya ’05, Beverly Salmon ’57
8 p.m. | KWU Alumni and Friends Social Library Bar & Grill (1307 S. Santa Fe Ave., Salina)
Reminisce and network with your fellow Coyotes from all decades. Drinks on your own.
Class Reunions- 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021, 2026
Saturday, Oct. 17
9 a.m. | Jerry Jone Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & Alumni Association Awards Recognition – Muir Gym
Tickets are $20 adults/$10 children under 10 yrs. – Purchase Tickets Here
Hall of Fame Inductees: Daryl Hoelting (Softball Coach), Bruce Santerre ’70 (Baseball), LaCole (Wilkenson) Armstrong ’13 (Women’s Basketball), Kamie (Rash) Crawford (Women’s Golf), Kathleen Benton ’93 (Women’s Soccer), 2014 & 2015 Softball teams
Alumni Award Winners: Sharneice Pierce ’11 (Alumni Achievement Award), Jakob Provo ’15 (Young Alumni Award), Hannah Holt ’14 (Alumni Service Award), Mary Ann St. Clair (Alumni by Choice Award)
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. | Homecoming Headquarters Student Activities Center
10 a.m. – 3 p.m. | Art Gallery Display Sams Hall of Fine Art – The Gallery
11 a.m. – 3 p.m. | Self-Guided Campus Tours
11 a.m. | Alumni Choir Rehearsal Miller Chapel (Pioneer Hall 215); rehearsal of the Star-Spangled Banner
11 a.m.| Alumni Flag Football Laha Practice Field
11 a.m. | Baseball Alumni Game East Crawford Recreation Area
11 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Alumni Council Meeting Stanton Conference Room
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. – Lunch Available Bieber Dining Hall ($15/person)
12 p.m. | All Alumni Photos Pioneer Hall Steps
12 p.m. | Volleyball vs. Oklahoma Wesleyan Mabee Arena
1 p.m. | Kay Quinn Memorial Tree Dedication; Location: south corner of the Fine Arts building
1 p.m. – 4 p.m. |KWU Tailgate (food trucks onsite; food available for purchase) – East of SAC
2 p.m.| Women’s Developmental Volleyball Mabee Arena
4 p.m. | Football vs. Saint Mary (Philharmonic and Alumni Choir to sing the Star-Spangled Banner, baseball’s ring ceremony to precede the game) – Graves Family Sports Complex
After the game | KWU Alumni and Friends Social – The Library Sports Bar & Grill
Reminisce and network with your fellow Coyotes from all decades. Drinks on your own.
Class Reunions- 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021, 2026
Sunday, Oct. 18
10:30 a.m.| Worship Service – University United Methodist Church
2 p.m. | Theatre Production: The Iliad, The Odyssey and all of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less Fitzpatrick Auditorium
