The Casper College Alumni Association will host the annual homecoming festivities at the Swede Erickson Thunderbird Gym on Saturday, Feb. 25 as the T-Birds take on the Pronghorns of Gillette College from Gillette, Wyoming. Admission is only $1 per person for both kids and adults.
The Casper College men’s and women’s basketball teams will host “Military Appreciation Night” on Saturday, Jan. 28 beginning at 3 in the “Swede” Erickson Thunderbird Gym. All veterans and current military with a valid ID will receive free admission for themselves and a guest.
Due to snowed-in conditions in Powell, Wyoming, the basketball double header scheduled for tonight between the Northwest Community College and Casper College has been rescheduled.
Dan Russell and the Thunderbird coaching staff have signed 6’9” Colin Russell from Folsom, California, to a National Letter of Intent to play ball at Casper College.
London native and University of Texas at El Paso transfer Josh McSwiggan will play for the Casper College Thunderbirds next season for his red-shirt freshman season, according to T-Bird Head Coach Dan Russell.
The Casper College Men’s Rodeo Team has a history of success, particularly within the last decade thanks in no small part to head coach, Tom Parker. However, Parker’s young team was sitting back in the pack until a couple of big late-season wins earned them a return visit to the 2016 College National Finals Rodeo.
“It was a pivotal moment in my life when I was offered a rodeo scholarship to Casper College,” says Dan Cheney (AS, AAS, ’87), vice-president and chief operating officer for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.