Painting the Town Yellow

Rachel Lee and Alex Durano are announced as
Homecoming 2017 Queen and King during halftime
ceremonies at the Feb. 4 Wichita State vs. Illinois
State men’s basketball game.

Homecoming 2017: Paint the Town Yellow took place the week of Jan. 30, culminating with the crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen during halftime ceremonies at the Wichita State Shocker basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 4 at Charles Koch Arena.

Homecoming festivities featured everything from Shocker basketball watch parties, to an Alumni & Student Networking Mixer held at KMUW offices in Old Town, to a crazy-fun hypnotist show at the CAC Theater and an outdoor Campus Food Truck Rally and Clothes Drive, at which Shockers Forever and WSU students came together to collect clothes for the United Methodist Open Door Charity.

Marché Fleming-Randle, WSU senior assistant dean and assistant to the president for diversity, and Courtney M. Marshall, WSUAA president and CEO, congratulated King Alex Durano, who’s studying finance at Wichita State, and Queen Rachel Lee, an elementary education major, as well as members of the 2017 Homecoming Royalty Court, all of whom are seniors at WSU: Emily Mullens, Austin Shelby, Carlie Hurst, Trent Chamberlain, Rachael Manske, Wyatt Clark, Laura Brockmeyer and Nil Parikh.

The WSUAA and Shockers Forever, the hosts of Homecoming 2017: Paint the Town Yellow, thank these event partners and supporters: Shocker Athletics, Student Activities Council, Student Government Association, the Career Development Center, KMUW, the University Bookstore, Power 93.5’s The Hit Man & Miranda and the Young Professionals of Wichita.

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