Alumni Association Homecoming

Come Home to Emporia State — Homecoming 2025
October 31 – November 2

Mark your calendars and make plans to return to your Hornet home this fall! Homecoming 2025 is your chance to reconnect with old friends, relive your favorite campus moments and create brand-new memories. Whether it’s been five years or 50, we can’t wait to welcome you back.

ESU Homecoming 2025 Events

Thursday, Oct. 23

• Homecoming Musical: “Rocky Horror,” 7:30 p.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)

Friday, Oct. 24

• Homecoming Musical: “Rocky Horror,” 7:30 p.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)

Saturday, Oct. 25

• Spirit Run, time TBA (Student Rec Center)
• Homecoming Musical: “Rocky Horror,” 7:30 p.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)

Sunday, Oct. 26

• ESU Soccer game, 1 p.m. (Soccer pitch)

Monday, Oct. 27

• Homecoming Kick-Off Breakfast, 8 a.m.-10 a.m. (Memorial Union: Skyline)
• Stinger Showdown, 5:30 p.m. (Plumb Hall lawn)

Wednesday, Oct. 29

• Can-struction (Student event), 6 p.m. (Student Rec Center)
• HS Preview of Homecoming Musical: “Rocky Horror,” 11 a.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)
• Student tricycle races, 7 p.m. (Kellogg Circle; Back-up: Rec Center)
• Homecoming Musical sneak peak for Kellogg Society, 7 p.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)
• Homecoming Musical (tentative): “Rocky Horror,” 7:30 p.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)

Thursday, Oct. 30

• Craft and Root-Beer Kegger, noon-3 p.m. (Wooster Lake patio)
• Sam E. and Jeannene Hayes Reception, 4 :30 p.m. (Memorial Union: Skyline)
• Sam E. and Jeannene Hayes Dinner, 5:30 p.m. (Memorial Union: Skyline)
• Sam E. and Jeannene Hayes Lecture, 7 p.m. (Memorial Union: Webb Hall)
• Homecoming Musical: “Rocky Horror,” 7:30 p.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)
• Homecoming bonfire/Hornet rally, 8 p.m. (Wilson Park)

Friday, Oct. 31

• Foundation Trustee Welcome Breakfast (invite only), 7:30 a.m. (Memorial Union: FH/Kanza)
• Foundation Trustee Meeting (invite only), 8:15 a.m. (Memorial Union: Preston Room)
• Phi Delta Theta Alumni Pole Sit, 6 a.m. Friday-8 a.m. Saturday (12th and Commercial)
• Athletics Hall of Honor Lunch, 11 a.m. (Memorial Union: KSTC Ballroom)
• Foundation Trustee group photo, 11:30 a.m. (Memorial Union: Skyline Lounge)
• Foundation Trustee lunch, noon (Memorial Union: Skyline)
• Foundation Trustee afternoon session, 1:30 p.m. (Memorial Union: Preston Room)
• Distinguished Alumni photo shoot, 4 p.m. (Marketing Studio)
• Black & Gold Gala reception, 5 p.m. (Memorial Union: Webb Hall)
• Black & Gold Gala dinner, 6 p.m. (Memorial Union: Webb Hall)
• Homecoming Musical: “Rocky Horror,” 7:30 p.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)

Saturday, Nov. 1

• Black & Gold Day Campus Tour (include alumni), 9 a.m. (Start: Memorial Union: Webb Hall)
• Alumni breakfast, 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m. (Memorial Union: Main Street)
• Sigma Tau Gamma Delta Chapter annual alumni meeting, 10 a.m. (Sigma Tau Gamma House)
• Homecoming parade, 10 a.m. (Commercial Street to campus)
• Hornet Walk, 11 a.m. (Union Square to Welch Stadium)
• The Teachers College Party on the Patio, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (Visser Hall: Patio, east side)
• Sigma Tau Gamma Homecoming luncheon, 11:30 a.m. (Sigma Tau Gamma House)
• Phi Sigma Kappa annual meeting, 11:30 a.m. (Memorial Union: Roe R. Cross Room)
• Live at the Hive, noon-1:45 p.m. (South of ESU Kossover Tennis Complex)
• ESU Football vs. Northwest Missouri, 2 p.m. (Welch Stadium)
• Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni Get Together, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. (Sig Ep House, 415 E. 12th St.)
• Phi Delta Theta Dinner, 7 p.m. (Casa Ramos)
• Homecoming Musical: “Rocky Horror,” 7:30 p.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)

Sunday, Oct. 2

• Homecoming Musical: “Rocky Horror,” 2 p.m. (King Hall: Karl C. Bruder Theatre)