This year\u2019s Fort Hays State University Homecoming royalty finalists have been named. Finalists were selected after a rigorous nomination, application and interview process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year\u2019s homecoming royalty finalists are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Queen finalists: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Harper Lubbers, junior from Wichita<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Corbyn Marquess, junior from Plainville<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Grace McCord, senior from Hays<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Star Parham, senior from Salina<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Mackenzie Zimmerman, senior from Rush Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n King finalists: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Cade Becker, junior from Plainville<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Marcell Dely, junior from Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Ryan Funai, senior from Waco, Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Jordan Smith, senior from Greensburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Wyatt Trombley, senior from Dodge City<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Student Engagement and Belonging Homecoming Week festivities will kick off with the Tiger Trike Races. This event will take place Sept. 23, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. and will include a relay race with big wheel tricycles around the quad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The student body vote will take place from 9 a.m. Sept. 24 until noon Sept. 26. Students can also vote in the Memorial Union from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 24, 25 and 26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The royalty finalists will be introduced Sept. 25 at the annual Tiger bonfire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Royalty finalists will also participate in the Homecoming parade through downtown Hays on Sept. 27. The parade starts at 11 a.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The king and queen will be announced at halftime of the Homecoming football game against Missouri Western State University on Sept. 27. The football game kickoff time is 7 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Special to Tiger Media Network This year\u2019s Fort Hays State University Homecoming royalty finalists have been named. Finalists were selected after a rigorous nomination, application… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3398,11,11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-news","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/homecomeing-2025-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89617,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607\/revisions\/89617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}