Yotes Women's Hoops Plans 30th Anniversary Celebration

CALDWELL, IDAHO - On Feb. 6 and Feb. 7 inside the J.A. Albertson Activities Center, The College of Idaho will mark 30 years of women's basketball with back-to-back home games. Northwest University visits on Friday. The Evergreen State College follows on Saturday. A luncheon will be held on Saturday at 11am before alumni being honored during The Evergreen State game. Signing up for the luncheon and t-shirt will get you entry to all games during the weekend. Click here to sign up for the event.

The all-time record is 512–407. It is the kind of number that folds a lot of history into simple math. It captures seasons that pushed into March, years that hovered near the top of the Cascade Collegiate Conference and stretches when the Yotes settled into the national picture. Thirty years brings a wide lens. The ledger provides the frame.

Coaching milestones anchor the story. From 1995 through 2001, head coach Tod Corman recorded the highest winning percentage in program history. His 123–61 mark works out to 66.8 percent. That span helped establish a baseline for what was possible, and it placed the Yotes in positions where banners and brackets were part of the conversation.

From 2001 through 2014, now Vice President of Athletics Reagan Rossi led the Yotes for 13 seasons. Her 244 victories are the most in program history, with a 61.5 percent winning percentage across a tenure that became one of the program's longest and most accomplished. 

Conference results add clarity. The Yotes won the Cascade Collegiate Conference regular season championship in 2001, 2009 and 2010. They won the CCC Tournament in 2010 and 2012. Those entries sit side by side with the overall record and coaching marks and help define eras at a glance. Regular season titles speak to months of consistency. Tournament titles speak to the ability to navigate high stake elimination nights.

The national list is equally straightforward. The College of Idaho reached the NAIA Women's Basketball National Tournament in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2025. The best finish came in 2001, when the Yotes played in the NAIA championship game and finished as the national runners-up one year after reaching the quarterfinals. That two-year progression is the most direct snapshot of the program's peak on the national stage.

A 30-year celebration invites more than statistics. It brings alumni back into the building, gathers families who watched the program take shape and gives current student-athletes a chance to see how their piece fits the larger picture.

The two nights will unfold the way regular season games usually do. Warmups, introductions, a tip, a scoreboard. The difference is the context. Friday and Saturday are about the present and the past sharing the same space. They are about recognizing what has been accomplished and how it was sustained. They are about a program that can point to a winning record, conference titles and national appearances and say with confidence that it has a place in the winning tradition of The College of Idaho.

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