{"id":497611,"date":"2026-10-16T03:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497611\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T03:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:06:44","slug":"bakersfield-college-alum-seeking-fellow-cheerleaders-for-homecoming-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497611\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield College alum seeking fellow cheerleaders for homecoming game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Vera Varner is 82 years old, and one night a year, she gets transported to her cheerleading days at Bakersfield College, a night she calls \u201calmost magical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Varner looks forward to BC Homecoming every year, where she reconnects with other BC cheerleading alumni and even performs at halftime of the big game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s like a time machine\u2026 until the next day you\u2019re so sore you can\u2019t move,&#8221; she joked.<\/p>\n<p>She wants more alumni to join her on Saturday, saying there should be at least 600 other alumni out there, if at least ten people were on the team since she was there in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a BC cheerleading alum, join Vera on Saturday. All you need to do is wear red and white and sign the waiver. Email <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/news\/in-your-neighborhood\/bakersfield\/mailto:KatrinaLincon@Gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KatrinaLincon@Gmail.com<\/a> for the waiver and other details.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, bring your renegade spirit!<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Vera Varner is 82 years old, and one night a year, she gets transported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3265,151,760,155,153,152,193264,46347,52783,762,162],"class_list":["post-497611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-alumni","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-college","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-cheerleader-alumni","tag-cheerleaders","tag-cheerleading","tag-homecoming","tag-kern-county-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}