College of the Sequoias#Athletics

College of the Sequoias was originally established in 1926 as Visalia Junior College as a department in the city high school. Its mission at that time was to provide inexpensive, lower-division college education to local high school graduates who intended to transfer to a traditional four-year college.{{cite web|url=http://www.cos.edu/view_page.asp?nodeid=889&parentid=0&moduleid=5|title=About C.O.S.|access-date=2007-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070730162618/http://www.cos.edu/view_page.asp?nodeid=889&parentid=0&moduleid=5|archive-date=2007-07-30|url-status=dead}} Visalia Junior College was later expanded and a campus was built in 1938. The campus was built on what is still the college grounds. In 1949, it expanded further and formed the College of the Sequoias Community College District.

College of the Sequoias' main campus is in Visalia, but it also has full-service centers in Hanford and Tulare.

Each location offers the full-range of general education offerings and students services, but each also features a flagship program. The Visalia main campus is the home of Nursing and Allied Health, the Hanford Center (opened in 2010) is the home of the Public Safety Academy, and the Tulare College Center (opened in 2012) is the home of Agriculture.

COS offers classes at many other locations. These include: Corcoran, Dinuba, Exeter, Farmersville, Hanford, Ivanhoe, Lemoore, Lindsay, Orosi, Porterville, Strathmore, Three Rivers, Tulare, and Woodlake.

The current enrollment of COS is 11,141 students,{{Cite web|title=California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office |website=Data Mart|url=http://datamart.cccco.edu/Students/Enrollment_Status.aspx}} and the college offers a variety of transfer, vocational, and community-based classes, including the fire/police academies for Tulare and Kings counties. College of the Sequoias is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC).{{cite web |title=Accreditation |url=https://www.cos.edu/en-us/administration/accreditation |website=College of the Sequoias Accreditation |access-date=March 24, 2014}}
{{cite web |title=Seven Years ACCJC Reaffirmation!|website=College of the Sequoias Accreditation |url=https://www.cos.edu/en-us/Accreditation/Documents/District%20Communications/eNEWS%201.29.19.pdf |access-date=March 24, 2014}}
{{cite web |author=Western Association of Schools and Colleges |date=February 7, 2014 |url=http://www.cos.edu/Accreditation/Documents/Action%20Letter%20College%20of%20the%20Sequoias_2-7-2014.pdf |title=WASC letter to COS president |access-date=March 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324201456/http://www.cos.edu/Accreditation/Documents/Action%20Letter%20College%20of%20the%20Sequoias_2-7-2014.pdf |archive-date=March 24, 2014 |url-status=dead}}

The college athletics teams are nicknamed the Giants, and COS sponsors 14 teams which participate in the Central Valley Conference.{{Cite web|title=College of the Sequoias|url=http://cosgiants.com/landing/index|access-date=2021-05-06|website=College of the Sequoias|language=en}}

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• Wilson Alvarez – American football player
• Creed Bratton – American musician The Grass Roots and actor The Office
• Bonnie Bryant – First golfer to win on the LPGA Tour playing left-handed
• Linda Gist Calvin – 41st President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution
• Joseph James DeAngelo – convicted as the Golden State Killer and the Visalia Ransacker in 2020, was a police officer in Exeter from 1973 to 1976, around the same time as when the Ransacker crimes occurred in neighboring VisaliaNew York Times, April 25, 2018
• Crystal Galindo – Xicana artist
• Quincy Hall - World Champion Professional sprinter and 2024 Olympic gold medalist in the 400 meters
• DeeAndre Hulett – American basketball player
• Dylan Lee – American baseball player
• Dannie Lockett – American football player
• Devin Nunes – U.S. Representative for {{ushr|CA|22}}
• Steve Perry – American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Journey
• J. G. Quintel – Animator who created Regular Show for Cartoon Network and Close Enough for TBShttps://hanfordsentinel.com/news/leisure-animated-dreams/article_02c01764-2968-509e-aeda-d60dfe0c3cb9.html
• Sheldon Richardson – American football defensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL)
• Windham Rotunda – American professional wrestler who used the ring name Bray Wyatt
• David Valadao – U.S. Representative for {{ushr|CA|21}}

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• [http://www.cos.edu/ Official webpage]

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