Gwen Ruppert

Bio

I am so proud to return to Corpus Christi to be serving the community in my
role as Branch Director of the YMCA of the Coastal Bend. I moved to Corpus
Christi with my family as a 12-year-old girl in 1983 during the middle of my
7 th grade year at Tom Browne Middle School and went on to graduate from
Carroll High School in 1989. I majored in Sociology at the University of
Texas in San Antonio and moved away to Nebraska in 1999 with my
husband Fane Ruppert where I began my career with the YMCA. In 2003, I
began as a YMCA Preschool teacher when my 3 children were little. I have
been a volunteer basketball, soccer and flag football coach with the Y
instilling values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility. In 2005, I was
promoted into a YMCA campaign role as an Executive Administrative
Assistant and soon after I became the Senior Membership Director and
served on the Leadership Team of the Hastings Family YMCA for the next 13
years. I seized an opportunity to advance my career with the YMCA happily
serving three Nebraska communities, one of which was about 50 miles from
Hastings, as the Finance and Engagement Director for the YMCA of the
Prairie Association from 5/2018-4/2021.