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UIL 2026 Results

Ava Arriaga
April 13, 2026
Terry Buckner
The 2026 UIL Winners

This year the 2026 Paschal Panther scholars participated in the UIL regionals. We want to recognize these students for all of their hard work and dedication that led to us winning 1st place overall for the first time since 2012. 

 

Accounting: 1st Hazel Hudson, 2nd Michael Cruz Lopez

Calculator Applications: 1st Sahana Talwar, 2nd Elena Gil, 3rd Sam Gulde, 4th Yein Lee, 5th Michael Cruz Lopez, 9th Alex O’Malley; 1st Place Team

Computer Science: 1st Alex Nguyen, 5th Cristian Ortiz Ramos, 7th Lydia Gray; 1st Place Team

Current Issues and Events: 1st Christopher Drymiotes, 2nd Spencer Morgenweck, 3rd Eli Polly, 5th Ethan Smant; 1st Place Team

Feature Writing: 6th Charles Meier

Informative Speaking: 4th George Woodall, 6th Ethan Smant

Lincoln Douglas Debate: 5th Spencer Morgenweck, 9th Isaac DeSonier, 10th Alex Nguyen

Literary Criticism: 1st Elena Gil, 2nd Elise Collard, 3rd Jane Garvett; 1st Place Team

Mathematics: 1st Sahana Talwar, 2nd Yein Lee, 3rd Elena Gil, 9th Michael Cruz Lopez, 14th Hendryx Johnston, 18th Alex O’Malley; 1st Place Team

News Writing: 5th Logan Carey

Number Sense: 2nd Alex Nguyen, 6th Sahana Talwar, 8th Elena Gil, 13th Hendryx Johnston; 2nd Place Team

Persuasive Speaking: 1st Spencer Morgenweck, 3rd Hendryx Johnston

Poetry Interpretation: 1st Charlotte Woods, 5th Mavah Lawrence

Prose Interpretation: 4th Sam Gulde

Science: 1st Elena Gil, 2nd Eli Simanek, 3rd Sahana Talwar, 4th Grace Schwarzbach, 5th Sam Gulde, 6th Spencer Morgenweck; 1st Place Team; Biology Top Score: Eli Simanek, Chemistry Top Score: Elena Gil

Social Studies: 1st Ethan Smant, 2nd Christopher Drymiotes, 3rd Spencer Morgenweck, 9th Eli Polly; 1st Place Team

Spelling: 1st Allis Craig, 2nd Katherine Williams, 3rd Payton Shaffer, 5th Ashlyn Louis, 11th Lydia Gray; 1st Place Team

Other participants were: Sarah Im, Gopika Sriram, Millicent Maddox, and Bobby Gibson

We also want to recognize the coaches for these teams:

Heather Hedges, Eric Olivas, Ian Connally, Jordan Earls, Patricia Anderson, Long Tran, and Kyra Hornbuckle.

These students and coaches are going to be continuing their UIL journey on April 21st, 2026 in the UIL Academic Regionals.

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Ava Arriaga
Ava Arriaga, Reporter
Ava Arriaga (11) is a first year reporter for the Paschal Pantherette. She is apart of Paschal’s varsity cheer team, she plays basketball during the winter, and she would love to write about accomplishments that cheer has and events going on at school.
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