{"id":293094,"date":"2026-05-14T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293094\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:23:08","slug":"2026-uil-state-track-meet-photos-texas-athletes-compete-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293094\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 UIL state track meet photos: Texas athletes compete Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competition began Thursday at the UIL state track and field championships as athletes from across Texas arrived at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin chasing state titles and records in the 3A and 4A classifications. Events started with morning field competitions and 3,200-meter races before a full slate of track finals in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day meet features the state\u2019s top high school athletes competing in relays, sprints, distance races and field events in what is widely considered the pinnacle of Texas high school track and field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check back throughout the day as we update this gallery with photos from the state meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Competition began Thursday at the UIL state track and field championships as athletes from across Texas arrived at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-293094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}