{"id":469297,"date":"2026-10-18T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469297\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:02:09","slug":"texas-tech-reveals-2026-homecoming-king-and-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469297\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech reveals 2026 Homecoming King and Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/latest\/texas-tech-reveals-2026-homecoming-king-and-queen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LUBBOCK, Texas<\/a> \u2014 During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/sports\/red-raider-nation\/no-10-texas-tech-vs-arizona-state-live-updates-from-galaxy-stadium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">halftime of the Red Raiders and Sun Devils game Saturday<\/a>, Texas Tech crowned Jack Davis of Spearman and Delaney Saunders of Midland as the 2026 Homecoming King and Queen.<\/p>\n<p>Davis is an agriculture and applied economics major, and represents Kappa Alpha Order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning Homecoming King is a huge honor,\u201d Davis said. \u201cThe opportunity to represent Kappa Alpha Order and Texas Tech University as a whole is something that I am extremely proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/local-news\/lubbock-cooper-isd-asks-voters-to-approve-prop-a-tax-increase\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tLubbock-Cooper ISD asks voters to approve Prop A tax increase\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saunders is a petroleum engineering major, and represents Kappa Alpha Theta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning Homecoming Queen means having the incredible honor of representing a university I have loved and been proud of long before I ever stepped foot on campus,\u201d Saunders said. \u201cComing from a small high school, I never could have imagined the opportunities, friendships, and experiences that Texas Tech would bring into my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Davis and Saunders were voted for by the student body after the Homecoming Court was announced Friday, October 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 During halftime of the Red Raiders and Sun Devils game Saturday, Texas Tech crowned Jack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-469297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469297","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=469297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}