{"id":478459,"date":"2026-10-27T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478459\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:42:11","slug":"coastal-bend-runners-advance-to-uil-cross-country-state-championships-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478459\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Bend runners advance to UIL cross country State Championships 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi-area high school runners have qualified for the UIL 5A State Cross Country Championship after strong performances at the Region IV meet held at Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes from all six area high schools competed over two days of racing that saw conditions range from blue skies to heavy downpour. The qualifiers will compete at the State Championship in Round Rock.<\/p>\n<p>    CCISD Girls advancing to State<\/p>\n<p>Elaina Lucido (12) \u2014 Corpus Christi Carroll \u2014 9th place out of 178 runnersPayton Catt (12) \u2014 Corpus Christi Veterans Memorial \u2014 17th place out of 178 runners<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793130129_550_.jpeg\" alt=\"Elaina Lucido (12) \u2014 Corpus Christi Carroll \u2014 9th place out of 178 runners\"  width=\"1080\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Saxe, CCISD<\/p>\n<p>    CCISD Boys advancing to State<\/p>\n<p>The Corpus Christi Veterans Memorial boys team advanced after finishing 3rd place overall. The team&#8217;s runners placed as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Trey Llanes (12) \u2014 7th place out of 182 runnersJax Haller (11) \u2014 22nd place out of 182 runnersEli Alba (11) \u2014 29th place out of 182 runnersJared Hernandez (12) \u2014 35th place out of 182 runnersReece Lebrecht (11) \u2014 58th place out of 182 runnersNoah Nunez (12) \u2014 101st place out of 182 runnersWyatt Alstrup (9) \u2014 134th place out of 182 runners<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793130131_654_.jpeg\" alt=\"Corpus Christi Veterans Memorial Boys Team- 3rd place overall\"  width=\"1080\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Saxe, Corpus Christi ISD<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Calhoun Cason (12) of Corpus Christi Ray advanced after finishing 14th place out of 182 runners.<\/p>\n<p>    UIL 5A State meet information<\/p>\n<p>Location: Old Settlers Park, Round Rock, TexasDate: November 7, 2026Times: Girls 5A at 8:15 a.m., Boys 5A at 8:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Coastal Bend will be sending runners to State across multiple divisions. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100057323385817&amp;__cft__[0]=AZju1bpvQmY0_3-XfYJaGS26bqrViKOT82fTfGHV9Zr4ZKriL4CyUpNaWasz8knzY0mj3yR4EN0LfyQvrHv4_hSQuKEsbdVZ-J4_kC1SKrXsasM2pvNbCgvmu6d2rxM5ssdoOyGoeW2xnRNPlVuwdGKZvn0BBq41X1QXUw5Pe0Pu-zq5ajcOhCzTX4A&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agua Dulce<\/a>&#8216;s Ethan Cadena won the UIL 2A Cross Country Region meet. Port Aransas boys and girls won the team UIL 2A Region IV title. The runners on both teams will compete at State on Nov. 6. The boys at 10:10 a.m. and the girls at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The UIL 2A Region IV girls champion goes to Port A&#8217;s Leah DePiper.. Her teammate Autumn Lafayette finished third. The Skidmore-Tynan girls team placed third and qualified for State for their third consecutive year. Sarah Pena was their leading runner, and she placed fourth overall. Ben Bolt&#8217;s Miranda Brooke Garcia finished sixth to qualify for State.<\/p>\n<p>In 4A, Tuloso-Midway&#8217;s boys team advances to State. Colton Anderwald finished second at Region, followed by Devon Alaniz in third. They&#8217;ll run at State on Nov. 6 at 11:25 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Also in 4A, Robstown&#8217;s Bianca Bosquez shattered her own school record of 11:29, set last year, with a new record time of 11:09.<\/p>\n<p>In 3A, two West Oso girls punched their ticket to State. Congratulations to the Torres sisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi-area high school runners have qualified for the UIL 5A State Cross Country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7256,155,157,156,20292,7805,9168,161576,8988,2294,21066],"class_list":["post-478459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-coastal-bend","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-cross-country","tag-port-aransas","tag-region","tag-skidmore-tynan","tag-tuloso-midway","tag-uil","tag-veterans-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478459","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=478459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}