April 29, 2026 – The Sulphur Springs High School UIL academic team has won the regional championship.
The Wildcats academic team totaled 321 points to second-place Lindale’s 296 ½.
In all, 21 Sulphur Springs students will be advancing to the State UIL Academic Meet, at UT Austin, May 18 – 19.
First place winners are: the Journalism team, including first-place individual winners Abigail Bautista, copy editing, and Anderson Grimes, headline writing; the Current Issues team, including the individual first-place winner Jason Prom; the Literary Criticism team; the Social Studies team; the Spelling and Vocabulary team, including first-place individual winner Brooks Burgin; and in the One-Act Play, Emma Boatman, best performance.
Abigail Bautista qualified for the state meet in five categories.
Other individual state meet qualifiers are: Justin Chen, Charlie Knechtel, Dylan McKinney, Jessica Reed and Grayson Wall.
The full list of UIL academic team honors is on the SSISD Facebook page.
