Hello Texas Twirl Fans!
Can you believe it has been three weeks since the 2026 Southwest Regional Championship? We all had an amazing time, and it was a great contest! Shout out to Contest Directors Gretta Johnson & Brittany Ashcraft for making it all happen, and we are so excited for all of our regional winners!
To celebrate our new Regional Pageant title holders, over the next few weeks, we will be recognizing them here on the blog. Congrats to all of these talented twirlers on their success at Regionals.
Today we will be recognizing the 2026 Southwest Regional Basic Skills Pageant Winners!
Senior Basic Skills Pageant Winner
Hope Salas
Hope is from Henderson, TX, where she is on the Henderson High School Twirling Line. She is a member of Precision Twirl and is coached by Paige Keitt with additional support from Kayli Mickey-McIntosh and Jaidyn Poole. Her favorite memory from Regionals was getting to celebrate her and her teammates' accomplishments during awards. This summer she is excited to go to Nationals and compete with all of the amazing twirlers!
Junior Basic Skills Pageant Winner
Christina Paterson
Christina is from Dallas, TX, where she is a Feature Twirler at Highland Park high School She is a member of Texas Touch of Class and is coached by Sheila Payne Rigelsky. Her favorite memory from Regionals was when she realized that TTOC had the top 3 spots in Junior Basic Skills Pageant. This summer Christina will be attending Nationals for the first time, and she can’t wait to watch her teammate Breckyn Steele perform in the Big Show!
Pre-Teen Basic Skills Pageant Winner
Kallette Miller
Kallette is from Dallas, TX, where she is a member of Texas Touch of Class and is coached by Kassie Steele and Sheila Payne Rigelsky. Her favorite memory from Regionals was twirling with her best friends and having a fun dinner with her whole team. She also enjoyed watching x-struts and new show twirl routines!
Juvenile Basic Skills Pageant Winner
Hannah Oldman
Hannah is from Carrier, OK, where she is coached by Kim Akers of the Oklahoma Twirling Academy. Her favorite memory from Regionals was when she had a no drop on her two-baton. This summer she is looking forward to competing at Nationals for the first time, and hopefully even placing top 10 in an event!
Little Miss Basic Skills Pageant Winner
Cohyn Shoemaker
Cohyn, also known as Coco, is from Cypress, Texas, where she is coached by Kelley McCormick of Forever Twirl Texas. According to Coco, the best thing that happened at Regionals was "catching my thumb flip for the first time ever! I even learned it right before. But my absolute favorite memory was meeting my new friend Clara. She was really nice to me!"
CONGRATS TO ALL OUR REGIONAL BASIC SKILLS PAGEANT WINNERS!
We hope you have enjoyed this blog post. We are always looking for great new stories about Texas twirlers. Do you have an idea or some information we could use to help highlight our sport? Contact us at texastwirlcontact@gmail.com and we would love to hear more about it.
