Triston Bishop, member of the Beta Upsilon Chi Fraternity of University of Central Arkansas’ Alpha Gamma Chapter, swept the competition in the Greek God pageant held by UCA’s Sigma Kappa. Bishop represented UCA’s Delta Zeta. 

“Greek God is a philanthropic pageant that is hosted annually by Sigma Kappa,”  junior and member of Sigma Kappa Lizzie Langston said.

The Greek God pageant is held every year by the sororities and fraternities of UCA. This year’s pageant was held by Sigma Kappa.

The event involves selected fraternity members representing sororities in an arrangement of rounds. Each round serves as a different competition. Winners are selected for each round, along with an overall winner. Langston oversaw and composed the entire event for the 2021 pageant. 

“I started working on getting the space rented back in May 2021,” Langston said. Langston also took on the responsibility of creating the judges panel in advance and setting up a way for attendees to buy tickets.

“The proceeds from this event will benefit the Sigma Kappa Foundation PULSE fund. The Sigma Kappa Foundation creates and funds scholarship, leadership and philanthropic initiatives that reflect the values of Sigma Kappa Sorority,” Langston said. 

Giovanni Arizmendi, member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, representing the ladies of Alpha Sigma Alpha, won the best opening round.

“I’m not a big fan of being the center of attention, but during the pageant I remembered that not only was I representing myself, but the ladies of Alpha Sig,” Arizmendi said. 

The event is held to enhance campus life and create involvement in UCA’s community. “It helped push me to make sure that everyone in attendance had fun and a good time,” Arizmendi said. 

Members of Greek life made up most of the attendance at the event, but this year had an increase in non-Greek life students attending, according to Langston. The attendees, while mostly friends, showed support. 

“I love how, in the Greek community, everyone gets together to support everyone, especially in events like the Greek God pageant,” Arizemendi said. 

This event is looked forward to by much of Greek life with weeks of preparation going into making the pageant possible. 

“This is the first pageant we’ve had that everyone could come to in a while. It’s so fun to see everyone come out and watch the performers,” Langston said. “We get to have fun and be together and feel less alone in these times.”

The pageant raised over $4,000 for the Sigma Kappa foundation. “This is the reason we put on the event, so that is why it’s so important,” Langston said.

The last time a full capacity Greek God pageant was held was fall 2019, before COVID-19.

“…there were a lot of things we needed to relearn, but overall it was a successful night,” Langston said.