![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
There are a lot of new clubs this year that are open to students, such as writing club, the collaboration of TFC and FCA and science fiction club, to name a few.
Writing club is a club that was created in response to the cancelation of the creative writing class. They meet every Friday morning in Ms Iskra’s room.
“Writing club’s purpose is to help people explore more creative types of writing and meet people with the same interests as you,” sophomore president Paris Lailson said. “It’s to have fun writing and be able to express themselves through their own words.”
Writing club will be writing the Madrigal Dinner script for the choir, a short musical that they put on around Christmas time.
Another new club is the Science Fiction Club, also known as “sci-fi club”, sponsored by Ms. McCormick. They meet every first and third Wednesday of each month in Ms. McCormick’s room.
“The purpose of sci-fi club is to share about our different interests,” sophomore vice president Madeline Jordan said. “If they are into TV shows, movies, books, comics, or anything else, they can meet other people that like those things, and also learn about other things that other people are interested in that they might enjoy.”
The science fiction club is working on a reenactment of the episode “The Fires of Pompeii”, from the British science fiction show ‘Doctor Who’.
The two groups Timberwolves for Christ (TFC) and Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) have joined together this year, and are having their meetings together every Wednesday morning at 7:45 a.m.
