![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
‘Funny Girl’ Leads Earn GAHSMTA Nominations
March 7, 2018
The Greater Austin High School Theater Award nominations were officially revealed on Tuesday morning.
The Theater Department put up “Funny Girl” in the fall, and lead actor sophomore Evan Vines and lead actress senior Abigail Holtfort received nominations for “Best Actor” and “Best Actress” in their respective roles.
“Funny Girl” followed the story of Fanny Brice, played by Holtfort, trying to make it onto the big Vaudeville stage, with the help of her husband Nick Arnstein, played by Vines.
Holtfort and Vines put in countless hours over the three-month span of the rehearsal process to ensure that their performances would be as best as possible.
“It’s definitely a thrill to be apart of GAHSMTA in my sophomore year,” Vines said. “I’m looking forward to performing on stage in front of that many people and just the experience in general.”
Holtfort is one of the eight females who were nominated for the award, with results to be announced April 18 at the GAHSMTA Awards at The Long Center.
“I’m excited to perform at the Long Center, and that I get a chance to bring back the role on more time,” Holtfort said.
Holtfort also performs in the Elite Ensemble at the Long Center, so she will have a lot on her plate at the awards show. As for Vines, it will be his second year performing in the GAHSMTA Awards Show.
