![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)
Book Worms Take the Lead
Book Club Welcomes Over 20 New Members
September 27, 2018
After an addition of over 20 new members, this year in Book Club could be one for the books.
Apart from meeting new book lovers, this year’s members get to share their favorite books with the whole school with their very own shelf in the library. The club’s vice president, junior Fallyn Moore, said that the shelf allows members to show their personalities through the books that they display. I want to recruit more people in order to show that everyone can be a book lover whether they read one book a year or six a week, — Reese Parker (10)
“The shelf is really awesome,” Moore said. “It kind of gives us a way to express what we like and what we are into to everybody in the school.”
In book club, members get to discuss their favorite books and the books that they are currently reading, as well as hear about new titles from other members. The club’s president, sophomore Reese Parker, said that new members will certainly enjoy the relaxed environment.
“I think [new members] will like to be in an environment of people who are all there for the sole purpose of reading and loving books,” Parker said. “I want to recruit more people in order to show that everyone can be a book lover whether they read one book a year or six a week.”
One of their new 20 members, junior Nitya Sadasivan, said that she joined because many of her friends were already part of the club.
“My favorite part is sharing and hearing about everyone’s experience with the books that they read,” Sadasivan said. “I’m really excited and I can’t wait to read the [new] books.”
Parker said that this year they hope to get the word out with club shirts.
“We really like having t-shirts this year [because] every other club has them,” Parker said. “And even though we aren’t the most extroverted club, we still really like having [them] that way we can still have some sort of unity.”
In the next few years, Parker said that she hopes book club will be able to enjoy new experiences and attract even more members.
“We’re planning on putting flyers around and advertising via the English teachers,” Parker said. “And hopefully [we can] get enough money to do field trips.”
Book club meets every other Friday in the library during den. For more information, ask the club’s sponsor and librarian, Debby Barnes.
![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)
![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-901-600x400.jpg)
