![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
![Sucking in a breath of air, freshman Lily Pope competes in the 200 yard individual medley. On Oct. 25, the swim team competed in the AISD Swim Invitational. Overall, the girls team took second place and the boys team came in eleventh. “My favorite stroke is butterfly because I do the best in that stroke,” Pope said. “I feel like [butterfly] can test how [your ability] to convince yourself to keep going. The hardest part of swimming is convincing yourself to stay strong and keep pushing during a hard race [when] everything is tired.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/POPE-1200x804.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, Author Ehigbor Okosun, members of Page Turners, and other students reflect on the author's visit. “I thought the visit was great,” Senior Amia De Leon said. “It was interesting talking to her and [getting to know] her process and her thoughts and books in general. But I think the reason it went well [was that] people got to ask questions. I'm glad that she said so much in response to the questions and it wasn't just one and done. [The author’s responses] felt very articulate.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sebastian-5-1200x800.jpg)
![Standing in front of the field at a freshman football game, cheerleader freshman Jacob Gaudreau along with teammate freshman Bella Gibson pose for a photo during halftime of game. “[Cheer has] definitely given me a much more outgoing personality,” Gaudreau said. “I used to be very introverted, so it's definitely made me more extroverted towards people.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ingrid-204-1200x800.jpg)
![Holding a wooden pizza toy, senior Taylor Peterson plays with small children in Bucaramanga, Colombia. During the summer, Peterson traveled to Colombia to help build an elementary school that only had two classrooms but five or six grades with one teacher. “We add[ed] two more classrooms,” Peterson said. “It’s kind of hard when you have two or three grades in one classroom and you only have one teacher. It’s very hard to actually get some beneficial learning. [The extra classrooms will give the students] a better quality of education because they’ll actually have a place specific for their learning.” Photo by Taylor Peterson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taylor-P.png)
![Swinging with his arm extended, senior Nolan Park hits the ball smoothly over the net and to the opponent’s side. Park is one of four varsity tennis captains and helped the team win district championships. “Winning district champs was a pretty awesome feeling,” Park said. “We had lost to Liberty Hill a couple of weeks before, but when we played them [again], we came out and really took care of business. We took them out and it was just a really awesome night.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kassidy-419.jpg)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.jpg)
Bowling Takes Home Bronze in First Ever Tournament
After Placing Third Out of 13 Teams, the Team Prepares for Regular Season
The bowling came in third place out of 14 teams at the Bryan Burr Tournament in Georgetown on Saturday. “I think this is going to be a good, strong year,” Bates said. “We have four returning seniors and last year we missed the cut to go to district by one game, so this year we have high expectations that we should make the cut.”
November 7, 2019
After five matchplay games, 10 baker games and 100 frames later, the bowling team took home the third place trophy at the Bryan Burr Tournament on Saturday at Mel’s Lone Star Lanes.
The team began the bracket round after being the seventh seed out of the eight teams that advanced and faced the second seed Samuel Clemens High School Broncos out of New Braunfels, Texas. After defeating the Broncos 217-162, then losing 182-180, but winning total pins 397-342, the team advanced to the round of four, where they faced the Canyon High School Cougars.
“I feel like we have a great team after doing so well in such a hard tournament,” junior Brent Stevenson said. “The most exciting part of the tournament was when we beat the number two seed team and shot a clean 217 game.”
In the quarterfinals, the team put up a fight and defeated the Cougars 203-181, but ultimately lost total pins after losing 225-160. Because the team’s total pins was greater than the other losing team in the round of four, going 363 vs the fourth place Brandeis’s 319, the team was granted the title of third place out of 14 teams. For bowlers like senior Garrett Wahl, who has been on the team for three years, it’s not the success that made him happy, but rather, proving to the other school’s that his team was up for competition he said was the highlight of the tournament.
“The best part of the tournament was hearing that we were in first place after the first round of matchplay because most schools didn’t think we would do well,” Wahl said. “I think that if we bowl like we did at the tournament, our first meet is going to go very well.”
Because of the team’s success, according to head coach David Bates, this tournament set the tone for the new season.
“I’m very proud of the team for their accomplishment in coming in third in their first ever tournament,” Bates said. “The tournament consisted of the top teams throughout Texas for which we competed very well against the best. This confidence should carry over into the regular season starting this Friday. We are placed in a competitive division, but we should perform very well knowing we can perform with the best!”
The team will have its first meet of the season today at Mel’s Lone Star Lanes starting at 6 p.m.
“I think this is going to be a good, strong year,” Bates said. “We have four returning seniors and last year we missed the cut to go to district by one game, so this year we have high expectations that we should make the cut.”
