![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)
A subtle melody breaks the air as the crowd waits in anticipation. Without warning, flags fly gracefully through the air in a flurry of color and madness. The crowd can’t look away as the Winter Guard squadron gives one last hurrah before heading off to UIL State.
Winter Guard has been prepping for UIL State since the beginning of December 2023 after finishing marching season with the band. Every morning, Winter Guard practices in the cafeteria before the day of their big competition. Before they head off, Winter Guard put on one last performance on April 3. Sophomore Tiffany Ly says the theme for this final performance focuses around the theme of space, galaxies, and the ever expanding void that we call home.
“It’s really interesting how the beginning of the performance draws the audience in and being enlightened by space and being sucked into the void and everything,” Ly said. “And then around the halfway mark, our soul catches and everything just turns into pure rage and anger, and that’s really fun to perform.”
Winter Guard then headed out to College Station where they performed in the Reid Arena and ended up placing fourth at state. before heading back home just in time for prom.
“It ended as quickly as it started,” Ly said. “Since we went early the crowd wasn’t huge but the energy was definitely still there. Retreat was also like a fever dream and being able to interact with other guards and cheer them on really shows the support guards will give each other. Being able to stand there with our team and just take in what we achieved and just celebrate really reminds me why I love colorguard.”
