![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)
Girls’ Varsity Wins District, Makes History
A Big Win, Moving Towards Playoffs
Junior Pujita Shukla celebrates with her teammates senior Annie Callahan and Kalee West and freshman Sarai Estupiñan after winning outright district championship on Feb. 6.
February 13, 2018
The girls basketball team plays Willis in Bryan at 7 p.m. tonight to start their playoff push to get to the state championship.
The Feb. 6 win over Pflugerville Connally by a score of 70-44 gave the team the title of district champions.
The girls basketball team are a lock for the playoffs because they finished first in their district. This means that the team will enter a 64 team bracket, including top teams throughout the state to compete for a state title weeks after the regular season ends. The girls have won signature games against Hutto, Georgetown and a 77-37 win over Cedar Creek back in January.
Junior Pujita Shukla, the starting forward for the girls varsity basketball team talked about the team’s mindset at practice.
“We already practice with the mindset that every game is a playoff game because we need to be prepared,” Shukla said.
A pre-game ritual for Shukla consists of closing her eyes during the national anthem before a game.
“It’s weird, but I need to have a mental review really quick before the game starts, so I feel prepared,” Shukla said.
The girls varsity squad are 27-7 overall, including a 16-0 record in district to become the first team in history of girls basketball to win district outright.
“Recently we have been more competitive, and we focus on film and play breakdown,” Shukla said.
The boys basketball team also played the Cougars on Tuesday, but lost 56-52 to make their district record to 11-4. With playoffs knocking on the door for the guys also, they will need to be extra prepared to compete with the other elite teams in the state. Small guard junior Dillon Faulkner and Center senior Mason Brooks will have to make countless plays to get the Timberwolves back to second in the district.
Junior Power Forward, Josh Baker, said its important to prepare for the playoffs.
“We don’t want the same thing to happen last year to us again as we lost in the first round,” Baker said. “Knowing to execute the play effectively is crucial for the playoffs.”
