![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)
PALs Welcomes New Students with Luncheon
Juniors Jenna McQueen and Alec Peal and freshman Alani Galarza get to know each other during the PALs new student lunch on Sept. 8.
September 11, 2017
The first weeks of school can be hard for students, with looking for classes, searching for a spot to sit in the cafeteria or seeing if their friends are in their classes. To help with this, the PALS program hosted their annual luncheon on Sept. 8 in the lecture hall during the two lunch periods. Their main goal for this lunch was to help the incoming students to feel comfortable in the new environment and get a feel for the students at their high school. They hoped to accomplish this by simply eating lunch and building relationships with them.
“Talking to the new kids was great because I got to meet the great people that are coming into our school,” junior Jenna McQueen said. “I loved getting to see what they planned on doing to make our school better.”
For some students in PALS who were once new students themselves, it gave them a chance to give back and help students, like the PALS once did for them.
“Being someone who was once a new student, I loved changing roles and being the one welcoming the new students,” junior Alec Peal said. “I remember PALS helping me on my first day, so I enjoyed being to help the new students (at the lunch).”
