![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)
Students steal the show at Youth Fair
Wynne McDonald’s winning dish garden.
January 16, 2015
The Williamson County Youth Fair took place on Jan 12 – 13 at the San Gabriel Park Community Center in Georgetown. At the competition, sophomore Wynne McDonald managed to snag the prize for best in show in the horticulture category with her aquatic themed dish garden. Youth Fair is a competition in which student can enter items from many categories to try to win their way to the auction in which the winning pieces are often sold for large sums of money.
“I was very surprised by how I placed,” McDonald said. “I was just entering for fun and figured there would be so many other people entering there was no way I would win. I had no expectation to do that good, but I sure am happy that I did.”
She will be taking her aquatic themed dish garden, a ceramic bowl with succulents and other small plants growing in it, to the auction on Jan. 24 and is looking forward to selling her piece.
“I’m just excited it got this far,” McDonald said. “I’m not sure what to expect at the auction, but I hope I get at least enough money to pay for the cost it took to make my fish garden and maybe some to put towards my next arrangement.”
Another student who entered the Youth Fair is sophomore Kara Diclemente. She earned second place with a ceramic bottle she made, as well as fourth and seventh place with some photos she entered in the photography section.
“I entered one piece into the sculpture category,” Diclemente said. “It was a ceramic bottle I made and spray painted with a dark tan paint and made some cutouts in. I also entered three photos in the photography section, one was a leaf in the sun, another was a spider and one was a rose.”
The event was a chance for students to get crafty and show their creative side. The categories ranged from baked goods to agriculture equipment to sewn clothing. There was a category for everyone, though creative crafts seemed to be a favorite.
“I made a horseshoe mason jar chandelier, and placed first in my class,” junior Mackenzie Keefer said. “I entered the show because I thought it would be a great experience, and I was glad with how I placed because I put so much work into my project.”
