![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)
Some Ragrets
Reflecting Back on the Good and Bad of This Year
Illustration by Katana Riley
June 8, 2018
With 180 days of school, there is a lot of time to make mistakes. However, there is also a lot of time to improve and grow. With just a few days left of school, we surveyed students via Google Form asking what their biggest regret from this year was, as well as something they did or got better at.
Let’s start with the regrets.
“Spending too much time on social media and Netflix.”
“Eating Whataburger for breakfast literally every morning.”
“Letting my bad mental health dominate my time.”
“Wasting time on unimportant people.”
“Chasing after a guy that wasn’t chasing me.”
“Letting myself be put down.”
“Not taking any fun classes.”
“Not taking a stand for the people who matter around the school.”
“Keeping myself closeted to my family.”
“My biggest regret this year is the fact that I wasn’t able to let go of people who were holding me back in terms of happiness and true friendship.”
“Not branching out and making new friends.”
“Not trying to teach myself in things I was struggling at.”
“Not being bold and standing up for what is right more often.”
“I got too caught up with things and couldn’t do the things I enjoy.”
That’s enough sadness for now, let’s get into the good things that happened this year in people’s lives.
“I got better at speaking my mind.”
“I won a competition that was super important to me.”
“I got better at public speaking.”
“I got better at acting.”
“I kept up with my grades.”
“I’ve gotten better at finding my group of friends. Like my people. You have good and bad people enter your life, but always find the people who mean most to you and aren’t fake.”
“I got better at coming out of my shell and voicing things that are important to me and I feel so much more confident and powerful.”
“I got a lot better at skating.”
“It just now is happening, but I’ve been able to take care of myself in the way where I distance myself from people who make me very unhappy.”
“I got better at time management.”
“My mental health improved greatly.”
“I ended things with a toxic person in my life.”
“I successfully created a reusable water filtration device.”
I got better at
“Managing stress.”
“Giving control to God.”
“Planning for my future.”
“Communicating with teachers.”
“Being content with my life as is.”
![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-300x201.jpg)
