![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)
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.”
