![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)
Aiming High
Girls Basketball Captain Receives Scholarship
Walking towards her family, senior varsity basketball captain, Takara Holst, smiles while holding her scholarship check on Jan. 23. Holst received the scholarship as part of the KVUE Scholar Athlete of the Month Program. “I was in complete shock,” Takara said. “The fact that not only KVUE, but also Ted Lorenz himself came to grant me a scholarship was just amazing.”
January 27, 2020
When the buzzer rang, Nixon shooting drills occurring in the competition gym stopped. Coach Ott entered and less than two minutes later, an ambush of people flooded the gym on Jan. 23.
One of them was Jeff Jones, sports anchor for KVUE. Following him was lead lawyer at Lorenz & Lorenz, Ted Lorenz, holding a giant check granting senior varsity basketball captain, Takara Holst, a $1,000 scholarship as part of the KVUE Scholar Athlete of the Month program.
“I was in complete shock,” Takara said. “The fact that not only KVUE, but also Ted Lorenz himself came to grant me the scholarship was just amazing.”
Teammates surrounded her and began to cheer as Lorenz handed Holst the check. Smiles were present in the gym as Jones began to interview her.
“I was so surprised when they started asking me questions,” Takara said. “I just said the first thing on my mind. Jokingly, I asked my dad once it was all over if what I said made sense in the interview because it took a minute to calm down.”
Takara’s parents were notified of the scholarship only a few days prior of the reveal, but her father, Joel Holst, said that it was very difficult to keep it a secret.
“My wife accidentally forwarded an email to Takara from one of the scout leaders who congratulated her for the award,” Holst said. “We quickly had to snatch her phone and delete the email before she read it.”
To have a chance at becoming the Scholar Athlete of the Month, candidates must be a senior in high school playing a varsity sport, have at least a 3.0 GPA, partake in an activity that gives back to their community and be nominated through KVUE’s website.
Past recipients have been nominated by one or two people, but Takara had several nominations, according to Jones, including multiple family friends, teachers, coaches and Scout leaders.
“I have nothing but thanks and appreciation for everyone who took the time to nominate me for this scholarship,” Takara said. “It truly feels amazing.”
Holst and the varsity girls basketball team are currently ranked tenth in the state and with a record of 25-3.
![The fire department came to the school after students were evacuated when smoke started coming from the ceiling of a classroom. All students and staff are safe. “All of my friends left their stuff too, so we couldn’t contact our parents, and it was stressful,” senior Brynn Fowler said. “It was scary because I didn’t know [what was going on], and I couldn’t find anyone because it was a big crowd.” Photo by Anthony Garcia](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/firetruck-300x200.jpg)
