![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)
Bags Full Of Bags
Student Participation For The Greater Good
Timberwolves For The Environment club members work on creating mats, bags, and even pillows out of plastic bags. These products will be sold for the clubs benefit and they will also be donated to the homeless. “I really love being a part of something where I can spend time doing things that help others,” sophomore and club member Alexa Yeager said.
November 11, 2019
With donations pouring in, Timberwolves for The Environment decided to take charge and reuse plastic bags for a better cause.
Science teacher and Timberwolves For The Environment sponsor, Shannon Mcpherson, originally took over this project when a neighbor could no longer participate. Now, the club members work together to create mats, pillows, bags and even wreaths that will either be sold to benefit the club or directly donated to the homeless. Since the club took over, they are still looking for a specific organization to take their donations.
“I’m not one-hundred percent sure who’s gonna get them [organization donating through] because my last contact is not there anymore,” Mcpherson said. “But it’s real easy to find somebody.”
All products are made out of plastic bags, like the ones in any store check out line. As of now, there is no end date for this project, and it has been going on for about a year as more and more donations keep pouring in. For example, Spanish teacher Rebecca Zabel-brewer just donated multiple trash bags full of bags in order to make more products.
“We delivered eight or nine[mats] last year,” Mcpherson said. “Ms. Cyndee Burkett also did one.”
For the homeless, the club focuses on creating comfortable pillows and mats out of the bags, but with the holidays approaching, focuses have shifted towards making wreaths and bags. Students are also going to start experimenting with painting the wreaths that will be sold.
“Since Christmas is coming up and we’re about to put something on the web store to sell these[bags and wreaths], I’ve been kinda concentrating on making these instead of the mats,” Mcpherson said.
Products being posted online will cost anywhere from eight to ten dollars and proceeds will go back to The Timberwolves For The Environment. These proceeds will be used to support future projects such as, when the club adopts a pack of wolves and the money will help benefit the next adoption, as well as going back to fix the garden in the courtyard, which is in collaboration with FFA (Future Farmers of America).
“Every year we adopt a Wolfpack, which lives in Missouri, an endangered one,” Mcpherson said. “It helps to increase the species.”
Anyone who would like to be involved and help can join the members of Timberwolves For The Environment any Monday after school in room 4009. Students can also donate bags to the club for this cause.
“I hope that we’re able to make a difference in the lives of people these mats go to,” sophomore and club member Reese Barucky said. “While reducing the amount of plastic bags that are going straight to landfills.”
Wreaths and handbags are currently on sale online for $8. Visit the school webstore to purchase.
