![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)
Going the Distance
Freshman to Travel to Australia for Band Performance
June 5, 2018
Summers may be filled with trips to the pool and Netflix marathons, but freshman Will Lambert’s summer will pan out a bit differently. In July, Lambert will be flying for 19 hours with his tenor saxophone to Sydney, Australia to perform at the Sydney Opera House.
This is all possible because Manuel San Luis, his former band director, nominated him for the 2017 Middle School Performance Series. After Lambert submitted an audition, he got accepted into the program and performed at Carnegie Hall with other nationally recognized band students.
Having been accepted into the middle school program, Lambert was given the chance to audition for the 2018 High School Honor Performance Series and given the opportunity to perform in Sydney this summer. Over 12,000 high school students applied, but only 250 of them were selected- one of them was Lambert.
Lambert said that he is thankful to take part in both of these series.
“It’s really rewarding, you grow a lot, you learn a lot,” Lambert said. “I’m just really grateful to have these opportunities in the first place.”
He and the other students will be led by world-class conductors in Sydney, which Lambert said is one of the highlights of this opportunity.
“They bring up things that you have never thought of before,” Lambert said. “It’s a great way to learn.”
Lambert started off on the alto saxophone in sixth grade, but moved to the tenor sax in his seventh-grade year, which he still plays today.
He said that initially, he had little hope of getting into the program, however his family encouraged him throughout the audition process.
“Probably if it was not for family, I would not have tried out,” Lambert said. “I didn’t think I was going to make it, so it was kind of a shock.”
These performances had never been on Lambert’s plan, but he said that he is looking forward to his next big performance.
“I had no idea this would be happening,” Lambert said. “It’s a little overwhelming, but I’m really grateful and excited.”
