![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)
Leading The Way, Making a Difference
Timberwolves For The Environment Club Continue Philanthropic Work
Timberwolves for The Environment members work on their plastic bag projects on Sept.9. Each year the club adopts a wolfpack and funds their needs, with the money they raise. “We get assigned a certain group of wolves and then if they need food, they take that money that we donated, or that different groups donated and then use that for them,” senior Brianna Wechsler said. “This year there was a flood in one of the areas, so the money that lots of people donated was used to fix their habitat.”
January 17, 2020
Service project after service project, the Timberwolves for the Environment club continues to take stands in important organizations in their community and world. After their most recent fundraiser of creating recycled bags and wreaths, as well as collecting different money donations, the club raised the $182 needed to adopt their wolfpack this year.
Through the company Endangered Wolf Center, located in St. Louis, Missouri, Timberwolves for the Environment submitted their payment and adopted a wolfpack. By “adopting” a wolfpack, they are helping to protect endangered wolf species. The company will take their payment to fund projects that support the wolves needs.
“We get assigned a certain group of wolves and then if they need food, they take that money that we donated, or that different groups donated and then use that for them,” senior Brianna Wechsler said. “This year there was a flood in one of the areas, so the money that lots of people donated was used to fix their habitat.”
In order to pay for their annual adoption of a wolfpack, the club made bags and wreaths out of plastic sacks. These bags were crocheted and hand made by the club members during their club time every Monday after school.
“This year we were selling wreaths that we made from upcycled plastic bags and so we were going around selling them at the school and we also sold bags made out of upcycled [plastic] bags,” senior Kayla Hellikson said.
Even after finishing up one project this club is constantly providing for their community. Again this year the club will be partaking in a shoe drive where members of the community can drop off used shoes in order to help people around the world. This donation process is going through the company Soles 4 Souls who will then take and distribute the shoes where they are needed. Students can drop off shoes to Doc McPherson’s room (room 4009). One other project that the club is working on is providing some of the animals in Australia comfort and relief by creating synthetic birds nests, bat wraps, and joey bags to help kangaroos.
“One of my favorite things is that we actually get to help our community and make an impact even outside of it, for Australia and the fires, for the bats and other animals too,” Wechsler said. “We are actually helping them. We’re not just saying ‘Oh we love the environment’, we are actually doing something to help it.”
