Meet and Greet: Science Teachers
September 7, 2016
The science department gained one new teacher, but also a familiar face to juniors and seniors.
Hope Lozano
Lozano is the new on-level and Pre-AP Chemistry teacher.
Q: What do you like so far about CP or the community in general?
A: I like the school spirit, the supportive administration, and the fun attitude of the teachers in the science department.
Q: If you could have a superpower what would it be?
A: Easy: teleportation (I hate long car rides!)
Q: What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
A: I like spending time with my husband and son, baking, and watching Netflix.
Q: What is your must-have item when teaching?
A: I’ve got to have an attentive student!
Brent Grissom
Coming back from his adventure in Hawaii, Grissom has taken his place teaching on-level and Pre-AP Biology again.
Q: Why do you like teaching Biology?
A: I like teaching high school and bio, particularly freshman, because high school is a higher level science, and you get to open the doors so the students can see how science and the real world really work hand in hand.
Q: What extracurricular activities were you involved in in high school?
A: I did band for a year, I didn’t like it. I was in tennis and theater.
Q: What is your favorite movie ever?
A: Blade Runner. The epic movie from, I believe, 1981, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford and Daryl Hannah. It’s brilliance.
Q: If you were in a zombie apocalypse, what would your role be?
A: I would be the one breeding the zombies.
Q: What is your dream vacation?
A: Not Hawaii.





![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.jpg)



![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)














![Holding a microphone, baseball booster club president Chris Cuevas announces the beginning of the annual cornhole tournament. The event has been held for the past two years and is designed to raise money for the baseball program in a fun way. “We’re a baseball team, so people love to compete,” Cuevas said. “So we figured we better do something that gets [their] attention. They want to compete. It’s not a hard sport to do, and we have all different [skill] levels [of participants].” Photo by Henry Mueller](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Henry-715-1200x900.jpg)


















