![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)
MUMS, MUMS, MUMS are all girls seem to be talking about this close to homecoming. This tradition is largely observed on campus, and although we all make them, no one seems to know a lot about them.
According to the Mizzou Alumni Association, the first ever “Homecoming” game was played by the Missouri Tigers and the Kansas Jayhawks, one of the biggest college rivalries in all of college football, at Mizzou in 1911. Before, the two teams played at a neutral location, usually in Kansas City, but a new NCAA regulation required all games to be played at a collegiate field. Worried there would be a small turnout, the Mizzou athletic department decided to throw a parade to attract spectators and called it “Homecoming”. This one event gave rise to several southern traditions, including mums.
According to Dallas floral shop “Plush in a Rush”, the first ever mums were fresh white chrysanthemums, given to a girl by her boyfriend. These flowers were eventually replaced by more durable silk flowers. The silk flowers were the vehicle for the extravagant mums worn today.
How to make a mum
1) Get your materials, then get carried away. Lights, whistles, chains, beads, teddy bears, glitter, charms, there is no such thing as too much.
2) After shopping, cut a cardboard circle the size you want your flower to be.
3) Next, cover the circle with thick ribbon, and staple or glue it on.
4) Next attach five ribbons of one color. Repeat with another color.
5) Now, glue on a second circle and start your next layer. The ribbons attached to this circle should be decorative, fabulous, as well as personal. GO CRAZY.
6) Also, attach any whistles or bells to this layer, so you can effectively annoy everyone during math class.
7) Wait to glue on your last cardboard circle. First cut 2 inch ribbons and fold them into a cone and hot glue it together, this is the actual “mum”.
8) After you’ve assembled your mum, attach it to the cardboard circle using glue. When the mum is attached to the base you can glue the base to the rest of your mum.
9) The final step is to add any other personalized touches to the main flower.
10) You’re done! Just remember to watch out for doorway, stairs, desks, backpacks or any other hazards.
