![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)
![Smiling with her hands on the wheel in her Camaro z28, senior Brooklyn Collinsworth savors these short moments until the car returns back to the shop. “I knew there would be work to be done, but there were too many problems with the engine in the car that they didn't address originally,” Collinsworth said. “The more [SW] takes it apart, the more they realize the issues with it, but I want to keep that car forever so I'm willing to deal with that stuff so I can have a better experience later.” Photo Courtesy of Brooklyn Collinsworth](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/55E3EE4E-12B3-4B85-B1CB-464B676FD3A9_1_105_c.jpeg)
The elegant curves and lines along with its roaring noise quickly attracts everyone’s attention. Phones are quickly pulled out of pockets to film the beauty of this car. There are always a couple of photographers who are faster than the others, but who knows which one has the perfect angle? Luckily, there is a certain someone who has plans to master the craft of car videography and make it big.
With her recent accomplishment of hitting over 3,000 followers on her car Instagram account, senior Brooklyn Collinsworth strives to make a change to her local car show community. With her love of cars in mind, Collinsworth is hoping to invite other students with similar interests to join her unique passion for cars by creating a school car club that would benefit a different group of people each time a car meet is hosted.
“I would like to implement [a fundraiser] for the community; people like seeing cars,” Collinsworth said. “If we can raise money for the right purposes, [then] I would love to start [hosting car meet fundraisers]. You don’t need to drive anything super cool or expensive to go to car meets. If you’re just as interested as anybody else and you know just as much, you’ll have no problem.”
Around a year ago, Collinsworth created her Instagram car account because she liked seeing other vehicle accounts and wanted to give it a shot herself. As the Wolfcast Tech Director, she implements the skills she’s learned in broadcast to her account, which has helped her gain 2.4 million views on one video and 1.5 million views on another.
“[On one video], I got a comment from a popular creator which made me freak out because that means maybe this is legit,” Collinsworth said. “People that I’m following and look up to are now commenting on my posts; that’s crazy.”
Collinsworth recently hosted her own car meet, which did better than her expectations.
“[At the car meet] I was able to connect with real life people through Instagram. I didn’t know I had that much reach just by making an account,” Collinsworth said. “I’m very happy with that and I’m hoping to bring that to school and have a good car community here.”
Ever since she was young, Collinsworth was constantly surrounded by cars and car meets. Family friend and owner of a nearby dealership, Sriyantha Weerasuria, hosted car meets where Collinsworth and her family were often present. In 2006, the Collinsworth family bought a new Ford GT500, which was the car her and her dad were always in.
“I’ve always liked sports cars,” Collinsworth said. “One of my earliest memories was in my dad’s car driving up in the area near the Oasis, which we called the roller coaster road, and we would blast Aerosmith or ACDC going down. I would get the speed giggles and that’s one of my happiest memories from when I was a kid.”
Collinsworth’s love for classic cars started when her grandfather showed her pictures of his 1969 Chevelle when she was young. Whenever she would visit him, there would always be a car to admire.
“I fell in love with the look of classic cars and the feel, the quality of them,” Collinsworth said. “Whenever I went to shows, my eyes always gravitated towards classics because I could tell that people put a lot of work into them by how nice they were; I’ve always loved that bodystyle.”
This past summer, Collinsworth had been searching for a project car. She originally wanted a Miata that she could potentially race in, but when Weerasuria sent her a 1970 Camaro z28, she fell in love. The car was originally from Arizona and came in a rough condition with illegal seatbelts and no headrests.
“[My parents] didn’t like the fact that I was getting a hotrod,” Collinsworth said. “The guy who worked in the front office told us that he had a z28 and he crashed it the first year he got it.”
Collinsworth put bucket seats as well as a Simpson racing harness into the z28 to improve the safety of the car. However, the car would frequently blow fuses, which eventually led her to a scary situation.
“A fuse blew on me when I was driving at nighttime and my lights went out and I couldn’t see anything,” Collinsworth said. “I had to get my brother to help me. I knew what I was getting myself into with a classic car, and I knew [problems] were a possibility.”
The car was a project car for the original owner as well, and there is still a ton of work that needs to be done. The car needs an entire new engine as well as suspension and the electrical harness has to be redone.
“I want to keep that car forever, so I’m willing to deal with that stuff so I can have a better experience later,” Collinsworth said. “It does suck at the moment, but I love it.”
