![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
Princess and the Tea
Seasons Choir Performs as Princesses for Children in the Community
March 6, 2018
Over the weekend, choir hosted their biggest annual fundraiser, Princess Tea. Princess tea is a show that Seasons put on where they dress up as Disney Princesses to sing, dance and play games with little kids.
This year’s show, “Moana’s Luau,” featured your classic princesses such as Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, Belle and Pocahontas. It also had some modern princesses such as Moana, Leia, Elsa, Anna, Megara, Mulan and Alice.
Senior Hannah Loera, who played Moana, said this year’s Tea was more casual than it has been before.
“Normally we have a very traditional tea with a theme about Belle’s book club or Elsa’s Snow Ball or something like that,” Loera said. “This was our first chance to try something really different and more exuberant. We got to be a little more casual, the set design is a lot warmer and [we got to] try a lot more dancing.”
A first time performer at Princess Tea, sophomore Kate Stedman, who played Ariel, enjoyed putting on the show and being an inspiration to kids who attended.
“Princess Tea is a really great opportunity for us to get to inspire little girls and boys and teach them lessons that they need later in life,” Stedman said. “Getting to play a princess is incredibly rewarding because you get to see the kids’ faces light up when they see you and you can see that they look up to you.”
Stedman said that her favorite parts about Princess Tea is singing with the kids on stage and meeting them at the end. Seven-year-old Hadley Taylor, who attended Princess Tea on Friday, also liked the interaction between the princesses and the audience.
“I liked the games and when they played the games and how they asked the audience to play,” Taylor said.
These kids are so pure and genuine. Nothing compares.
— Hannah Loera
Loera said that the kids are her favorite part of Princess Tea.
“The kids are always so excited to talk to you,” Loera said. “I like treating them like they are the actual princesses they are dressed up as, and spending time having a sweet connection. These kids are so pure and genuine. Nothing compares.”
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
