![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)
We know Tyler Chappell as the loveable PAL and talented athlete but a lot of people don’t know the obstacle racing Tyler.
Tyler first got into obstacle racing his freshmen year through his trainer Yancy Culp, owner of the popular fitness organization Sculpture Fitness. Culp encouraged Chappell to do the Warrior Dash with him, a popular obstacle course race. Ever since then, Chappell has been hooked.
Five days a week, Chappell gets up at 5:00 a.m. to run or lift weights. Then he trains in the afternoon, which could include ropes, or tire flips followed by a mile-long run. For Chappell, all the training is worthwhile.
“I like just overall competing and getting to meet people from around the world,” Chappell said.
Chappell has won several Spartan Race metals, a Gut Check metal, and a Warrior Dash Metal, along with other awards.
“The feeling you get when you see your name at the top of the list; I love that feeling,” Chappell said.
Chappell also says that obstacle course racing has helped him with struggles in his personal life.
“The idea behind it is it’s supposed to be like real life: you get to an obstacle and you get past it. Like ‘I just ran a 12-hour race, I can get through this,’” Chappell said.
Along with obstacle racing, the kids Chappell has worked with through PALs and the Miracle League have shaped his character.
“They made me more understanding to what other people are going through,” Chappell said.
After high school Chappell hopes to play baseball or run track at college, study to be a physical therapist and of course, keep racing.
