![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)
Students Speak Out For National Walkout Day
May 1, 2018
Over 2,600 schools across the United States walked out of their classrooms at 10:00 a.m. on April 20, the anniversary of the Columbine school shooting 19 years ago. These students were protesting for gun law reform and the “congressional, state, and local failures to take action to prevent gun violence,” according to the National School Walkout website.
In the courtyard at CPHS, the names of those killed in Parkland, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech and Columbine were written in chalk across the cement. Junior Madi Fujawa said that this walkout and others across the country gave a voice to those who want change.
“My overall goal for the walkout was to give a voice to those who lost theirs in the school shootings that have happened in our country,” Fujawa said. “We as a nation can come together and find better solutions towards gun control and school shootings.”
After gathering in the courtyard, the students who participated marched in front of the school and many students gave speeches to the crowd, discussing their opinions and feelings on the matter.
“When I was handed the megaphone and got to stand on a table and voice my opinions to the crowded courtyard was the most memorable part,” senior Katie Pulcini said. “Usually when I share my opinion at school, I get ridiculed for it, but this time there were so many cheers, it was empowering to know I wasn’t alone with my views.”
Junior Olivia Cantrell said that she believes that getting our generation to become involved in political topics and what’s going on around them is extremely important.
“If you look at voter demographics you can see that the generations above us have not voted to their full capacity,” Cantrell said. “It’s important that we go to our voting stations and vote for either side, and it starts with being informed and being active in politics and protests. For me, the protest just made me want to vote more and to try and make a difference.”
Although the walkout was made to bring attention to issues and share opinions on the recent gun violence, Fujawa said that she wasn’t there to force her beliefs on anyone.
“There’s never a clear solution, but discussion and ideas from both sides of the topic are what can bring us closer to solutions that we can try,” Fujawa said. “I know walking out was an important thing to do, because when I walked out I thought about the Parkland students, the Sandy Hook students, the Columbine students, my own friends, my teachers, my younger siblings.”
Click here to find more information on the national school walkouts.
![Dressed as “H-E-B Buddy,” senior Logan Hedges entertains shoppers during a shift at H-E-B. Hedges has fun on the job, as there’s significantly less pressure than other jobs he has had. “I [used to umpire] little league baseball, and it’s definitely less stressful,” Hedges said. “There’s not much [that can go wrong] scanning groceries. Making a bad call in baseball is so easy.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BF3C2083-817E-4847-B673-1FEF973AB972-300x300.jpeg)
