![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)
The King Reigns As Stars Shine at All-Star Game
February 26, 2018
Los Angeles, the center of the sports world, hosted the annual NBA All-Star Game the weekend of Feb. 16-18.
The fun started out with the NBA Skills Challenge where preselected young veterans of the NBA flew threw an obstacle course consisting of layups, three point shots and elite dribbling skills. The 24-year-old guard from the Brooklyn Nets, Spencer Dinwiddie, came out on top.
The next event was the JBL 3-Point Shooting Contest. Sharpshooters like Eric Gordon from the Houston Rockets, Klay Thompson from the Golden State Warriors and Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder competed in this year’s event. The contest didn’t live up to expectations, but Devin Booker, elite shooter of the Phoenix Suns, took home the title and broke the record of most points in one round.
The last event was the highly anticipated Dunk Contest. Rookie Donovan Mitchell won the contest over Larry Nance Jr. with an updated version of Vince Carter’s gravity defying 360 windmill dunk. The event was messy at the beginning, with missed dunks and sloppy performances, but the projected rookie of the year saved the show and was crowned a champion.
Normally you wouldn’t see the All-Stars trying to play a lot of defense, but this year Kevin Durant, from the Golden State Warriors, and Russell Westbrook, from the Oklahoma City Thunder, showed some ferocious blocks play after play. First year All-Stars like Joel Embiid and Victor Oladipo, showed some skills with multiple blocks also, but Lebron James from the Cleveland Cavaliers, took home the victory with his team and took his third All-Star Game MVP crown with a stat line of 29 points, 10 rebounds, and eight assists.
Overall, this year’s All-Star weekend was not the best, but some stars proved to the league why they were deserving of that All-Star spot.
![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)
