![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)
Student parking lot causing safety issues
October 2, 2015
Students going to and from school may be driving, walking, or riding a bike or skateboard. With all four of these forms of transportation, comes safety risks. CP students need to know how to properly drive, walk, etc. in order to stop and prevent any future accidents in the parking lot and on Cypress Creek.
CP’s School Resource Officer, Alan Gallagher, witnessed multiple accidents in the past school year and one this year.
“There are students who don’t pay attention when they are backing up and end up bumping into another car because they weren’t paying attention,” Gallagher said. “It’s already happened this year.”
Some of the proposals the AP’s and Gallagher have, include putting up safety signs around the parking lot and getting light up crosswalks.
“We are trying to retrain students on where the correct places to go are,” AP Vernon Rogers said. “Sometimes students drive through the wrong entrances and cut through the parking spaces.”
Not only are the AP’s concerned, but students as well, such as junior Maddie Meyers.
“I think that sometimes when school gets let out, everyone is in a rush to leave and trying to back out at the same time, so if everyone was just more patient and waited a little longer, it would be better,” Meyers said. “When I’ve backed up before looking around, someone has sped down the parking lot aisles and I had to stop quickly to not get hit because they weren’t going to be the one to slow down.”
The main cause for the accidents are a lack of awareness, according to Gallagher.
“There needs to be a way to get the students to be more cautious in the parking lot,” Gallagher said. “Students just need to be paying attention when driving.”
Students must be insured and have a parking permit if they are driving themselves to school.
“It’s easier to have everyone insured, and if there was an accident in the parking lot it’s better for the students to report it to an AP of Officer Gallagher because the ticket will be cheaper than a ticket from an officer outside the school,” Rogers said.
The AP’s are open to suggestions in trying to make the parking lot safer. If you have any ideas tell your AP or Officer Gallagher.
