![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)
How to make a statement with a question: five ways to prom-pose
Creative crushes will use the two strongest motivators to ask their special date to Prom: food and originality.
March 25, 2015
There comes a time in many teenagers’ lives where the pivotal moment finally occurs and one has to make the crucial and life-changing decision: how am I going to prom-pose? With prom now less than a month away, it’s time for you lonely and love-struck students to find your courage, and either get really creative really fast or take these tips on how to invite your date to the big dance.
1. Appeal to their sporty side
Who doesn’t love a good plethora of puns? Use their favorite sport’s ball or balls as the canvas to ask them out. For example, on a volleyball player’s ball, “I really ‘DIG’ you and I’d love to ‘SET’ up a date for us to Prom.” Many drawings of hearts optional.
2. D-I-Y puzzle
Although you might not have heard of it before, it is entirely possible (and easy) to make (or buy) your own puzzle with a photograph. Take a picture of you holding up the sign asking them to prom, and then complete the puzzle with him. It’s original and cute, but don’t make it too challenging or time-consuming, because – who knows? — someone else might ask in the time it takes them to finish your extremely long puzzle.
3. Team invite
Do you have enough friends to have hold up multiple signs? Then you have a way to prom-pose! Getting your friends to hold up signs, each one with a word or two of the “Firstname Lastname, will you go to Prom with me?” is a cute way to demonstrate that you’re open about liking the person and that your friends approve.
2. Driveway drawings
All you need is some chalk and the ability to sneak over to their house for a completely innocent reason. At some point after they go to bed and before they wake up, write out “Prom?” and your name in brightly colored chalk on their front driveway. When they go outside in the morning, they’ll have something cute and unexpected to look at and ponder over.
1. Prom cookies
If your prospective date doesn’t like cookies, what are you doing trying to take them out anyways? Bake a donut-shaped cookie with the big question on it along with smaller circular cookies that will fit in the donut hole with available answers on them – they can select the answer-cookie and then eat them with you. It’s a win-win situation, unless they say “no,” in which case you can eat all the “yes” cookies, so it’s really still a win-win situation.
![The fire department came to the school after students were evacuated when smoke started coming from the ceiling of a classroom. All students and staff are safe. “All of my friends left their stuff too, so we couldn’t contact our parents, and it was stressful,” senior Brynn Fowler said. “It was scary because I didn’t know [what was going on], and I couldn’t find anyone because it was a big crowd.” Photo by Anthony Garcia](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/firetruck-300x200.jpg)
