![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
![Sucking in a breath of air, freshman Lily Pope competes in the 200 yard individual medley. On Oct. 25, the swim team competed in the AISD Swim Invitational. Overall, the girls team took second place and the boys team came in eleventh. “My favorite stroke is butterfly because I do the best in that stroke,” Pope said. “I feel like [butterfly] can test how [your ability] to convince yourself to keep going. The hardest part of swimming is convincing yourself to stay strong and keep pushing during a hard race [when] everything is tired.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/POPE-1200x804.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, Author Ehigbor Okosun, members of Page Turners, and other students reflect on the author's visit. “I thought the visit was great,” Senior Amia De Leon said. “It was interesting talking to her and [getting to know] her process and her thoughts and books in general. But I think the reason it went well [was that] people got to ask questions. I'm glad that she said so much in response to the questions and it wasn't just one and done. [The author’s responses] felt very articulate.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sebastian-5-1200x800.jpg)
![Standing in front of the field at a freshman football game, cheerleader freshman Jacob Gaudreau along with teammate freshman Bella Gibson pose for a photo during halftime of game. “[Cheer has] definitely given me a much more outgoing personality,” Gaudreau said. “I used to be very introverted, so it's definitely made me more extroverted towards people.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ingrid-204-1200x800.jpg)
![Holding a wooden pizza toy, senior Taylor Peterson plays with small children in Bucaramanga, Colombia. During the summer, Peterson traveled to Colombia to help build an elementary school that only had two classrooms but five or six grades with one teacher. “We add[ed] two more classrooms,” Peterson said. “It’s kind of hard when you have two or three grades in one classroom and you only have one teacher. It’s very hard to actually get some beneficial learning. [The extra classrooms will give the students] a better quality of education because they’ll actually have a place specific for their learning.” Photo by Taylor Peterson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taylor-P.png)
![Swinging with his arm extended, senior Nolan Park hits the ball smoothly over the net and to the opponent’s side. Park is one of four varsity tennis captains and helped the team win district championships. “Winning district champs was a pretty awesome feeling,” Park said. “We had lost to Liberty Hill a couple of weeks before, but when we played them [again], we came out and really took care of business. We took them out and it was just a really awesome night.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kassidy-419.jpg)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.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.
