![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)
Nobody’s blue at Blues on the Green
![Clapping along to the beat while Rise Against The Storm plays at Blues On The Green on Aug 12 is junior Deirdre Wolf. Wolf met up with some friends at the festival and enjoyed listening to the music with them. “I was actually flying in from New York the same day, so I got off of the plane and immediately headed to Zilker Park,” Wolf said. “Where I met up with a good handful of current and past CPHS students. Shakey Graves was my favorite [performance] hands down, his music is simultaneously original while also being comfort music. I have a vivid memory of us all sweating in silence, fanning each other and waiting for the sun to go down.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/deirdre-wolf.jpg)
Clapping along to the beat while Rise Against The Storm plays at Blues On The Green on Aug 12 is junior Deirdre Wolf. Wolf met up with some friends at the festival and enjoyed listening to the music with them. “I was actually flying in from New York the same day, so I got off of the plane and immediately headed to Zilker Park,” Wolf said. “Where I met up with a good handful of current and past CPHS students. Shakey Graves was my favorite [performance] hands down, his music is simultaneously original while also being comfort music. I have a vivid memory of us all sweating in silence, fanning each other and waiting for the sun to go down.”
September 14, 2015
This summer marked the 25th annual celebration of Blues On The Green, a traditional series of concerts that are free to attend and star some big names in music. This year’s concerts took place on June 3, July 22, Aug 5, and Aug 12. Some of the artists included Walter Lukens, Kaleo, Bob Schneider, Rise Against The Storm and Shakey Graves. Graves was a popular choice for many music-lovers, and a favorite of junior Deirdre Wolf, who got up close and personal with Graves at this year’s festival.
“After Graves’s set, when I was talking to one of the security personnel, he said ‘You know what? If you go backstage, you’ll meet him. No one will stop you,’” Wolf said. “When I met him, he was really quiet, almost timid, but he was really sweet. I had assumed from the fact that he’s a reasonably big music star and from his mildly angry Twitter, that he’d be a big, talkative character offstage.”
The performance by Shakey Graves on Aug 12 was also greatly enjoyed by junior Paris Varnier.
“During the performances by Graves and Rise Against The Storm, my friends and I were at the front of the crowd,” said Varnier. It was really cool because you could see and hear really well and you could take pictures of the crowd from the front.”
You may be wondering “Who is Graves?” or “What is it that makes Graves the favorite choice of so many concert-goers?” Wolf believes it’s due to his relatable, yet original, music style.
“Graves’s music is a mix between blues, country, rock, and Americana,” said Wolf. “What I like most is that his music is simultaneously really original sounding, while also being comfort music. It sounds like your best friend’s cool older brother’s band while maintaining enough professionalism to appear on a big stage.”
While Shakey Graves is relatively popular, everyone has their own taste. There were many bands who played music from several genres, senior Ayan Alomari found Kaleo to be her personal favorite.
“They’re an alternative band from Iceland,” Alomari said. “They have a unique range in musical style that makes them so appealing. Plus, the lead singer is pretty cute.”
Blues On The Green is about friends and listening to music with others who appreciate and relate to it the same way you do. Most people enjoy meeting others who share their interests and opinions, including Alomari.
“I went with all of my best friends and we did some of the wazoo dancing and beach ball passing,” said Alomari. “My favorite moment was when Jamestown Revival was playing ‘California,’ and me and my friends started belting along, the people around us stared, then nodded in acceptance and belted it with us.”
![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)
