![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)
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.
![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)
