![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)
Cheers of celebration echo from the dugout as the sevent inning comes to an end and the team secures the win in the second round of playoffs. Their success is a win, but now their determination to break the third round curse sets in.
The team won the series against Medina Valley last week 2-0, sending them to the Regional Quarterfinals against the Rouse Raiders tomorrow at 7 p.m. The game will be held at Lago Vista and will determine who moves onto the fourth round of playoffs.
“I feel really well [going into this round] we’re playing some of the best baseball we have played all year right now,” freshman third baseman Hudson Cuevas said. “We’ve been preparing the same as we have all year, nothing has changed because everything has worked through the whole year. Just the intensity is cranking up since it is the playoffs..”
The team has lost to Rouse in the third round at Concordia the past two years. While they did beat them in the district play twice, the player’s are still putting in their focus for the playoffs.
“It’s the [seniors] last year so it’s a different mindset,” senior second baseman and pitcher Carson Reid said. “We know we can beat them. We need to look at the positive not really the past and kind of forget about the past because it’s a different team every year. After this round, we don’t have this pressure anymore. This is just a big bump, that’s it.”
In the district rounds, the team tied for first with Liberty Hill, marking the fourth year in a row they have won district. The team also beat San Antonio Pieper in the first round of the playoffs in a 2-0 series.
“The team bond this year has been great, I love it,” Reid said. “Winning this round will really show who we are as a team because I don’t think there’s a team in this whole country that really comes together like we do.”
When asked about the wins against Rouse, senior right fielder Jake Cowlishaw, says he is looking forward to going into this round and getting to play them again.
“You can’t go into a playoff game like this and not feel confident,” Cowlishaw said. “I feel pretty good [about this round] . I think as a team we’re all playing well together. Losing to them in the previous years is definitely on our minds but we want to change that.”
