![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)
There has been an unusual amount of injuries among the white and green freshmen football teams this season. With several first-string players being benched, everyone is wondering how it’s affected the freshmen season, and how so many kids are injured.
Freshmen football coach Clint Hormann chalks up the teams significant injuries to just plain bad luck.
“It’s unfortunate because they are good guys,” Hormann said.
For some freshmen players it has been a long season on the bench. Green team right tackle Aaron Richter fractured his hip at the first game of the season against Westlake and has been out for the entire season. Fellow green-teamer running back Baxter Robertson is upset about being sidelined with a torn ACL for at least four months.
“You can’t really do anything except watch people play football,” Robertson said.
Despite their injuries, the freshmen boys are optimistic about playing next season and are content with taking the elevator to all of their classes.
The misfortune of the sidelined players is hurting the entire freshmen football program too. The chaos that comes with replacing injured players and rearranging the white and green teams has been a major setback according to Hormann.
“It’s been difficult to gel as a team because of the personnel change,” Hormann said.
Even though it was difficult in the beginning, Hormann also claims this year’s injuries have had a profound effect on the entire team.
“It has made us a better team,” Hormann said. “It forced guys to step up and take on new responsibilities.”
With the encouragement and support from their teammates on the bench, Hormann is confident that the remaining freshmen will be able to win their final game of the season against Dripping Springs tonight.
“If we execute our offensive and defensive schemes in a precise fashion we should win the game,” Hormann said.
