![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)
Clad in black and green, the team continuously scores against their opponents, driving the ball to the rim. When the final buzzer goes off, the crowd of family and friends jump out of their seats, their cheers echoing around the gym.
The girls basketball team opened district play on Dec. 10 against Hays, winning the game, 44-30.
“I’m excited [for district play],” head girls basketball coach Kami Williamson (Coach K) said. “I feel like we’ve got a very good chance this year. I know our district is loaded with top 25 teams and talent, but I feel really good with what we have and how we’ve been playing [in preseason].”
Junior Maddie Pressler plays center on the team. She played on JV last year, but traveled with varsity for playoffs.
“[Playing on varsity] is definitely more intimidating,” Pressler said. “We’re playing for this state powerhouse, so there’s a lot of pressure. It’s different from being on JV.”
The team made it to the state semifinals last season before losing to Mansfield Timberview, which was the number one team in the 5A division.
“We did lose a lot of key seniors, but we had a lot of returners from last year’s team [who] made that deep run to the state tournament,” Coach K said. “[Seven girls returned], so I feel like they have stepped up and have that experience from last year. They’re ready to go and lead the team this year.”
The team was 12-3 in preseason play, winning six of their last seven games. They placed third in the BeYOUtiful tournament and played in the gold bracket in the Jack Frost tournament.
“In the tournaments we’ve played in so far, we’ve played a lot of really good teams–teams that have won state and gone to the state tournament,” Pressler said. “We’ve had some really good competition [who] we’ve been able to win against. [It’s been] a really good start to the season so far.”
Junior guard Mya Pfaffe played on JV last season, but made the varsity team this year. She said she is looking forward to district play.
“I’m nervous because I’m new [to the varsity team] and we lost a lot of key leaders last year, but I think we’ll do well in district play,” Pfaffe said. “Our hardest game will probably be against Glenn or Liberty Hill because we played them last year in the playoffs and they’re always really good.”
The team is now 3-0 in district play going into their fourth district game against Rouse on Friday, Dec. 20.
“[In order to succeed in district play], we need to be disciplined and continue to play together as a team,” Coach K said. “We’re playing really well going into district, so hopefully we make a great run.”
