![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)
With Districts Looming, Wrestlers Reflect on Season
Junior Ben Bell takes down his 285 lb. competitor on Jan. 23 vs. Leander in the Backyard Brawl. “I have to use speed and explosiveness to my advantage,” Bell said. “I mostly wrestle kids that are bigger than me, so I can’t just rely on muscle.”
February 1, 2019
Varsity wrestlers junior Ben Bell and seniors Corey Lensing and Hampton Jenschke helped CP win first in the Top Gun Tournament on Jan. 26 in Corpus Christi. Now, the wrestling team looks to head into the district matches Feb. 7 with more confidence.
Bell, at around 245 lbs, typically wrestles kids that are much bigger than him. He had to beat a 285 pounder in the finals of the Top Gun Tournament.
“It motivated me to want to win,” Bell said.
The T-Wolves wrestling team is currently ranked number 11 in the state for duals, and also have four state qualifiers in seniors Ethan Forbes, Jenschke, Jacob Muñoz and junior Bell.
Muñoz, who is currently ranked number eight in Texas, said that the team has a good mix this year of young and older people who all have a great amount of wrestling experience.
“It’s looking to be a great year for us as we head into district with a good handful of state-ranked wrestlers,” Muñoz said. “Hopefully [we are] going to take home the district title as a team, and possibly regionals as well.”
For Muñoz, he said it’s been a great year of learning and growing himself as a wrestler, now that it is his primary focus.
“In the past, I’ve had football to always worry about,” Muñoz said. “But now that football is over for me, I’m able to learn and apply stuff in wrestling that I previously have struggled with due to juggling multiple sports. I’m excited to see how far I can advance this season.”
The wrestling team practices for two hours every day, including a one-hour lift session in the weight room. Junior JV wrestler Andrew McCloud said that most of the team’s success comes from being mentally tough.
“Wrestling is a tough sport,” McCloud said. “Even when we win, it still hurts. In order to be successful, you have to be able to take a beating and still get back up. That’s what a lot of wrestling is.”
Junior JV wrestler Sam Nart said wrestling helps him stay in shape, in and out of the mat room.
“Being in wrestling has not only built up my mentality, but also my physicality as well,” Nart said.
Junior Faith Elliott, who wrestles on varsity, said that wrestling is challenging because it’s a dangerous sport that requires a lot of time and dedication in order to excel at it.
“I like [wrestling] because of the challenges it provides,” Elliott said. “And because it’s fun to beat on people. I look forward to improving and learning every day in practice.”
