![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)
Agricultural Academia
FFA Senior Discusses Experience, Future Plans
![Holding her lamb, senior FFA president Skye Lindholm poses at the annual Williamson County Livestock show. Lindholm joined FFA during her freshman year and has held multiple officer positions and participated in many competitions throughout high school. “Being a member of FFA has taught me how to be a responsible, contributing member of society,” Lindholm said. “During my time in FFA, I was fortunate enough to be under our advisors who helped me grow and [become] better as a person.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SkyeFFA-e1620230091116.jpg)
Photo courtesy of Skye Lindholm
Holding her lamb, senior FFA president Skye Lindholm poses at the annual Williamson County Livestock show. Lindholm joined FFA during her freshman year and has held multiple officer positions and participated in many competitions throughout high school. “Being a member of FFA has taught me how to be a responsible, contributing member of society,” Lindholm said. “During my time in FFA, I was fortunate enough to be under our advisors who helped me grow and [become] better as a person.”
May 5, 2021
Between taking care of her animals, running meetings and competing in virtual competitions, senior Skye Lindholm has had her hands full as the president of Future Farmer of America (FFA). Lindholm has dedicated much of her time inside and outside of school to FFA even throughout new regulations this year.
Lindholm joined FFA during her freshman year. Throughout the past four years, she has raised animals, such as pigs and lambs, and participated and placed in multiple competitions, including the Austin Livestock Show, where she placed 10th in her class. Despite the challenges this year, Lindholm said that there were still moments that she enjoyed.
“My favorite part of the year was when I won senior showmanship at the Williamson County Livestock show,” Lindholm said. “It was a huge accomplishment and honor.”
Besides technological challenges due to the shift to virtual competitions and learning, Lindholm said that this year was especially difficult to recruit new members since many students opted to stay virtual for school. Similarly, COVID-19 prevented the organization from attending in-person contests.
“Most of our contests were online, which makes it harder for me since I’m terrible with technology,” Lindholm said. “Before COVID-19, contests were so much fun. We got to go to other schools and cities and to meet other people from other FFA chapters.”
Despite changes to competitions, Lindholm was still able to compete in public relations, chapter conducting and floriculture and said that she enjoyed competing alongside her fellow FFA members.
“Public relations was my favorite just because I had a lot of fun with the script and the team I had was awesome,” Lindholm said. “It was my first year competing this year and we ended up going to State.”
For the first few years of college, Lindholm said that she plans on attending community college in order to take her basic courses. After that, she plans on going to Tarleton State University to study business and agricultural education.
“Being a member of FFA has taught me how to be a responsible, contributing member of society,” Lindholm said. “During my time in FFA, I was fortunate enough to be under our advisors who helped me grow and [become] better as a person.”
