![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
![Sucking in a breath of air, freshman Lily Pope competes in the 200 yard individual medley. On Oct. 25, the swim team competed in the AISD Swim Invitational. Overall, the girls team took second place and the boys team came in eleventh. “My favorite stroke is butterfly because I do the best in that stroke,” Pope said. “I feel like [butterfly] can test how [your ability] to convince yourself to keep going. The hardest part of swimming is convincing yourself to stay strong and keep pushing during a hard race [when] everything is tired.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/POPE-1200x804.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, Author Ehigbor Okosun, members of Page Turners, and other students reflect on the author's visit. “I thought the visit was great,” Senior Amia De Leon said. “It was interesting talking to her and [getting to know] her process and her thoughts and books in general. But I think the reason it went well [was that] people got to ask questions. I'm glad that she said so much in response to the questions and it wasn't just one and done. [The author’s responses] felt very articulate.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sebastian-5-1200x800.jpg)
![Standing in front of the field at a freshman football game, cheerleader freshman Jacob Gaudreau along with teammate freshman Bella Gibson pose for a photo during halftime of game. “[Cheer has] definitely given me a much more outgoing personality,” Gaudreau said. “I used to be very introverted, so it's definitely made me more extroverted towards people.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ingrid-204-1200x800.jpg)
![Holding a wooden pizza toy, senior Taylor Peterson plays with small children in Bucaramanga, Colombia. During the summer, Peterson traveled to Colombia to help build an elementary school that only had two classrooms but five or six grades with one teacher. “We add[ed] two more classrooms,” Peterson said. “It’s kind of hard when you have two or three grades in one classroom and you only have one teacher. It’s very hard to actually get some beneficial learning. [The extra classrooms will give the students] a better quality of education because they’ll actually have a place specific for their learning.” Photo by Taylor Peterson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taylor-P.png)
![Swinging with his arm extended, senior Nolan Park hits the ball smoothly over the net and to the opponent’s side. Park is one of four varsity tennis captains and helped the team win district championships. “Winning district champs was a pretty awesome feeling,” Park said. “We had lost to Liberty Hill a couple of weeks before, but when we played them [again], we came out and really took care of business. We took them out and it was just a really awesome night.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kassidy-419.jpg)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.jpg)
Chalk and Jump Ropes and Painting, Oh My!
PACK Organizes Courtyard PACKtivity to Destress, Have Fun After PSAT
Running in a three-legged race, students participate in the Oct. 10 PACKtivity in the courtyard.
October 10, 2018
After four long hours of PSAT and Senior Summit, students flooded into the courtyard today at 3:05 p.m. for this year’s first PACKtivity. There was chalk, hula-hooping, three-legged races, jump roping and pumpkin painting, all of which was set up by PACK, a club with hopes of bringing the student body closer together.
For most of the 45 minute event, freshman Arya Yazdi was hanging around the jump rope station. While two students held the ends of the long rope, Yazdi and about five others rushed in to all jump at once. He said that although he had not met most of those jumping with him, they were still able to have a fun time.
In mid-jump, freshman Arya Yazdi spends time jump roping at the PACKtivity in the courtyard on Oct. 10. He said that many of the people jumping together did not know each other, but they were still able to enjoy the fun. “Everyone was going together, no one knew anybody,” Yazdi said. “We were just hyping each other up and urging each other to keep going.”
“Everyone was going together, no one knew anybody,” Yazdi said. “We were just hyping each other up and urging each other to keep going.”
Sophomore Stephani Gonzalez drew on the pavement with chalk during the event and said that even though she got messy, it was her favorite aspect of the PACKtivity.
“Being able to draw in such a large scale is not something you get very often,” Gonzalez said. “So being able to do that and experiment was a lot of fun.”
She said that with people admiring students’ chalk creations and laughing together, the chalk also helped her feel one with the pack.
“It definitely feels like it strengthened our bonds,” Gonzalez said. “[The chalk] certainly gets you out there, especially when you are drawing and you have a huge crowd around you.”
Holding up her pumpkin outside of the cafeteria during the fall PACKtivity on Oct. 10, sophomore Vivianna Mendieta lets her paint dry. After re-painting her pumpkin three times, Mendieta finally settled on blue, which inspired her to then do her makeup in the acrylic. “This was last minute thinking,” Mendieta said. “Makeup is basically like the canvas is your face.”
To contribute to this event’s fall theme, PACK brought mini pumpkins to paint on the tables outside of the cafeteria. Sophomore Vivianna Mendieta painted her pumpkin blue, and then decided to use the acrylic to give herself makeup as well. She said that having more options and going by a specific theme made this PACKtivity stand out from previous ones.
“I actually liked this one more than the others, this was more fun,” Mendieta said. “We got to choose what we did and there was actual fall stuff to do which was good.”
In addition to bringing the pumpkins, second-year PACK member, sophomore Abby Cheek, also made sure all of the club’s stations were prepared beforehand. She said that with this year’s slightly different twist on the PACKtivity, such as clubs like Mu Alpha Theta and Key Club getting to run their own stations, a wider range of people were reached.
“I think it did a good job of making everyone feel included,” Cheek said. “I feel like if somebody was just standing alone then the people in PACK did a good job in trying to reach out.”
