![Holding up T-wolves, the tour group poses for a picture in the Chinese classroom. Sophomore Lydia Ou, junior Phu Trung and senior Yushan Pan gave a tour to Taiwanese diplomat Andrea Yang on Nov. 8. “I was so excited when I heard I would get to give the tour because it’s a big deal,” Ou said. “She’s from the US embassy for Taiwan, so she’s really important. I’m so privileged [to get this opportunity] and I’m so excited.” Photo by Skyler King](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Main-Taiwan.jpg)
![Students drew chalk art in honor of Veterans day. This is just one of many things the school does to show appreciation to veterans, and the art will remain in the courtyard as a reminder of all of the veterans who served their country. “On veteran’s day, I think it’s a great thing we do at school to honor people that served [who are] at our school or family members,” English teacher and cheer coach Nadira King said. “It makes me feel proud, and it makes me remember the [veterans].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Capture.png)
![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)
![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)
Chief Harlan Reporting For Duty
Senior Class President Talks Leadership, Science, Passions
Wearing a cowboy hat, senior Ainsley Harlan shoots a no-opinion smile during her senior portrait shoot. Harlan will study Biochemistry at the University of Missouri. “I’m excited for college,” Harlan said. “I think it’s going to be a new experience. It’s definitely going to be throwing myself into a different pool and demographic of people and I’m just going to go with the flow.” Photo By Chad Harlan
May 5, 2023
For Ainsley Harlan, every week is a busy week. After-school and before-school honor society meetings, Student Council events, senior class Instagram postings and DECA meets are all a part of her daily regimen. This year, she’s added on another task: Senior Class president.
From running the senior class group chat, competing in DECA tournaments, helping plan Prom 2022 and leading the environmental initiative for Student Council, Harlan has done it all. As the class president, Harlan’s goal for this year was to unite the senior class. And as the year is coming to a close, it seems that she has done exactly that.
“[Taking on] Senior Class President is probably the biggest and most time-consuming role I’ve taken,” Harlan said. “Especially because we’re the senior class and because we’re graduating, there’s so much happening and going on at the moment. So, I pretty much run the senior college posts, senior assassin game, senior prank and also plan senior skip day. Basically anything seniors want to do, I’m there helping plan it.”
Apart from her class presidential duties, Harlan has stayed involved in a variety of other organizations around the school, such as Student Council, DECA, PALS, NEHS and SNHS. A scholar through and through, Harlan prides herself on her achievements.
“I am president of NEHS and SNHS, and I hold general membership in Mu Alpha Theta honor society and NHS,” Harlan explained. “I also compete in DECA. I absolutely love it. [This year], my teammates, Ariana Balakrishnan, Delaney McClure, and I competed in a team event for an Integrated Marketing Campaign and we’re alternatives for internationals. Ariana and I are three time state qualifiers for DECA.”
Though Harlan has spent a lot of time in the DECA classroom planning marketing campaigns and prepping speeches, she balanced her time in the Student Council room as well.
“I’ve poured a lot of my time into StuCo,” Harlan said. “As Senior Class President, I’ve been working on that all year, 24/7. But, even before this year, I was at StuCo a lot and put in a lot of time. [Student Council] reaches a lot of the student body, so I’ve reached the most people with that. You’re not catering to a specific group as a very general broad thing and it keeps me on my toes, which I love. I’ve kind of found my leadership outlet in our weekly Friday meetings in Mr. Babich’s room.”
Outside of school, Harlan works two jobs, at Ice and Field at the Crossover, and also as a camp director for a children’s sports camp. As a director, Harlan organizes and runs all the registration for the camp, which averages to about 70 kids a day, and starts up every time there’s a break in the school year. As a general rink attendant, Harlan works the front and runs the hockey rink.
“I work with kids a lot,” Harlan said. “So I babysit constantly, but I just love working with kids – I do PALS as well at the school, which is really fun for me. “[Kids] are such an innocent group. It is really easy for them to see the good in the world and it always cheers me up. It’s also just fun to go roll out in the mud and have fun like a child again with other children – that’s just really cool, especially since I take on so much sometimes. I can get really stressed, so being able to just let loose is perfect for me.”
Harlan plans on studying Biochemistry at the University of Missouri. She plans to use her degree to either go Pre Med or go into veterinary sciences to get a DVM, or Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
“[After that], I plan to hopefully go back and minor in business and get my MBA,” Harlan said. “[I want to] start my own veterinary clinic. I have always held a deep love for science and I love animals. I love helping them.”
Along with her passion for kids, animals and leadership, Harlan said she is excited for wherever the future takes her.
“I have a lot to look forward to,” Harlan said. “I think a lot isn’t planned, but that’s kind of the best part because I’m just figuring it out as I go. I love being busy and having a plan, but at the end of the day, sometimes it’s nice to just not know where life is taking you and go with it. I’m excited for college, I think it’s going to be a new experience. It’s definitely going to be throwing myself into a different pool and demographic of people and I’m just going to go with the flow.”
![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-300x201.jpg)
