![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)
On the Air
Senior Hadley Davis Creates a Podcast, Discusses Future Plans
Hadley listens to her podcast to ensure that everything is good to go before she uploads it. Davis said that they started the podcast during the pandemic as a way for them to connect with their friends and family who they don’t get to see or talk to too often. “We wanted them to feel like they are right there with us having a conversation,” Davis said.
May 10, 2021
With equipment ready and apps opened, senior Hadley Davis prepares for another episode of her podcast, “Rambling Nonsense.” Davis co-hosts the podcast with her sister on the Stereo app. The platform allows the duo to record episodes in real-time in a way that people are also able to interact with them live.
“We decided to call it that because that’s what we feel like we do sometimes, but in reality, we normally have a great show,” Davis said.
They came up with the idea to do a podcast because Davis said she is obsessed with them. She invited her sister to be a co-host because Davis said that she knew that she was leaving for college soon, and having a set time to be able to talk to her sister means a lot to her.
“‘Crime Junkie’ is my favorite podcast because I loved that the hosts were so candid and it seemed like it was just two friends talking about a story they heard on the news,” Davis said. “Plus, I’m a huge true crime fan so any form of media that I can learn about cases through is always interesting in my book.”
Their podcast doesn’t really have a set topic, however, they’ve talked about broad topics like pop culture and more niche topics like their favorite places to eat. Davis and her sister are both diagnosed with ADHD and after a whole week of school and having to focus, they relax and let loose for the hour-long recordings of the podcast.
“We might start with one topic but by the end, we are talking about something completely different,” Davis said. “It’s been very therapeutic to be able to just have these long conversations about everything and nothing.”
Each episode is about an hour-long, and currently, they have four episodes out. Davis said that they took a bit of a hiatus for the past month since they have been busy with school, but they are getting back to it as soon as possible.
“We plan on hopefully continuing this for as long as possible, especially since I’m going to college and we won’t get to talk as much,” Davis said. “We have lots of people that we plan on having on the podcast, most of, not all of them are our friends, but we have lots of things we want to do with the podcast. At the end of the day though, the podcast is about sitting down and connecting with another person.”
So far, their podcast has around thirty people who follow and listen consistently. Davis said that the interesting thing about the Stereo app is that anyone can pop in and listen to the podcast at any time in real-time. For this reason, Davis said that she and her sister made a rule that they don’t share any personal information, even their last name, on the show. According to Davis, they don’t even talk about their age or say their pets’ names.
“Privacy and internet security is a big deal to me, so having this barrier of things to not share on the internet for all to see is so crucial for both me and my sister,” Davis said.
Although Davis is going to college in the fall, she said she hopes that she can still continue the podcast with her sister.
“I will be going to TCU this fall to study speech-language pathology,” Davis said. “I’m hoping that my sister and I will still be able to meet at least once a month over the phone to record an episode of the podcast, but we will just have to wait and see.”
