![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)
Pep in Our Step
Last Home Game Calls for Annual Black Light Pep-Rally
November 3, 2017
Tonight is the night of the last home football game. That calls for face paint, black lights and lots and lots of pep. Students gathered after sixth period in the big gym for the annual black light pep-rally. The bleachers glowed with students wearing their new ten dollar StuCo t-shirts, made cheaper this year in order to bring more people to wear white.
Glowing in her face paint and white shirt, sophomore Abby Mitchell cheers at the annual black light pep-rally on Nov. 3.
Adam Babich, the StuCo sponsor says that this pep-rally is the one he has always remembered ever since he started working at the school.
“I like it because it brings everyone together,” Babich said. “Even though there is some friendly competition between the class yells, there is something fun about yelling with your friends and getting pumped up for the game.”
Along with having cheaper shirts this year, cheer came up with the idea of having different colored glow-sticks for each grade, as well as the teachers. Cheerleader and junior Jordan Tillet, says how the black light pep-rally gets the school hyped to win.
“We really need to beat Hutto tonight,” Tillet said. “I think the pep-rally looks so cool and gets everyone excited for the game.”
With most of the student body attending, senior Hunter Howe says that this pep-rally in particular brings support to the team.
Chanting next to her fellow cheerleaders, senior Morgan Castle cheers hypes the senior section on Nov. 3. This was her last black light pep-rally as a senior. “The feeling was bitter sweet,” Castle said. “It was exhilarating to see the players and students get hyped up for such a big game tonight.”
“With it being senior night, it’s fun to see all the football players out on the mat trying to get us hyped for the game,” Howe said. “I think it really gets the student body behind them and encourages people to go to the games and be loud and excited at it.”
