![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.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.”
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
