![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)
Self Motivation
Junior Self Motivates, Excels in School After Moving to U.S.
Junior Kate Lee stands in front of the audience playing her flute. “I do music lessons for kids with disability or financial needs at Music Eunited,” Lee said. “It’s so heartwarming and fun when volunteering. I think it’s just the people that make me get involved. I love meeting different types of people and having conversations with them. It’s interesting to see how different their personalities and interests are.”
May 28, 2019
Junior Kate Lee moved here only three and a half years ago from South Korea, and has since joined ten clubs at school, and plays four instruments, all while taking
“One of the main reasons that I’m in many clubs is because I want to get involved in many communities,” Lee said. “Also, I think clubs are good ways to have an exposure to specific subjects and areas before you actually decide to go into that field. Since I’m in the procedure of deciding what I want to do in the future, clubs help me a lot in my decision-making.”
Lee also plays various instruments such as guitar, flute and violin, but mainly focuses on piano, as she’s been playing it since she was seven and said it helps her relieve stress. She does music lessons for kids with disabilities or financial needs at Music Eunited.
“It’s so heartwarming and fun when I’m volunteering,” Lee said. “I think it’s just the people that make me get involved. I love meeting different types of people and having conversations with them. It’s interesting to see how different their personalities and interests are.”
Lee is also involved in Math UIL, and said that she wants to get faster and more accurate in her number sense skills.
“Number sense is the equivalent of mental math, which means that all of the calculations have to be done mentally, without any paper or calculators,” Lee said. “We are given eighty questions to solve in ten minutes, and if there’s any mark or calculations on the paper, that question is marked wrong.”
Lee said that number sense is challenging, and she used to be overwhelmed by it.
“As I learned more tricks and principles behind the calculations, I became really interested in this branch,” Lee said. “This became my strongest among the three branches of math in Math UIL.”
While some students have parents pushing them to do a lot in school and outside of school, Lee said she is the one behind her motivation and chooses to be motivated on her own accord.
“It’s mostly myself who motivates me to work hard because I don’t like not giving 100 percent to something,” Lee said. “The satisfaction that comes after hard work makes me so content. Even though hard work doesn’t guarantee my success, I can see myself improving and getting mature through the experiences.”
