![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
Senior Spotlight: Daniel Williamson
Photo by Luke Williamson
May 23, 2018
After a high school career of participating in various activities such as choir, PALs and multiple honor societies, as well and having a schedule compiled of mainly AP classes, senior Daniel Williamson has obtained the skill of balancing a challenging schedule.
As a freshman in 2014, Williamson said that he did not have a clear idea of what he wanted to accomplish during his next four years. He was motivated by his older siblings and to set goals, and in senior year Williamson became eighth in his class.
“I started writing down my goals, short and long term, in a note on my phone,” Williamson said. “Some of the general ones I set were making it into the top ten of my class, stepping up as a leader in Science National Honor Society and Student Council, making All-State Choir and late in my junior year, attending Vanderbilt University to pursue medicine and a career as a family practitioner.”
Williamson said that he had to decide how much work he could handle between his schedule.
“I had two primary extracurriculars, PALs and Choir, and then a few honor societies and big organizations that required a lot of effort,” Williamson said. “Based off of that, I decided that I could balance four AP classes each semester. That was what I could handle and still manage to enjoy time with friends and loved ones.”
Although this balance worked for him in his four years as a high school student, Williamson said this process is different for every high school student.
“Each person has to find their own balance that they can succeed with,” Williamson said. “Don’t stretch yourself too thin but don’t sell yourself short.”
To be his best, Williamson said that getting help from teachers was vital to his success.
“Don’t be afraid to ask questions and ask for help from teachers and friends,” Williamson said. “Everyone’s human and is probably willing to help you out because they’ve been there.”
Looking forward to continuing his education in college, Williamson is planning to attend Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, which he said will build his current strengths while also pushing him to exceed his goals.
“I look forward to attending a school that is designed to challenge and grow its students in all sorts of ways,” Williamson said. “I can definitely invest more in academics, but I can also audition for music groups and try out for the ultimate frisbee team. So I can continue the interests I already have at a higher level pretty organically, find out what I really want to focus on, and maybe drop things that are less important to me and who I want to become.”
