![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)
On Sept. 29 CPHS choir hosted and competed in the district level of All-State Auditions. The choir dominated. Out of over 600 other choir students, T-wolves earned 26 of the possible 40 individual spots on the District Choir.
First year choir member sophomore Lennie Oas was anxious for her first ever district audition.
“Auditions are pretty nerve racking,” Oas said. “After you do group warm ups, there isn’t really more time to sing until your audition, so that’s hard.”
During a solo audition, there is a partition concealing the judges. The judges cannot see the contestants and only identify them by their assigned number. The only thing they can judge is the sound. Second year choir member sophomore Chai Murthy knows what judges expect.
“Judges look for good musicality,” Murthy said. “Being able to stay on tempo is key.”
This year marks Murthy’s second district audition. The Seasons choir member attributes her very first win to lots of practice.
“We actually got work on the music in class, which is helpful,” she said.
Murthy and the rest of the choir will be practicing even more for regional auditions on Oct. 30 at Westwood High School. The choir will be learning the four audition pieces in class and at sectionals before and after school two days a week. Murthy appreciates all the extra practice, because regionals won’t be easy.
“There’s going to be a lot of tough competition,” Murthy said. “Especially since this is my first year competing, and for some girls it’s their fourth.”
Choir Members competing at Regionals:
- Leslie Bonordon
- Ryan Cave
- Matthew Cloward
- Julian Combs
- Meg Groves
- Sarah Hines
- Ethan How
- Victoria Hutchings
- Ben Jackson
- Kevin Kenny
- Heidi Klein
- Sally Kwon
- Alex Langois
- Meagan Marwitz
- Marcus McCrae
- Chai Murthy
- Lauren Parks
- Bradley Ronk
- Paige Seuthe
- Donelvan Thigpen
- Christian Vargas
- Chris Washington
- India Westenhaver
- Lydia Williamson
- Dayton Young
- Joseph Yuen
