![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)
Pre-calculus students surprise school with courtyard flash mob
Pre-calculus student Max Hein (pictured second from left) performs in the courtyard flash mob, using his hands to make the curve of a graph. “I really enjoyed the choice of music,” Hein said. “Uptown Funk is actually one of the few modern songs I respect, because it’s super funky, and also uptown.”
June 2, 2015
In order to commemorate all that they learned in class, the pre-calculus students of Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Battles performed a surprise flash mob in the courtyard during passing period on May 21. A junior participant, Bronsen Chong, found it a useful way to remember the graphs, as the dance was accordingly styled like the graphs they learned.
“The teachers saw other schools doing graph dances and wanted to do so as well,” Chong said. “They also saw it as a good way to get us to memorize the types of graphs. The dance was pretty easy to learn because we would learn it in small bits at a time.”
Another junior student, Max Hein, recalled hours of practice for the dance.
“We practiced the dance at the beginning of class every day, starting early on in the year,” Hein said. “There were teams that designed the shirts and choreographed the dance during DEN early this semester. As the choreography came out, we would learn it in class, and we also had a couple DEN and after school practices.”
Despite the amount of practice they devoted, the students accordingly found the dance simple to learn.
“The choreography was clever and it went along with the words of the song, Uptown Funk,” Hein said. “It wasn’t terribly hard to learn, because there are a lot of repeating parts in the song.”
One of the senior participants, Heather Box, also found the dance easy to learn as well as fun.
“It probably took me about two months to learn the whole dance,” Box said. “It wasn’t difficult, but I didn’t look at it enough to learn it sooner. My favorite part was the whole experience of joining with a bunch of people for a common goal, and we made a dance to match perfectly to the music.”
When reflecting on the performance, Chong believes the flash mob was successful.
“Our group was so much larger than I was expecting,” Chong said. “Every time we would practice as a group, not everyone would show up each time, so when we finally got together for the actual dance, I was surprised by the number of people. The dance was super fun and we got extra credit.”
