![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)
DECA traveled to Corpus Christi on Feb. 28 to participate in the DECA State Conference and compete for a spot at the International Career Development Conference or ICDC in Anaheim, CA Apr. 24-28. Sophomore Sara Samani and junior Victoria Richter will be representing CP in this upcoming competition.
Three other contestants were recognized as alternates: sophomore Lauren Kriss, junior Alyssa Phillips, and senior DECA President Courtney Norris. DECA Advisor Kimberley Stapleton is impressed with this year’s outcome.
“We did really well in the areas we had control over,” Stapleton said.
Although the entire CPHS DECA team did remarkably well, Samani and Richter are the only ones advancing to ICDC. Pals like Norris, who competed in the Apparel and Accessories Marketing Role Play event, were excited to see them win, especially Sara since this was her second time competing.
“I was so happy for her because I knew she had been working on her presentation since last summer,” Norris said.
Her state-winning presentation, Samani says, is a true labor of love and she’s far from done preparing.
“[Since summer] until the end of February I have been constantly tweaking, perfecting, practicing, and practice, practice, practice is my goal from now until internationals,” Samani said.
According to Stapleton, Richter and Samani’s success along with the other club member’s passion has pushed her too strive even harder next year.
“The way the group has bonded this year and the passion that has been ignited in my students is driving me,” Stapleton said.
Stapleton plans to increase DECA’s community outreach as well as maintain DECA’s active social calendar while putting extra effort into next year’s competition.
“I want to take the results from this year and strategize, so I can take more people to ICDC and not have so many alternates,” Stapleton said.
Samani, who competed in Entrepreneurship Innovation Plan, wants to focus on preparing the whole team and helping them as well as competing herself.
“Next year I plan to form additional collaborative groups to help all of us better prepare for competition,” Samani said.
Richter, who will compete in Advertising Campaign, hopes to inspire next year’s competition team too.
“I hope to occupy a leadership position and draw other individuals into competing as well,” Richter said.
Until then, Richter is focusing on winning International’s, even if that means practicing her speech seven times a day.
“This is my dream, my future, and my passion. So anything less than winning will be disappointing,” Richter said.
