![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
Tryouts for freshman, JV, and varsity cheer squads were held Saturday, April 13.
Each of the girls learned a cheer and a dance to perform at tryouts in front of the judges. They also had to demonstrate skills of tumbling, jumps and cheer technique. For the dance segment of the tryouts, the girls were placed in groups of three, and worked together to create a routine to perform.
The varsity team includes sophomore and junior girls, including juniors Taylor Lavine, Tiffany Wong, Carli Morgan, Lexi Kennedy, Christina Colletti, Lauren Hudson, and sophomores Lauren Hughes, Gianna Espinosa, Brittany Daniel, Ashley Egner, Brielle Ferdinand, Payton Vasquez, Maddison Lee, Erin Monroe, Jackie Reichert and Sophia Roman.
“I am really happy and excited that I made the team,” current freshman and new member of the JV team Sydney Mazzarella said. “The whole team knows each other, so I think that we will do really well in supporting our teammates.”
The new junior varsity team includes freshman Raye Affolter, Kailey Charon, Kenzie Cherniak, Maddie Moorhead, Emilie Lark, Sydney Simpson, Bailey Penberg, Sydney Mazzarella, Megan Perkins, Coral Johnson, Kaitlyn Kuerth, Riley Yurchick, Ali Head, Brooke Hagood, Lexi Foster and Parker Smith.
The new freshman team includes current eighth graders Ciara Alpert, Rachel Blanchard, Amanda Bosse, Presley Brents, Julia Fusilier, Brianna Holcomb, Hana Witter, Caroline Wahl, Emily Downey, Jordan Derrick, Bailey McKeown and Natalia Esparza.
