![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.jpg)
![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)
Coffee for a cause
NHS members carrying donation boxes gather around for a picture at the Roaster’s fundraiser. On Wed. Dec. 9 NHS raised $80 for the Basdrop fire relief efforts. “It was great to see all of the people who came out,” senior NHS vice president Claire Cantrell said. “Roasters is such an intimate space that makes it seem more personal. ”
January 12, 2016
On Wednesday, Dec. 9 at the Roasters coffee shop, National Honor Society held a fundraiser raising money to aid victims of the Bastrop fires. There was also a performance by the GNP improv troupe, a branch of PNG which is no longer a school sponsored association.
Prospective member freshman Olivia Cantrell attended the event with her sister and some of her friends.
“I really loved the show and the setting. It felt cool to be in a place outside of school and out in the community,” Cantrell said. “To support them I bought some drinks and donated a ton of my change, I also told a ton of friends to come.”
The event took place from seven to nine p.m., and many NHS members, such as junior Dean Torkleson, attended and greatly enjoyed the skits and coffee.
“I always enjoy watching the ‘Devil’s Workshop’ game, and this time it didn’t fail to impress. I enjoy it because it’s hard for the performers to reach a dead end when twice the number of people are trying to drive the action,” Torkleson said. “I haven’t been a part of NHS for very long, in fact, aside from induction and cleaning up Milburn a while back, this is the only NHS event I’ve attended. I’m not sure how it compares to others like it, but if they hold more shows by GNP, I’ll be happy to go.”
The GNP group was glad for the opportunity to perform, according to senior NHS Vice president and GNP member Claire Cantrell.
“My favorite part of preforming at Roaster’s was that it’s such an intimate space and the shows seem more personal,” Cantrell said. “My favorite skit that we played on Wednesday was musical improv. It’s usually really hard to do but we were able to make it work.”
The fundraiser went well, and NHS made $80 for the fire relief efforts. NHS has declared it a success and overall Cantrell and others enjoyed themselves greatly.
“I stayed back for a while and talked about our performance with my fellow members while enjoying a delicious smoothie,” Cantrell said. “It was great to see all of the people who came out.”
![Holding a microphone, baseball booster club president Chris Cuevas announces the beginning of the annual cornhole tournament. The event has been held for the past two years and is designed to raise money for the baseball program in a fun way. “We’re a baseball team, so people love to compete,” Cuevas said. “So we figured we better do something that gets [their] attention. They want to compete. It’s not a hard sport to do, and we have all different [skill] levels [of participants].” Photo by Henry Mueller](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Henry-715-1200x900.jpg)
