![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)
Hands Full After Celeb Competition
Adding to Trophy Collection, Many Wins at Waco Competition
February 21, 2018
This past weekend, the Celebrity line officers and soloists took on their annual competition in Waco. They won a multitude of awards for their line officers, soloists, a “Kick Master” award and an award for a duet.
Celebrity line officers, juniors Caiti Dodge, Kennedy Haught, Jenna McQueen and seniors Gracie Walker and Tori Rankin, took home grand champion for their line. In addition, the line officers won Sweepstakes, the Judges Award, Best in Categories and Supreme awards for Jazz, Contemporary and Hip Hop.
Being the close-knit group that they are, McQueen was not surprised by the officers’ success.
“We are just a very close group of people and dance really well together,” McQueen said. “We always do well when we dance together.”
As for soloists, sophomores Cally Hall, Carolynn Solorio and Reagan Orr, junior Lauren Allen and senior Claire Hodges achieved division one level in their solos. Solo finalists were juniors Jenna McQueen, Kennedy Haught, Sydney Polishook and senior Gracie Walker. The overall solo award was given to line officer and senior, Tori Rankin.
Hall says that her routine meant a lot to her, and she is glad the judges appreciated the meaning of her dance.
“It brings my confidence up when I win or do well at competitions,” Hall said. “I feel good about all the work I’ve put in and the story I’m telling with my solo.”
One of the dancers took home more than the Kick Master and division one solo award that day. Senior Claire Hodges left that day having performed the last time with her sister in competition.
“It was kind of a surreal moment because I knew it was our last competition, but at the same time it didn’t feel like it,” Hodges said. “It was a good feeling to know I was dancing with my best friend.”
Apart from being a senior and it having been her final competition as well, Rankin says how the experience turned out well for her team.
“It’s always super fun to compete with my fellow officers,” Rankin said. “It was bittersweet being our last competition but all of our hard work was worth it because we ended up the Grand Champion title.”
Their dances from this competition can be seen in their spring show which will take place April 19-21. More information can be found here.
![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)
Kayla Valentine • Feb 21, 2018 at 3:15 pm
just an FYI reagan orr is a sophomore not a senior:) just wanted to let ya know:)