![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)
This weekend, an annual Christmas tradition will be making its way to the stage once again. Pitch Black, the school’s varsity men’s choral group, is putting on another rendition of its show, “Pitch Black Saves Christmas.”
Since Oct. 15, the singing group has been working nearly every day to bring the community another classic. The group is going through quite a couple of changes, as this year, Pitch Black has welcomed five new members, each bringing something new to the table both vocally and creatively.
Senior Krish Muthukumar shares his experience about the connection he holds to the group and how he is grateful for what everyone brings to the table.
“My connection with this year’s group is amazing because we have two sophomores, three juniors and three seniors,” Muthukumar said. “We have all the grades widely dispersed, and I think that’s amazing because we have a bunch of young minds and old minds collaborating, and that’s the best part about being in a group like this. We get input from various creative minds.”
This year’s rendition is titled “Pitch Black Saves Christmas Television,” where after the Pitch Black sitcom gets cancelled, the group has to figure out new ways to make ends meet. Each scene was written by an individual member in order to split up work in the most effective way, and also let each member shine creatively. Junior Grayson Levee said there have been some struggles within the script-writing process due to the many writers.
“You only have so much time and you can only have so many scenes, so you can’t put every part that you may want to in there, which I guess is the real unfortunate part about working with others,” Levee said. “Even though it is so great to be able to connect and really open up the world of opportunities with having more people, you do have to kind of sacrifice a lot of ideas that could be good, because you don’t have as much time.”
Despite their hardships, this barbershop octet has been putting in as much effort as possible to make sure the show is nothing short of phenomenal, as for the first time ever, Pitch Black Saves Christmas will be holding two performances; today and tomorrow night. Tickets can be purchased here.
