![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)
Preview: Boys & Girls Soccer
Junior left midfielder Michael Ernand attempts to juke out a defender in their season opener against Leander.
January 11, 2019
As the calendar switched to 2019, both the girls and boys soccer teams are getting ready to start the new season. For the girls, they want to advance even farther in the playoffs than last year, where their memorable season came to an end in double overtime of their fourth round postseason matchup. For the boys, they want to continue to build chemistry as a team and improve upon their record from last year.
Boys Soccer
The boys were not shy in saying that last year—when they finished with a final record of 5-10-1—was not their best. Junior outside back Sean Murphy said that they need to work even harder this year to get where they want to be.
“I want to see the team work more as a unit this year,” Murphy said. “We struggled last year and I think that’s because the felt more like a group of individuals rather than a whole team.”
Junior left midfielder Michael Ernand said he is looking forward to building their team unison and overcoming challenges as a team.
“We need to be able to trust each other on the field and find unity as a team so that we can come together to win games,” Ernand said.
Junior center midfielder Kai Nahuina said he is very excited to be a part of the team this year and that he sees the team finding chemistry the more they play together and work as a team.
“Being [in] my junior year, I’m happy to play a more commanding role in the team with our new district,” Nahuina said. “I would expect a good season with all the hard work we have been putting in.”
The boys team won a preseason tournament but fell in their season opener to Leander, 3-1. The boys next travel to Hutto on Jan. 15 to take on the Hutto Hippos.
“We have to stay focused on being the best we can be,” Murphy said.
Here is a link to their full 2019 schedule.
Girls Soccer
The girls had a memorable 2018 campaign, as they finished 13-2-1 and ultimately fell in the fourth round of the playoffs to Kingwood Park in two overtimes.
Both senior captain Ainsley Forbes and senior center back Carly Rowe said that there are only six returning varsity players, so the team has been working on their team chemistry and learning how everyone plays.
“Since we are learning a new formation with inexperienced players, it is so important for us to work together and to be patient in achieving our goals that we set throughout the season,” Rowe said. “We have a faster and definitely more hard working team this year, so I don’t doubt for a second that we will go far.”
Forbes said that Coach Gamble has been helping the girls to understand the new formation, since it’s different from last year.
“[Coach Gamble] wants us all to be able to get to the point where we trust the team shape,” Forbes said.
The 2019 season will be the last stint for the seniors. Senior forward Maria Rico said she is looking forward to partaking in all of the traditions for one last year.
“Everyone on the team is growing very close to each other,” Rico said. “The fans should [definitely] be excited to see it reflect on the field this season.”
The girls are competing in a tournament in Georgetown to start the season. Here is a link to their full 2019 schedule.
![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)
