![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)
![Pictured above is the crafting club social media page that junior Makena Filippoff and sophomore James Morris-Hodges created. The crafting club was created to allow students to have an opportunity to learn how to create different kinds of crafts and to collaborate with other students interested in crafting. “I love to do crafts but I find myself feeling lonely when doing crafts,” Filippoff said. “With no one to share my ideas or experiences with, it can get boring. I wanted to get a group of people that have an interest in learning [and] doing crafts to be able to have fun and socialize while crafting.”
Photo used with permission from Makena Filippoff](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/craftingclubedit.jpg)
The sound of scissors snipping, the whir of the sewing machine and the chatter of students excitedly sharing their ideas can be heard from room 4005. New creations that range from racing suits to crochet baby blankets are being brought to life in this room. Every Monday, the former sewing club, now revamped crafting club meets to work on self-guided independent projects in the presence of other students that share an interest in crafting.
The crafting club was created for creative, hands-on students by junior Makena Filippoff and sophomore James Morris-Hodges. The club was created to provide different opportunities for students to learn how to craft and sew.
“I love to do crafts but I find myself feeling lonely when doing crafts,” Filippoff said. “With no one to share my ideas or experiences with, it can get boring. I wanted to get a group of people that have an interest in learning [and] doing crafts to be able to have fun and socialize while crafting.”
For Morris-Hodges, the creation of this club was a place to launch his ideas and designs for his future aspirations.
“I wanted to create the crafting club [because] I wanted to make something to help me in my hopefully-future job as a NASCAR driver,” Morris-Hodges said. “I wanted to start the crafting club last year but never got the chance. One day I got an email [from] Mrs. Stribling saying [that] she would be happy to sponsor my club. I said I was still interested and here we are.”
The crafting club provides a variety of supplies and tools needed to help students work on their independent projects.
“We have a bunch of different fabrics, zippers, fabric scissors and elastic,” Morris-Hodges said. “People who come to our club just work on different things. Last meeting people were working on origami, but it’s mostly just random [projects].”
The crafting club meets every Monday during DEN in room 4005. According to Filippoff, getting students involved meant having to spread the word around and find ways to engage with others.
“I am in the band and knew about crafty people so it was easy to ask them to join even with our busy schedule,” Filippoff said. “The second way was Instagram. We were able to create an account to spread word and had all the information to join on there. We were also able to do fun themed craft days that anyone could join.”
Since the club allows members to work on whatever projects they want to pursue, a variety of projects are being worked on. Morris-Hodges is currently working on a NASCAR suit during these meetings. He said the planning process and work put into the suit are well thought-out.
“Right now I am working on a design for a NASCAR suit [and] when I’m done with that I’ll start actually cutting out the fabric and putting it together,” Morris-Hodges said. “I feel like it will take around a month or more to make the suit. I’m probably going to have to use regular fabric to make it a bit baggy, and I’m going to [use] a zipper and velcro and stitch it all up.”
According to Filippoff, the crafting club is a great way to socialize and share ideas with other students interested in crafting.
“My favorite part about this club is the people,” Filippoff said. “They always have something to teach or to talk about, whether it’s a new project or a creation gone wrong. You can always get an idea when talking with others and enjoy your craft at the same time.”
One of the club’s plans is to wear what the students create in this club for their club pictures. Future plans are still being developed, but hopes are high for the club, according to Filippoff.
“One thing I want to see in the future of the club is more group projects,” Filippoff said. “Something we can all work on together and show off, or maybe an event to show off our creations.”
