![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)
Wrestlers Earn Top Spots in Capital Classic
Team Discusses Preparation, Upcoming Season
![Freshman wrestler JJ Lovell gets ready to take on an opponent during the Capital Classic Tournament on Nov. 22-23. This was the third tournament of the season for the wrestling team, with five members earning top ranks, and senior captain Cassie King named Capital Classic Varsity Girls 110lb Champion. “After I won, getting my hand raised was one of the best feelings because winning a tournament against 25 other girls just shows finally how much work I’ve been putting into this sport by dieting well, training hard and constantly staying disciplined,” King said. “I ran and gave my coach a hug [after the match] because without him I wouldn’t have gotten this far."](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cole-147-900x600.jpg)
Freshman wrestler JJ Lovell gets ready to take on an opponent during the Capital Classic Tournament on Nov. 22-23. This was the third tournament of the season for the wrestling team, with five members earning top ranks, and senior captain Cassie King named Capital Classic Varsity Girls 110lb Champion. “After I won, getting my hand raised was one of the best feelings because winning a tournament against 25 other girls just shows finally how much work I’ve been putting into this sport by dieting well, training hard and constantly staying disciplined,” King said. “I ran and gave my coach a hug [after the match] because without him I wouldn’t have gotten this far.”
November 26, 2019
On Nov. 22-23, the wrestling team successfully competed in the third tournament of the season. In the end, five team members placed in the top five of their weight classes, with senior wrestling captain Cassie King named Capital Classic Varsity Girls 110lb Champion.
“After I won, getting my hand raised was one of the best feelings because winning a tournament against 25 other girls just shows finally how much work I’ve been putting into this sport by dieting well, training hard and constantly staying disciplined,” King said. “I ran and gave my coach a hug [after the match] because without him I wouldn’t have gotten this far. My wrestling partners, Aidan Burke and Justin Garza, are also the reason I got that far because training with them daily pushed me to get better.”
As a senior, King said that she is looking forward to her final year in wrestling, as well as upcoming tournaments and competitions.
“[I’m excited for] just all the competitions we’re all about to have,” King said. “This team is so driven and I know that we can be top five in the state this year. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing how everyone does at our next competitions like the Central Texas and the Hill Country tournament. I also am really looking forward to just leading and serving this team one last year.”
Last year, the wrestling team went to state, where then-senior Jacob Muñoz earned the state title for his weight class. This year, members are off to a quick start with hopes of winning against competing schools.
“[I’m looking forward to] Vandy because they have always been a school rival of ours,” senior Varsity wrestler Justin Garza said. “Last year they beat us on our home turf, but this year I think we can turn it around as a team and take the dub over them.” ”
Along with going against Vandegrift, Garza said that he is anticipating returning to state this year
“Personally I’m really looking forward to districts, region and state, because that is [what] matters the most in the season and I’m really excited to be able to put myself out there and make a run at placing high up at the state tournament,” Garza said.
Varsity wrestling member junior Izzy Castillo ranked fourth in her class in the last tournament. This year, she said that she is looking forward to going to state and is preparing the best she can during morning and after school practices.
“My goal is to wrestle my hardest every match,” Castillo said. “I want to improve by seeing the change in how I wrestle everyday at practice.”
With this being the third tournament the team has participated in this year, Garza said that they are off to a great start to the season.
“I feel that we are looking good for the start of the year,” Garza said. “We still have some things to work on before the post season approaches but overall I’m proud of how well everyone is performing thus far.”
![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)
