![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)
Match Made for Success
After Releasing First Single, Gypsy Kids Prepare for Future
Gypsy Kids released their first single in October 2018. The band includes Jack Lambert (guitar), Elik Jazdzewski (bass), Carson Petocz (singer) and Jordan O’Connell (drums).
April 24, 2019
Over the past year, Gypsy Kids has gone from a garage band to venue entertainment, and in February, they released their first professionally produced single.
The Gypsy Kids, a band consisting of Jack Lambert (guitar), Carson Petocz (lead singer), Elik Jazdzewski (bass) and Jordan O’Connell (drums), formed in the fall of 2018. Lambert and Petocz were introduced by a mutual friend at a musical audition. After Lambert was interviewed by Petocz and his bandmate, Jazdzewski, the connection was immediate, according to Lambert. The three eventually met O’Connell through an advertisement the band posted saying that they were looking for a drummer.
“Everything just kind of fell in place as time went on,” Lambert said. “I met Carson and we started talking about music and he showed me his song ‘Serenity’ on Soundcloud, and I was like ‘dang I need to work with this dude.’ ”
As the band continued its journey at the time, their song “Match Made in Custody” was in its infancy. The song was written by Petocz and began as a riff, which he added the lyrics to later. After Petocz introduced the song to the band, everyone then added their own touches to it, according to Lambert.
“I was in my car after playing the riff to it all day,” Petocz said. “This girl had texted me and I was just so done with it, so I started singing about how I felt trapped. I drove for two hours and had it done. I never wrote it down until later when we went to the studio, but I just knew it and played it.”
Since the song’s introduction to the public, the band has been playing at local coffee shops and planning future events to continue its journey. Because of the workload that goes into making sure the band is successful, Lambert said that they had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with each other.
“It’s kinda cliché, but I’d say we’re a family,” Lambert said. “There’s a lot of creative freedom in our band, and that leaves a lot of things up for discussion – it’s not just Carson running the show, we’re all cogs in one big machine. Because of this, we can get into arguments sometimes, but at the end of the day, we’re still family.”
The band, who has upcoming concerts planned in the Austin area, is ready to play at more venues “like crazy,” according to their website.
Aside from playing more gigs, Lambert said that the band plans on continuing to make music that makes people feel different emotions.
“Our goal for Gypsy Kids is simply to make a living doing what we love, to get sponsored by Altoids, and to make good music,” Lambert said. “I’d say my personal goal for the band is to make music that makes people feel things. I want people to be able to relate to the music, for the song to really mean something, to strike a chord. For people to find solace, happiness and energy in our music. Music helped me get through some pretty tough times in my life, so I’m going to make music that helps people the same way those songs have helped me.”
Their next performance is on May 18 at Black Sugar Caffé from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Their upcoming performances are free and can be found on the Gypsy Kids’ website.
![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)
