![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)
My friend and I walked into the Violet Crown Cinema in awe because we had never seen a theater like this one. We had found the “Priscilla” tickets thirty minutes prior on a sketchy website, so we really didn’t know what to expect. As we bought our popcorn, we noticed the chic aesthetic of the place and how it was filled with college students with UT shirts on.
The new movie “Priscilla” was released on Oct. 27, and is only available at theaters. The movie tells the life story of the often forgotten “Queen of Rock and Roll,” Priscilla Presley, and her life with Elvis Presley. “Priscilla” focuses solely on her point of view, which has rarely been talked about before, and the progression of Elvis and Priscilla’s relationship in the late nineties.
I didn’t know how to feel going into the theater, I hadn’t heard anything about Priscilla and it had come out in October. Other than some commercials of the movie, I didn’t see any TikTok videos of the movie, like I usually do. I definitely was still interested in watching it because I knew what it was going to be about, but the fact that I hadn’t heard anything about it made me feel like the movie might not be that good.
As we walked to our seats, the movie had already started and we sat down as Elvis, played by Jacob Elordi, asked Priscilla, played by Cailee Spaeny, how old she was. She proceeded to tell him that she was in the ninth grade. My jaw dropped as I heard this. I was in utter shock as I learned she was a little kid and he was a grown adult when they started to date. They had met as Elvis was serving in the army in Germany and she lived there because her stepfather was stationed there also serving in the army. Priscilla was barely in high school when she was trying to alter her whole life so that she could be with him. As a senior, I thought about my freshman year of high school and the lack of maturity that I had at that age. I had never viewed Elvis as a bad person, but my dislike of him grew from this point forward.
The movie continues as Priscilla moves to Memphis into Elvis’s home “Graceland.” I started to see Priscilla change herself to fit Elvis’s wants in a woman. I found it disgusting that she was being constantly taken advantage of by Elvis, and because she was at such a young age she viewed it as Elvis’s love for her.
After their daughter was born, I felt a shift in Priscilla. She started to change how she lived her life for her daughter. I enjoyed the part when she tells Elvis she wants a divorce. Although I love Jacob Elordi as an actor and I think he did a phenomenal job as Elvis, I was so done with Elvis in the movie. The movie definitely changed my perspective of Elvis and the type of person that he was portrayed as.
I really liked the movie. Priscilla finally got to be free of Elvis and his unacceptable behavior, and it made me happy to see her stick up for herself. I definitely liked “Priscilla” more than the “Elvis”
movie, where Austin Butler portrays Elvis. The movie “Elvis” glamorized Elvis’s behavior while in “Priscilla” it exposes his behavior which most people are unaware of.
I recommend this movie to any high schooler or above interested in Priscilla and Elvis and their story together. The movie does deal with some serious topics, but I think Priscilla’s story needed to be told. I highly recommend this movie and if you want to learn more about the often forgotten “Queen of Rock and Roll” this movie would be perfect for you.
Penny’s Ratings:
Plot Rating: 8/10
Acting Rating: 8.5/10
Overall Rating: 8.5/10
