![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)
![Lined up along the wall, the class banners from previous graduating classes are displayed in the library. The banners will be moved to the cafeteria, but librarian Keri Burns said she enjoyed the school spirit they brought to the library. “For visitors and non-students, [the banners] are just a nice glimpse to get a little piece of what it was like at that time or what was important to them,” Burns said. “It's like a little visual time capsule.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/banners.jpg)
2014 – Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
2019 – Never a failure, always a lesson.
2023 – Et iam diu veniens (has been coming for a long time).
There are many different class slogans and designs on the class crests. Each one is unique to the graduating class of that year, and they are all located in the center of the library.
Ever since the school opened in 1998, there has been a class banner made every year by members of the senior class. Each banner has a crest or design and a class slogan. Up until now, they have been located in the library, but they will soon be relocated to the cafeteria.
“The library is only so big, and we already have 26 of them, and that number is only going to grow the longer CP [is] open,” librarian Keri Burns said. “[We’re moving them because] a bigger space like the cafeteria has more room to expand.”
Burns said it will take a lot of work to move the banners, but that they will make a good addition to the cafeteria in the end.
“It’s a lot to move them,” Burns said. “They’re all on curtain rods, so it is a time-consuming endeavor to be taking them all down and to be moving them to the cafeteria. [But] there’s just not a whole lot of fun decoration in the cafeteria, so this will give it more of a presence and a school spirit vibe.”
Each year, two students volunteer to design the class banners. This year, the two seniors who will be designing the banners are Blake Hillis and Grace Sauers.
“I’m really thrilled [to be designing the crest this year],” Sauers said. “It’s an honor to represent the class of 2025 in this way, and I hope everyone loves the final design.”
Sauers said there was a lot of work and planning that had to be done to design the crest.
“We started by meeting up and brainstorming a bunch of ideas,” Sauers said. “We sketched them out in little boxes, so by the end, we had a whole sheet of different concepts to choose from. We wanted to avoid overused designs and make sure the banner was something everyone could relate to and connect with.”
Other seniors contribute ideas about the direction of the design, but the two senior artists are in charge of implementing their ideas and creating the final product..
“It’s a lot of pressure, but [it’s] also so rewarding,” Burns said. “They were very excited to contribute. I mean, what artists wouldn’t want their art to be around for decades for people to enjoy? That’s a really cool legacy to leave behind.”
After each banner is made, they are displayed at graduation and then hung in the library, soon to be the cafeteria, for years to come.
“The senior class banners are probably my favorite thing that we had in the library when I got here,” Burns said. “I just love that it represents the senior class. I love that it leaves that lasting legacy, and you get to get that glimpse of what it was like in years past for those seniors and what was important to them and what mattered to them.”
