![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)
All About that Anime
Club Members Discuss Activities, Enjoyment
Senior club president Nicole Jensen and senior vice president Conner Gillmore lead the club in a game during a meeting on Nov. 11. After the previous Anime club disbanded a few years ago, Jensen and Gilmore decided to create the club last year in order to bring together fans of the Japanese-style art. “We decided that, since some people really enjoy Anime and it’s kind of a niche community here at our school, we decided to make a club,” Gillmore said. “Not only to have fun, but to also provide a way to give those people a place to have fun and enjoy themselves.”
November 18, 2019
For many generations, Anime has entertained and inspired both children and adults. Although created in Japan, the unique art style has reached viewers across oceans, including admirers in America. With the previous Anime club disbanded a few years ago, seniors Nicole Jensen and Conner Gillmore took it upon themselves to once again create a club where different groups of Anime fans could come together and bond over their love for the Japanese-style art.
“We decided that, since some people really enjoy Anime and it’s kind of a niche community here at our school, we decided to make a club,” Gillmore said. “Not only to have fun, but to also provide a way to give those people a place to have fun and enjoy themselves.”
Every Thursday, members meet in club sponsor English teacher Kristin Burke’s room during DEN. Meetings consist of games and an episode of an Anime, which is chosen based on a monthly theme. As club president, Jensen is in charge of creating the plans for each meeting, as well as generating the monthly themes and games, with help from Gillmore, who is vice president.
“It’s a great excuse to come together and have fun and meet people that you wouldn’t have met otherwise and connect over something that not a lot of people wear on their sleeve,” Jensen said. “It’s just a lot of fun. It’s a great environment.”
Senior Tabitha Hostelter said that she joined the club because of her love for the art and with the hopes of meeting people who have similar interests. Hostelter said that she enjoys the atmosphere of the club and the discussions she has with other members.
“[I like that] it is a very free area,” Hostetler said. “As long as we aren’t too wild we are allowed to chat and debate about what we are watching or about something else. It feels more like a group of friends getting together than a school regulated thing.”
With the club just starting out this year, Jensen said that she hopes to bring in more members, as well as add more activities to the meetings in the future.
“I want to leave Anime club in good hands,” Jensen said. “People who are as passionate as Conner and I. I want to expand our club, get new members and have it be fun for all. Have more options for shows, more games and more of an [attraction] for people to come to our little corner of the world.”
Meetings are held every Thursday during DEN in room 1217. For more information, talk to Mrs. Burke.
![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)
