![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)
Rushing to set things up, making sure camera shots are steady, scrolling through the script and getting dressed to perfection. Every morning at 7:15 a.m., the broadcast students prepare to go live on Youtube to film The Wolfcast.
The Wolfcast has been on air since 2007, going under several iterations and changes. Run by the broadcast class, The Wolfcast aims to engage the student body with local news and creative and innovative content.
On Feb. 20, the staff went on a winter retreat for three days down at the John Newcombe Tennis Ranch in order to strengthen their creative skills, talk to professional newscasters and tighten their overall bond by making short films. Second-year reporter, sophomore Drew Johnson, said the retreat allows them to expand their creativity and storytelling ability.
“When we’re brought together, we have more ideas,” Johnson said. “We have time to talk to each other about stories, and most of all, the winter retreat can be a story. I think bringing us together on the winter retreat really made us think about working together as a team.”
First-year reporter and freshman Colton Alderman also shared a similar experience.
“The winter retreat was a really fun experience,” Alderman said. “We got to do a lot of team building activities. I just think it was a really fun way to spend the time with my friends.”
Alderman is one of three freshmen who joined the staff in 2024 and has taken a fond affinity in tech and production for The Wolfcast, despite being fresh on the scene.
“Just learning all the little niches of things is a very useful skill,” Alderman said. “In a tech world where there’s a lot of tech things coming up, it is really beautiful to know all those things.”
These reporters aren’t without struggle however, as Johnson said he experiences writer’s block and brainstorming during the initial planning stages.
“I think the biggest struggle with broadcast for me is finding the perfect part of that story,” Johnson said. “There are many websites and there are people who know more information than me, so mostly putting it all together in one piece is kind of difficult for me.”
Despite the spikes in difficulty from time to time, these reporters say they enjoy their time in the class, and are proud of the work they export.
“I’m proud to be in broadcast because it fulfills all of my hobbies and interests,” Alderman said. “I’m working on a personal project right now called ‘Severance: A Wolfcast Story’ and it’s been very fun so far. I’ve gotten a lot of help from people in the class who share similar interests as me.”
