![Musical theatre class runs through “Footloose” during their dress rehearsal. Senior student director Mia Morneault says how much she’s enjoyed working with the cast and crew. “I am very proud of all the cast and crew who worked as hard on it as I have. A lot of people care about [this show],” Morneault said. “I have a lot of friends on the cast and on the crew, but I’ve also grown and gained friendships through the show, even as director where I may be a little more stricter than normal. And I am very grateful for everyone I’ve gotten to work with.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/DSC_0657-1200x800.jpg)
![Sitting in a line of artwork, senior art student Kaemon Kato’s painting titled “Right Side of History” is displayed for attendees of the district’s art showcase. Kato’s painting is a political piece inspired by a photo of elementary schoolers in the street protesting against ICE. “I think it's also symbolic because they're surrounded by snow, which can represent ICE, and they are still marching,” Kato said. “[The kids] are not stopping until equality or justice is served, which I think is really important to represent and show.” Photo by John Pinion](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-03-26-114740.png)
![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)
![Holding up the bi-district champions trophy, junior shortstop Hudson Cuevas cheers alongside his team. The varsity baseball team played in the bi-district round of playoffs against the Boerne Greyhounds April 30-May 2, where they won Game 1 6-4, lost Game 2 2-1 and won the last game 5-2, allowing them to advance to area. “Honestly, [my favorite] big moment that wasn't even part of my moment was Dom's grand slam,” Cuevas said. “That was a big game changer in Game 1 of round one that ultimately helped us win that game and even move on. It set the tone for the games after and has really impacted and sparked this whole playoff run.” Photo by Allie Tseng](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/allie-boerne00159-1200x800.jpg)
![After he takes the handoff, senior running back Trae Hill runs down the field in search of a first down. Hill rushed for three touchdowns in the 43-36 loss against Frisco Wakeland last Friday, but the Timberwolves were eliminated from playoff contention. “[I’m] just happy I got to experience the game with my brothers,” Hill said. “I’m going to remember how close and how enjoyable everything was with these guys. They are my brothers for life. Just waking up and grinding together, and proving the naysayers wrong [was my favorite part].”
Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/trae-hill-wakeland.jpg)
Home Sweet Homecoming
T-Wolves Celebrate with Dress Up Days, Football Wins
Senior Gavin Reid lays down in his substitute backpack, an inflatable pool filled with his school supplies. Reid had to bring the entire pool into the classroom for “Anything but a Backpack Day.” “All of my teachers were kind of like, ‘why?’ Every teacher I brought it into, they were like ‘how are you going to get this in there?’” Reid said. “They were like ‘I can’t have you leaving it out there cause I don’t want your stuff getting stolen,’ and so they would just say ‘okay, bring it in.’” (Photo Courtesy of Grace Courtright)
October 7, 2022
Homecoming officially ended on Sept. 23, and it passed with a variety of notable events – mixed with some confusion.
One of the first events that occurred was the Homecoming dance. Here, students got to hang out with friends, play arcade games, take pictures and dance together with a live DJ. According to sophomore Sofia Deleon, this year’s Homecoming had some differences from prior years.
“Last year it was a lot of dispersed people, and it was in groups instead of all together on the dance floor, and then a lot of people were rude last year,” Deleon said. “This year people were nicer, but then again, this year a lot of people didn’t go. This Homecoming was a lot of fun, because I kind of made it that way; A lot of people were like ‘oh, this is gonna be boring’ and I was like no why make it that way, you know? Instead of just being ‘bleh,’ you can always be ‘yay’, you know what I mean?”
Each day of the week following the Homecoming dance had a separate theme, whether that be dressing up as popular celebrity Adam Sandler, pitting the upper and lowerclassmen against each other with the bikers vs. surfers dress theme from the popular Disney movie “Teen Beach Movie” or Wednesday’s “Anything but a Backpack” day. This Wednesday theme involved bringing anything as a substitute for a backpack, which ranged from grocery bags and luggage to even shopping carts for some. Senior Gavin Reid decided to take it a step further, and brought a rectangular inflatable pool he could fit in. Throughout the day, Reid said he had many struggles and reactions to his substitute of a backpack, but had little regret about the decision.
“It was really a pain; there’s the green direction signs, and if you’re holding it above your head it would always hit those [signs], and then getting it through doors, you have to turn it on its side, and that would risk stuff falling out of the side,” Reid said. “[I got] a lot of staring, a lot of videos, a lot of pictures, a lot of ‘oh, I like your backpack.’ I just thought it would be funny, honestly. I saw it and was like ‘okay, what if I just bought this to school for the backpack?’”
The theme on the day of the Homecoming game was “Green Out,” in which one would wear either a green-colored outfit or, for students like senior Kylie Curnutt, the traditional Homecoming overalls. The Homecoming overalls are a tradition saved for senior year, in which they will buy and customize their own pair of overalls to celebrate becoming a senior.
“I’ve always, since freshman year, loved looking at all the overalls that all the seniors decorated and thought it would be really fun,” Curnutt said. “I just sat down and it took me a couple hours to decide what I wanted to do, and I looked on Pinterest and I saw some stuff on TikTok, and that’s kind of where I pulled inspiration from. It probably took me around 10 hours or so in total, just cutting out all the fabric letters individually, and then I completely glittered the top half of them, and that took a really long time to actually figure out and then execute.”
The themed week led to the main event, the Homecoming football game which would reveal the winner of the Homecoming court. A decision was made, however, that there would be only one winner, instead of both a king and queen as is traditionally done. This was something that senior and runner up Ryan Taylor, who ran with senior Audrey Johnson, said he didn’t expect.
“I was honestly more sad that Audrey didn’t win than she was sad that she didn’t win,” Taylor said. “The whole point of Homecoming is to win a king and queen, and they didn’t have us do that this year, which was kind of a bummer.”
Regardless, the results showed that senior Carver McDonald was crowned the Homecoming king, with Taylor the first runner-up and senior Kate Newman the second runner-up. Prior to the single-crown decision, Newman was McDonald’s running mate. McDonald said he experienced a great deal of excitement and happiness from winning Homecoming, especially after a long week of waiting and nervousness.
“I was a little nervous because I didn’t know what was going to happen, and it happened to be me,” McDonald said. “Shoutout to the people who inspire me, y’all are the best to me. Anytime I get that crown, I get that inspiration and I feel official to be a king.”
