![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)
Austin City Limits hits town Oct. 2
Austin city Limits will be Oct 2-4 and 9-11 at Zilker park this year. So make sure to bring your friends, lots of water, and a friend! “It’s important to have a buddy because of the chaos that accompanies thousands of people in one park.” senior Claire Cantrelle said. Whatever you decide to make sure you have fun!
September 30, 2015
Your heart beats, your blood pumps. You and 75,000 of your closest friends jump as the crescendo hits and the bass drops. The famed Austin City Limits is rolling back into town Oct. 2-4 and 9-11 and people have been preparing since the line up dropped last spring.
“I love concerts,” senior Claire Cantrelle said. “I feel like it would be a waste not to go to such a cool event that’s happening in my own backyard.”
Since 2002, the music festival most commonly known as ACL, has been drawing in both locals and out-of-towners down to Zilker park, where its held a variety of artist and music genres from Yeezy to Pearl Jam, hard rock to sweet symphonies.
“I am looking forward to catching up with old friends who have gone off to college and are coming back into town for the festival,” senior Ayah Alomari said. “Getting festive with friends and music, simply a perfect combination.”
Due to the popularity of the festival, in 2013 ACL moved from doing a single weekend to doing two consecutive weekends. With the availability of two weekends, more artists could perform and more people could go.
“Scheduling conflicts played a large part,” Cantrell said “I’m also excited to see Florence and the Machine, and they’re only playing Weekend two.”
Whether its for the music, the fashion, or just for the sake of saying you went, ACL never disappoints. It’s one of Austin’s most famed and beloved events.
“I have had friends who went last year,” junior Deirdre Wolf said. “I can only describe their experience as ‘wild’.”
Along with a great energy and sensible fashion, one also needs a strategy on how to get to their favorite bands.
“My strategy is always to go 6 hours earlier, I usually go to single/double acts and that’s the formula I’ve worked out,” Wolf said. “Sweat it out. You don’t want to leave the very front of a giant crowd because you’re weak. Sweat, kiddo, sweat.”
Between the music, action, and a great line up, both ACL weekends are sure to be a blast this year. Make sure to grab wristbands quick!
To see the 2015 lineup go to: www.aclfestival.com/2015-lineup/
![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)
