![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)
TEDxYouth@Austin circles back to Westlake once again
December 1, 2015
TEDxYouth@Austin is a widely known organization, and while independent, it is a branch of the more globally known organization, TED. The difference? TEDxYouth@Austin is geared towards, and created by the students of Austin, while being open for all high schoolers to apply.
The organization was created by a group of people, working towards bringing the concepts of technology, bettering the world, and science to the youth of Austin in an distinct way.
This will be the fourth year the event will happen, each time it’s bigger and better then the last, according to their website. Each event is embodied by a theme. Past years themes include: Limitless, Re:Solve and (In)visible. They released this year’s theme through their multiple social media platforms announcing that this year it would be: Full Circle.
The concept circulated during one of the first meetings after the (In)visible, event last Feb. The idea of Full Circle will be displayed throughout the hall, influence what type of speakers will dawn the stages and the different activities that one could do.
Full Circle is based off the idea that everything in life will always come “Full Circle” or in other words, it will always come back to where you started or that one event that happened in your life that influences what has/or is happening in your life today.
The event will take place at the Performing Arts Center at Westlake High School on Feb. 13, however, one must register before they are accepted and are then allowed to get into the event. Registration deadline is on Dec. 31 and one can apply at http://tedxya.wpengine.com/. There will be a series of questions student need to answers thoughtfully.
Follow TEDxYouth@Austin here to find more information:
Twitter: TEDxYouth@Austin
Facebook: TEDxYouthAustin
![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)
