![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)
Leadership Through Service
Junior Barbara Sylvester Earns Two Kiwanis
Letterman jacket on and sunglasses on her head, junior Barbra Sylvester smiles for her first day of junior year. Barbra has dedicated most of her time to Key Club for the past two years and has recently earned recognition for her efforts. “The main idea of Key Club is volunteering,” Sylvester said. “They provide service opportunities and give members the chance to help give back to the community.”
May 21, 2021
Recently, junior Key Club webmaster Barbara Sylvester was granted two Kiwanis, or Key Club Awards: The G. Harold Martin Fellowship Award and the Distinguished Website Award. For The G. Harold Martin Fellowship Award, participants were asked to write an essay about how they believe Key Club will look in the future and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Sylvester received an email during class from John Cano, lieutenant governor of the Texas-Oklahoma district ) of Kiwanis International, establishing her as the winner.
Cano wanted her to speak at the next district council meeting which occurred on April 24 in which she read her essay to the council members, and talked a little bit about her experience in Key Club. Sylvester said it was very interesting to sit through and listen to their meeting to learn how things are run in our local Kiwanis division.
“I mainly learned that one, communication is key, so we should always be communicating with the officers and members,” Sylvester said. “I also learned how valuable it is to try and interact with other school’s Key Clubs and how important it is to encourage our members to try and get out and volunteer more like one big group.”
The Distinguished Website Award is for having the most creative, informative and functional website. She found out that she got the award while attending LEDcon, which is the Key Club district convention that commemorates all of the Key Clubs in our district for their hard work and dedication.
“For the G. Harold Martin Fellowship Award, I honestly did not expect to win that one,” Sylvester said. “Either way, I am so honored to have won this award, and it really means a lot to me. The distinguished website award I was really hoping to receive, just because I spent so long working on perfecting the website and getting it up to the Key Club district standards.”
Amy Durden is the sponsor of the Key Club. She said that Sylvester went above and beyond and has done a phenomenal job with earning the Kiwanis.
“She is a talented web designer and keeps all members informed in these challenging times with various technology means including Remind, google classroom and the fantastic website,” Durden said. “I am so proud to have Barbara as our webmaster, she has set the bar amazingly high.”
During her involvement in Key Club, Sylvester said she has enjoyed every moment of it. She said she loves the remarkable service opportunities, the valuable lessons she has been able to learn as a leader, and the people in Key Club.
“Through Key Club, I have met so many amazing people, which has just been so fun,” Sylvester said. “I also really like the relationships I have with the other officers because we all just work so well together.”
![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)
