![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)
Going the Distance
Cross Country Works Hard to Go Far This Season
The JV girls, including Kyla Woods and Erika Arthur, take off to start their meet on Sept. 16 at the Cedar Park Invitational.
September 22, 2017
From practicing every day except Sunday, getting together for team dinners once a week and dedicating two to four hours a day running, the girls cross country team works hard to fulfill their goal to win state. Along with working hard, they also help and encourage one another while growing closer as a team, according to junior captain Sophia Roach.
Although some might think XC is a individual sport, these athletes are actually very close with one another and encourage each other to do their best.
“I’ve made so many friendships and memories with my team,” senior Kyla Woods said. “I love my girls and I’ll always have their back because I know they have mine.”
To prepare for the meets, the girl’s team physically trains by running up to 42 miles a week and waking up at 6 a.m. on the weekdays to practice. Also, they get together for team dinners at different runner’s houses two days before each meet. In doing this they are hoping that it will help the athletes become comfortable with each other in a non-running environment.
“To physically prepare for meets I make sure I get plenty of sleep and carb load at our team dinners,” Woods said. “To mentally prepare I always talk to my parents and my team before my race and they usually give me a cliché pep talk, but they legitimately work.”
The team is preparing to go the distance this season and has already won multiple titles. At their last meet, the Elite Varsity girls team won, and and they are looking to trying their hardest to go all the way to state.
“I look forward to watching the girls do their very best this season,” Roach said. “I want us to keep racing as long as there are still races.”
As well as team goals, individual runners have plans for what they want to accomplish this season.
“My goals for the remainder of the season are simple, I just want to be back on varsity by district,” Woods said. “Until then I don’t mind running against the JV runners because I’m just racking up medals every week, which is something I never got to experience on varsity.”
Saturday, Sept. 23 they have a bye week, but starting the following week, they have a meet every week until they don’t qualify anymore. Their next meet is the Nike South Invitational in The Woodlands on Sept. 29 and 30. Visit their website http://www.cpxctrack.com/home.html to find more information about the meets and their locations.
![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)
