![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)
Celebs Win Grand Champions Twice at Showtime International
Photo courtesy of the Celebrities Booster Club
Celebrities won Grand Champions in two categories at the Showtime International Dance Competition.
February 27, 2019
The Celebrities dance team competed in the Showtime International Dance Competition on Feb. 9-10 and won 10 awards in total, including Grand Champions for both team and line officers.
The team did routines in hip hop, in which they placed first, as well as a pom routine, stylistic jazz and a contemporary routine, which they dedicated to their former director, Stacy Danielson.
Senior captain Caiti Dodge said that the girls have been practicing every morning before school since summer.
“There was definitely a lot of time that went into these dances,” Dodge said. “We also split practices in the fall between practicing our field dances for football games and preparing our competition dances way in advance. When spring competition came around, we were more than ready.”
One of the individual awards the Celebs took home was the Duet Runner-Up for a Large Team, performed by juniors Samantha James and Grace Espinosa. The routine was unplanned, as James had to fill in at the last minute to learn an altered version of a duet with Espinosa in about 40 minutes.
“We had to think about what skills we each had and how to put it all together,” James said. “We didn’t have any costumes, so we had to use other people’s costume pieces to make a matching costume of our own. We only ran it three times and we just rolled with it.”
The other awards the Celebrities won were Sweepstakes Sweep (x2), first place in Company Hip Hop, Division I Score for their contemporary, pom, jazz and hip hip routines, Choreography Recognition, Winning Duet for Large Team (performed by seniors Caiti Dodge and Jenna McQueen) and Solo Finalist for Second Runner-Up (performed by sophomore Rylee Tonacao).
![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)
