![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)
He watches as each player gets ready for the upcoming drill. The girls surround their coach, listening for instructions. Coach calls out his name to join in on the drill and he smiles in excitement to get to play the game. The drill starts and he is locked in and focused on his goal of blocking the ball. The girls on the other side of the net jump, set, hit and immediately are blocked as the ball flies to the ground. The girls rally around him celebrating his big block.
The varsity volleyball team has a new addition to their team, junior Hadrian Hurn, a boys club volleyball player who joined as the Lady Timberwolves’ manager in the beginning of the 2023 volleyball season. He plays on the 17’s Molten team at Austin Junior Volleyball, an organization that has both girls and boys teams.
“I first started playing volleyball when I was about 14,” Hurn said. “I was at a friend’s birthday party, it was at a park and we were playing sand volleyball and I really enjoyed it and then started playing more often. After playing it with my friends, now two years later, I play for AJV.”
In his volleyball career, Hurn has always been a pinside hitter. Throughout his club season his coaches guided him to right-side hitter where he was utilized as a big blocker. Hurn’s club team travels to numerous club tournaments in and out of the state of Texas, competing in nine tournaments in total per season. Previously, Hurn competed on the AJV Boys 16 Adidas Team, which made it to the USA Boys Junior National Championship in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 29th through July 3rd, where they placed ninth out of 30 teams in the 16 USA division.
“My favorite memory as a volleyball player was when we were playing against our rival club, Houston Volleyball Academy,” Hurn said. “We were in the final match of the tournament playing for first place. We managed to win in the third set, placing first at the HVA Winter Classic and after we won everyone came storming onto the court. We finished that game around 10:15 p.m. and we all went to Whataburger because it was the only thing open at that time. This win led to multiple more medals later in the season and two bids to go to the USA Boys Junior National Championship.”
According to Hurn, it is common for boys volleyball players to become the managers of the school girls team. Most public schools do not have boys teams, so the boys volleyball players often join the girls teams as managers to stay involved and connected with the sport.
“Being a manager I am able to help out with practices and get to watch all the games,” Hurn said. “Being a manager also helps me as a player because I can watch high level volleyball and watch how people better than me play and apply the playing style or techniques and form to how I play in my practices and games. It was a little hard at first managing club, school volleyball, work, and school but I have now found a flow and things have gotten so much easier because I force myself to set specific times to get work done and keep track of assignments.”
As the school volleyball season comes to an end in November, volleyball players begin to shift their focus onto clubs. According to Hurn, he will miss having an easy fourth and eighth period and game day food, but mostly he will miss watching the games and cheering on the team. He also will pursue volleyball in college in hopes of a college scholarship and has started the recruiting process.
“I am ready for the club season,” Hurn said. “I am most looking forward to getting the opportunity to possibly play up in the 18’s division, which will be really good for developing as a player and I will be playing at a really high competitive level. I feel like at the national tournament we could have gotten a lot better than ninth because the teams we lost to were not at the same level as us, but placing ninth my first actual season playing is pretty good.”
