![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)
Smart Art
Ceramics, Design Student Uses Talent, Teaches Kids At Studio
Photo courtesy of Kelsey Jones
Senior Kelsey Jones spends 12-18 hours per week as an assistant teacher at an art studio called The Studio. “I think my favorite part of the job is interacting with the kids,” Jones said. “I’ve been teaching some of the same students for four years now and I truly cherish those relationships.”
May 21, 2019
On three days of the week, for four to six hours each, senior Kelsey Jones works at The Studio, a local art studio where she is an assistant teacher for kids’ classes. She has taken art classes from her current boss since she was five years old, and said that she learned more about herself and how she likes to express herself from doing so.
“I’ve been making art ever since I can remember,” Jones said. “With painting, it’s just a fluid and freeing thing to be able to sketch out an idea and then put paint to paper and bring something to life. You can create such detail and so many beautiful complex colors with paint. And with ceramics, you get to work with your hands more which I love and make things you can use every day but put an artistic spin on it.”
Jones said that growing up, she went through other interests and hobbies but none of them stuck around like art, despite the fact that not every medium is for her.
“I used to be a swimmer,” Jones said. “I had done that since I was six, but after swimming for so long I was just kind of over it. Although I liked it, I just wasn’t as good at it as I was at art and I had no true passion for it as I do with my art. I love to paint and make pottery, but I am not a huge fan of drawing because I like to be more fluid with my art and the way I create things and drawing doesn’t really give you that.”
Being a part of school activities such as National Art Honor Society, Art Club and art classes like ceramics and AP Design, Jones said that revolving her schedule around art has allowed her to grow and learn along with her peers.
“I really liked art club and National Art Honor Society because it gave me a chance to create fun projects and it’s a great platform for artists to get to know each other and share ideas,” Jones said. “I also really enjoyed AP design and highly recommended any other artists at CPHS to take that class if they have the chance. It really gave me the opportunity to develop my art and bring it to a new level.”
Having worked at The Studio since freshman year, Jones said that her job has helped her develop her passion for art. With a new group of kids every hour, Jones’ responsibilities involve getting students set up on their work once they arrive and going back and forth from kid to kid, giving advice and making conversation. She is also responsible for many of the cleaning duties at the end of each hour.
“Some classes are crazier than others and there is a lot of multitasking,” Jones said. “One kid can be working on a sculpture, [while] the next [is at] the pottery wheel, and another three or four [kids are] painting and drawing, so you just have to be on your toes ready to help wherever you are needed.”
Jones said that this job has been something she has been able to look forward to every day and that she is most grateful for the experience to teach and help others learn about art.
“I think my favorite part of the job is interacting with the kids,” Jones said. “I’ve been teaching some of the same students for four years now and I truly cherish those relationships. I cannot count all the hilarious things I’ve heard some of my students say and all the fun times we’ve all had joking around as a class and making art that they are proud of. The kids can be crazy, smart, creative, and so extremely funny. Every day I get to spend time with them and teach them is just another day I get to make an impact on their lives.”
![The fire department came to the school after students were evacuated when smoke started coming from the ceiling of a classroom. All students and staff are safe. “All of my friends left their stuff too, so we couldn’t contact our parents, and it was stressful,” senior Brynn Fowler said. “It was scary because I didn’t know [what was going on], and I couldn’t find anyone because it was a big crowd.” Photo by Anthony Garcia](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/firetruck-300x200.jpg)
