![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)
The It Girl
Senior Remiscies Over Highlights of High School
Photo Courtesy of Erika Arthur
Next to hurdles, senior Erika Arthur poses during a team photoshoot. Arthur’s main events, are the hurdles as well as distance events. “I had the best time running with my teammates,” Arthur said. “It makes your accomplishments that much better when you have people to support you.”
May 19, 2021
The modern high school experience is an experience, to say the least. Whether you spend your time focusing on being the best student you can be or making the most out of the last few moments of childhood left, we all experience high school differently. And one thing has stayed the same, the opportunity to grow and achieve alongside your peers. For senior Erika Arthur, her time at school was about being a model student athlete.
“If I had to choose the highlight of my high school experience it was definitely being on the track team all four years [of high school],” Arthur said. “Making the best memories with my teammates and coaches. My proudest [moment] was when I became a team captain and getting to travel to the state meet this year with the team.”
Arthur has been training since she was a freshman to be a better athlete. In her four years of running both cross country as well as track and field, Arthur has attended 25 cross country meets and over 27 meets for track. Her specialty is distance and endurance running and the hurdles for her track events. She recently helped her track team become region champions.
“My favorite event would have to be hurdles,” Arthur said. “I love the competitiveness in the sport and it pushes me to be the best athlete that I can be. My personal favorite achievement from track would have to be getting a new [personal record] for distance and placing top 3 in my events.”
With a promising future, Arthur plans to attend Stephen F. Austin State University and major in photography and media. She also plans to continue her track career in college as well, possibly joining a sorority of her choosing. Arthur leaves high school with few regrets and said she feels that her experience here will always be memorable and worthwhile.
“My high school experience was quite a rollercoaster,” Arthur said. “I had really good days and really bad days. My advice is to make as many friends and memories as you can because it will be over before you know it. If I had a chance do one thing differently it would be living in the moment and appreciating what I have a little bit more.”
![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)
