![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)
March Madness Concludes
Virginia Wins First Ever D-1 Basketball Championship
Winning in style, the Virginia Cavaliers win their first National Championship one year after fanbase heartbreak.
April 9, 2019
The Final Four was filled with all kinds of madness, just like the rest of the tournament leading up to it. Texas Tech reached their first ever Final Four after they shocked Michigan State, and Virginia slid past Auburn to reach the championship one year after making history in the wrong way. This tournament all around was a great one to watch. Another year passes where no one had a perfect bracket, but that’s the reality of March Madness. No one is perfect.
Virginia started off the tournament in style, paying back the fans who dreaded their first round loss to a No. 16 seeded UMBC last year. They beat Gardner-Webb 71-56. The rest of the games that Virginia played in were nail biters. They beat No. 9 seed Oklahoma 63-51, then No. 12 seed Oregon 53-49. Those weren’t even the closest games that Virginia played in. They beat No. 3 seed Purdue in Overtime after tying it up with a last second shot at the end of regulation, 80-75. Their first game of the Final Four was against No. 5 seed Auburn. This was the game that everyone though Virginia would drop, but they fought through the pain and won 63-62 to reach the championship.
Texas Tech was placed at No. 3 in their region. Leading up to the championship, they won a lot of notable games. Tech started off the tournament in a great way, beating No. 14 seed Northern Kentucky 72-57. They beat the 3-point beast of a team, No. 6 Buffalo, 78-58. This is when it gets crazy. Texas Tech rallied to beat No. 2 seed Michigan 63-44, No. 1 seed Gonzaga 75-69, and No. 2 seed Michigan State 61-51. Texas Tech proved that they were a solid team by beating teams who were favored to win the championship, such as Gonzaga, Michigan, and Michigan State.
The championship was set. No. 3 seed Texas Tech versus No. 1 seed Virginia. Both teams in their first national championship games in their school histories. Virginia was up for pretty much the whole game, before the last few minutes of regulation. Texas Tech started to score point after point, and took the lead with less than a minute to play in regulation. The magic that has been created this year by Virginia showed up again, as they tied the game to send it into overtime. Once overtime started, The Cavaliers put in everything they had and won their last game of the season by 8 points, 85-77.
The college basketball season is sadly over, and people all over the world are going to be studying for the duration of next season in order to put together the first perfect bracket. Noah Hedges, professional bracketologist, signing off until next year.
![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)
