![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
Celebs shine with new uniforms at iDance
After they performed their hip hop routine, “Ballin’,” The Celebrities pose for the ending of their team dance on Oct. 8 at iDance at Leander High School. They performed two team dances, two officer dances and had the seniors perform in the senior dance at the finale. “I’m going to come to iDance next year,” senior and Captain Mackenzie Lawrence said. “I hope that the dances continue to be just as good as they were this year. It was super strong this year and a great last iDance for me, and I hope that next year they feel the same way.”
October 26, 2015
The lights shined as the dancers glittered across the stage; iDance was in full swing on Oct. 7-8 at Leander High School. All five LISD high school dance teams participated in the showcase.
“It’s so fun to dance with the other schools because we get to see what dancing teams are like compared to ours,” senior Captain Mackenzie Lawerence said. “It’s also a chance to make a lot of friends across the district.”
The Cedar Park Celebrities showed off two of their new dances during the showcase.
“We have been working on the dances since the summer so we had a lot of time to clean them,” senior first lieutenant Riley Goernor said. “We all have been working really hard on them at practice, we’ve basically perfected them. They are really fun to do, especially “Ballin’” since it’s themed after our spring show, which is “Dream Big.” We’ve never really had themed dances before so it was really cool to have that in the showcase.”
The main purpose of the showcase is to have all five high schools of LISD dance together, which is important to junior dancer Haley Hottinger.
“iDance is about uniting the other schools in our district,” Hottinger said. “It’s nice to take a break from the competitiveness, and work together with the four other schools to put on a spectacular show.”
The Celebrities also came out and introduced their new uniform at the iDance showcase which was great, new experience for sophomore dancer Haley Alfaro-Kim.
“Our new uniform is really sparkly, it was cool to have the audience cheer for us as soon as we all went on stage with them on,” Alfaro-Kim said. “I think everybody really liked them, especially the dancers. It’s the first time anybody has ever worn them so it was special for us to perform at iDance.”
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
