![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)
Lights, Camera, Laughter. The PNG, or Penguin National Guard, had their first show at homecoming on Sept. 22. The show opened at 8 p.m. in the Black Box, with the whole cast singing a rhyme about the name Paul. The laughter filled the room as the show, hosted by sophomore Jack Davis, started up.
Penguin National Guard is the Cedar Park High School improv group, with nine members who survived auditions to make the troupe. PNG practices twice a week in preparation for their shows. They have their practices in the theater room, which has an open stage. They play games, or skits, to practice for what they will be performing that week. They work on their improv skills and talk with each other about ideas for the show such as how they will be performing the introduction.
The show is hardly scripted as Paul Madsen, junior and president of PNG, said, “It is just improv, think of it on the spot, got to be quick.”
PNG gets most of their material from improv and suggestions from the audience. Some of the material for their games comes from doing research on current events in the world, and in school, that they can poke fun at. They find topics that students talk about and make them into jokes for the show.
“Our humor is very broad; it is clever and crude, but not inappropriate,” Davis said.
PNG will have another show on Oct 30 in the Black Box.
