![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)
Meet and Greet: New Electives Teachers
October 7, 2015
This year, the staff has received several new additions in the electives department, including Christine Hathcock, and Leslie Lippe. Here are a few facts you may not know about your new teachers.
Christine Hathcock
Taking over the theater program for her first year here at CPHS, Hathock is highly experienced in her field. Hathcock has preformed on Broadway and done voice over work for Cartoon Network.
Q: Why do you like teaching what you teach?
A: I think the great thing is to see the artistry grow in a student and see what great change comes with finding their passion.
Q: What extracurricular were you in in high school?
A: I was a huge interper with speech and I was in theater. I was third in TFA state my junior year in dramatic and first senior year in NFL state in drama and humor. I was also in art and pottery.
Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
A: To be able to eat anything and be a size 2 and look 21.
Q: What is your spirit animal?
A: I’ve been told I’m a wolf, which I guess is fitting with this being the Timberwolves and all.
Leslie Lippe
Lippe has taken up many of the art classes this year, including but not limited to: sculpture, ceramics, and art I. Though she is entering her tenth year of teaching, PALS teacher Jared Lippe’s wife has begun her first year of teaching here at CPHS.
Q: What is your favorite thing about teaching?
A: It’s been a goal of mine to teach every grade, this is my first year teaching in a high school. I also love watching the growth of the students throughout the year.
Q: What do you like so far about Cedar Park?
A: The culture, I love getting to know everyone. And it’s been nice getting a feel for everyone’s personalities.
Q: If you could be an animal, what would you be?
A: A bird, a crane to be specific.
Q: What is your Starbucks order?
A: I don’t really go anymore, but I guess a tall Americano.
![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)
