![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)
![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)
Another school year has come and gone, and it is now time for the last issue of The Wolfpack. As the end of the year approaches, we prepare to bid farewell to this year’s existing Editorial board. Saying goodbye to Mercedes, Laura, Clay, Zach and Mary will be one of the hardest things the new batch of leadership has yet to face. However we’ll have to face much greater challenges next year as we take the reins for the first time.
Using the lessons they have taught us, we’ll chart our own course and attempt to steer this hulking rig of a newspaper through the narrow crevices of constricting deadlines and unexpected setbacks. They have taught us all well, and have prepared us to take over and make the paper as good next year as it was this year.
Thank goodness the two of us won’t be alone in all of this. Leah Mulaly, Amanda Weston, and Hannah Jane DeCiutiis will round out the leadership roster and help us lead a talented crop of new-comers through the trials of newspaper.
This next year, the editorial board plans to work over the summer to have our first issue come out in September, and then an industrious five issues following thereafter. As a follow up to this year’s website launch, we plan to make it more interactive and integral part of the student life of Cedar Park. We are very excited to see what the 2010-2011 school year will bring and can’t wait to bring you more news, features, columns, student opinion and sports coverage than ever before.
