![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)
Dripping Springs proves Cedar Park’s biggest district competition
In a game against Liberty Hill, sophomore Lindsey Ledyard serves the ball. The game against Liberty Hill was one of three games won on the first day of Volleypalooza. “Whenever they started catching up, we snapped out of our funk,” Ledyard said.
September 4, 2014
Teams from around the district and the larger Dallas area descended upon LISD’s “Volleypalooza” Aug. 28-30. As one of the hosts of the tournament, the Lady T-Wolves won against Klein Collins High School 2-0 on the first day of the tournament, as well as Waco Midway 2-1 and Liberty Hill 2-0.
They won against Anderson 2-0, but lost against Rudder and Alvin on the second day, both games ended 1-2.
On the final day they lost to Bowie High School 1-2. They also pulled out a win against Round Rock 2-1.
Even though it doesn’t count toward district, the tournament is a key opportunity for the Lady T-Wolves to exhibit their skill to district competitors, according to seniors Dana Teets and Becca Hill.
“It’s an indicator of where we stand as a team and what we need to improve on for district,” Teets said.
Along with her teammate, Hill stressed the significance of the tournament regarding district.
“We really have to come out strong and show the teams that we are ready for the beginning of district play,” Hill said.
The teams 4-3 overall score for the tournament was underwhelming for the team, according to senior manager Claire Rhine.
“The team didn’t win as many games as we hoped,” Rhine said. “But they still fought hard and stuck with every team they played.”
Hill chalked the losses up to being a new team.
“We have a young team this year,” Hill said. “But we are expecting to work out all of the kinks and come out as a new and improved team.”
The team will have to work those kinks out before playing their last season rival Dripping Springs High School, who went 3-2 for the tournament.
“The team to beat this year in district is Dripping Springs,” Hill said. “They were an amazing team last year, and only a few of them graduated, which means they have a lot of returning players.”
The Lady T-Wolves will face Dripping Springs Sept. 19 at Dripping Springs as one of their first district matches.
“I’m looking forward to seeing how we handle what they throw at us,” Hill said.
![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)
