![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)
The Race is On
Returning Track Athletes Discuss New Coach, Upcoming Season Projections
Senior Tiras Parker-Pie runs the two mile race in the team’s first track meet of the season on Feb. 6. The team got first place in the meet against Rouse. “This was one of the few races I was able to participate in before quarantine, but I still gave it my all,” Parker-Pie said. “I will be committing soon to run in college which I am very excited about and hope to take this sport as far as I can.”
February 19, 2020
Cedar Park track season is finally here. With the season rapidly approaching, athletes at Cedar Park began practicing as early as Jan. 20 for their events in running and field. The new year brings with it some new changes for the team, for new head coach Chance Edwards has brought with him a new mentality and goal for the team’s success.
“This year we do more motivational stuff, there’s less competition between the team and more of a team mentality,” junior relay sprinter Elena Venincasa said.
Many of the returning athletes are hopeful for the new season under new instruction, and with their next meet this Saturday, they fell prepared to swipe the competition.
“This year we have a new guys distance coach who is also the head girls track coach who is a really good coach and has kept this winning culture this past cross season so we are looking forward to this track season,” senior mile and two mile race runner Tiras Parker-pie said.
The team practices daily to improve their skills overall as a team in running events and field events.
“I feel like the guys track team is pretty strong all around the distance team is extremely strong with us having some of the top runners in the state and the sprints and relays are coming together everyday,” Parker-pie said. “With such positive attitudes on both teams, the program endures a long season which leads up to the state meet.”
Both the girls team and the boys team have high projections for their season this year compared to previous years, thanks to their motivation to excel and bring the team together.
“The talent of this year’s team is a lot stronger and faster than the previous year’s team because we have a large number of returning athletes that bring a lot of experience to the team,” junior pole-vaulter Megan McDaniel said. “We have a well-balanced group in all events from sprinters to distance runners to field events. I believe that the track team will go very far this year. Our team has the capability to advance with as many girls as possible on the road to the state meet.”
![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)
