![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.jpg)
![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)
Battle of the Ballot
Student Council Voting Closes Tonight
The official 2022 student council election polls are now posted. The officers have been campaigning since March 14th and results will be counted over the weekend. “I am excited about what directions this is sending our organization,” Babich said. “it really is a testimate to what I hope this organization will lead in the future.”
April 1, 2022
It’s that time of year again, and voting season is just around the corner. Cedar Park High School’s best and brightest are stepping up to the ballot to compete for the favor of our peers, which is why Student Council sponsor, Adam Babich believes it’s more important than ever to understand the growing importance of the student council and the effect that voting in these elections will have on our school community.
“This year I made the decision to separate the student council from the school dances,” Babich said. “Student council used to be largely an organization that put on the homecoming dance and prom. And while our officers are able to join the dance committee next year, because the student council no longer has that responsibility, we are now able to be what I always wanted it to be and what the students want, which is a place for students to bring the voices and concerns of their classmates to a level where things can be done about it.”
The elections are taking place today for students, and mark a new beginning in implementing student lead ideas into the forefront of school policy. Students and faculty will be able to work together to make CPHS a more comfortable environment, according to Babich.
“We are now a student advocacy organization,” Babich said. “We want to see organization, we want to do service to the school, we want to be in leadership, we want to unite the clubs. So you can think of the student council as some of the glue that brings clubs together, that allows students to voice their concerns and provide leadership opportunities.”
The chambers of elections will be split into two sectors; the executive board and class officers and each chamber will preside over their respective issues regarding school policy. Currently, there are a total of 12 candidates running for the executive board and 11 candidates running for the class officer positions.
“I think [The Elections] raise awareness of students’ ability to voice their concerns to their officers,” Babich said. “One of the things we will be doing next year is having regular communication between the officers and administration, so that there’s a continual pipeline of communication. The elections today are teaching the kids about an election process, and after tonight they will learn what it means to be gracious winners and gracious losers which is a skill I think they need in this world.”
The polls are open in 9th, 10th and 11th grade “Class of” google classrooms until 11:59 pm tonight. After the polls close, he along with the candidates will review the votes over this weekend and Babich will announce the winners on google classroom on Monday.
![Holding a microphone, baseball booster club president Chris Cuevas announces the beginning of the annual cornhole tournament. The event has been held for the past two years and is designed to raise money for the baseball program in a fun way. “We’re a baseball team, so people love to compete,” Cuevas said. “So we figured we better do something that gets [their] attention. They want to compete. It’s not a hard sport to do, and we have all different [skill] levels [of participants].” Photo by Henry Mueller](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Henry-715-1200x900.jpg)
