![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)
This year Cedar Park has done exceptionally well in just about everything, but we only have one team that is going to compete on a global level: the Destination Imagination team. On May 21-26 the team will be traveling to Knoxville, Tennessee to compete against 13 different countries from around the world for the second year in a row.
”DI is all about being solving problems in a creative fashion,” junior Lindsey Koski, a fifth year veteran on the team, said. “For a lot of challenges we have to build completely original structures made out of only recycled material and that’s where all the creativity comes in.”
The DI team competition involves six teammates who are tasked with building and presenting an original structure that meets the given requirements.
“The most challenging part of the competitions is getting organized, from materials to building plans to presentation, organization is key,” junior Catherine Jordan, and also a member of the team since eighth grade, said.
Since most of team has been together since eighth grade, they have a special bond and know how to keep each other’s spirits up.
“Staying energized and excited is also huge part, if you aren’t excited then the creativity part becomes a whole lot more challenging,” junior Lindsey Stawowy said.
Last year at the world’s competition none of these challenges were too much for the Timberwolves to handle as they came back with a first place medal and hope to do the same again this year.
