![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
![Sucking in a breath of air, freshman Lily Pope competes in the 200 yard individual medley. On Oct. 25, the swim team competed in the AISD Swim Invitational. Overall, the girls team took second place and the boys team came in eleventh. “My favorite stroke is butterfly because I do the best in that stroke,” Pope said. “I feel like [butterfly] can test how [your ability] to convince yourself to keep going. The hardest part of swimming is convincing yourself to stay strong and keep pushing during a hard race [when] everything is tired.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/POPE-1200x804.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, Author Ehigbor Okosun, members of Page Turners, and other students reflect on the author's visit. “I thought the visit was great,” Senior Amia De Leon said. “It was interesting talking to her and [getting to know] her process and her thoughts and books in general. But I think the reason it went well [was that] people got to ask questions. I'm glad that she said so much in response to the questions and it wasn't just one and done. [The author’s responses] felt very articulate.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sebastian-5-1200x800.jpg)
![Standing in front of the field at a freshman football game, cheerleader freshman Jacob Gaudreau along with teammate freshman Bella Gibson pose for a photo during halftime of game. “[Cheer has] definitely given me a much more outgoing personality,” Gaudreau said. “I used to be very introverted, so it's definitely made me more extroverted towards people.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ingrid-204-1200x800.jpg)
![Holding a wooden pizza toy, senior Taylor Peterson plays with small children in Bucaramanga, Colombia. During the summer, Peterson traveled to Colombia to help build an elementary school that only had two classrooms but five or six grades with one teacher. “We add[ed] two more classrooms,” Peterson said. “It’s kind of hard when you have two or three grades in one classroom and you only have one teacher. It’s very hard to actually get some beneficial learning. [The extra classrooms will give the students] a better quality of education because they’ll actually have a place specific for their learning.” Photo by Taylor Peterson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taylor-P.png)
![Swinging with his arm extended, senior Nolan Park hits the ball smoothly over the net and to the opponent’s side. Park is one of four varsity tennis captains and helped the team win district championships. “Winning district champs was a pretty awesome feeling,” Park said. “We had lost to Liberty Hill a couple of weeks before, but when we played them [again], we came out and really took care of business. We took them out and it was just a really awesome night.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kassidy-419.jpg)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.jpg)
FFA Advances to Area
Future Farmers of America Competition, District, Area
Photo Courtesy of Shannon Butler
Senior quiz team members hold a second place banner after their district LDE competition on Nov. 11. Competitions grow bonds junior senior quiz team member Skye Lindholm commented. “No matter what, you’ll have people and friends there for you when you need them,” Lindholm said. “You really bond with the people in your chapter at competitions, shows, and meetings.”
December 10, 2019
The big white barn down Cypress Creek road may be a big part of an FFA members life, but there is more to the club than what meets the eye. Every year, members in the Future Farmers of America organization represent their chapter in a series of competitions.
On Monday, Nov. 11, Cedar Park FFA competed in the Capital District Leadership Development Events with seven event groups. This competition included two first place wins in Public Relations and Greenhand Creed, as well as a second place win in the senior FFA quiz. Junior club members Skye Lindholm explained the difference between these competitions, a Leadership Development Event (LDE) versus a Career Development Event (CDE).
“For LDEs, we have the opportunity to compete in creed speaking, public relations, and quizzes,” Lindholm said. “When we compete in LDEs we are usually dressed in our official dress. For CDE we can compete in floral, livestock judging, poultry judging, and cotton judging.”
Both events that placed first and the event that placed second advanced to the Area Leadership Development Events on Saturday, Nov. 23. However, before the LDE competition, much studying and preparation needed to happen. Callie Hobbs, a sophmore, advanced to area with the senior quiz team.
“Our team has been studying a lot over the past few weeks in preparation for our competitions and when we found out we made it to area then we realized we needed to study even more than we already [had],” Hobbs said. “Our hope right now is to place top six at area so we can get a banner, but we are studying because we are hoping to advance to state,”
After the area competition the public relations team received fourth, the greenhand creed speaker received fourth, and the senior quiz team got fifth. Although this does not mean that the teams advance to state, all teams were awarded another banner. Lindholm said that despite this, FFA will always be something she enjoys.
“The thing I enjoy most about FFA is the sense of community,” Lindholm said. “No matter what, you’ll have people and friends there for you when you need them. You really bond with the people in your chapter at competitions, shows, and meetings.”
