![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 past month as been a successful one for Cedar Park as three clubs advanced to Nationals.
On April 19-20, HOSA travelled to Galveston for the State Leadership Conference. All three teams ranked in the top five. FCCLA competed in Corpus Christi on Feb. 1-2 and won first place, which included three freshmen. Culinary placed first in their completion on Feb 1-2. All clubs will be advancing to Nationals this July in Tennessee.
Junior Connie Zhao of the Creative Problem Solving team that placed fourth in the last competition.
“It was our first time competing in that particular challenge, so I had no idea if we were going to do well or not,” Zhao said. “I am very thankful of getting fourth in state.”
Another member from HOSA, senior Alivia Martin, placed second with the Community Response team and will be moving onto nationals.
“It’s so weird to think that we’re the second best team in the state of Texas,” Martin said. “It’s such an honor to go to a nationwide competition and be able to represent Texas, I’m so excited to see what’s in store.”
Ending the weekend, HOSA brought home not only second and fourth, but also first place.
“When I heard our name called for first place, I began to hug my team members and cry,” junior Nina Hoyt said. “I felt accomplished because all of our effort, time and hard work paid off.”
Culinary crushed the team that won three years in a row.
“It was a really big surprise to win, we honestly weren’t expecting to,” junior Madison Meehan said.
The culinary team will also be traveling to Tennessee to compete in nationals.
“I’m looking forward to competing,” senior Natalie Van Note said. “Also just seeing and experiencing Nashville.”
This was the first year Culinary competed in FCCLA, who will be joining HOSA and FCCLA in Tennessee and was the first year that an all freshmen team has made it to nationals in Cedar Park history.
“I’m really proud of my team and we can’t wait until July,” freshmen Lauren Hanson said. “I’m very much looking forward to meeting people from all over the U.S.”
