![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)
Rho Kappa Voter Registration Drive: a Success
Volunteers Register Estimated 60 Students Throughout Monday
![Volunteers lined up with computers to help with Rho Kappa's annual voter registration drive. These volunteers were able to register an estimated 60 new voters."It is so important for seniors to register to vote, because it shows [America's] true democracy," Rho Kappa President, senior Alyssa Fielding said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CallieCopeland-7-900x600.jpg)
Volunteers lined up with computers to help with Rho Kappa’s annual voter registration drive. These volunteers were able to register an estimated 60 new voters.”It is so important for seniors to register to vote, because it shows [America’s] true democracy,” Rho Kappa President, senior Alyssa Fielding said.
September 26, 2018
In the spirit of National Voter Registration Day, Rho Kappa hosted their annual voting drive on Tuesday and registered an estimated 60 students.
With their tables situated in the courtyard, volunteers lined up with computers ready to help those registering. Junior Erin Barry said that volunteering at the drive was her way of serving her country before she was able to vote.
“It’s important that [the seniors] have the opportunity to share their opinion by participating in our government,” Barry said.
Many seniors arrived with their driver’s licenses ready, eager to register. Having celebrated her 18th birthday just last week, senior Kendyl Morris said this was one of her first steps to becoming an adult.
“[Politics] is a really present thing in my household, and maybe my views don’t always line up with my mom or my sister,” Morris said. “So it’s important now that I have that voice to say something and make decisions on my own.”
This year, big names like Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Beto O’Rourke are seen in front lawns across Cedar Park, but smaller government positions sometimes go unnoticed. While Morris said that she became exposed to politics through her government class, senior Jaelyn Hudson said that watching her parents vote has given her the opportunity to research candidates.
Hudson said that in the past when her parents would go to the polls, she would research the candidates and make a hypothetical decision on who she would vote for. Now there are no hypotheticals, and Hudson said she’s already doing research to cast her ballot.
“[Voting this year] should be interesting,” Hudson said. “I’m still kind of contemplating who I want to vote for.”
Like Morris and Hudson, not every student at the registration drive knew who they would vote for. But one thing was certain- they will head to the polls this November.
“I will!” Morris said. “I think it’s really important.”
While the 60 student turnout at the drive did not meet Rho Kappa’s 100 percent goal, they were able to recruit a new generation of voters.
“The greatest thing about our government is that we have a say in it,” Rho Kappa president, senior Alyssa Fielding said. “And we should all be very active in the role we play in our it. We are the future, and we are the next generation determining what’s happening in the government.”
Fielding said that by registering seniors, we can ensure that the future generation of voters will be involved in the United States’ democracy and be able to take more control over their own lives.
“If we aren’t teaching the rising generation to be in politics, we are in a way taking democracy out of our own hands,” Fielding said.
The deadline for voter registration in Texas is Oct. 9, and midterm election day is Nov. 6. Visit this link for more information on county-specific candidates, and click here to check voter registration status.
