![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
The Carnival Closes Soon
Band Heads to BOA San Antonio Friday
Photo courtesy of CPHS Band SmugMug
Mr. Yee leads his unit onto the field before their last public performance in Cedar Park. The Timberwolf Band will be competing in the BOA San Antonio Super Regional this weekend.
November 1, 2018
Rain has been a big factor for this season, with the marching band only performing in one fully completed competition out of the three BOA competitions that Cedar Park was scheduled to compete in. The students in the band have truly conformed to “trust the process” through difficulty this year due to inclement weather. The Cedar Park Band’s production for 2018 is entitled “On With The Show.” It acts as a carnival, and there are many instances of playful music that would relate to a Carnival.
On Nov. 3 and 4, Cedar Park will be competing in BOA San Antonio, which is Texas’ biggest competition. Eighty-seven bands are scheduled to compete for the fourteen finalist spots, and Cedar Park has proven in recent years that they can make the cut, making finals every year since 2006.
Mr. Yee and his son walk off of the field.
“The machine that is the Cedar Park Timberwolf marching band is larger than I expected it to be,” Head Marching Director Christopher Yee said. “It was large because my responsibility within the organization has increased by at least 500 percent.”
This is Yee’s second year as a band director and his first year leading the marching ensemble. His insight on design of a marching production is fueled by an early job in his career with the Santa Clara Vanguard. This year he has had a big part in the design of this “monster” of a show. What the members march on the field is known as drill, and this year, the production entails 20 more pages of drill than what was in the show last year.
“This year’s production is two minutes and fifteen seconds longer than what we put on the field last year,” Yee said. “There are seven musical movements as opposed to three parts. The visual demand and the complexities of the drill are far greater. The sophistication of the content is far greater.”
With the last week of the marching season fully in stride, the Cedar Park Band is working to make their last improvements needed to set the scene in San Antonio this Friday.
The end of year energy is bigger than any one of us.
“The end of year energy is bigger than any one of us,” Yee said. “The parent volunteers came to decorate the band hall as we have consultants flying in from around the country to help us improve. It’s truly a community effort.”
The Cedar Park Timberwolf Band performs in BOA San Antonio competition this Friday, Nov. 2, at 7:45 p.m. Updates about the band’s success can be found @CPHSNews on Twitter.
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
