![After placing second in their respective LDEs at the Capital District contest in early November, freshman Jesus Jaramillo-Gallegos and freshman Wyatt Pickett will compete at the Area XII LDE contest in Georgetown on Nov. 23. Jaramillo-Gallegos is competing in Greenhand Spanish Creed Speaking, while Pickett’s LDE is Greenhand Creed Speaking. “Honestly, [I’m excited for] just traveling around, maybe meeting more people,” Jaramillo-Gallegos said. “And [I’m] nervous about probably just not being able to define my weak areas. I feel like I did decent for my first time ever doing this. I just think it’s fun.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Navy-and-Yellow-Simple-Group-Project-Presentation-1200x675.png)
![Holding up T-wolves, the tour group poses for a picture in the Chinese classroom. Sophomore Lydia Ou, junior Phu Trung and senior Yushan Pan gave a tour to Taiwanese diplomat Andrea Yang on Nov. 8. “I was so excited when I heard I would get to give the tour because it’s a big deal,” Ou said. “She’s from the US embassy for Taiwan, so she’s really important. I’m so privileged [to get this opportunity] and I’m so excited.” Photo by Skyler King](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Main-Taiwan.jpg)
![Sitting at a desk past the rows of books laid out for the Book Fair, senior Kimberley Walters assists people in purchasing books and finding titles. The Book Fair is taking place Dec. 16 through Dec. 20, and is an annual event during which students and faculty have the opportunity to go and purchase books and other trinkets in the library. Kimberley said she encourages all to go to the Book Fair, even if they think they don’t like to read. “If you make reading something that is fun for you and you find the things that you like to read, it will never be a chore,” Walters said. “So [the Book Fair is] a good opportunity to find something that will respark your want to read [like] when you were a child and you went to the book fair and you loved the ‘I survived’ books. Maybe you'll find your ‘I survived’ books of your high school experience, and it'll re-spark that kind of love for reading that may have died out.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Addie-L-47-1200x800.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, sophomore Olivia Mahlmeister and seniors Samantha Jameson, Adhit Eswaramoorthi and Justin Khadavi celebrate completing first chamber in the Congress Meet. All four students advanced to the final chamber. “Out of the 20 kids in the final chamber, we had a seventh, ninth, 11th and 13th, and they took the top four to move on to state,” AP US History and Debate teacher Josh Marsh said. “[Even though] we didn't make state this year, all four of them moving on [and] placing is phenomenal.” Photo courtesy of Josh Marsh](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-Regional-Congress-Team.jpg)
![Standing in front of a small audience, senior Kimberley Walters shares a social criticism poem titled “Pity the Nation” by Lawrence Felinghetti. Every month, sponsored by the poetry club, the library hosts a poetry reading. “I never thought I would be interested in [poetry readings] because I’m not the biggest poetry fan,” Walters said. “I think poetry is a very succinct way to express feelings and get a story across. Whereas lots of books have a span of a whole story, but it’s put in a lot of words. The power of poetry is that you can be so succinct within, and there’s a lot of power within the words that are used.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KIM-1200x800.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)
![Holding the Grand Nationals trophies, drum majors Helashi Wijayawardhana, Abigail Pettey and Eddy Kim pose for a photo. The BOA Grand Nationals competition took place in Indianapolis on Nov. 14-17. “My favorite thing was just looking back at the field, and I was like, ‘Oh, crap. I know all of their names, I know who all of them are’,” Wijayawardahana said. “It's just insane to me that I was able to make so many connections. [Being a drum major] taught me how to build relationships with people who I’m not really that similar to, and how to juggle a ton of things all together.”
Photo courtesy of CPHS Band SmugMug](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AJC.GrandNatsFinals-169-1200x801.jpg)
![Delicately placing the string to form the shape of a cornucopia, seniors Haley Burton and Avery Nelson create the November arrangement for the Flower of the Month Club. This club is led by Advanced Floral Design Students and provides a monthly arrangement to community members who subscribe to receive them. “I think flower of the month club is a really impactful way to show your loved ones ‘hey I really care about you,’ or even if they’re just for yourself, they’re a little pick-me-up throughout the month that [say] ‘I’m doing ok, and these flowers make my day a little bit brighter,” Nelson said. “I like giving people flowers because people value the flowers more and they value themselves more.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Ava-Holmes-3-edit.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)
![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)
![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)
When senior Grace Trebilco was asked by her MAPS and Professional Communication teacher, who was also football coach, to join the football team’s film crew during her freshman year, she originally said no. However, she quickly changed her mind at the mention of one incentive: a letter jacket.
This marked the beginning of Trebilco’s journey with the football team. As a freshman on film crew, Trebilco attended every 5 a.m. practice, afternoon practice, JV game and varsity game for two years. Her participation on the film crew is how the opportunity to be an iReporter for Var Austin came to her.
“Ethne [Barnes], who was on the film crew with me, took the job my sophomore year so I still did film crew for another year,” Trebilco said. “Then, her parents told her she couldn’t do it her senior year, so I got the torched passed to me and that marked the beginning of my VAR journey.”
VAR Austin, formerly known as FLX and FanStand, is a social media platform that reports information about high school sports in the Austin area through student reporters known as ‘iReporters.’ iReporters are responsible for gaining footage for mixtapes and interviewing players after the game to be posted on their Instagram which has over 80k followers. Trebilco served as an iReporter for two years, her junior and senior year, and reported on both football and basketball.
“I started filming with a potato, as I called it, at football games but it was actually more like a camcorder from 2006,” Trebilco said. “It looked, sounded and filmed like one—a potato that is. Later my junior year, Gavin Chapa’s father had a big Sony camera on the sidelines and he let me use it for a quarter. Then, he offered to let me keep it for the rest of the season, so I got a cinematic film for the rest of the season.”
However, after the 2022 football season, Trebilco decided it was time for her to get her own camera as basketball season approached. So, Trebilco took advantage of a sale at Precision Camera and bought a camera and eventually her own lens, which led her to discovering a new hobby, photography.
“[Buying my own camera] was a blessing because I had a ‘kid’ camera before, but now I have a ‘big girl’ camera,” Trebilco said. “Because I had my own camera, I started taking hockey pictures and portrait photos, and it really started my whole photography journey.”
With a new hobby discovered, Trebilco turned it into another opportunity for herself as she became the photographer for the NA3HL junior ice hockey team, the Austin Ice Bats. She was able to sit on their bench during games and practices as well as make gameday graphics that are posted on the team’s social platforms.
“It was the best thing ever,” Trebilco said. “The best part about it was just the players themselves. They came from all over the U.S. We had players from Canada, Michigan, you name it. It was really interesting to get to know them, where they come from and why they’re here.”
Along with film crew, iReporting and photography, Trebilco served as a manager for the baseball team all four years of high school.
“After football [season my freshman year], I was like ‘I like baseball’ and I thought I should manage the baseball team,” Trebilco said. “So, I asked Coach Williams, the head baseball coach at the time, if Ethne and I could be a part of the baseball team and he was like ‘yeah cool.’ I missed the initial day of baseball, so Ethne got put with varsity, and I got put with JV all by myself. Just me, a lone ranger.”
Trebilco mainly utilizes a program called “Game Changer” to do the statistics for the baseball team. After doing JV statistics her freshman year, she was moved to varsity and had more responsibilities such as managing the line-up cards and making the schedule. Trebilco earned Academic All-State her sophomore year. Trebilco said although it was a learning curve for her at first, she has found a family with the baseball team.
“At the beginning, I had a very basic understanding of baseball and how baseball works, then all of a sudden people were balking and I was like ‘what is that,’” Trebilco said. “But, I grew up with the seniors on the team, and they helped me a lot. We’re just really happy for each other’s successes, which goes back to their team motto of Mudita, which I’m really happy I got to be a part of and included in as well.”
Trebilco will attend Texas Tech University and study nursing and ASL interpretation. She plans to continue her hobby of photography and hopes to keep up with sports and portrait photography, as it has turned into a passion of hers. Trebilco said she will miss the community that her involvement with Cedar Park athletics has given her.
“My favorite thing was experiencing things with the team,” Trebilco said. “Being on the sidelines, being in the dugout, it’s just a different feeling than being in the student section. So it’s been really exciting being there for the ups and downs of their season, and I’ve really enjoyed getting to know the coaches too. It’s just like being an actual part of their community instead of being just a supporter of it. I’ll miss the excitement of it all for sure.”
