![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)
Brent Grissom is Back in CP
Former biology teacher Brent Grissom has come back to Cedar Park.
September 21, 2016
The new school year brought a familiar face. Biology teacher Brent Grissom returned to his previous teaching position after spending a year in Hawaii. Grissom will no longer be teaching AP Biology; he will only have regular and Pre-AP for freshman.
Many upperclassmen were pleased to have Grissom back.
“He makes me laugh so much,” senior Morgan McCarthy said. “He made me so happy freshman, and I love seeing him for a minute each day because he never fails to make me smile.”
He was given the opportunity to live in Hawaii with all expenses taken care of as part of a teaching program.
“Life gives you opportunities, and you can’t be scared and always stick with the status quo,” Grissom said. “This opportunity arose, and I realized if I didn’t do it, I would look back at it for the rest of my life and go, ‘I got the chance to live in Hawaii for free and I passed it up’.”
While in Hawaii, Grissom was able to experience a different environment than in Texas.
“The weather was both good and bad,” Grissom said. “The temperature was lows in the 60’s and highs in the 80’s every day. Each month was like a degree difference. It rained everyday, but it would rain for three minutes. You would just be lying in bed, and you could see the rain coming across the ocean to you. It was neat.”
After leaving Hawaii, Grissom thought to come back to Cedar Park.
“I’ve always liked Cedar Park,” Grissom said. “I didn’t leave on bad terms, so once my stay in Hawaii ended, it seemed like a logical thing to come back to where I enjoyed being.”
There were some big differences between Cedar Park and the school in Hawaii.
“The Hawaiian school was very small with a very small number of students,” Grissom said. “The entire idea of interacting with your class and laughing and having fun is hard to do when you have extremely small classes, so truthfully I missed the CP student body and the fun that you can have.”
Grissom said he also returned with a new appreciation for Leander ISD.
“I gained a lot of respect for the quality of education given in Leander ISD,” Grissom said. “I’m very happy to be back.”
