![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)
![Students drew chalk art in honor of Veterans day. This is just one of many things the school does to show appreciation to veterans, and the art will remain in the courtyard as a reminder of all of the veterans who served their country. “On veteran’s day, I think it’s a great thing we do at school to honor people that served [who are] at our school or family members,” English teacher and cheer coach Nadira King said. “It makes me feel proud, and it makes me remember the [veterans].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Capture.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)
![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)
![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)
![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)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.jpg)
![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
Kickin’ It With Killebrew
New SRO Trades High-Speed Chases for Hallway High Fives
SRO Ray Killebrew picks up Wolfpack reporter, senior Jalen Gomez. Killebrew is from Inks Lake, TX and is a retired officer that became the school’s SRO this year. “I really enjoy it over here,” Killebrew said. “Everyone has greeted me with open arms–the staff, as well as the kids that go to school here. I honestly couldn’t be happier with the move.”
January 31, 2019
Every morning, as students strap on their backpacks, Officer Ray Killebrew puts on his badge. Originally from Inks Lake, Texas, Killebrew now works here as the full-time School Resource Officer after making what he said was one of his best career moves yet.
“I really enjoy it over here,” Killebrew said. “Everyone has greeted me with open arms–the staff, as well as the kids that go to school here. I honestly couldn’t be happier with the move.”
Unlike the rural community that he began his career as an officer in, Killebrew said that Cedar Park presented much more opportunity for him.
“I saw the potential for the city to grow and expand, so I applied,” Killebrew said. “When I got hired here, I think I was the fifteenth or sixteenth officer, now we are 100 plus.”
Killebrew said that along with being a part of the area’s growing police force, he found that the community was supportive of him from the start.
“There is a lot of support here from our citizens and the school district that I do not think you would get in a lot of different cities,” Killebrew said. “Coming from different areas where I can see how public safety is treated and things like that, they are very supportive here.”
Killebrew said that being an SRO is much more involved than just being a “security guard” for the school. Each day, he drives the many trails around campus, talks to visitors as they come in and has to be an enforcer of rules at school. All these things, he said, are to ensure that the students are safe while they learn.
“This is not just going out and doing enforcement,” Killebrew said. “There is a lot of social work involved: mentoring, counseling and things of that nature.”
When he is not driving the trails or counseling students in his office, Killebrew said that he loves to volunteer at the local YMCA, teaching martial arts and coaching volleyball.
“When I am not doing this, which takes a lot of my spare time,” Killebrew said. “I try to keep as involved as I can here in my community.”
Before retiring and becoming an SRO, Killebrew worked as a police officer across the central Texas area in Burnet, Marble Falls and downtown Austin. As an officer, he worked in narcotics, the SWAT team and he said that he even took part in several adrenaline-filled car chases. With the unpredictable schedule that comes with police work, Killebrew said that he had to make sacrifices to do the job.
“Search warrants and things like that happened at 2 or 3 a.m. in the morning, sometimes 10 p.m., five in the morning, it really just depended,” Killebrew said. “And when you are as much as a family person as I am with my kids, I like to be at home and like to do stuff with them. It was a difficult job to be able to balance that.”
While his experience sounds similar to what people may watch on television shows and in movies, Killebrew said that there are major differences in the timing of the job. The weeks worth of surveillance and action are condensed into 30-minute, action-packed episodes.
“It is an hour of complete boredom and driving around looking for stuff,” Killebrew said. “Then, all of a sudden, it is five minutes of adrenaline-rushing terror; we get a bank robbery, we get a pursuit or somebody shoots at us.”
There are a lot of discrepancies in how the media portrays the police and what the police really do, Killebrew said, especially having to do with police brutality. Killebrew said he notices the stigma against police officers and said that he recognizes that police officers receive more scrutiny due to the nature of their profession. He also said that for the most part, officers try to do the right thing.
“There are bad officers out there, do not get me wrong,” Killebrew said. “Just like there are bad teachers and bad truck drivers–there’s bad everything. The problem is that we get stuck in the media’s scrutiny more than those other positions.”
Over all else, Killebrew said that he wants everyone to know that most of his peers in the force are good people who do their jobs well.
“We’re not looking to go taze somebody or violate someone’s civil rights,” Killebrew said. “If I can make it through the day without having to put anybody in jail or go hands-on, you know, I think I’ve accomplished what I want to for that day.”
Killebrew said he encourages the students to get to know him, and will always be there to give out fist bumps and friendly hellos in the hallway.
![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-300x201.jpg)
