![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.jpg)
![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)
Ten Students Prepare for Weekend UIL Regionals
UIL Members Advance to Regionals, Share Experience
At UIL Districts, the UIL Journalism team had two students, freshman Tristan Hernandez and senior Deana Trautz, advance to Regionals.
April 12, 2019
Over the last weekend of March, members of the science, math, social studies, journalism and speech and debate teams competed in UIL at the district level at Cedar Park and other Leander ISD high schools. Out of these students’ 32 placements in the top six, there were eight first-place rankings and 18 advancements to Regionals that will take place this weekend.
Junior Kate Lee competed in Mathematics, Number Sense and Calculator, and placed second in all three events. To prepare for her contests, one of which involved mentally solving 80 questions in 10 minutes, Lee said their team captain, senior Josh Kolenbrander, taught her math tricks to help her improve her skills.
“I’ve always been interested in math and wanted to experience diversity in maths so I chose to compete in all three math events,” Lee said. “I am so excited for competition because I get to meet more teams that are more challenging which motivates me to study harder by going over a bunch of practice tests and a slideshow with math tricks.”
Third-year UIL competitor, senior Olivia Cantrell, competed and placed third in Poetry Interpretation, in which competitors are given the freedom of creating their own selection of poetry and then present it to a panel of judges in seven minutes. Cantrell said for this event, she is critiqued upon delivery, content, voice and presentation.
“It was really fun and was a good end to senior year,” said Cantrell. “We’ve been practicing a lot for this Regional meet by reading our piece over and over, and we will do the same tomorrow.”
While some students only compete in specific types of events, junior Erin Berry competed in Spelling and Social Studies, both of which she advanced to Regionals in. To prepare for Regionals, Berry said she has been reviewing the UIL Word Power packet that contains competition information and a list of vocabulary. She has also been reviewing speeches, legislation, court cases and required reading material for Social Studies.
“It was really fun to compete with incredibly competitive yet courteous and fun-loving students,” Berry said. “I am happy with our results this year, but there is always room for improvement. Regionals is very important to me because it is the gateway to glory, in a way. If I succeed at Regionals, I could help distinguish our school in the world of UIL academics.”
![Holding a microphone, baseball booster club president Chris Cuevas announces the beginning of the annual cornhole tournament. The event has been held for the past two years and is designed to raise money for the baseball program in a fun way. “We’re a baseball team, so people love to compete,” Cuevas said. “So we figured we better do something that gets [their] attention. They want to compete. It’s not a hard sport to do, and we have all different [skill] levels [of participants].” Photo by Henry Mueller](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Henry-715-1200x900.jpg)
