![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)
Theatre department welcomes new director
Christine Hathcock, new head director of the Cedar Park High school theatre department, will make her directorial debut with Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s The Illusion, “I like the dramaturgical aspect,” Hathcock said. “You don’t know where you’re going, ’till you know where you’ve been.”
September 16, 2015
As a new year is reigned in, CPHS theatre department heads in a new direction, with a new director. Christine Hathcock will be making her Cedar Park directorial debut with Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s “The Illusion” Oct. 30 and 31.
“I’m really pleased to be here,” new director Christine Hathcock said. “I know that we can take the department to maximum potential.”
From voice over work, to Broadway, the Boston University alum’s resume more than qualifies her for the job. Coming from Pflugerville Middle School, Hathcock elected to come to Cedar Park after seeing the drive the students had for their own success.
“I’m not bringing but adding structure and direction,” Hathcock said. “The focus [of the department] needs to be graduating actors who want to go into the profession.”
Hathcock (like a majority of the student actors) is most looking forward to the UIL one act play competition, in which schools from around the district, and eventually the state, compete in an intense play competition.
“I enjoy the process,” Hathcock said. “ It can be frustrating, but the payoff is great.”
Hathcock became aware of the department when she took her children to CPHS’s production of the musical “Wand” in 2013.
“I love it here, nothing works here, but I love it,” Hathcock said. “The kids are spectacular, I can teach, the kids [have] a sense of responsibility of their education.”
Heading in a new direction, CPHS theatre department will soon sparkle in light of a new director.
![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)
