![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)
Halloween music filled the rather crisp air as dozens of cars lined up in the parking lot–not for academic purposes but for one of the most anticipated holiday events of the school year: Trunk or Treat. Kids and their families make their way down the sidewalks, visiting trunk after trunk decked out in decor.
On Oct. 29, Trunk or Treat—an event where kids receive treats from decorated cars parked in front of the school instead of from houses—was held in the front school parking lot, in addition to the north parking lots, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The various booths were each run by a different school club, organization, or athletic team.
Food options included Handel’s Ice Cream, K.O. Barbecue, Kona Ice, and other food trucks. Other featured activities included a live DJ, candy, face painting, and a pumpkin patch.
Kids of all ages were welcomed at the event as they walked around and experienced the different trunks. Girls’ soccer ran a trunk where they gave kids the chance to shoot into a small goal for a chance to win candy if they scored. Senior and girls soccer player Aerin Tryals-Meyer said she enjoyed trunk or treat because the kids were showing up not only for the candy but also for the soccer program as a whole.
“It’s so fun getting to see all the kids dressed up,” Tryals-Meyer said. “It’s really nice to have people supporting us and showing the girls’ soccer community some love too.”
Students and kids involved weren’t the only ones enjoying themselves; parents also got the full experience as they walked around the parking lot on Wednesday evening. Among them, parent Kimberly Pool was taking her daughters around for trunk-or-treating. This was Pool and her daughters’ fifth time at the event, and Pool said that the weather had a more prominent impact this year than in years past.
“It’s a little windy, which makes the costumes hard,” Pool said. “But I love that they have food trucks this year and the ice cream. That’s a good addition.”
For this year’s event, a lot went into planning. According to student council officer Safiye Yumusak, this year’s preparations were much more organized than previous years due to the club starting its outreach process much earlier, which allowed them to get more prepared quickly. Overall, this increased the effectiveness of the event, and Yumusak said everyone enjoyed working together in a collective space.
“It was all very collaborative,” Yumusak said. “We are really thankful for everybody who showed up and made this event possible.”
With every aspect of the event put in place, this made it possible for everyone, from the student and staff volunteers to the trick-or-treaters and their families, to maneuver around the space. According to Pool, this year’s Trunk-or-Treat event was definitely one to beat because of the joy it brought the kids and the warm feeling created by the Cedar Park community.
“[This year’s event] is great,” Pool said. “I love the costumes. I love the energy, and I love the candy. The kids also love it every year. Everybody feels like family.”
