![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)
Senior Year Bucket List
Pass calculus
Have a job
Skip a class
Go to the 360 Overlook
Make All-State
Learn how to be profound
Take senior pictures
Buy a lotto ticket
Have an off period
Go to every football game
Get past Dana and park in the wrong parking lot
Eat at Chuy’s
Go downtown
Go to the lake
Watch the musical
Find a prom date
Walk across the graduation stage
As you can see from my list, I’m not quite done with my goals for senior year yet, but I am well on my way to crossing everything off. It seems that every high school movie I’ve ever seen focuses more on moments like these than classes. This is most likely because these are the moments I will remember ten, twenty, and even thirty years after I graduate. My adventures with my friends throughout my four years of high school are priceless memories. And as much as I will appreciate how well-prepared I am for college next year, it is the discussions in English, my 6th period Calculus class’s shenanigans, and the performances I had with the band that I will remember when I think of my senior year in high school.
Throughout this year, I have counted down the days I have left at Cedar Park. With every “last adventure” I was one step closer to my last day in high school. But as my last football game, last Winter Break, last midterm and last TAKS week have come and gone, I have been struck with how quickly my last last is approaching. In just 46 days at the time I write this, I will have my last last day of school. It’s been a good four years, CPHS! As you go on to bigger and brighter things, remember all the good times you had with us at good ol’ Cedar Park High School.
