![After placing second in their respective LDEs at the Capital District contest in early November, freshman Jesus Jaramillo-Gallegos and freshman Wyatt Pickett will compete at the Area XII LDE contest in Georgetown on Nov. 23. Jaramillo-Gallegos is competing in Greenhand Spanish Creed Speaking, while Pickett’s LDE is Greenhand Creed Speaking. “Honestly, [I’m excited for] just traveling around, maybe meeting more people,” Jaramillo-Gallegos said. “And [I’m] nervous about probably just not being able to define my weak areas. I feel like I did decent for my first time ever doing this. I just think it’s fun.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Navy-and-Yellow-Simple-Group-Project-Presentation-1200x675.png)
![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)
![Sitting at a desk past the rows of books laid out for the Book Fair, senior Kimberley Walters assists people in purchasing books and finding titles. The Book Fair is taking place Dec. 16 through Dec. 20, and is an annual event during which students and faculty have the opportunity to go and purchase books and other trinkets in the library. Kimberley said she encourages all to go to the Book Fair, even if they think they don’t like to read. “If you make reading something that is fun for you and you find the things that you like to read, it will never be a chore,” Walters said. “So [the Book Fair is] a good opportunity to find something that will respark your want to read [like] when you were a child and you went to the book fair and you loved the ‘I survived’ books. Maybe you'll find your ‘I survived’ books of your high school experience, and it'll re-spark that kind of love for reading that may have died out.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Addie-L-47-1200x800.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, sophomore Olivia Mahlmeister and seniors Samantha Jameson, Adhit Eswaramoorthi and Justin Khadavi celebrate completing first chamber in the Congress Meet. All four students advanced to the final chamber. “Out of the 20 kids in the final chamber, we had a seventh, ninth, 11th and 13th, and they took the top four to move on to state,” AP US History and Debate teacher Josh Marsh said. “[Even though] we didn't make state this year, all four of them moving on [and] placing is phenomenal.” Photo courtesy of Josh Marsh](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-Regional-Congress-Team.jpg)
![Standing in front of a small audience, senior Kimberley Walters shares a social criticism poem titled “Pity the Nation” by Lawrence Felinghetti. Every month, sponsored by the poetry club, the library hosts a poetry reading. “I never thought I would be interested in [poetry readings] because I’m not the biggest poetry fan,” Walters said. “I think poetry is a very succinct way to express feelings and get a story across. Whereas lots of books have a span of a whole story, but it’s put in a lot of words. The power of poetry is that you can be so succinct within, and there’s a lot of power within the words that are used.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KIM-1200x800.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)
![Holding the Grand Nationals trophies, drum majors Helashi Wijayawardhana, Abigail Pettey and Eddy Kim pose for a photo. The BOA Grand Nationals competition took place in Indianapolis on Nov. 14-17. “My favorite thing was just looking back at the field, and I was like, ‘Oh, crap. I know all of their names, I know who all of them are’,” Wijayawardahana said. “It's just insane to me that I was able to make so many connections. [Being a drum major] taught me how to build relationships with people who I’m not really that similar to, and how to juggle a ton of things all together.”
Photo courtesy of CPHS Band SmugMug](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AJC.GrandNatsFinals-169-1200x801.jpg)
![Delicately placing the string to form the shape of a cornucopia, seniors Haley Burton and Avery Nelson create the November arrangement for the Flower of the Month Club. This club is led by Advanced Floral Design Students and provides a monthly arrangement to community members who subscribe to receive them. “I think flower of the month club is a really impactful way to show your loved ones ‘hey I really care about you,’ or even if they’re just for yourself, they’re a little pick-me-up throughout the month that [say] ‘I’m doing ok, and these flowers make my day a little bit brighter,” Nelson said. “I like giving people flowers because people value the flowers more and they value themselves more.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Ava-Holmes-3-edit.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)
![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)
![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)
On Election Day 2004, my 14 year life in the great state of Connecticut came to an end when I packed up and moved all the way down to Texas. At that moment in my life, I had two ideas of what I wanted to do when I grew up: Architecture or Golf. My top, and only, college choice was the Ohio State University. I wanted to be a Buckeye, no questions asked, and in my eyes the Ohio State University was the ONLY choice for me.
Fast forward to the glorious year of 2009. I will be attending school for Broadcast Journalism next year at Pennsylvania State University. It still amazes how much my aspirations have changed since moving to this state. When I arrived the first thing that stood out to me was the intense following for high school sports. The school I would have gone to in Connecticut, Farmington High School, had a football field that held around 1,000 people tops in the stands. So needless to say, when I first saw the Timberwolves take the field against the Harker Heights Knights at the 13,000 seat Bible Stadium, I was shocked. From that point on, high school sports became a very large part of my life. I attended every game I could, and bragged to all my friends back up north how much better high school sports were in Texas. People who have never left Texas don’t quite understand how strange it is to other parts of the country to have high school sports covered so greatly and followed by such large masses.
The big moment of my life came in 2007 when I signed up, and was accepted to be on the Wolfcast staff. Ever since hearing about the class in 2006, I had wanted to report on the various high school sporting events and shape CPHS sports into ways no one could have ever imagined. The day I put my first video on The Wolfcast (a preview video for the 2007 football season), my life started to gradually change. Brad Foster took me in and allowed me to grow within the program and learn how to be the best I could be in the field of sports journalism. In my eyes, he did a pretty good job. By the end of my “rookie” year in broadcast, I felt comfortable and confident with my presence on The Wolfcast.
Slowly but surely, the amount of “epic” videos and sports casts I made started to pile up, and by the time I reached the beginning of this year I felt like I had started to build my own legacy. This year was an absolute thrill for me, from my intense filming projects to speaking at the Leander pep rally; many of the goals I had when I entered the broadcast class had been achieved. I reached a new level on the sports report too; I made brand new slick graphics to give the show a consistent feel and sharp look. My speaking at the news desk also grew to a new level. I took up a more lively and likeable demeanor, and despite a few stutters and mispronunciations of Carder LaBrake and Demarcus Rosenthal’s names, my script reading became very fluent. As the year comes to a very bittersweet end, I leave the program satisfied with the work I have done and with no regrets.
My goal was to change the journalism sports programs and, thanks to the breathtaking happenings of high school sports, I was able to do that. I feel this way because of my various projects, football season had a much larger meaning, the SROZone became a factor, playing basketball at CPHS was not something opponents looked forward too and the Evil Empire rocked the state of Texas during the 2008 baseball season and became the most notorious yet famous student section in the state and put the careers of the athletes at our school into a whole new thrilling perspective.
Even if I am leaving for Happy Valley, Pennsylvania next year, Cedar Park sports will always have a lasting effect on my life. For the rest of my life, the success I have in journalism can be directly linked to “the Pride of Cedar Park High.” The sporting events that happened at this school, from the Jamie Knight Catch, to the 2008 baseball team’s run in the playoffs, to the wild 2007-2008 basketball and to the over the top spirit throughout football season, will always have a place close to my heart. I will be a Timberwolf for the rest of my life.
Jeff Nadu • May 5, 2021 at 11:19 am
This is cedar park
Randy Randerson • Apr 9, 2021 at 11:54 pm
This is cedar park