![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
Though it may be cliché and unbelievable, it truly is amazing how quickly the first days of school can turn into the last. Looking back on a year from now, when we were junior section managers tackling the daunting task of putting out our first real paper, we are truly amazed and proud we made it to our very own May issue. With five crazy issues full of deadline crunches, late work nights, story cycles, picture taking, page designing and food ordering, we feel very positive about our experiences as the 2009-2010 editors and the work we have done together and with the rest of The Wolfpack staff.
This isn’t all about us though- a lot of the effort we have put into the papers is not for our gain, but for the benefit of you, the reader. We have worked hard to bring you news ranging from worldly affairs to school functions, stories of triumph and stories of misfortune, columns full of opinion and objective views on current events. We commend you, for not only supporting our paper, but for being proactive in educating yourself in this vast, complicated world.
That being said, how do you plan on sharing the knowledge you hold with your peers? We, the class of 2010, have finished making our mark at Cedar Park High School, but all of the younger classes still have time to make an impact. And we encourage you to do just that- get involved! We can all speak from experience that high school years are much more fulfilling and beneficial when you do.
So as we get ready to pack our things and head off to college, our new editors and staff for the 2010-11 school year will begin to make their mark by creating papers full of new and exciting material that you’ll be sure to love. So, with full faith in the new staff for next year, we will be signing off for the last time. Thank you for all of your support over the past year.
