![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)
Student body celebrates the life of former faculty member Dana Pharr
PALS students wave at cars coming into school on Oct. 8 in memory of past faculty member Dana Pharr. “It was a wonderful experience to be able to give the student body and faculty one last memory of Dana,” senior Karly Quinn said. “I think everyone appreciated it and took something away from it.”
December 1, 2015
Students and staff mourned again over the loss of another faculty member, parking lot attendant Dana Pharr, who passed away on Oct. 1.
Pharr was known for standing in the student parking lot every morning waving to students coming and going. The simple wave he did every day may have seemed unimportant to some, but for others, such as senior Karly Quinn, it made their day a little bit better.
“I loved Dana’s attitude,” Quinn said. “He never missed a day of work and always had a smile on his face. Not many people are capable of such positivity. It was refreshing and welcoming to see Dana waving in the mornings. It was a great way to kickoff the school day.”
School Resource Officer Alan Gallagher discussed the impact Dana had on CP and the mark he left.
“He cared for the kids of this school and was tough on some of them, but he wanted each of you to learn everything you could while at school and be successful in life,” Gallagher said. “The parking lot has been empty the last month or so, but Dana is there in spirit and watching over the students of Cedar Park High School.”
Quinn believes the impact Pharr had on CP will never be able to be imitated.
“Dana set the standard pretty high for CP faculty in general,” Quinn said. “He brightened the days of many students, myself included, and I think his impact will be difficult to mimic.”
Besides waving at students as they go and monitoring the parking lot, Pharr had interests of his own outside of his job.
“He enjoyed working with wood,” Gallagher said. “He was a master wood turner and made some incredible items from pieces of raw wood. He also enjoyed reading and being in the outdoors fishing.”
Pharr not only enjoyed crafting with wood, but he also enjoyed aiding students and faculty. PALS teacher Jared Lippe liked Pharr’s willingness to help others when it was needed.
“Dana was an incredible man with a big heart for the students and community of Cedar Park,” Lippe said. “He had a friendly spirit and was always willing to lend a listening ear or help out wherever he could.”
Lippe helped put together the memorial for Dana on Oct. 8. with the help of PALS. Students and satff gathered around where Pharr would stand in the mornings and waved at all of the cars coming and going in honor of him. Pharr’s picture and flowers were placed nearby in a parking space as a special memorial for him.
“We were happy to have had the opportunity to show our support and love for a fellow Timberwolf,” Lippe said. “He was one of a kind and will be missed dearly.”
![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)
