![Throwing the ball, sophomore shortstop and third baseman Hudson Cuevas completes a play to first base at the scrimmage against Round Rock on Feb. 4. Installation of new turf on the fields has relocatedthe team to practicing on the grass fields and at a batting cage center off of Lakeline called D-Bat. “Our players have attacked this challenge,” Head Coach Ben Huffman said. “We’re just having to shift locations from a day to day basis. [But], the boys come out and wherever and whatever we’re doing they just try to get better every day.” Photo by Alyssa Fox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Hudson-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)
![Posing with their trophy, the varsity cheer team takes a picture following their sixth place performance at the Universal Cheerleading Associtation’s National High School Cheerleading Competition. This was the highest the team has placed in school history. “[Breaking the record] is like more than I could ask for, so I’m really proud of them,” Head Cheer Coach Nadira King said. “It’s so exciting because now they have the confidence and they’ve had a little taste of something good. I think that will be good for our future as a program.” Photo Courtesy of CPHS Cheer](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cheer.jpg)
![As the support team sits and poses for a photo in the cafeteria with the counseling team they eagerly wait to start their day. "We [all] seem to be a team, I get up every day and there's days where I don't want to go to work today, but I'm thankful that I have a job and I'm blessed to have what I have," Christopherson said. Photo Courtesy of Julie Weltens.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AF9E8470-10D7-4C91-BF28-EC8F86BAB66C-1200x852.jpeg)
![Officer Stephanie Cash is in her second year as an SRO at CPHS. “Seeing [students] grow over the years has been kind of cool,” Officer Cash said. “Freshmen that [are] all over the place and then in the next couple of years get a little more squared away and go to class and do work and start thinking about the future. Being a part of a student's growth is the best way to measure my success as an SRO.” Photo Courtesy of Cedar Park Police Department's PIO, Alicia Gallagher.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CPHS-SRO-900x1200.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)
![Taking a breath, senior Parker Huang cuts through the water while swimming the 100 breaststroke at the district meet on Jan. 23. Huang advanced to the regional meet in the 100 fly, 100 breast and 200 medley relay. “It’s been really exciting to see everyone make it [to regionals],” Huang said. “There’s been a lot more people who have been advancing than last year, so it’s really awesome to see that.”
Photo by Skyler King](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/skyler-swim-district.jpg)
Growing up, I watched all of the iconic Disney films: “Pinocchio,” “Snow White,” “Mulan,” etc., but among the many films I watched, “The Lion King” has always been a favorite Disney film for me. I was so invested in the characters, that the movie always brought me to tears as I watched one brother betray the other for power. What could have made these brothers enemies ‘til death?
On June 15, 1994, “The Lion King” was released, telling a tale of a young lion, Simba, who was banished from his home after a tragic event that involved the death of his father, Mufasa. The movie follows Simba as he travels away from home as well as his return to his friends Timon and Pumba. Simba had hoped to be accepted back into his pride so he traveled back home only to learn the shocking truth that his father’s death involves his mischievous Uncle Scar. 30 years later, the audience is now given the story of how two brothers’ love turns into hate in the new movie “Mufasa: The Lion King.”
This movie was really special, especially because three months prior to the start of filming the voice actor of Mufasa in the original Lion King, James Earl Jones, died and they dedicated “Mufasa: The Lion King” to him to show appreciation. In my opinion, the original Lion King was one of the greatest Disney animated films of all time. It was filled to the brim with friendship, betrayal, family and romance, so I was expecting nothing less with the new live action prequel, Mufasa. The original Lion King features Scar killing his brother Mufasa and blaming it on his nephew. We were not given much of the reason why Scar was so jealous of his brother and why he felt so entitled to be the king, but after watching Mufasa I began to realize why and how the brothers ended up in the positions they were in at the beginning of the original Lion King.
Over four years ago, a live action remake of “The Lion King” was released that retold the same story from 1994. In the new prequel, Mufasa, it was interesting to see how Mufasa (voiced by Aaron Pierre) and Scar (voiced by Kelvin Harrison Jr.) met and traveled together to Milele, a mythical land of freedom from death and famine for all animals. Going into this movie, I knew what happened to these two brothers which allowed me to closely follow what they were doing, how they would speak, their mannerisms and their morals. One brother wants to rule and look down on the other animals while the other loves and cares about the other animals and marvels at the beauty of nature.
What I liked about this movie was that it was a story of one of the greatest kings that the wise baboon Rafiki told to Kiara, Simba’s child. This movie included interludes that featured Kiara and her newly discovered “Uncles” Timon and Pumba. Kiara and her Uncle’s points of view were interesting to see because they reminded me of the ultimate outcome of the brothers’ story everytime it cut to them. I loved getting to see the brothers actually work together as family for once to fight against the main enemy, Kiros an albino lion. “Mufasa: The Lion King” not only has a great storyline yet again filled with romance between Mufasa and Sarabi, but it also has a great soundtrack. The soundtrack was so good that before even watching the movie, I was listening to all the songs.
Overall this movie was amazing. It had me feeling like I was a little kid again singing along to all of the songs. I loved understanding why and how the brothers turned out the way they did— why Scar became Scar and how Mufasa became King over his brother. I would recommend this movie for everyone because I can promise all your little childhood memories will come flooding back. I give this movie five out of five stars!
