![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)
![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)
![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)
![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)
![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)
The third book in the continuation of the original “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series, “The Heroes of Olympus,” has Rick Riordan fans scrambling to pick up “The Mark of Athena”, which was released on October 2, 2012.
In the previous two books of the series, the goddess Hera attempted to create peace between two feuding camps of demigods; the ever famous Greek camp, Camp Half-Blood, which was the main setting of Riordan’s original series, as well as the Roman camp, Camp Jupiter.
In the first two books of the series, we are introduced to new character Jason (son of Jupiter), Piper (daughter of Aphrodite) and Leo (son of Hephaestus) in the first book, “The Lost Hero”, and in the second book, “The Son of Neptune”, we are introduced to new heroes Frank (son of Mars) and Hazel (daughter of Pluto). Readers are also reacquainted with hero Percy Jackson in the second installment of “The Heroes of Olympus”.
We learn in the first book that Hera has taken a demigod from each of the camps, wiped their memories, and sent them to the opposite camp in order to try and unite the Greeks and Romans. So Jason was sent to Camp Half-Blood, and Percy was sent to Camp Jupiter. At the end of the first book, Jason, Piper, Leo, and Percy’s girlfriend Annabeth learn of Hera’s plan and build a ship, the Argo 2, and set sail for camp Jupiter to try and fulfill the Prophecy of the Seven, which was introduced at the end of the last book of the Percy Jackson series. The second book contains what is happening meanwhile at Camp Jupiter, including a quest for Percy, Frank and Hazel to try and free the god of death, Thanatos.
Now, in The Mark of Athena, the Argo 2 reaches Camp Jupiter and Annabeth and Percy are reunited. The rest of the main characters meet each other, and embark on a quest as the demigods in the Prophecy of Seven in order to take down Gaea and the Giants, who are her children.
Also in the beginning of the story, the demigods learn about another prophecy, one that is specifically for Annabeth, telling her to fallow the Mark of Athena.
Annabeth tells her companions that some children of Athena go on a quest to recover the lost statue Athena Parthenos, hidden in Rome, which legend has it will unite the Greeks and the Romans, and that she has been selected by her mother to go on this quest in order to avenge her.
The prophesized seven, Percy, Jason, Annabeth, Leo, Piper, Hazel, and Frank, must travel to Rome to battle the giants Otis and Ephialtes to rescue Hazel’s brother Nico.
This book was action packed, suspenseful, and I think Rick Riordan absolutely outdid himself with everything from the plot to the descriptions. The book was so sweet at the end I almost cried and will be waiting anxiously for the next one, “The House of Hades”, to come out on Oct. 8, 2013.
