![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)
Basketball dribbles into a new season
The rest of the girls’ basketball schedule can be found at: http://www.cphsladywolves.com/schedule.html. To see the boys’ schedule go to: http://www.cpbasketball.org/schedule.html.
November 6, 2015
The CP girls and boys basketball teams both went far last season, with the boys making it to state semifinals and the girls making it to the third round of play-offs. This year both teams hope to go farther, and the girls have changed their approach to better fit the many new team members and play to the strengths of the new team, according to senior small forward for the varsity team, Jennifer Stallings.
“We’ve had to change a lot this season because a lot of the seniors that graduated were really key to the system we were running,” Stallings said. “We’ve implemented a lot of new plays and changed up some old ones, so that the style we play is better suited to the players we have now. Personally, I have tried to become more of a leader on the court this year, and I’m trying to play more aggressive and score more to help out the team and provide energy when we need it.”
Senior Davis Brock, who plays for the boys varsity team, has changed up his personal training program and his strategy on the court.
“I’ve been training a lot more on my own, doing some personal workouts with some of my club coaches, as well as spending a little extra time after practice at school,” Brock said. “My approach to this season is very different. I’m more of a leader on the team, I’ve taken on more responsibility and tried to really work harder and set an example for the younger guys. As a team, we’ve had to adjust our strategy a bit because we lost so many seniors that were very influential to our team. We have some younger guys now as well as a few players totally new to Cedar Park and our program. So, we are finding the right way to put everyone in a position where they can use their strengths and make the team the best it can be. I’m very excited for our first game. I’m ready to play.”
Senior small forward, Connor Lowe, has also intensified his training regime and is excited for the first game.
“I’ve been putting in a lot of work in the gym both in and out of school, also I have gone to Houston to work with one of my coaches,” Lowe said. “I’m trying to be more of a leader on the team and give it everything I have this year because it’s my last year. I am excited for our first game and feel that we are prepared and are going to do well.”
Both teams have several scrimmages and games coming up and are preparing every day, and junior point guard Aubrey McCarty is confident that their training will pay off.
“We practice for hours and hours a day, so that we are very prepared for the season. We’re running new offenses to show our strengths as a team,” McCarty said. “We are all very excited for the first game. We have been preparing and we are all confident going into this game. I think it’s going to be very successful.”
The boys first game is a varsity scrimmage on Nov. 11 at Pflugerville High School at 5:30 p.m. The girls second scrimmage against Killeen and Westlake at home on Nov. 7. Their first game is against Pflugerville at 7:00 p.m. in the Pflugerville gym on Nov. 10.
To see the full schedule for this season, go to: http://www.cphsladywolves.com/schedule.html for girl’s varsity and JV games and http://www.cpbasketball.org/schedule.html for the boy’s.
![The fire department came to the school after students were evacuated when smoke started coming from the ceiling of a classroom. All students and staff are safe. “All of my friends left their stuff too, so we couldn’t contact our parents, and it was stressful,” senior Brynn Fowler said. “It was scary because I didn’t know [what was going on], and I couldn’t find anyone because it was a big crowd.” Photo by Anthony Garcia](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/firetruck-300x200.jpg)
