![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)
Black Rain Looks to Storm on Opponents in 2019
Junior Tammer Alzer returns a punt at Katy Cinco Ranch. Cedar Park won the game, 14-13, on Friday Sept. 21.
May 2, 2019
Spring ball is officially underway for the football team, which means we can say “Football is Back.” For the Timberwolves, that means that preparations are underway for the season opener Aug. 30 at. Vandegrift.
Every battle on the field starts up front at the line of scrimmage. It’s where all the work in the weight-room pays off. Junior DL Benjamin Bell, who has already received a handful of scholarships and offers from Division 1 schools, is the anchor of the Black Rain defense and said his personal goal for the 2019 season is to break the Cedar Park sack record, which is five sacks in one game held by his brother, Levi Russo-Bell.
“I’m just going to try to keep getting better everyday,” Bell said. “[I’m] working hard in practice every day and hitting the weight room. Hopefully I’ll see more scholarships come my way.”
Bell has already received four offers from West Point, Dartmouth, Florida International University and a full-ride from Louisiana Tech.
Sophomore QB Ryder Hernandez said the team has high expectations, starting by winning district and then making a run at state.
“We just need to keep grinding,” Hernandez said. “We have the players to do it, it’s just a matter of us coming together and working.”
Sophomore Javion Mays transitioned from WR to safety over the offseason. He said junior Tammer Alzer, who currently starts at safety, has taken Mays under his wing so that Mays can learn from him.
“The defense revolves around [Alzer],” Mays said. “I’m excited about our defense because we’ve been working really hard and I can’t wait to see the process [unfold] and see how much we’ve grown.”
Alzer said the whole team can’t wait for next year and that they have a lot of players coming back with varsity experience.
“Personally, I want my senior season to be a show,” Alzer said. “I want to be more of a playmaker and be first team all state DB. As a team, we already know we want to be state champs, but we’ve made goals to reach our goal. Go 4-0 in non-district games, go 6-0 in district and show out in the playoffs. Spring ball will expose what we, as a team, need to work on and we can’t wait to see what happens.”
Alzer also said the team can’t wait to get back in the pads during Spring Ball.
Though the season doesn’t kickoff until August, players must begin preparations now. They must learn the playbook, build team chemistry and hit the weight-room to get back into shape for the new season. The onfield product is what matters in the end, but to be great, you must put in the work.
Spring practices run until the end of the school year, Monday-Thursday 6:20 A.M – 8:20 A.M. The culmination of Spring Ball will take place on May 24 at the CP Football Field: The 2019 Spring Football Game.
“[The Spring Game] gives us an early start to see what we are weak in and strong in,” Alzer said. “It also helps our team to develop more chemistry on the field.”
You can find the entire Cedar Park 2019 Football Schedule here.
![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)
