![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)
The Timberwolf varsity football team kicked off the 2013 season with a 43-31 win against 5A team Westlake on August 30 at Gupton Stadium.
The game bumped Cedar Park from its No. 2 position to No. 1 in the Associated Press Class 4A state poll.
“It was the right way to start the season,” senior Lane Waller said. “We came out and did what we needed to do, and we did it well.”
Although junior Thomas Hutchings was already injured from the first scrimmage and his brother, junior Chris Hutchings faced a knee injury this game, the offense found ways to adapt without the key players. Senior quarterback Nate Grimm passed for 215 yards and rushed for 128 more.
Senior Nick Gutierrez’s fumble recovery early in the game set up Grimm’s first out of three scoring runs. Grimm completed two touchdown passes, including a 20-yard pass to senior Bill Estevanott, and a 47-yard touchdown pass to senior Sam Brock that left the T-wolves with a lead 23-17 by halftime.
“We all performed well, both as a team and as individuals,” senior captain Peter Maneikis said.
The final touchdown ran the clock down to six seconds, a sort of “revenge” for the Westlake JV’s extra touchdown in the last quarter from the night before. The play shows just how connected the entire program remains.
“We were determined, and we succeeded by playing as a team,” senior Logan Imbornone said.
Last season set high expectations for Cedar Park. It began with a 21-7 loss against Westlake and ended with a state championship title and Lone Star Cup win. With the majority of seniors returning, players expect that their experience as a team will serve them well.
“You bet we’re prepared for the season,” Maneikis said.
The T-wolves play their next game against Abilene Cooper on September 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Shotwell Stadium in Abilene.
