![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)
![Holding up T-wolves, the tour group poses for a picture in the Chinese classroom. Sophomore Lydia Ou, junior Phu Trung and senior Yushan Pan gave a tour to Taiwanese diplomat Andrea Yang on Nov. 8. “I was so excited when I heard I would get to give the tour because it’s a big deal,” Ou said. “She’s from the US embassy for Taiwan, so she’s really important. I’m so privileged [to get this opportunity] and I’m so excited.” Photo by Skyler King](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Main-Taiwan.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, Author Ehigbor Okosun, members of Page Turners, and other students reflect on the author's visit. “I thought the visit was great,” Senior Amia De Leon said. “It was interesting talking to her and [getting to know] her process and her thoughts and books in general. But I think the reason it went well [was that] people got to ask questions. I'm glad that she said so much in response to the questions and it wasn't just one and done. [The author’s responses] felt very articulate.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sebastian-5-1200x800.jpg)
![Students drew chalk art in honor of Veterans day. This is just one of many things the school does to show appreciation to veterans, and the art will remain in the courtyard as a reminder of all of the veterans who served their country. “On veteran’s day, I think it’s a great thing we do at school to honor people that served [who are] at our school or family members,” English teacher and cheer coach Nadira King said. “It makes me feel proud, and it makes me remember the [veterans].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Capture.png)
![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)
![Holding a wooden pizza toy, senior Taylor Peterson plays with small children in Bucaramanga, Colombia. During the summer, Peterson traveled to Colombia to help build an elementary school that only had two classrooms but five or six grades with one teacher. “We add[ed] two more classrooms,” Peterson said. “It’s kind of hard when you have two or three grades in one classroom and you only have one teacher. It’s very hard to actually get some beneficial learning. [The extra classrooms will give the students] a better quality of education because they’ll actually have a place specific for their learning.” Photo by Taylor Peterson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taylor-P.png)
![Sucking in a breath of air, freshman Lily Pope competes in the 200 yard individual medley. On Oct. 25, the swim team competed in the AISD Swim Invitational. Overall, the girls team took second place and the boys team came in eleventh. “My favorite stroke is butterfly because I do the best in that stroke,” Pope said. “I feel like [butterfly] can test how [your ability] to convince yourself to keep going. The hardest part of swimming is convincing yourself to stay strong and keep pushing during a hard race [when] everything is tired.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/POPE-1200x804.jpg)
![Swinging with his arm extended, senior Nolan Park hits the ball smoothly over the net and to the opponent’s side. Park is one of four varsity tennis captains and helped the team win district championships. “Winning district champs was a pretty awesome feeling,” Park said. “We had lost to Liberty Hill a couple of weeks before, but when we played them [again], we came out and really took care of business. We took them out and it was just a really awesome night.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kassidy-419.jpg)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.jpg)
![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
In the rhythmic beat of pounding footsteps, a smile spreads across her face as the finish line of the Cedar Park Invitational Race held on Sept. 9 gets closer.
Senior cross country and track athlete, Isabel Conde De Frankenberg has left her final footprint on the school. From the starting gun to the finish line, Conde De Frankenberg’s journey has consisted of winning Gatorade Player of the Year for 2022-23, winning state her freshman year and improving her times from 17:30 to 17:07.
“There have been a lot of changes for Cedar Park running in the past four years,” Conde De Frankenberg said. “One of the things it’s taught me has been to be more independent with my running and be able to do things on my own without a team or without a coach.”
Going into high school, Conde De Frankenberg was placed into practice with the boys because there were no girls who matched her times. After her freshman and sophomore year, she didn’t have a team to run with and was on her own.
“My freshman and sophomore year I had a really stable guys team,” Conde De Frankenberg said. “Even if we were running at six in the morning, they had the best positive attitude. Those were definitely really impactful teammates, I was really sad to see them move on because the last two years I’ve kind of been on my own but the team always teaches you things.”
In addition to winning state her freshman year, she placed second her sophomore year, third her junior year and second her senior year. She placed fourth at regionals held in Corpus Christi which qualified her to run in her final state cross country race.
“Freshman year was probably the most nervous for state I ever was,” Conde De Frankenberg said. “The day before I was throwing up just because I was so nervous and had a lot of pressure from the team but I was young then. This year, I got on the line and told myself that I just wanted to have fun and that’s exactly what I did, I went out there and had fun and it was the best I could do.”
Conde De Frankenberg had offers from multiple different colleges, including full rides from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oregon to continue her running career with them. She committed to the University of Oregon on Nov. 17 and will be attending school and running there in the fall.
“I’m not nervous for college at all,” Conde De Frankenberg said. “I have been waiting for this moment to move on and I’m ready to get past high school. I’m excited to see what I can do. I know I’m going to be young, but hopefully in the next four years I can improve some time and maybe win some national meets.”
Beyond her goals in college, Conde De Frankenberg hopes to run for Argentina’s national team, which she ran for the summer before her senior year. She hopes to compete in the 2024 Olympics with Argentina.
“Most of the kids in Argentina don’t go to school anymore when they compete for Argentina,” Conde de Frankenberg said. “That’s all they do, that’s their life and they get paid and brand deals. It’s one of those things where it gets difficult living in a different country from everyone else. If I was there, my whole life would be running and it could be my only focus but for me, traveling, school and money play a part in that career.”
After four years of running with Cedar Park, three different coaches and fluctuating numbers of teammates, Conde De Frankenberg will move on to racing in another place, but won’t forget her time as a Timberwolf.
“As I move on, I am able to appreciate and love the running I did at Cedar Park,” Conde De Frankenberg said. “The most valuable lesson I learned was being able to trust others and that goes with the team, people you run with and coaches. Sometimes not everyone is trustworthy, but you have to develop good relationships with good teammates and build on that and use it to get better.”
