![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)
Johnson and Ramsey Prepare for State as Tennis Season Closes
May 2, 2017
Flying a bit under the radar this year, the tennis team is closing out the year strong, and will even send players to the State tournament. This year has been largely successful for the Timberwolves, and the feel around the program is that there is more good to come very soon.
“It’s been a very good season, one of our most successful in the last few years,” head coach Randy Ballenger said. “We made playoffs again last fall, and then this spring season has been one of the best. We’re district champs and Layne and Kylee are going to state. The JV carried on with a first place and the freshmen finished third, so, overall, it was a very strong season.”
As a team, Cedar Park was very successful on the tennis court and won several medals at the district tournament. At the freshman level, Hamilton Watson won the boys singles district championship. The junior varsity team was also successful, winning two bronze medals. Sophomore Evan Richter and junior Macall Wells combined to win third in mixed doubles, and juniors Dylan Brent and Gordon Burt took third in boys’ doubles. At the varsity tournament, the Wolves earned even more honors. Seniors Dylan Maciborski and Jacob Larrea placed fourth in boys’ doubles, while junior Shiva Kumar and senior Alex Sweeney won bronze in the same competition. Additionally, in the girls’ singles tournament, senior Connie Kelly placed third.
“This year was the best that I played in the three years I have been on the team,” Kumar said. “Even though [Alex and I] ended as the alternate team to regionals, I am very proud of how we played, and I am well set to do even better next year.”
While the team has already racked up plenty of awards, the season isn’t over quite yet. Cedar Park will send its top mixed doubles team, composed of senior Layne Johnson and sophomore Kylee Ramsey, to the state tennis tournament in May. This is a big development for the team, and the duo is looking forward to the challenge.
“At the beginning of the season, we weren’t really sure how good we were,” Johnson said. “We did good in tournaments but we still didn’t know for regionals either. We knew we would get out of district but we didn’t know the skill level of the players at regionals, but once we got there, we knew state was a serious possibility for us. We just worked hard to make sure we qualified.”
Johnson and Ramsey will compete in the State mixed doubles tournament at the Mitchell Tennis Center and Smith Tennis Center on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. The tournament runs two days, from Thursday, May 18, to Friday, May 19.
![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)
