![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)
![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)
![Sitting with her friend senior Sohpia Struve at last year’s Austin City Limits Festival, senior Ava Zuniga poses for a picture under a pavilion. They are frequent attendees at ACL, an annual music festival at Zilker Park. “I would recommend seeing a bunch of people,” Zuniga said. “This past year, we camped out for Chappell [Roan] for a really long time. I think the whole point of ACL, [which] is a lot of fun, is that you can go see so many different people, even if you don’t know them. So by camping by one person, it really limits yourself from being able to go see a bunch of people.” Photo courtesy of Ava Zuniga](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/EE9E9484-FE6F-4AA0-B5F5-0C177AB32841-1200x857.jpeg)
![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 the support team sits and poses for a photo in the cafeteria with the counseling team they eagerly wait to start their day. "We [all] seem to be a team, I get up every day and there's days where I don't want to go to work today, but I'm thankful that I have a job and I'm blessed to have what I have," Christopherson said. Photo Courtesy of Julie Weltens.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AF9E8470-10D7-4C91-BF28-EC8F86BAB66C-1200x852.jpeg)
![Jumping off the ground, senior linebacker Bennett Patton snatches the ball out of the air for an interception at Thursday’s game against Chaparral. Patton had two interceptions in the 56-14 victory, tying the school record for interceptions in a game. “I was just playing the game,” Patton said. “[I’m] going to go into next week, forget about it and stay humble.” Photo by Harper Chapman](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/bennett-interception.jpg)
Lady Wolves Earn Championship at First Tournament
Varsity Girls Basketball Start Season with Wins Over 6A Teams
The Lady Wolves Varsity basketball team poses for a picture at the Austin Bowie Be-YOU-Tiful Tournament. The team plans to continue their success at the McDonald’s Invitational Tournament this weekend. “We’re ready to compete against ranked 6A teams and get better for the bigger picture which is winning state,” senior player Donya Yazdi said.
November 21, 2019
The Lady Timberwolves varsity basketball team attended the Austin Bowie Be-YOU-Tiful Classic tournament on Nov. 14-16. This was the team’s first official tournament of the upcoming season, and even though they had only a few players, the Wolves took away a championship and had two players named on the all-tournament team.
“We didn’t have a lot of preparation before the games, but we were able to adjust on-the-fly to the competition,” senior player Megan Pish said. “That ability will help during the upcoming tournaments when we have very little time to watch the film and study up on the opposing teams. Since we returned eight to varsity this year, we have a lot of experience, but the younger girls are still raw players who need experience. The tournaments will expose the girls to higher levels of varsity play before district games.”
During the Bowie tournament, only eight players from the Cedar Park girls varsity basketball team were healthy enough to play in the games. Seniors Megan Pish and Takara Holst, and freshman Shelby Hayes were unable to play due to injuries that prohibited them from stepping onto the court during the tournament. On Thursday, the first official day of the tournament, the Lady Wolves played the 2018 state champions in the 6A division, Judson High School, and won 46-36. In their next game of the day, the team played their rivals from last season, Laredo United.
“Laredo is a very short team, but extremely scrappy to play against,” senior player Nicole Leff said. Nevertheless, the Lady Wolves emerged victorious with a final score of 76-55, setting a precedent for their upcoming season to conquer past challenges on the court.
On Friday, the team faced their only loss of the tournament against Plano East High School and lost by seven points.
“We were down 14 points at the end of the third quarter, but the thing about our team is we don’t give up, and we got the lead down to five, but they kept making free throws and we ended up losing the game 48-55,” said Leff.
The Lady Wolves pushed forward despite their loss, and ended up winning the championship in the silver division of the tournament. Their first game of the day was against O’Connor High School.
“It was a close game until the fourth quarter and we pulled away after struggling from foul trouble from all five starters,” Leff said. After that win, the team faced McKinney High School in the championship game and won by just three points, the final score of the game was 57-54.
Following the games of the tournament, Leff and freshman position Giselle Maul made the all-tournament team, which means that they were voted as the best players out of all the teams at the tournament.
“It felt great knowing that I impressed the people well enough to where they considered me one of the best players in the tournament,” Maul said. “I think I did my role on the team, nothing too extra, I just played well throughout the tournament,”
On Nov. 21-23, the team attends their first invitational tournament, the McDonald’s Texas Invitational Tournament, and hopes to continue their win streak in Pasadena.
“It’s a blessing to be invited to the best tournament in the state, considering we are 5A,” senior Takara Holst said. “We’re looking forward to the competition and the experience as a whole.”
![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)
