![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)
![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)
![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)
![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)
![Smiling at the camera, the Varsity Tennis team celebrates winning districts. They played against Liberty Hill on Tuesday night and won with a final score of 10- 5. “We improved a lot even from the last game,” senior Blake Hillis said. “We lost against them the last time we played [Liberty Hill], but it was really close. It was just really important for us to win this match since it was the district finals. [When we won I felt] overwhelmingly happy, especially being there with my teammates and it being my senior year. It was just really great. It [felt] like a community.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tennis-Districts-e1728060882260.png)
T-Wolves Rain on Raiders’ Hoco Parade
Senior CB Caden Combs celebrates with the defense after picking off a pass on Sept. 27 against Rouse at Bible Stadium. The defense got numerous turnovers against Rouse, thus leading to short fields and points for the offense. “It always feels great when your team is clicking,” Combs said. “There’s no better feeling.
September 30, 2019
Another Friday night game, another Cedar Park stomping. This time, it comes on the road against Rouse at their homecoming game, 55-9.
The defense put on yet another show, as they busted out their “Turnover Belt” numerous times. The Rouse offense was shut out on the game; the nine Rouse points came on a kickoff returned for a TD and a safety. The most notable defensive play came in the first quarter, as senior CB Caden Combs made a diving INT on a ball that was deflected in the secondary.
“We constantly train on getting the ball [back to the offense],” Combs said. “I was at the right place at the right time. I was very proud of [our] defense as a whole.”
The Timberwolves have now allowed under 20 points in the four out of five games they’ve played, which is an accomplishment in and of itself, given that most offenses are pass-heavy nowadays and there is typically an abundance of points.
“It always feels great when your team is clicking,” Combs said. “There’s no better feeling.”
There is also no shortage of big-time plays for the Cedar Park offense. The team has seemingly corrected everything that went wrong week one, and it shows on the field.
“We’ve been executing and going hard in practice, not wanting to have that week one feeling again,” junior QB Ryder Hernandez said. “[We’re] using that as fuel to get us going in district.”
One of the best plays of the night came in the red zone; Rouse brought a blitz and got to Hernandez, but as he was going down, he flipped the ball to junior WR Gunnar Abseck who was running a drag route. Hernandez said he felt the pressure coming and just wanted to shovel it away.
“[Abseck] made a great play coming and getting the ball,” Hernandez said.
Abseck did the rest on the play and trotted into the end zone to make it 13-0 T-Wolves.
“Ryder dumped it off too me and great blocks on the edge allowed me to walk into the end zone,” Abseck said. “I thought we did well – we started slow but finished fast. Our mission next week is to start fast and finish fast.”
This Friday, Cedar Park will face another team with zero wins, Pflugerville Connally, at Gupton, as the team looks to keep the momentum rolling.
