![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)
UIL changes District Alignment
http://www.uiltexas.org/alignments
The new 5A district changes for football and basketball.
April 12, 2016
Cedar Park. Vandegrift. Vista Ridge. Leander ISD have had some of the toughest competition in the state, both in sports and academics. However, next year that will all change.
This year, CP, along with many of the other schools and their districts, are getting rezoned in order to be in compliance with the UIL laws coordinating with the population. CP will remain a 5A school, but the competition will change drastically.
No longer are we in competition with Vandegrift, who were arguably the biggest competition for CP this year. Vandegrift, along with Leander and Vista Ridge have moved up a seat, and will now be competing with the likes of Westlake and Lake Travis up in 6A.
While CP will be continue to be a 5A school district, the school will now be competing with Rouse, Bastrop, Georgetown and Hutto and other schools that are in District 19.
UIL sponsors and coaches alike have commented on the change as beneficial. District 19 is set to not only be easier, but letting sports and academics have a fair chance of going to State.
Despite this, no one has been able to comment on which school next year will be CP’s rival, as most have been decent competitors in the past. Though, one might make an educated guess to say that Georgetown will be our biggest competition.
CP will be going through a lot of changes next year along with the changes in UIL placement. With around 150 new students, not including the incoming freshman, more than three new teachers, and more classes being taken off of and added on to the list, the 2016-17 school year is set to be full of new experiences.
Click this link to check of the offical UIL District Alignment page: FB-BB-5A-2016
![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)
