![Lining the center of the room, several printing presses make copies of Community Impact’s latest newspaper. Junior Skyler King shadowed at Community Impact for her Career Investigation Day where she got a tour of the printing press and spoke with several employees including one of the head editors and a designer. “I really think [my favorite part] was talking to the designer,” King said. “Before I thought I really wanted to focus on just pure writing with journalism, but I thought what she did was maybe even cooler and it really made me rethink what I want to do, like if I want to do social media design, or graphic design or something like that.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CI-edit.jpg)
![The architecture club meets biweekly on Tuesdays in the classroom of chemistry teacher Lauren Buntin and meetings are led by senior students Chance Meyer and Mateo Guerrero, who serve as co-presidents. To enhance engagement, the club has organized various building challenges during its meetings and has even had a professor from the University of Texas speak with the members. “The main goal of the club is to promote interest in architecture,” senior Noah Martinez said. “[We want] enough [interest] to get the school to create a class to teach us about architecture.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Your-paragraph-text.png)
![Meeting together on the field, the girls celebrate their victory after beating Liberty Hill in the first round of districts. They won 2-0, continuing their undefeated streak. “Playing soccer just takes all of your stress away, [and]
it's a good mental break from school and family,” Pack said. “I go and I forget literally everything that's going on because I'm only focused on soccer, so I continue to play because it's a good outlet.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/soccer.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)
![Officer Stephanie Cash is in her second year as an SRO at CPHS. “Seeing [students] grow over the years has been kind of cool,” Officer Cash said. “Freshmen that [are] all over the place and then in the next couple of years get a little more squared away and go to class and do work and start thinking about the future. Being a part of a student's growth is the best way to measure my success as an SRO.” Photo Courtesy of Cedar Park Police Department's PIO, Alicia Gallagher.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CPHS-SRO-900x1200.jpg)
![Taking a breath as he raises his arm up and out of the water, sophomore Kaden Padilla swims the 500 freestyle at the UIL state meet on Feb. 21-22. Padilla placed 10th overall and second in the consolation final in the event, dropping two seconds. “My family was there, so being able to drop time for them was really special,” Padilla said. “It was awesome [finding out I advanced to the consolation finals]. I wasn’t expecting it, and I was very surprised. My parents being there definitely made me a lot happier knowing they got to see me swim in finals.” Photo by Skyler King.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kaden-padilla.jpg)
![Three defenders try to stop senior point guard Hope Edwards before the ball leaves her hands. The girls basketball team faced Liberty Hill on Feb 21, losing 58-40. “[My season was] definitely bittersweet,” Edwards said. It's definitely sad [because] I'm gonna miss all my teammates, my coaches and just the whole CP environment.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/julia-128-1200x800.jpg)
Once the wrestlers step on the mat, it’s just the two competitors face to face; no one else from the outside matters and their focus is on winning the match; the pressure builds up and is about to burst, but the state team has trained their athletes and stayed determined all year long not to give up.
On Feb. 14 and 15, the wrestling team competed in the state championships at the Berry Center in Cypress, Texas. They placed second overall, while sophomore Nathan Reilly won the state championship for the second year in a row in the 113 lb weight class.
“Wrestling at state was awesome,” Reilly said. “It was great to see that a lot of our teammates made it to state, and I wasn’t alone on the floor.”
The wrestling team was preparing for state right after regionals, making sure their teammates were cutting weight every day of the week.
“The preparation for state was quite hard,” Reilly said. “You’re always cutting weight so you’re not exactly the happiest, and it makes it a lot harder to actually do your work in class, but when it came to the wrestling part, it was awesome.”
Reilly has been wrestling from a very young age, which, according to him, has helped him perfect his technique and work on his skills.
“I can’t remember how long I’ve been at it now, since third grade,” Reilly said. “I would definitely say that having more time on the mat than most people puts me ahead marginally.”
Reilly’s career at the time of writing this stands at 89-3, only having lost one match this year.
“You just gotta stay mentally tough or you’ll end up losing,” Reilly said. “I really wish I won that match, he got the takedown before I did and it was by two points that he won, but I’ll get him next time.”
Senior Max Brant placed third place in the 126-weight class, sophomore Jett Mentel placed 4th place in the 175-weight class and Senior Nathaniel Rechtfertig placed 5th place in the 144-weight class.
“I had a lot of fun,” Rechtfertig said. “I enjoyed the moments with my teammates, and we did pretty well, so that was awesome.”
Rechtfertig said he made the most of his last year wrestling in high school, warming up with friends and spending time with them.
“It was bittersweet,” Rechtfertig said. “I’m happy that I placed, but I’m sad that it’s over because I’ve been wrestling almost my entire life.”
Rechtfertig has been practicing since sixth grade with his little brother, training during the season and working on his skills.
“During the off season I wish I pushed myself a bit harder,” Rechtfertig said. “But I live with no regrets.”
Freshman Chloe Enberg was one of the new members of the wrestling team to make it to state. According to Enberg , she was able to accomplish it by performing well in regionals and staying focused, placing third.
“I was in the very big arena and it was a lot of fun, but it was just a bit overwhelming,” Enberg said. “It was definitely an experience being there for the first time and it was great.”
In her first match at state, she went against the girl ranked second in the entire state in her weight class.
“Her technique was nearly perfect and she had nothing I could really catch on to or slide in fast enough,” Enberg said. “It was going to be a big lead up, and yes I did lose that match, but I lasted a couple minutes and it wasn’t too bad.”
Enberg started wrestling in August, which she said has been a struggle.
“I had a lot of inexperience,” Enberg said. “I only had a few moves and I would be wrestling seniors who had been wrestling since they were children, but in the end, it’s the work that makes the difference.”
During her district competition, she was very close to winning but she wasn’t able to pin her opponent down in time, because in wrestling terms she was in a “half nelson,” which means she was in a situation that was very hard to get out of.
“District finals will forever be the match that I will remember because of some things I did,” Enberg said. “There were definitely some mistakes I made during that match that took away my opportunity to be district champ.”
But even if those setbacks were thrown at her, she made changes to improve her ability.
“I was personalizing each match for the wrestler in particular,” Enberg said. “And I would study the style of the people I was about to wrestle, and I would base my techniques off of that.”
According to Enberg , she enjoys the team and her first year being part of the team has been great.
“In the team, everyone is like a family there,” Enberg said. “It’s amazing and people really do stand up for each other and genuinely care about each other with matches no matter if you barely know them.”
