![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)
Next year, head volleyball coach, Rebekah Almanza, will be giving up her position to a new head coach. Almanza has been the head coach at CPHS for ten years, and in that time she has been named All Central Texas Coach of the Year twice and has been given the honor of coaching in the All Star game this summer.
“What I will miss about coaching are the girls,” Almanza said. “It’s fun to get to know them and to watch them grow and succeed. Coach Womack and Coach Teuton are two of my closest friends and I will miss working with them every day. I have a ton of respect for them as coaches as well.”
Almanza said that she will also miss the competition of the volleyball season.
“Coaching is like trying to figure out a rubix cube,” Almanza said. “It’s so rewarding when all of the pieces finally fit.”
Almanza decided to not coach next year so she could spend more time at home with her three boys.
“It was a tough decision, but necessary for my family,” Almanza said. “Luckily, Mrs. Spelman has worked very hard to keep me on this campus teaching next year. I love Cedar Park and am so thankful to be able to stay here and be a part of this culture of success.”
The new head coach will be Mr. Chad Jones, who has been a high school volleyball coach in Texas for the past 10 years. He has coached at Tascosa High School and most recently at Coronado High School in Lubbock where he served as the Girl’s Athletic Coordinator as well as Head Volleyball Coach.
Jones was also the District 2-5A Coach of the Year in 2012, 2011, 2007 and 2003 and has a career record of 255-148. He served on the Texas Girls Coaches Association – 5A All State Committee in 2011 and 2012 and was the clinic speaker in 2013.
