![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)
Volleyball Looking Strong at Halfway Point
The Lady T-Wolves celebrate after winning the first set 25-19 against Vandy on Aug. 30. They are 7-1 in district play as of Oct. 3.
October 4, 2016
At the halfway point of the season, the Cedar Park volleyball team looks poised to make another appearance in the playoffs. With a 28-9 record , the Lady Wolves are playing confidently, hoping to win a district title in the new District 19-5A.
After a difficult non-district schedule filled with quality opponents from all over the state, such as Denton Ryan and Byron Nelson. The team has began district play perfectly, opening with a perfect 6-0 record.
“My goal was to be supportive,” senior Alana Geymer said of her early season breakout performances including a huge win over Hutto where she recorded fourteen kills and eight blocks in four sets, according to MaxPreps. “I work hard to set a good example for my team, especially the younger middles.”
Senior Lindsey Ledyard, one of the veterans on the team, was highly impressed with middles Geymer and Luci Albertson, who she said are “great players that help a lot on the front row and have a big impact on this team.”
Cedar Park opened in early August with wins over high-caliber programs like Vista Ridge and Round Rock. After winning their first six matches, the team finally suffered defeat for the first time at the hands of Vista Ridge, in the second match between the two. This loss marked the beginning of the tournament schedule for the Wolves, which saw them go an impressive 20-7 against stout non-district competition.
“[The tournaments] really helped us get comfortable with each other, making us play better together,” Ledyard said of the non-district schedule. “It gave us some extra practice to help us get ready for district and a long run in the postseason.”
After the tournaments, the Lady Wolves opened district play with a straight-set victory over Elgin. Since then, the team has only lost one game for a 7-1 district record, only losing six sets along the way. They now sit second in the district behind Rouse, the only 19-5A team to defeat the Timberwolves so far.
“We are just trying to win the next match,” head coach Kori Cooper said of the team’s goals. “We don’t know anything about a ‘run.’ Our motto is Win1More.”
The Timberwolves will keep trying to Win1More all the way to the playoffs. With games coming up tonight at Elgin and Friday night at Cedar Creek, the team will look to keep their hot streak going one game at a time for the remaining seven matches of the season.
![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)
![Finishing her night out after attending a local concert, senior Grace Sauers smiles at the camera. She recently started a business, PrettySick, that takes photos as well as sells merch at local concert venues. Next year, she will attend Columbia Chicago College majoring in Graphic Design. “There's such a good communal scene because there [are] great venues in Austin,” Sauers said. “I'm gonna miss it in Austin, but I do know Chicago is good, it's not like I'm going to the middle of nowhere. I just have to find my footing again.” Photo Courtesy of Grace Sauers.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Grace-300x225.png)
