![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.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)
![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)
Wolves Look Ahead to 2017 at Annual Spring Football Game
Sameer Alzer and Brant McDonald take the field before last year’s playoff came against Bryan at UMHB
June 2, 2017
Just before summer falls upon Cedar Park, the football team gets a head start for the 2017 season. Preparations for the new year culminate in the spring game, a multi-game showcase of all the work the JV and varsity teams have put in during the off season. As far as next season is concerned, the Wolves feel they are headed in the right direction.
“Constant improvement was what we talked about the most,” head coach Carl Abseck said. “We want to grow a little better every day, with hard work and commitment to excellence. Then we carry it over to the summer and fall. We are looking forward to a great summer of work and improvement in order to come back stronger for 2017 and make a run.”
Offensively, the Wolves will be poised to remain as one of the more potent groups in the state. They bring back the majority of their play-makers, including senior quarterback Mak Sexton, but will have to replace graduating running back Tyler Lavine. It seems the Wolves will look to recuperate lost production out wide, as Drew McDaniel and Payden Sawicki all return for their senior seasons, while Carson Neel will come back as a junior.
“I think our offense is going to be strong and difficult to stop,” Neel said. “Spring was a good start for us and we have a lot of talent in the passing game.”
On defense, the Wolves don’t return as much talent as they will on offense, but there is still enough veteran leadership to lead the black rain. Gunnar Chriswisser and Keegan Nichols will both be asked to take on bigger roles on the team as they come back for their senior years. That experience, combined with fresh ability coming in through Logan Mayou or Levi Russo Bell, will be key to the success of the state-famous Cedar Park defense.
“Since I didn’t get to actually play in the spring because of surgery on my shoulder, it allowed me to really step back and help coach some of the younger guys on defense and take some of the load off the coaches,” Chriswisser said. “Compared to last spring, we’ve come a long way, and I think that since we’ve grown so much as a team, we can carry that momentum into the fall and have a pretty good football team.”
The 2017 schedule lays out similarly to 2016. Cedar Park will get a tough test to open the season in a scrimmage against Westlake. The regular season will open at Gupton against Waco Midway on Friday, Sept. 1. After a trip down 620 to face Vandegrift, district play will open with the homecoming game against Bastrop. The Wolves will also play Rouse, Georgetown and Hutto at Gupton in 2017.
![Holding a microphone, baseball booster club president Chris Cuevas announces the beginning of the annual cornhole tournament. The event has been held for the past two years and is designed to raise money for the baseball program in a fun way. “We’re a baseball team, so people love to compete,” Cuevas said. “So we figured we better do something that gets [their] attention. They want to compete. It’s not a hard sport to do, and we have all different [skill] levels [of participants].” Photo by Henry Mueller](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Henry-715-1200x900.jpg)
