![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)
The varsity football team earned the title of District 8-5A champions in a 60-52 win over Georgetown Friday night, handing the Eagles their first district loss of the season and breaking their seven game win streak.
“It’s awesome to bring the trophy back to Cedar Park,” head football coach Michael Quintero said. “It’s been due for a while. We played hard for four quarters, and we started fast and finished fast.”
To start the first quarter, Georgetown scored a touchdown and successfully went for two. The Timberwolves struck back with a rushing touchdown from junior quarterback David Cooper, who also successfully ran in a two-point conversion.
“It was super fun,” Cooper said. “I love to run the ball. Hopefully, I can just keep doing that.”
The second quarter began with the game tied 8-8, before Georgetown scored a rushing touchdown and successfully kicked the extra point, bringing the score to 15-8, Eagles.
Cooper threw a touchdown to senior wide receiver Jamal Porter with eight minutes left in the half. The Timberwolves missed the extra point, but the touchdown narrowed Georgetown’s lead to 15-14.
“It was good,” Cooper said. “I thought our team played great and had a lot of tenacity.”
The Eagles scored again before the two minute warning, but with the clock running out, Cooper threw a long pass to senior running back Trae Hill, who ran it in for a touchdown. The Timberwolves successfully converted the two-point try and tied the game up at 22-22 going into halftime.
“It felt great [to tie the game up],” Hill said. “I feel like it gave us the boost we needed, and I’m blessed to be in the position to do that for my team.”
Hill scored to open the second half, and Cooper ran in the two-point conversion to take a 30-22 lead.
“It felt great to score,” Hill said. “I’ve got to give it all to my offensive coordinator and Jesus because without them, it wouldn’t happen.”
With eight minutes left in the third quarter, junior defensive back Weston Kendrick caught an interception, which led to another Cooper rushing touchdown.
“It felt pretty good,” Kendrick said. “It was my first [interception] of the year.”
Georgetown quickly responded with a long touchdown pass, bringing the score to 38-30 to end the third quarter.
Hill ran in a touchdown to start the fourth quarter, and Cooper converted the two-point try to widen the Timberwolves’ lead to 46-30. Georgetown scored three more times, and Hill rushed for two more touchdowns by the end of the game, giving the Timberwolves a 60-52 victory.
“It feels great to be district champions,” Hill said. “We’ve worked on this since summer, and it’s kind of crazy that it’s here. Georgetown’s a great team, but when great preparation meets great opportunity, success is inevitable.”
The Timberwolves’ offensive production was anchored by their run game, with Cooper rushing for 146 yards and two touchdowns on only 13 carries and Hill rushing for 246 yards and four touchdowns, for the highest rushing total of his career.
“[I felt like our run game was] awesome,” Quintero said. “The offensive line is clicking right now. They’re playing physical, then it makes our running backs look good. It makes their job easy.”
The Timberwolves have averaged 43.5 points and 5.5 touchdowns per game this season. They scored 60 points and eight touchdowns against the Eagles for their fourth win in a row, replacing the victory against Chaparral as their highest-scoring game
Junior receiver Jonah Johnson and junior linebacker Deshaun Stewart both pulled double duty for the Timberwolves, playing their normal positions along with kicker because both varsity kickers were out with injuries and illnesses.
“They filled in and did an unbelievable job,” Quintero said. “It’s just somebody stepping up and making plays.”
Next up, the Timberwolves, who went 7-3 in the regular season and 6-1 in district play, start their playoff journey with a showdown with the 4-6 Tyler Lions Friday at home. Tickets are currently on sale.
“I’m excited,” Cooper said. “Our team’s gonna go far because we’ve got a brotherhood here, and we’re all going to fight for one another. We’re not over and the season’s not over, so we’re just going to keep on grinding and prepare for playoffs.”
