![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
Meet and Greet: English, Electives, and Front Office
September 21, 2015
This year CPHS received 3 new additions to staff: Donna Holman, English, Ian Edgeley, Elective, and Babette Riedmueller, receptionist. Here are some interesting facts to get to know the new staff.
Donna Holman
New to Cedar Park but not to teaching, Holman is entering her 24th year of teaching and coaching. Holman is teaching English 4 and coaching Basketball and Track this year for Cedar Park.
Q: Why do you like what you teach?
A: I love teaching and coaching because I want to show kids that living the good life and staying on the right path leads to a fruitful life.
Q: What extracurricular activities were you involved in during High School?
A: Basketball, track, and softball.
Q: If you had the ability to do anything what would you do?
A: I’d want the ability to stop drug use and child abuse.
Q: What is your must-have item when teaching?
A: Colorful dry erase markers.
Ian Edgeley (pronounced Edge-lee.)
Mr. Edgeley is the new Pre-AP Computer Science I, Video Game Design and Robotics teacher and is only here on A days while spending his B days at Vista Ridge.
Q: What college did you go to?
A: Southampton University in the UK and Texas State University here in the US.
Q: What’s your favorite kind of student?
A: So many students come to my classes saying things like “I’m really not good with computers, I don’t know why I took this.” I love those students in particular because by the end of the year, they’re making programs and websites and games like it’s no big thing, and they don’t even remember how little confidence they had just a few months earlier.
Q: If you could have any superpower what would it be?
A: Time travel would be great. Go back and punch Hitler, etc.
Q: What would be your spirit animal?
A: A house cat. Sleeping for 23 hours a day? Count me in.
Babette Riedmueller (it’s German but has been Americanized so we pronounce it “reed-miller”)
Mrs. Riedmueller is our new front office receptionist with a business degree from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN.
Q:What is your standard Starbucks order?
A:Mocha Frappuchino (only on special occasions).
Q:What is your favorite movie of all time?
A: Any romantic comedy.
Q:Android or IPhone?
A: IPhone.
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
