![Taking a breath as he raises his arm up and out of the water, sophomore Kaden Padilla swims the 500 freestyle at the UIL state meet on Feb. 21-22. Padilla placed 10th overall and second in the consolation final in the event, dropping two seconds. “My family was there, so being able to drop time for them was really special,” Padilla said. “It was awesome [finding out I advanced to the consolation finals]. I wasn’t expecting it, and I was very surprised. My parents being there definitely made me a lot happier knowing they got to see me swim in finals.” Photo by Skyler King.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kaden-padilla.jpg)
![The architecture club meets biweekly on Tuesdays in the classroom of chemistry teacher Lauren Buntin and meetings are led by senior students Chance Meyer and Mateo Guerrero, who serve as co-presidents. To enhance engagement, the club has organized various building challenges during its meetings and has even had a professor from the University of Texas speak with the members. “The main goal of the club is to promote interest in architecture,” senior Noah Martinez said. “[We want] enough [interest] to get the school to create a class to teach us about architecture.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Your-paragraph-text.png)
![Smiling at the camera, sophomore Olivia Mahlmeister and seniors Samantha Jameson, Adhit Eswaramoorthi and Justin Khadavi celebrate completing first chamber in the Congress Meet. All four students advanced to the final chamber. “Out of the 20 kids in the final chamber, we had a seventh, ninth, 11th and 13th, and they took the top four to move on to state,” AP US History and Debate teacher Josh Marsh said. “[Even though] we didn't make state this year, all four of them moving on [and] placing is phenomenal.” Photo courtesy of Josh Marsh](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-Regional-Congress-Team.jpg)
![Meeting together on the field, the girls celebrate their victory after beating Liberty Hill in the first round of districts. They won 2-0, continuing their undefeated streak. “Playing soccer just takes all of your stress away, [and]
it's a good mental break from school and family,” Pack said. “I go and I forget literally everything that's going on because I'm only focused on soccer, so I continue to play because it's a good outlet.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/soccer.jpg)
![Standing over the Backwash Holding Tanks, a LISD apprentice clenches onto the fire hose to clean off built-up debris. She is currently an apprentice at the Water Treatment Plant, supervised under Zeke Gil. “Our intern has been good,” Gil said. “She's come in and picked up our labs and our day to day operations pretty well. So I think [the apprenticeship] is a good thing.” Photo Courtesy of Eddie Aguilar](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/water-1-1200x800.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)
![Officer Stephanie Cash is in her second year as an SRO at CPHS. “Seeing [students] grow over the years has been kind of cool,” Officer Cash said. “Freshmen that [are] all over the place and then in the next couple of years get a little more squared away and go to class and do work and start thinking about the future. Being a part of a student's growth is the best way to measure my success as an SRO.” Photo Courtesy of Cedar Park Police Department's PIO, Alicia Gallagher.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CPHS-SRO-900x1200.jpg)
![Three defenders try to stop senior point guard Hope Edwards before the ball leaves her hands. The girls basketball team faced Liberty Hill on Feb 21, losing 58-40. “[My season was] definitely bittersweet,” Edwards said. It's definitely sad [because] I'm gonna miss all my teammates, my coaches and just the whole CP environment.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/julia-128-1200x800.jpg)
Over the past couple of months, several locals in the Twin Creeks area on social media are claiming that coyote sightings have only increased in recent days. This has caused many members in the community to fear for the safety of their pets and personal wellbeing.
On the Neighborhood Watch app, “Nextdoor,” many living in Cedar Park have been sharing concerns about the coyotes. Community members like Sonya Jacobs have stated their fears and reported sightings of these coyotes in the neighborhood.
“Driving home from dinner last night, I saw one standing on the sidewalk on Anderson Mill, approaching the light at Cypress Creek, just past Quiet Moon,” Jacobs said. “It wasn’t even 7p.m.. Cars all over the place. It was just chilling, standing there.”
Other citizens of Cedar Park have commented under these concerns, sharing similar fears.
“We saw this one last night,” Norman Root said. “Same thing, standing there, frozen, watching cars go by for almost five minutes. Kind of scary.”
Encounters have been more frequent with pet owners walking their dogs and have had to end the trip early, in the name of safety. Junior Marisa Kubasiak shares her experience as a dog owner and how it has impacted her.
“I have a very small dog,” Kubasiak said. “She’s a Chihuahua and all the birds swarm her, so a coyote can definitely eat her. I was on a walk with my dog, she was on a leash and she was just having the time of her life. Then we saw a coyote in the distance and it was staring her down. We had to turn the other direction and leave.”
According to FOX7, Cedar Park’s Animal Control Supervisor, Daryann Medvec said that the removal or entrapment of the coyotes present can cause a population boom, and that if they were to remove one, the next year would see up to triple the population. Medvec encourages others to take a more active approach when dealing with the coyotes.
“Coyotes can be stubborn and it can occasionally take more than one time to haze them out, but we recommend yelling,” Medvec said.“You can also spray them with a hose from a distance. Some agencies and other external organizations recommend water guns, the really big ones, that can be effective and have longer range. Coyotes don’t really have the ability to understand that you’re shooting them with water and rather feel that you have a really, really long arm.”
According to Animal Control, these coyotes also appear to have a skin disease known as “mange,” causing irregular behavior and higher apparitions, however, there have been no reports of them showing aggression.
We reached out to animal control for a further comment, but we did not receive a response. If you encounter a coyote while driving around town, Animal Control officers request you report it. You can contact them by calling 512-260-4622.
