![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)
Humans of CP: Brody Bush
At one if their first concerts, freshmen Brody Bush (far left), Dylan Gilpin and Gustavo McClure perform at Cedar Park Middle School on June 1, 2017.
October 3, 2017
Since the beginning of last summer, freshman Brody Bush has been a part of a rock alternative band called “Crushed Muffin.” He plays bass for the band alongside his band mates, fellow freshman Gustavo McClure and Dylan Gilpin. Together they have been writing and producing their own original songs that they are trying to get on SoundCloud, Spotify and iTunes. Bush not only writes songs for the band, but also some just for himself. He says that their music is most heavily influenced by Fall Out Boy, the Beatles and Modest Mouse. He said his favorite part about being in a band is the concerts that they get to play. Right now they are in the process of finishing up their album. Also, they are currently looking for a lead singer, so if anyone wants to join their band, contact any of them.
“Performing gives you this feeling of peace, unity, and everyone coming together to listen to your music,” Bush said. “It’s really nice because you feel accomplished and satisfied after finishing a song (and then getting to perform it).”
