![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)
Senior Send Off
Basketball Player Commits to Oklahoma City University
Photo Courtesy of Anna Pribyla
Showing off his skills, senior Jacob Swoboda looks for an open teammate. He will continue his basketball career in the fall at Oklahoma City University. “I’m super excited to get to play in college and continue my lifelong passion and dream that I’ve put so much time and effort into,” Swoboda said. “It’s sad knowing it’s my last season here after spending so much time in the program. I’m going to miss the moments with my teammates and getting to spend time working hard with them on the court, but also the memories made together off the court.”
May 19, 2022
Dribbling and dodging through players, senior Jacob Swoboda brings the ball up to court to make another 3 pointer. Racing back and forth throughout the game Swoboda leads the team throughout his last season and will shortly start a new chapter of his life this fall.
Swoboda played on the varsity boys basketball team since his sophomore year and plans to further his career playing NAIA basketball in college.
“It’s been my dream to play in college ever since I was really young,” Swoboda said. “Basketball has really been my whole life growing up and I could never see myself without it. It has made me who I am today and so I am so fortunate for what it has brought me. Given the opportunity for me to play at the next level and continue playing suits me perfectly because it is what I enjoy best.”
Swoboda began his career at 4 years old with the YMCA team and moved through more advanced select and school teams.
“My favorite part about playing is just competing with my teammates,” Swoboda said. “It’s a satisfying feeling to work towards a goal and be able to accomplish it. I have decided to stick with it for so long simply because I have such a fun time playing and it never fails to make me excited and ready to work some more.”
Since he loved the game, Swoboda continued to play throughout his high school career and started on varsity boys basketball his sophomore year.
“My mindset changed from playing more of a role when I was younger to transforming into the older kid that tried my best to help lead our team,” Swoboda said. “I’ve tried my best to keep my teammates encouraged and strike them with a positive attitude, even if it was from the side lines.”
As Swoboda wrapped up his senior season, he achieved many of his goals and a few awards. Throughout his four years, Swoboda received honorable mention all district, second team all district and an all district honor.
“I will be sad to leave all of my teammates at Cedar Park,” Swoboda said. “It’s been such a big part of me throughout high school and I’ll cherish those times with them. However, I’m excited to begin a new chapter fresh and look forward to many more fun memories to come in regards to college basketball.”
Even though Swoboda is done playing high school basketball, he received an invite to continue his career in college while playing for select teams this past summer.
“Overall, I was just filled with happiness when I got the text from the coach,” Swoboda said. “I was super excited and felt like all my hard work had paid off. It felt like a relief that I finally had a place to go to next year.”
After visiting the college and meeting the team and coaches throughout September, Swoboda committed to Oklahoma City University in October 2021.
“The coaches made me feel so welcomed and all of my future teammates were very kind to me while I visited,” Swoboda said. “I did have other offers but this place felt like home for me. I completely stand by my decision to go there and I’m very excited for the opportunity. I am executed for a new level of experience. Being in college will present a lot of new opportunities that I have not experienced before and I think it will help my game and allow me to continue to enjoy playing.”
![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)
Jason • May 19, 2022 at 7:57 pm
What an amazing young man on and off the court. A true leader and the ultimate team player as well as a coaches dream. Jacob has a very bright future a head of him – Swoboda strong!!!