![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 Spotlight: Donovan Scandariato
Donovan Scandariato poses for one of his final professional pictures taken as a high school student.
May 11, 2018
“This, right here, is my, Cedar Park swag.”
Since the release of the song “Cedar Park Swag” in May of 2017, senior Donovan Scandariato’s now-famous anthem for Cedar Park has become a must-have on every Cedar Park student’s music playlist.
He initially created the song for a project in his audio/video productions class, however after he released it, Scandariato said that he was absolutely astonished at the community’s feedback.
“When [“Cedar Park Swag”] first hit a couple thousand views I was like dang, people actually love this,” Scandariato said. “People started talking to me in the halls, people that I’ve never seen before started stopping me and asking me if I’m ‘that Cedar Park Swag guy.’”
Out of the whole experience, Scandariato said that his favorite part has been realizing the song’s lasting impact he believes it will have at Cedar Park.
“Honestly, it’s cool just to make an impact on [your] high school before you leave,” Scandariato said. “Like I could say I did something big, something that people will remember.”
In the third grade, Scandariato developed a passion for hip-hop music, and soon after he began experimenting with creating his own music. While music has always been a part of him, Scandariato said that he wasn’t always set on making it into a career.
“My vision as a kid was kind of like every other kids vision; I wanted to be a football player, I wanted to be in the NFL,” Scandariato said. “After eighth grade I had to choose between band and football. I ended up going with band because I knew I would end up getting better scholarships, but I decided to go on my own path.”
Going forward, Scandariato said he is looking forward to his future in the music industry and cannot wait to see what happens with his music.
“After high school I’ll still be making music, and I feel like I’ll always have a part of the music industry in me,” Scandariato said. “I would love to continue to grow throughout my social media platforms in hope to gain as much of an audience as I can get for my music. But in the end, I believe anyone can be successful and achieve what they want to do in their career with hard work and dedication.”
![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)
