![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)
Q: What is your position and how long have you had that?
A: I am the 504 coordinator and the testing coordinator for Cedar Park, and I’ve had it for well exactly a year this January.
Q: Can you give a rundown of what the 504 and the test coordinator do?
A: The 504 coordinator helps to support students who need extra help in their classes. So maybe [a student] has a physical disability or a mental disability and they might need some extra help in order to level the playing field with other students. As the testing coordinator, I have to organize and run all the big tests for the schools [such as] telepath, the STARR, SAT [and]PSAT.
Q: Have you worked anywhere else besides CPHS?
A: I used to work as a high school English teacher in Georgia and then at Leander High School for a couple of years.
Q: Where did you go to college, and what did you major in?
A: I majored in English education with a minor in linguistics, and I went to school at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia.
Q: What is your favorite part so far of working at CPHS?
A: My favorite part of CPHS is the culture. I like all of the people that I work with and the students, and I like how everyone seems to have such a stake in providing the best environment for the students.
Q: What made you interested in working as a student support staff member?
A: I think honestly it’s [getting] to help the students. I had a break of probably like I would say about 13 years, [and] it was exciting that I would get the opportunity to work with students again and especially [have] the opportunity to support them and help them when they needed help.
Q: In high school, did you have a student support team, and did you ever visit them?
A: High school was very different when I was in school, [because] there were obviously counselors, but I do not know if there was anything like a 504 program [or] a testing coordinator. I really like how much students are supported now versus when I was in school [because] we kind of look at [students] as a whole and not just academics. I [also] really like that if kids need therapy that they don’t have access to outside of school, they can get that in school. Not everybody has these tremendous academic aspirations, but that doesn’t mean that their aspirations aren’t important and that their interests aren’t important. We value all of that now [which] I think is super important.
Q:What do you want students to know about you?
A: I’m here to support them in any way I can. It doesn’t just have to be that I support 504 students.t I know testing is not really the most fun for all kids, so I try to make that experience as stress-free as possible for [all] students. Any time, any questions that they have about anything they’re more than welcome to always reach out to me and, if I can’t answer it, then I’ll put them in touch with the right person. My door’s always open.
Q: What’s the most important thing you want students to know about their future?
A: I would like students to know that in their future there are so many different paths that they can take and there’s no right or wrong answer. Even if you’re in the middle of one path, you can say, ‘you know what, this isn’t for me and I think I want to do this.’ There are a thousand things [students] can do to be successful and happy in life, and not everybody’s path looks the same.
Q: Would you call yourself introverted or extroverted?
A: I think I’m extroverted. I like to be around people. I have no trouble walking into a room and introducing myself or, you know, meeting new people, and I like to be out and about and doing things and trying new things.
Q: What do you do outside of school? What are your hobbies and interests?
A: I love to travel. That would be number one. I love to go to new places and learn about new cultures, I love to try new restaurants, I enjoy gardening and I like to sew and read.
Q: What are some of your favorite TV shows or movies?
A: Some of my favorite shows and movies are “Friends,” “The Great British Baking Show,” “House Hunters International,” “Ted Lasso,” “Narcos,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” any period pieces.
