![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
![Sucking in a breath of air, freshman Lily Pope competes in the 200 yard individual medley. On Oct. 25, the swim team competed in the AISD Swim Invitational. Overall, the girls team took second place and the boys team came in eleventh. “My favorite stroke is butterfly because I do the best in that stroke,” Pope said. “I feel like [butterfly] can test how [your ability] to convince yourself to keep going. The hardest part of swimming is convincing yourself to stay strong and keep pushing during a hard race [when] everything is tired.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/POPE-1200x804.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, Author Ehigbor Okosun, members of Page Turners, and other students reflect on the author's visit. “I thought the visit was great,” Senior Amia De Leon said. “It was interesting talking to her and [getting to know] her process and her thoughts and books in general. But I think the reason it went well [was that] people got to ask questions. I'm glad that she said so much in response to the questions and it wasn't just one and done. [The author’s responses] felt very articulate.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sebastian-5-1200x800.jpg)
![Standing in front of the field at a freshman football game, cheerleader freshman Jacob Gaudreau along with teammate freshman Bella Gibson pose for a photo during halftime of game. “[Cheer has] definitely given me a much more outgoing personality,” Gaudreau said. “I used to be very introverted, so it's definitely made me more extroverted towards people.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ingrid-204-1200x800.jpg)
![Holding a wooden pizza toy, senior Taylor Peterson plays with small children in Bucaramanga, Colombia. During the summer, Peterson traveled to Colombia to help build an elementary school that only had two classrooms but five or six grades with one teacher. “We add[ed] two more classrooms,” Peterson said. “It’s kind of hard when you have two or three grades in one classroom and you only have one teacher. It’s very hard to actually get some beneficial learning. [The extra classrooms will give the students] a better quality of education because they’ll actually have a place specific for their learning.” Photo by Taylor Peterson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taylor-P.png)
![Swinging with his arm extended, senior Nolan Park hits the ball smoothly over the net and to the opponent’s side. Park is one of four varsity tennis captains and helped the team win district championships. “Winning district champs was a pretty awesome feeling,” Park said. “We had lost to Liberty Hill a couple of weeks before, but when we played them [again], we came out and really took care of business. We took them out and it was just a really awesome night.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kassidy-419.jpg)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.jpg)
Grown up fans of ‘N Sync, the Backstreet Boys and Aaron Carter can finally dust off their CD players and flood their bedrooms with boy band music once again. These artists announced last January that they will be uniting for a comeback tour across America, performing all of their old hits from the late nineties and early 2000’s.
“It wasn’t easy getting Justin to agree, but after awhile he finally started liking the idea,” Lance Bass, former ‘N Sync backup singer, said. “We’re all really excited to be going on this tour together after all these years.”
The Backstreet Boys, who found minimal success over a decade ago after a runaway string of hits, also agreed to set aside the recording of their new album to join ‘N Sync on the tour.
“It feels good to get back into that groove and remember what got us into the success we experienced,” Brian Littrell, leader of the Backstreet Boys, said. “Me and the guys have actually thought of something like this for awhile but never got to doing it. Now that it’s been green-lit and LiveNation agreed to fund the tour, it’s like a dream becoming reality.”
LiveNation is one of the most prominent live-events and music management companies in the world, supporting acts such as Shakira and Jay-Z. Added to the roster of the biggest comeback tour in boy band history is Aaron Carter, known for his party-themed hip hop attempts.
“Being able to expose my music to a whole different generation is a great opportunity, and this tour will probably help generate a buzz for my latest album, too,” Carter said.
The tour, reportedly called “Remember Us?” will begin later this April and end around late October. Major cities across the country, including New York City, St. Louis, Miami and Los Angeles, have been confirmed as stops on the tour. In addition to stops in major cities, fans can also request a show to be held in their hometown on the tour’s official website. Cedar Park residents have cast in the most votes in all of the U.S.’s non-major cities, with around 70,300 votes in total.
A special tour stop will be held at the Cedar Park Center and will be sure to sell out.
“I’m so excited that they’re all coming to Cedar Park in May!” Lindsey McIntire, freshman, said. “When I was little I used to listen to them all the time, and now that they’ll be all together in one place doing all their hits, it’ll be so perfect!”
Seats have been selling quickly all across the country since the announcement of the tour. Because of the new buzz surrounding the boy bands, there have been significant drop-offs and declines in ticket sales for contemporary pop artists such as Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. A revival seems to be in the works, and ‘N Sync, the Backstreet Boys and Aaron Carter are all poised to reap the rewards.
*This story ran in our April Fool’s issue and is a joke article
