![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)
Breaking News: Teachers Like to Read, Too
New Instagram Allows Students, Teachers to Post Book Reviews
August 28, 2018
When a choir teacher goes home, they sing. When an algebra teacher goes home, they do math. When an English teacher goes home, they read.
This is a common perception students have, that teachers spend their spare time only on the subject they teach. However this past July, English and Capstone teacher, Lauren Madrid, decided to show that while choir teacher, Lisa Holt, may spend her time on music, she may also spend her time reading.
Over the summer, Madrid created an Instagram to showcase the books her fellow teachers are enjoying. On this Instagram, @cphsreads, there are book reviews from both teachers and students, making for an easy way to find a good book.
“Lists are overwhelming, and the library, with all the books you could be reading, can be overwhelming,” Madrid said. “[We want to] give people a place to look for books.”
Madrid said that her main goal with the account is to encourage students to gain a sense of what they like to read by seeing what their peers and teachers recommend.
“If you find that Ms. Aguilar likes to read this type of book and follow the things that she recommends, then you could find other books,” Madrid said. “[I hope the account encourages] students to read more and find their niche.”
One of her friends influenced the idea for this account after showing Madrid her Instagram account, where she posted book reviews and kept track of her favorite books. Madrid said that @cphsreads makes it easy for teachers and students to do just that.
“I thought about how many teachers in our school read books and would be a part of a book club if we had time,” Madrid said. “And that this would be a good way to gather the books that we all like and share them with each other.”
While creating the account, Madrid said she had in mind the decreasing number of passionate readers. Apart from students’ limited time for books, she said that a large part of it could be students believing that none of their peers or teachers read.
“Students think that the only teachers that read anything are English teachers,” Madrid said. “I thought that this was a way to show that everybody in Cedar Park reads for pleasure, or a lot of people do.”
Follower of @cphsreads, sophomore Kate Schulle, said that she is glad Madrid came up with this account.
“I love having an account that has genuine reviews from people who aren’t the critics,” Schulle said. “It gives me a quick selection to choose from when I need a new read.”
Anyone can submit their book reviews and recommendations to the instagram by filling out Madrid’s Google form- click here for the form
