![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)
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
![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)
