![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)
Cedar Park alters crest flag tradition
The school’s crest flags hang on the upper walls of the library. “I like it,” 2014 graduate Luis Martinez said. “It makes me feel like I’m still a part of the 2014 class.”
December 3, 2014
The library here at CPHS is home to not only books, computers, and other educational tools, but also decorative crest flags that line its upper walls. According to the school librarian, Mrs. Barnes, these crest flags represent each senior class over the years of our school.
“The officers of each senior class design a crest and with the help of the art department, create a flag/banner,” Barnes said. “[Each year’s class flag] will be displayed on stage at graduation before it is mounted in the library.”
Because the crest flags are representative of seniors, they include specifics unique to the class to which they pertain.
“Each crest is specific to that senior class,” Barnes said. “For example, last year’s senior class included a Lone Star Cup since CPHS was awarded this honor.”
The creation of these crest flags is not a new one.
“The first crest was designed by the class of 2001,” Barnes said. “[2001 was] the first graduating class from CPHS.”
The way in which the senior class decides certain portions of their crest flag, however, is new.
“In the spring semester, faculty and students will receive a survey in their email,” Barnes said. “[The email will tally a] vote on different options for how/where to display this year’s senior class’s crest and those in the future.”
According to Barnes, these crest flags are a positive addition to each senior class.
“I think the crests add history and tradition,” Barnes said. “Each class gets to leave a little piece of itself – a legacy – for future students.”
Students’ view on the crest flags are also similar to Barnes’s. One senior, Daniel Matas, sees the crest flags as a positive feature of each CPHS senior class.
“I think it’s a cool tradition to have each class have a unique thing to leave behind,” Matas said. “It’s a good idea and I can’t wait to see the one for my class.”
While the crest flags represent only seniors, student in other grades, like junior Dylan Gatliff, are excited about their year’s flag too.
“They remind me of Harry Potter prep school,” Gatliff said. “It would actually be very nice to work together on it.”
![Dressed as “H-E-B Buddy,” senior Logan Hedges entertains shoppers during a shift at H-E-B. Hedges has fun on the job, as there’s significantly less pressure than other jobs he has had. “I [used to umpire] little league baseball, and it’s definitely less stressful,” Hedges said. “There’s not much [that can go wrong] scanning groceries. Making a bad call in baseball is so easy.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BF3C2083-817E-4847-B673-1FEF973AB972-300x300.jpeg)
