![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)
CP taking 21 to Regional UIL Meet
April 4, 2014
Cedar Park dominates outside of sports too, as many T-Wolves demonstrated on Mar. 29 at the District Academic UIL Meet at Dripping Springs High School. Speech and debate also competed on Mar. 24.
Overall, 21 students placed and will go on to the regional meet as competitors or alternates.
In Accounting, sophomore Megan Fowler took sixth place. For Current Events, debater senior Eddy De La Garza took sixth place.
The second place team in Computer Science consisted of seniors Mark Chen, Tyler Lovelace, Robert Saenz and Max Vargas.
In the journalism events, junior Paige Parks was first in Headline Writing, junior Alina Tang was second in Headline Writing and junior Rachel Freeman was first alternate in Headline Writing. Junior Lauren Kriss was first alternate in News Writing.
In Mathematics, sophomore Anish Bose will go as second alternate after winning fifth place.
Lots of T-Wolves also qualified in Science events. Tyler Lovelace took first in Biology, took second and is the regional first alternate in Physics, took first in the general Science category, and was part of the first place Science team along with Max Vargas, Anish Bose and Max Doan. Vargas also took first in Physics and second in general Science.
The speech and debate team also came out in full force to place in multiple events.
In Prose Interpretation, senior Abby Bevers took first and senior Makenna Smith took fifth and will serve as second alternate.
In Poetry Interpretation, senior Maddy King took first and sophomore Claire Cantrell will serve as first alternate after taking fourth place.
Junior Annie Hooper will go onto the meet as first alternate after taking fourth in Informative Speaking.
In Persuasive Speaking, senior Eddy De La Garza placed third and senior Isaac Jochemsen took fourth and will be first alternate.
In Lincoln-Douglas Debate, senior Evan Grosch took first, senior Donghee Han took third, and senior Seth Deruiter took forth and will serve as first alternate.
The academic UIL regional meet is in San Antonio at UTSA on May. 1-2.
