![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
Senior Spotlight: Liana Cannon
May 22, 2018
Finishing her high school career with 11 fine art credits including visual and performing arts, senior Liana Cannon has spent countless hours in the b-building and on stage. Starting in Art 1 her freshman year, Cannon progressed into drawing 2, then AP 2D design and finally AP drawing.
Her love of art has led her to help teach art at “The Studio at Cedar Park,” where Cannon hopes to share her love of art.
“[Art] changes how you see things in every day,” Cannon said. “It becomes easier to see beauty in things not necessarily conventionally beautiful, and in addition, you can create such things yourself.”
Along with being in art, Cannon has also been a part of the choir’s “Seasons” group and the marching band. From her time in choir, she says that her most memorable moment was easily the Princess Tea, which she had been able to become more involved with this year.
“As a senior, I was able to help write the show’s script,” Cannon said. “I also headed the painting, got a solo, and made my own costume.”
In her free time, Cannon enjoys dressing up and cosplaying at different conventions. During SXSW she attended the Gaming Expo and the Wizard World convention and in just a couple weeks she will be attending Dreamhack Austin for the second time.
At her last convention, she took home her first award as an advanced-tier cosplay competitor.
I get to embody my favorite characters and the people who see me get to see those characters brought to life,
— Liana Cannon
“Some of my favorites I’ve done include Zero from Code Geass and Lady Palutena from Kid Icarus Uprising,” Cannon said. “My crowning achievement is a personal revamp of Undyne the Undying from Undertale.”
Cannon says that she was always “that one kid” who took Halloween costumes to the next level. After hearing about conventions in her freshman year, she decided to become a part of them.
“I took it as my chance to incorporate my love of nerd culture and media characters into wearable fan art,” Cannon said. “I get to embody my favorite characters and the people who see me get to see those characters brought to life.”
After high school, Cannon hopes to study either at the Webster University in St. Louis or at the Savannah College of Art and Design to study game design, specifically concept art and animation.
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
