![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)
Q: What is your position and how long have you had it?
A: This is my second year at Cedar Park High School. My job is a student and family support team. I’m a licensed therapist and I conduct therapy sessions here at school.
Q: Have you worked anywhere else before CPHS?
A: I worked in Round Rock ISD for four years.
Q: What is your favorite part so far about working at CPHS?
A: I just love the kids, I love the other counselors and the teachers and it’s a great community, so I’m happy to be here.
Q: Where did you go to college and what did you major in?
A: Psychology was my undergrad at the University of Texas, and I also got my masters in social work at UT as well.
Q: What made you interested in working as a therapist?
A: I have always wanted to be a therapist since I was little, [because] my grandfather was a psychologist so it was kind of ingrained in me as a little kid
Q: What is your role?
A: I support students and families that have a need for therapy, and [I] can also help students who don’t want to have therapy here on campus [to] find resources out in the community. Whenever there’s a mental health need in any way, I help direct the family [and] help find resources for the family.
Q: Can you tell me one of your favorite encounters you’ve had while working here?
A: I really enjoy just being in the hallways and learning all the new slang and stuff from the kids.
Q: In high school did you have a student support team and did you ever visit them?
A: Unfortunately we didn’t have [a student support team], and that’s why [this is] really important to me because I didn’t have something like this growing up
Q: What are some things that you want students to know about you?
A: I just want to help in any way I can, and I often like to learn things from students and so I might not be the expert on everything, but like I’m here to help in any way I can.
Q: What is an important thing that you want students to know about their future?
A: That’s a good one. We can look at [the future] as a really big idea and really big goals [which is] great and we should have those, but we also have to remember that it’s the little steps every day that get us there and that’s really important.
Q: Would you call yourself introverted or extroverted and why?
A: I think in my own life, I’m an introvert. I like talking to people, [and] I’m pretty social, but I also like to recharge by myself and just relax and curl up.
Q: What do you do outside of school and what are some of your hobbies and interests?
A: Well, I have two boys and so my hobbies and interests are taking care of them and going to their sporting events. I like to just spend time with my family [when] we play games, hang out together, go on hikes, walks and stuff like that.
Q: What are some of your favorite TV shows and movies?
A: I can rewatch “The Office” and “New Girl,” over and over again. I just saw “Wicked” and I loved “Wicked” too. I read the book of “Wicked” a long time ago, and then I saw the play and I loved it, but the movie came out and sparked a new interest.
Q: Who or what has had the biggest influence on your life in your career?
A: My grandpa. He was so smart and so intuitive and he had a big impact on why I wanted to be a therapist. [Another influence was my] team in Leander. I think we all work[ed] together really well and we help[ed] each other out and work[ed] through things together. I think that the team is really important to me too.
