![Lining the center of the room, several printing presses make copies of Community Impact’s latest newspaper. Junior Skyler King shadowed at Community Impact for her Career Investigation Day where she got a tour of the printing press and spoke with several employees including one of the head editors and a designer. “I really think [my favorite part] was talking to the designer,” King said. “Before I thought I really wanted to focus on just pure writing with journalism, but I thought what she did was maybe even cooler and it really made me rethink what I want to do, like if I want to do social media design, or graphic design or something like that.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CI-edit.jpg)
![The architecture club meets biweekly on Tuesdays in the classroom of chemistry teacher Lauren Buntin and meetings are led by senior students Chance Meyer and Mateo Guerrero, who serve as co-presidents. To enhance engagement, the club has organized various building challenges during its meetings and has even had a professor from the University of Texas speak with the members. “The main goal of the club is to promote interest in architecture,” senior Noah Martinez said. “[We want] enough [interest] to get the school to create a class to teach us about architecture.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Your-paragraph-text.png)
![Meeting together on the field, the girls celebrate their victory after beating Liberty Hill in the first round of districts. They won 2-0, continuing their undefeated streak. “Playing soccer just takes all of your stress away, [and]
it's a good mental break from school and family,” Pack said. “I go and I forget literally everything that's going on because I'm only focused on soccer, so I continue to play because it's a good outlet.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/soccer.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 the support team sits and poses for a photo in the cafeteria with the counseling team they eagerly wait to start their day. "We [all] seem to be a team, I get up every day and there's days where I don't want to go to work today, but I'm thankful that I have a job and I'm blessed to have what I have," Christopherson said. Photo Courtesy of Julie Weltens.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AF9E8470-10D7-4C91-BF28-EC8F86BAB66C-1200x852.jpeg)
![Officer Stephanie Cash is in her second year as an SRO at CPHS. “Seeing [students] grow over the years has been kind of cool,” Officer Cash said. “Freshmen that [are] all over the place and then in the next couple of years get a little more squared away and go to class and do work and start thinking about the future. Being a part of a student's growth is the best way to measure my success as an SRO.” Photo Courtesy of Cedar Park Police Department's PIO, Alicia Gallagher.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CPHS-SRO-900x1200.jpg)
![Taking a breath as he raises his arm up and out of the water, sophomore Kaden Padilla swims the 500 freestyle at the UIL state meet on Feb. 21-22. Padilla placed 10th overall and second in the consolation final in the event, dropping two seconds. “My family was there, so being able to drop time for them was really special,” Padilla said. “It was awesome [finding out I advanced to the consolation finals]. I wasn’t expecting it, and I was very surprised. My parents being there definitely made me a lot happier knowing they got to see me swim in finals.” Photo by Skyler King.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kaden-padilla.jpg)
![Three defenders try to stop senior point guard Hope Edwards before the ball leaves her hands. The girls basketball team faced Liberty Hill on Feb 21, losing 58-40. “[My season was] definitely bittersweet,” Edwards said. It's definitely sad [because] I'm gonna miss all my teammates, my coaches and just the whole CP environment.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/julia-128-1200x800.jpg)
Football. Basketball. Volleyball. When people think of these sports, they often picture rabid fan bases and passionate players, but no one ever seems to remember the people who make it all possible–the referees.
Starting in the 2025-2026 school year, LISD will offer a new team sport officiating class. This course will allow high school students to learn about various team sports including volleyball, basketball and football and become certified as level one referees.
“The class originated from the idea that our ref organizations are shrinking,” high school athletic director Michael Quintero said. “We don’t have as many refs that are giving their time to high school sports. The Texas high school coaches association decided to make a class which basically allows juniors and seniors to take an elective course, become certified officials in team sports and actually go into the job world and officiate games and earn money along with an elective credit.”
Every school in LISD will offer the class next school year following in the footsteps of school districts across the state that have begun offering the program.
“There are schools across the state that have implemented this same thing,” Quintero said. “Numbers are showing that it’s working. The kids are taking the class and going out in the world and officiating and earning money to do it, so it’s starting to spread.”
Like other classes, the sports officiating class will also include tests and assignments. The coaches are currently working out the curriculum for the class which will be taught by one of the coaches.
“I’m mostly excited just because I love sports and I think it could be a fun class,” junior Ryan Daugherty said. “[I’m excited for] being able to use my sports knowledge for something fun.”
The new class will only be open to juniors and seniors, and there are no prerequisites necessary before taking it.
“I’m excited to learn about the rules of sports better,” junior Bennett Patton said. “I think it would be a fun class to take [in the] second semester of my senior year after football.”
Quintero said that there has been a high level of interest in the class so far and that he expects a lot of athletes as well as students who aren’t involved in sports to take it.
“I’m excited because it gives something new to the school,” Quintero said. “I think it’ll allow students who don’t necessarily play a sport to get involved in sports in a different way. I think it’ll also help some of our athletes to understand the difficulties of being a ref and how hard of a job it really is.”
