![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)
This fall, many Cedar Park graduates will be taking the next step and attending university in hopes of receiving another diploma. However, 17 Timberwolves will be performing somewhat of a juggling act as they take on not only school, but collegiate sports as well.
Cedar Park volleyball, soccer, track, football and softball players have signed to play collegiate sports this fall. These student-athletes have committed to schools ranging from the Junior College level to the NCAA Division II level.
“I will miss Cedar Park,” senior Ryan Johnson, who will be attending Vanderbilt to play baseball next fall, said. “Mostly because of the sense of community.”
Johnson is one of the just ten seniors who will be competing in NCAA Division 1 sports next fall, along with Austin Hisler, Rylie Mayfield, Ethan Fry, Hope Lemon, Kayci Griffin, Shelby Leppin, Dana Clary, Linda Steinhardt and Madison Sanders.
“I am looking forward to playing baseball in college,” Johnson said. “I get to be on my own and have a fresh start.”
The remaining seven seniors have signed to play either NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, or Junior College. This includes Lexi Brown, Haleigh Maycomb, Sophie Sanchez, Keith Tambe, Eric Chappell, Hope Lemon and Abigail Schade.
“I will miss being close to my friends and seeing them every day,” senior Abigail Schade, who will be attending Temple College next fall, said. “I look forward to opening myself up to new opportunities and to see the start to my future.”
Future College athletes:
Football:
Ethan Fry- Houston Baptist
Rylie Mayfield- Abilene Christian
Austin Hisler- Abilene Christian
Keith Tambe- Mary-Hardin Baylor
Soccer:
Kayci Griffin- Brigham Young University
Haleigh Maycomb- Fort Lewis
Sophie Sanchez- Mary-Hardin Baylor
Madison Sanders- Sam Houston State
Lexi Brown- Trinity
Baseball:
Eric Chappell- William Jewell College
Ryan Johnson- Vanderbilt
Softball:
Abigail Schade- Temple College
Track:
Shelby Leppin- Texas A&M
Golf:
Dana Clary- Boise State
Volleyball:
Linda Steinhardt- Missouri
Hope Lemon- St. Leo
