Good News From “The Pack” 2014-2015 “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” - Rudyard Kipling Kristen Kelly, the State Secretary of Pan American Student Forum (PASF) for 2015-2016! PASF is an organization associated with Spanish Club/Spanish Honor Society (see description below). Students from Spanish Club attend the annual State Convention in San Antonio, which was last weekend. “PASF is a youth organization which was founded in 1927 as a national organization. Texas joined the organization in 1943. The purpose of PASF then, as now, is to offer students and teachers a better opportunity to learn more about all the Americas and the Spanish speaking world, thus fostering cordial relations among these peoples.”
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Good News From “The Pack” 2014-2015
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
- Rudyard Kipling
Kristen Kelly, the State Secretary of Pan American Student Forum (PASF) for 2015-2016!
PASF is an organization associated with Spanish Club/Spanish Honor Society
(see description below). Students from Spanish Club attend the annual State Convention in San Antonio, which was last weekend.
“PASF is a youth organization which was founded in 1927 as a national organization.
Texas joined the organization in 1943. The purpose of PASF then, as now, is to offer students and teachers a better opportunity to learn more about all the Americas and the Spanish speaking world, thus fostering cordial relations among these peoples.”
The Interscholastic League Press Conference (UIL of Journalism publications) released their
awards this week. This is for all 5A Texas schools who enter. If you have any of the following
students, please congratulate them!
2015 Tracks Yearbook- These are from the yearbook you will be seeing in May. I’m attaching
the pages that placed for a sneak peek of the Yearbook.
Rachel Freeman- 1st place Sports story (Varsity football)
Julia O’Hanlon- 3rd place Class section spread (PSAT team)
Lindsay Buggi- 3rd place Clubs/Orgs spread (Dance)
Alina Tang- 3rd place Photo Portfolio
2014 Tracks Yearbook- We received the Award of Distinguished Merit, the highest category,
for the 2014 book as a whole. Individual awards are as follows:
Lauren Campbell- 2nd place Sports action photo, 3rd place Sports spread
Hannah Williamson- 3rd place Academic spread, Honorable Mention- Clubs/Orgs spread and
Student Life photo
Alina Tang- Honorable Mention- Clubs/Orgs story
Erin Clevlen- Honorable Mention- Academic story and Sports story
Emily Jones- Honorable Mention- Senior ad spread
Staff- Honorable Mention- Theme, Captions, Index
The Wolfpack Newspaper- As a whole, the Newspaper received the Award of Achievement.
Print edition- Staff- 1st place captions
Alina Tang- 3rd place sports action photo
Online- Lauren Kriss- 3rd place News feature story
Paige Parks- 3rd place Entertainment review
Anajli Sundaram- 3rd place Entertainment feature
Tuesday, April 7, the CPHS Speech/Debate Team attended their District meet. Claire Cantrell - Informative Speaking - 5th place/second Alternate to the Regionals Lexxi Clinton - Poetry Interpretation - 4th place/first alternate to Regionals Kerry Madden - Poetry Interpretation - 3rd place/Regional Candidate Cindy Orr - Prose Interpretation - 6th place And in Lincoln/Douglas Debate, we swept the district, taking all three Regional spots: York Westenhaver - 3rd place/Regional Candidate Macalah Thomas - 2nd place/Regional Candidate Morgan Grosch - 1st place/Regional Candidate and 1st Place Speaker award The Speech/Debate Team also took 2nd place Speech Sweepstakes!
1st row left to right: Adam Babich, Jerry Blake, Leonor Martins, Christopher Washington, Brent Hearne, Deirdre Wolf, Savanna Theisen, Wyatt Laster, Lisa Raymond
2nd row left to right: Taylor Matheny, Brandon Weyer, Amanda Suggs, Kerry Madden, Hannah Williamson, Jackson Hearne, Collyn Burke, Daniel Williamson
Theatre Arts UIL One Act Play – 1st Place in District!!
Cedar Park High School One-Act Play, Taking Leave, advances to Bi-District on April 9 at Vista Ridge High School. CPHS ranked 1st place at District Contest and won 5 awards.
Savanna Theisen, Best Actress Christopher Washington and Brent Hearne, All-Star Cast
Leonor Martins, Honorable-Mention All Star Cast Hannah Williamson, Honor Crew
CPHS Key Club has completed over 500 hours of community service so far this year. That doesn't include any of our donations or collection drives!
Left to Right: Trey Knight, Corbin Stephens & Keaton Hervey Trey Knight: District 25-5A MVP, Academic All-District, TABC All-Region, TABC 5A All-State Team,
TABC All-Star Game, Austin American-Statesman All-Centex Team Corbin Stephens: 1st Team All-District 25-5A, TABC All-Region
Keaton Hervey: Academic All-District, 1st Team All-District 25-5A, and Austin American-Statesman All-Centex Team
Congratulations to the Coach Brown, Coach Faulkner and the boys’ basketball team
for their outstanding year and trip to the State tournament.
Congratulations to the following players for the awards they received: Landon Brack: Academic All-District and 2ND Team All-District 25-5A
1st Annual Matt Arellano Memorial Scholarship Alumni Baseball Game Saturday, February 21, 2015
2015 Timberwolves & the Alumni Team Photo Courtesy of Lauren Campbell
Photo Courtesy of Lauren Campbell
2014-2015 Basketball – District Champs! Bi-District Champs!
Swimmers Headed to State! Front Row: Kristen Perron & Victoria Sananikone
Back Row: Chandler Hughes, Kathryn Fitzgerald, Lauren Partridge & Sammi Grant The Timberwolves swimmers had a great showing at the Regional Meet! All athletes posted best times at some point that weekend and the women’s team came home with 3rd place overall! With just 8 girls, that is a very impressive accomplishment. The following athletes placed in the top five for their event: 2nd place in the 200 Medley Relay – Kristen Perron, Lauren Partidge, Victoria Sananikone, Katie Fitzgerald 2nd place in the 100 Butterfly – Victoria Sananikone 2nd place in the 100 Breastroke – Samantha Grant 3rd place in the 100 Breastroke – Lauren Partridge 5th place in the 400 Freestyle Relay – Victoria Sananikone, Kristen Perron, Chandler Hughes, Katie Fitzgerald The following athletes are moving on to compete at UT for the State Meet this weekend: Victoria Sananikone – 200 Medley Relay, 100 Fly, 400 Freestyle Relay Kristen Perron – 200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay Lauren Partridge – 200 Medley Relay, 100 Breastroke Katie Fitzgerald - 200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay Sammi Grant – 100 Breastroke Chandler Hughes – 400 Freestyle Relay
CPHS Wrestlers Advance to the UIL State Meet
Mason Vidrine & Gabriel Lensing
SkillsUSA Going to the State Meet! Front: Drew Summers, Celeste Chavez, Nataniel Carrasquillo Medina, Ayah Alomari, and Mai Tran.
Middle: Elizabeth Herold and Robin Davies. Back: Sagar Kansara, Nolan Bitner, Ty Marwitz, Aaron Richter, Julio Murcia, and Kristen Grimm.
Katherine Renfeldt was elected as the FCCLA Regional Vice President of Programs
FCCLA 1st Place Interior Design Team Jordan Telhia, Madhurima Karmakar, and Delaney Wilson
5th Place Fashion construction – McQue Wilson 2nd Place Focus on Children – Alex Moulton, Kristyn Conwell, Megan Fowler
4th Place Focus on Children – Bekah Klug, Jillian Brown, Bella Saenz 2nd Place Life Event Planning – Carely Roller, Isabelle Lopez
2nd Place Chapter Service Project Display – Matt Lovell, Megan Sullivan All of these students will be advancing to State FCCLA Competition in April
Cedar Park High School won the Time Warner Cable TV Play of the Year!
The play was a pass on 3rd down and 3 yards from Amir Alzer to Tommy Lavine!
Front row, pictured left to right: Erin Monroe, Brielle Ferdinand,
Ashley Egner, Gianna Espinosa & Sophia Roman
Back row, pictured left to right: Coach Joe Willis,
Vince Jones (Director & GM, Time Warner Cable Sports Channel),
Tommy Lavine, Amir Alzer, Thomas Hutchings, John Sloan & Ryan Lemons
Girls’ Basketball – Tied for 2nd Place in District!
Bi-District Champs!
Area Champs!
Congratulations to Myles Cheatum and Ryan Lemmons!
Myles and Ryan signed their official letters of intent to play football. Myles signed with San
Diego State and Ryan signed with Southwestern Oklahoma State. Myles is pictured fourth from
the left and Ryan on the other side of Coach Willis. Photo is courtesy of Mya Murillo.
Congratulations to Cedar Park High School: Tracks Yearbook Gold Circle Awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (for the 2014 book) 2nd place- senior advertising layout- Emily Jones Certificate of Merit- theme and concept- Hannah Williamson, Lauren Campbell, and Whitney King Info: NEW YORK, NY - The Columbia Scholastic Press Association announces the winners from its 32nd Gold Circle Awards program. For the yearbooks and digital media categories this year attracted 4646 entries produced by students at colleges, universities and secondary schools throughout the United States. Judges cited a total of 671 winners for either First, Second or Third Place or for Certificates of Merit for those deemed worthy of honorable mention in a category.
Congratulations to Culinary students Michael Romero, Sarah Hinderliter and Max Miller!
They took 4th place in the regional meet and advanced to the State meet!!
Charles Hoppe took 1st place, and won a $10,000 scholarship, in the Swine Skillathon
Luke Williamson was named the Kiwanis Club Sophomore of the Year!
2015 All State Dancer, Paige Carter after her performance at TDEA.
Celebrities at the California Science Center looking at the Space Shuttle Endeavour
The Swimming Timberwolves had a terrific showing at the 17-5A District Swim Meet this past weekend in Temple. The preliminaries on Friday yielded multiple best times from multiple members of the team. Fourteen of the 22 swimmers that competed qualified to swim again on Saturday for Finals.
The following athletes placed in the top six to move on to the Regional Championships at Texas A&M University. Kristen Perron, Lauren Partridge, Brady Sullivan, Alex Gonazalez, Travis Beall, Reagan Stephenson, Chad
Alsobrook, Sammi Grant, Georgia Squires, Katie Fitzgerald, Reece Andrews, Jack Weiland, Elena Ivanova, Chandler Hughes, Victoria Sananikone, and Danny Grant
Victoria Sananikone won the 100 yard butterfly and Senior Danny Grant won the 200 IM As a team the Women took 2nd to Vandegrift and the Men were 3rd.
Cedar Park Culinary Students with School Board Member Aaron Johnson, Coaches Joe Willis & Carl Abseck, Principal John Sloan, Naumann Principal Keith Morgan and Chef Rodriguez.
School Board Appreciation Month
Thomas Hutchings was named Dave Campbell’s Texas Football 5A Player of the Year!
Photo from the UIL State Football Championship Courtesy of Lauren Campbell Other Acknowledgements for Thomas Hutchings:
AP 5A Defensive MVP Central Texas Player of the Year (Austin American Statesman)
State Title Game Offensive MVP 2nd Team All-American USA Today
25-5A District MVP Padilla Poll Coaches 5A Defensive Player of the Year
Amanda Suggs won 3rd place in the Central Texas Shakespeare Competition. Amanda is a senior at CPHS and a valued member of the theatre department.
Congratulations to Rachel Cernosek. Rachel made the Texas Music Educator Association All State Band. Essentially, she is a gold medal winner on her instrument, the flute!
She will participate in the TMEA Convention in San Antonio
Macalah Thomas and Morgan Grosch have qualified for the Texas Forensic Association’s State Tournament. At the Stony Point/Salado Swing Meet
over the break, Morgan Grosch got 2nd place. Both girls are Lincoln-Douglas Debaters.
Congratulations to the 2014 Timberwolf football team and coaches on their amazing season! Congratulations to the 2014 CPFB 25-5A All-District Team:
Thomas Hutchings – District MVP
Jake Barber - Defensive Lineman of the Year
Myles Cheatum – Tight End
Ethan Sullivant – Offensive Line
Alex Cuteri – Center
Brenden Solete – Defensive Lineman
Augustine Tambe – Linebacker
Jav Guidry – Defensive Backs
Congratulations to the 2014 CPFB 25-5A All District 2nd Team:
Amir Alzer – Quarterback
Tyler Lavine – Running Back
Jack Grimm & Davis Fiala – Wide Out
Nathan White – Offensive Line
Clay Bremer – Linebacker
Jakob Heins – Defensive Back
Honorable Mention:
Jake Pokorney, Brooks Lachowsky, Chris Best, Tommy Lavine,
Mac McCaskill, Will Lydle & Elisha Guidry
Cedar Park Middle School sending the Timberwolf football team off to the State Championship Game Cypress Creek, Naumann, Faubion Elementaries, Cedar Park Police, The Fire Station on Cypress Creek
Road and City Hall also came out to give the Wolves a big send-off! Together, We Are Cedar Park!
Cedar Park High School observes Veteran’s Day on November 11, 2014. Photos Courtesy of Hannah Williamson and Ashton Priddy
The Cen Tex District FFA Leadership Contests were held on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at Rouse High School. Teams that placed first or second will advance to Area level competition on Nov. 19 at Blanco High School. Senior Creed Speaking – Charlie Hoppe – first place Job Interview – Charlie Hoppe – first place Senior FFA Quiz – Kyle DiClemente, Ellyn Freiborg, Mackenzie Keefer, Grace Pierce – second place FFA Radio Broadcasting – Walker Hormuth, Connor Lowe, Katey Todd – third place Junior FFA Quiz – Kara DiClemente, James Johnston, Evan McMillan, Jaxon Parks – third place Public Relations – Becca Domin, Courtney Mapp, Emily Miller, Madison White – fourth place Senior FFA Skills Demonstration – Kyle DiClemente, Logan Duffee, Scott Neely – fourth place Junior FFA Creed Speaking – Katie Kiggins – fifth place Please congratulate these FFA members on their successes. Congratulations to Cedar Park Band students for their success at the Region 26 TMEA All-State Orchestra tryouts. Only students performing at the highest level are allowed to enter the contest. Cedar Park Band students all competed at the 6A level. Students from Leander ISD, Round Rock ISD, Lake Travis ISD, Georgetown ISD and a few smaller districts where in the competition. Most rooms had 50 students on the same instrument participating. Four Cedar Park Band students earned highest honors on their instrument. Students advancing to Regionals were Tammy Voor and Katie Willig. Students advancing to the Area level of competition were Rachel Cernosek and Nello Kotyuk. Rachel Cernosek placed 1st, winning the highest honor on her instrument.
Pictured left to right: Brianna Grabill, Vanessa Budde, Brea Givens,
Candelaria Conde de Frankenberg, Saige Serigny & Sarah Pia
Congratulations to the girls’ cross country team. The Lady T-Wolves
advanced to the UIL State meet on Saturday, November 8th.
Pictured left to right: Adam James, Charles Kim, Zach Ford, Daniel Montes
The boys’ golf team took 1st place at the Health Careers tournament at the Republic of Texas course in San Antonio. The boys’ shot 294. Charles Kim took 1st individually with a 4 under par 67. Also contributing
were senior Zach Ford, junior Daniel Montes and sophomore Adam James.
2014 FCCLA Leadership Conference Alex Moulton, Megan Fowler, Kristen
Conwell, John Sloan & Debbie Wieland
2014 FCCLA Leadership Conference Miles Bentley, Cami Cox, Lauren Hanson &
John Sloan
Sunday, October 18th, was the 4th year in a row for the cheerleaders to participate and cheer at the Down Syndrome Association's Buddy Walk at Reunion Ranch. They performed and then cheered on the walkers for their mile walk. The amount of compliments we received was endless.
CPHS PSAT Team on Testing Day! Good Luck!!
On Saturday, October 18th, the band participated in the UIL Marching Contest. The band all earned Superior ratings from all judges. The judges were extremely impressed throughout the whole show. They absolutely raved about the performance! They were blown away!
Recent contests that the band participated in where hugely successful as well. Bands of America - Austin 7th place overall Won Ensemble Music caption overall! Vista Ridge Marching Festival Won Music overall in Prelims & Finals! Won Colorguard overall in Prelims & Finals! 2nd overall in Prelims & Finals! Texas Marching Classic 1 - Leander HS 2 - Cedar Park HS 3 - Vandegrift HS 4 - Clements HS (Sugarland) 5 - Westwood HS
The CPHS Speech/Debate Team competed at the Judson High School Texas Forensic Meet in San Antonio. Greg Phea and Ricky Rosario took 1st place in Cross Examination Debate, Novice Division. Ricky Rosario also took the 3rd place speaker award. Macalah Thomas tied for 3rd place in Varsity Cross Examination Debate.
Alina Tang is a finalist in the 2014 NSPA Picture of the Year contest (Tracks Yearbook). The
winners will be revealed during the awards ceremony on November 8 at the JEA/NSPA Fall
National High School Journalism Convention in Washington, D.C.
Cedar Park Swimmers competed against Leander HS and Stony Point HS and started the year with a 1st place win for the girls’ team and a 2nd place win for the boys’ team. The following athletes placed first in one or more events: Victoria Sananikon, Sammi Grant, Kristen Perron, Katie Fitzgerald, Danny Grant, Lauren Partridge, Brady Sullivan, Reagan Stephenson, and Travis Beall Congratulations!
Cedar Park Celebrities supporting Maddie at the Cheyanna’s Champions for Children event. For more information on CC4C, or to see how you can help, go to http://cc4c.org/.
On September 27th 40 CPHS Choir students attended the TMEA District Choir Auditions. They competed against over 500 choir students from different schools in the Central Texas area for one of only 288 places. Congratulations to all of the students who auditioned for their very hard work! 25 students from the CPHS Choir made the District Choir! These students will now go on to compete in the next round of All-State auditions for one of 120 places in the TMEA Region Choir on Oct. 28 thereby earning a place in the third round of auditions. Great job, and good luck at Region auditions!!! Congratulations to Sarah Alanis, Raneem Alasi, Miguel Barcenas Solis, Matthew Cloward, Jacqueline Farias, Carson Greene, Madison Greene, Elizabeth Harper, Emerson Kendall, Alyssa King, Sally Kwon, Patrick Lannan, Rayna Mazumdar, Noah Oliver, Kinsey Pena, Zack Post, C.J. Precopia, Bradley Ronk, Jessica Schnell, Thomas Sexton, Mia Trautz, Paris Varnier, Chris Washington, Alayna Wells, and Daniel Williamson.
On September 18th, Cedar Park High School hosted 24 Danish Students with ACC Global earning. Thanks to PALS for being such amazing and welcoming host to our new friends.
CPHS volleyball v. Leander on September 16th. The annual volleyball “Burger Bash” event raised $1,290 and drew a crowd of 350-400. “It raises money for a charity of the host teams choosing.” This year the money raised will be donated to Tree of Lights, a charity through Hill Country Bible Church which buys Christmas presents for children of veterans and those living in foster care.
Congratulations to our National Achievement Scholars, Christina Walker and Christopher Washington and to Godson Iheanacho who was named a National Achievement Program Outstanding Participant Referred to Colleges. Pictured left to right, Godson Iheanacho, Christina Walker and Christopher Washington.
Congratulations to our students who qualified for the National Hispanic Recognition Program. Pictured Left to Right, Noah Knight, Payton Morris, Julia O'Hanlon and Sarah Sargologos
Congratulations to our National Merit Commended Students. Pictured left to right: Back Row: Elizabeth Stein, Nathan Vu, Tommy Toyokawa, Christopher Washington, David Bonsall, Hannah Craig Middle Row: Brielle Ferdinand, Sarah Orth, Hannah Williamson, Heidi Klein, Alina Tang Front Row: Sally Kown, Anne Dattilo Not Pictured: Christina Walker
Congratulations to the National Merit Semifinalists. Pictured left to right: Rachel Pokorney, Haley Kehoe, Blake Rice, Megan LaMonica, Joshua Wiggers, Olivia Larkin and CPHS Principal, John Sloan.
The cheerleaders representing CPHS at the Brain Power 5K in September.
Congratulations to the 2014 Homecoming King and Queen, Godson Iheanacho and Kat Cuthbertson.
2014 Homecoming Court 9th Grade Duke & Duchess – Sydney Herring and Evan Dickinson 10th Grade Duke & Duchess – Mahesh Allada and Wynne McDonald 11th Grade Duke & Duchess – Jakob Heins and Jayde Bennett 12th Grade Prince & Princess’ Nello Kotyuk, Godson Iheanacho, Evan Rosenthal, Ben Jacobs, Brian Edwards and Ryan Lemmons Kat Cuthbertson, Rachel Freeman, Mia Trautz, Monica Harkins, Alyssa Cepeda and Katie Hawk
Cedar Park boys’ cross country at the Magnolia Heat Wave relays. CPHS finished 3rd overall and 1st in the 5A classification! Congratulations to Maximilian Doan and Tyler Lovelace who were selected as Texas Interscholastic League Foundation (TILF) scholarship recipients for The Welch Foundation Scholarship for 2014. TILF provides scholarships to students who excel in UIL academic and music contests. A full listing of students across the state receiving awards can be found at http://tilf.uiltexas.org/news-and-events/recipients/. TILF awarded 387 new and 204 continuing scholarships this year totaling more than $1.1 million. Congratulations to Kenzie Cherniak. Kenzie was awarded a scholarship from the Scott & White Healthcare – Round Rock Volunteer organization during a junior volunteer recognition ceremony held at the Round Rock Hospital! Kenzie had the opportunity to shadow Dr. Rick Schultz, an orthopedic surgeon, in the operating room on a day he was doing a total knee replacement, and she got to ‘scrub in’ and be part of the team that day.
Ayah Alomari (pictured above) took 8th place in the SkillsUSA Championship that took place in Kansas City, Missouri. The National Skills & Leadership Conference features 15,000 attendees and 6,000 contestants from across United States and the territories. SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps each student excel. Their mission is to empower its members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens. Please join me in congratulating Ayah whose photo is hereby attached. Seven members of CPHS HOSA qualified and attended National HOSA Conference June 25-30, 2014 in Orlando Florida. The CERT Team Emily Ismail and Alina Tang took 4th in the event. Public Health team of Nina Hoyt, Lindsey Stawowy, Zach Vessels, and Nathan Vu took 4th in the event also. Christina Loera was acknowledged for the CPHS HOSA Newsletter in the event HOSA Happenings.
