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Wolves eyeball state tennis brackets

May 17, 2026 by David Svien

Dahlia Miller fires up the ace machine. (Julie Wheat photo)

They’re three wins away from a state title.

A trio of Coupeville High School netters have advanced to the 2B/1B state tournament and now they know their path.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association released the brackets Sunday for the double-elimination event, which goes down May 22-23 at the Yakima Tennis Club.

Sophomore Tenley Stuurmans, making her second trip to the big dance after qualifying as an 8th grader, opens against senior Kayden Koth of Manson.

A repeat state qualifier who has primarily played doubles in the past, Koth has signed to continue her net career at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho.

Meanwhile, the doubles duo of Coupeville seniors Dahlia Miller and Aleksia Jump, who hadn’t played together until this spring, will square off with Jacqueline Benitez and Sarai Romero from Granger.

Start times are still to be determined.

Win or lose, all three Wolves get a second match Friday. Keep playing into Saturday and they’ll have a shot at bringing home hardware, as the top four finishers earn trophies.

 

The brackets:

 

Singles:

https://www.wpanetwork.com/wiaa/brackets/tournament.php?act=view&tournament_id=5173&school_year=2025-26&district=0&sport=18&class=2B

 

Doubles:

https://www.wpanetwork.com/wiaa/brackets/tournament.php?act=view&tournament_id=5175&school_year=2025-26&district=0&sport=18&class=2B

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Smash Sisters get state draw

May 17, 2026 by David Svien

Capri Anter and crew are state-bound. (Jackie Saia photo)

It’s the Wolves vs. the Coyotes.

The Coupeville High School softball squad has been seeded #8 in the 16-team double-elimination 2B state tourney and will open against #9 Kittitas.

The Wolves, who sit at 18-2, are making their fifth appearance at the big dance and are going in back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history.

Kittitas, which carries a 15-10 record to the Gateway Sports Complex in Yakima, has qualified in four straight campaigns and 17 overall.

CHS and KHS are slated to face off at 11:00 AM Friday, May 22.

Win or lose the Wolves return to action later in the day against either #1 Freeman or #16 Friday Harbor, with the latter being the team they just beat to capture the District 1 title.

You can see the bracket here:

https://www.wpanetwork.com/wiaa/brackets/tournament.php?act=view&tournament_id=5214&school_year=2025-26&district=0&sport=15&class=2B

From last year’s field of 16, there were 13 teams which made it back to state this season, with Coupeville and Kittitas both splitting the four games each played a year ago.

Raymond-South Bend, Northwest Christian, and Tonasket fell by the wayside this season, with Brewster, Rainier, and Friday Harbor taking slots in the 2026 tourney.

Kittitas plays in the highly competitive Eastern Washington Athletic Conference, which divides its 10 softball-playing schools into two five-team divisions.

The Coyotes finished 8-0 in league play to sweep to the title in the West division, while River View (7-1) and Warden (7-1) shared top honors in the East.

Those three, plus West runner-up Cle Elum-Roslyn (6-2) made the cut for state.

Numbers-wise Coupeville’s Smash Sisters have outscored their foes 298-49 this season, which breaks down to a 14.9-2.5 average, while Kittitas is at 282-182 or 11.3-7.3.

With their schools sitting 166 miles apart, the Wolves and Coyotes haven’t played a ton of games against each other over the years.

But CHS did travel East in 2019, where it rode a wham-bam rushing attack led by Andrew Martin to garner a 28-0 win.

The schools have also played several times in recent seasons in holiday basketball tourneys.

Coupeville and Kittitas have clashed twice in state events, but both were way back in the 1970’s.

Wolf baseball won 14-0 in 1977, while Kittitas boys’ basketball came out on top 63-54 in 1970.

 

PS — For social media snoops, here’s the Kittitas softball Instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/kittitas_coyote_softball/

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Be a big supporter for a lil’ guy

May 17, 2026 by David Svien

Callum Flack

Fourth-generation Whidbey farmers Kyle and Paige (Mueller) Flack recently added son #3, Callum, to the family, but the future tiller of the land has had a difficult entrance to the world.

Born at 41 weeks after a challenging labor, he has an underdeveloped lower jaw, making it difficult for him to breathe on his own.

Callum has been transferred to Seattle Children’s Hospital, where he is in the NICU.

Fighting dangerously low oxygen levels, he is in a 72-hour protocol to cool his brain and prevent further injury.

Kyle and Paige, a former Coupeville High School basketball player who went on to work as an elementary school librarian in Cow Town, face mounting medical bills.

There is also the cost of transportation between Whidbey and Seattle, and the challenges of being away from their farm and two older sons, who are four and six.

Family friends have launched a GoFundMe to help, and you can read more and donate at:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-baby-callum-and-the-flack-family

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CHS track sends nine to state

May 16, 2026 by David Svien

Wolf senior George Spear qualified for state in two events. (Jackie Saia photo)

The spring bonanza continues.

Hot on the heels of the Coupeville High School softball team and three girls’ tennis players qualifying for state, the Wolf track and field team had nine athletes punch their tickets to the big dance.

Needing a top two finish at Saturday’s District 1 Championships to advance, two freshmen, three sophomores, a junior, and three seniors hit their marks while defending their home turf in Cow Town.

Fab frosh Tamsin Ward (Shot Put, High Jump) and Cyrus Sparacio (1600, 3200) each captured two district titles, while sophomore Wyatt Fitch-Marron (High Jump) also finished atop the medal stand.

Sophomore Lillian Ketterling (Pole Vault, Discus), junior Davin Houston (High Jump), and seniors George Spear (1600, 3200) and Zachary Saho (Shot Put) all finished second in their events, as did the boys 4 x 100 relay unit.

That foursome was comprised of Fitch-Marron, Houston, sophomore Liam Blas, and senior Marquette Cunningham.

Now, the nine (plus some soon-to-be-named alternates for the 4 x 100) head to Eisenhower High School in Yakima May 28-30 for the 2B state meet, where they’ll give chase to snagging some medals.

Three of the Wolves — Cunningham, Houston, and Fitch-Marron — already have one in the bank from last year.

Cunningham and Houston combined with Preston Epp and Chase Anderson to take 6th in the 4 x 100 in 2025, while Fitch-Marron earned 7th in the high jump a season ago.

Sparked by their seven state qualifiers, the Wolf boys finished in a tie with Mount Vernon Christian Saturday for the team title, with both squads totaling 129 points.

While many in the stands would have liked to have seen CHS and MVC go for a tiebreaker (maybe a pushup contest for point #130?), the stalemate goes into the history books as is.

La Conner (98), Orcas Island (87), and Friday Harbor (79) rounded out the boy’s battle.

On the girls’ side of things, a deep MVC team was in control, holding off La Conner 193-149 to claim top honors.

Friday Harbor (91), Coupeville (73), Orcas Island (26), and Summit Atlas (2) were also in contention.

Isa Mc Fetridge flashes for the finish line. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Isa Mc Fetridge (4th) 13.88

200 — Mc Fetridge (5th) 28.73

400 — Olivia Hall (4th) 1:04.74 *PR*; Taylor Marrs (6th) 1:15.33

800 — Laken Simpson (4th) 2:42.12 *PR*; Mikayla Wagner (6th) 2:57.16

3200 — Devon Wyman (4th) 14:01.79

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (7th) 19.60 *PR*; Lexis Drake (10th) 22.14; Frankie Tenore (11th) 24.34

300 Hurdles — O’Neill (7th) 59.60; Wyman (9th) 1:02.65 *PR*; Drake (12th) 1:08.50

4 x 100 Relay — Arianna Cunningham, Willow Leedy-Bonifas, Ward, Mc Fetridge (3rd) 54.60

4 x 200 Relay — Simpson, A. Cunningham, Leedy-Bonifas, Mc Fetridge (3rd) 1:58.75

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, Marrs, Lillian Ketterling, Simpson (4th) 4:45.03

Shot Put — Ward (1st) 33-02 *PR*

Discus — Ketterling (2nd) 85-08 *PR*; Marrs (10th) 55-09

Javelin — A. Cunningham (7th) 77-02

High Jump — Ward (1st) 4-08; Tenore (7th) 4-02

Pole Vault — Ketterling (2nd) 8-06

Long Jump — Leedy-Bonifas (7th) 12-09.25; O’Neill (8th) 12-00.25

Triple Jump — Leedy-Bonifas (6th) 28-06.75 *PR*; A. Cunningham (7th) 28-02

Johnathan Jacobsen keeps a laser focus. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

BOYS:

100 — Marquette Cunningham (4th) 11.84; Liam Blas (8th) 12.23; Beckett Green (12th) 12.47

200 — Davin Houston (3rd) 24.21; Green (6th) 25.10; Richmond Bandong (9th) 26.83

400 — Will Tierney (6th) 58.72; Brian Thompson (7th) 59.60; George Spear (8th) 1:00.59

800 — Cyrus Sparacio (4th) 2:13.37; Kenneth Jacobsen (5th) 2:23.26; Ossian Merkel (7th) 2:23.88; Johnathan Jacobsen (11th) 2:38.00; Hunter Atteberry (12th) 2:38.60

1600 — Sparacio (1st) 4:50.33; Spear (2nd) 4:55.16; K. Jacobsen (3rd) 5:13.75; Merkel (5th) 5:25.82 *PR*; Atteberry (8th) 5:41.65 *PR*

3200 — Sparacio (1st) 10:38.60; Spear (2nd) 10:48.16; K. Jacobsen (4th) 11:18.28; Edmund Kunz (5th) 12:08.93; Atteberry (7th) 14:21.71 *PR*

300 Hurdles — Edmund Wilson (5th) 46.71 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — M. Cunningham, Blas, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, Houston (2nd) 44.73

4 x 400 Relay — Wilson, Thompson, Fitch-Marron, Green (4th) 3:43.65

Shot Put — Zachary Saho (2nd) 43-02 *PR*; Khanor Jump (6th) 37-07.50 *PR*

Discus — Jump (7th) 118-08 *PR*; Blas (8th) 115-11 *PR*; Saho (15th) 76-02

Javelin — Bandong (5th) 109-01; M. Cunningham (8th) 99-08 *PR*; Jump (10th) 94-05; Shiloh Sandlin (11th) 88-03; J. Jacobsen (12th) 87-01

High Jump — Fitch-Marron (1st) 6-00; Houston (2nd) 6-00; J. Jacobsen (4th) 5-06

Pole Vault — Kunz (3rd) 8-06 *PR*; Merkel (6th) 7-06 *PR*; Russell Miller (7th) 7-00

Long Jump — Sage Arends (6th) 18-01; Thompson (8th) 16-10; Wilson (9th) 16-07.75

Triple Jump — M. Cunningham (3rd) 39-04.75

Olivia Hall set a PR in the 400 Saturday afternoon. (Camden Glover photo)

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Maddie mashes her way to All-League honors

May 14, 2026 by David Svien

Playing on a stacked team, she still got noticed.

Coupeville grad Madison McMillan is part of an Edmonds College softball squad which sits at 39-2 heading into this weekend’s season-ending Northwest Athletic Conference Championship tourney.

Prior to the final batch of games kicking off, the NWAC released its list of award winners for the spring, with Tritons sophomore Scarlette Chapman being named the Most Valuable Player for the North Region.

Edmonds also received top honors for its coaching staff, while eight other players were named to the All-Conference teams.

That includes McMillan, tabbed as Second-Team pick at designated hitter/designated player.

During her freshman season the former Wolf ace has hit at a .457 clip — third-best on the team — while piling up 21 hits, 20 runs, four doubles, three home runs, 10 walks, 21 RBI, and a .739 slugging percentage.

Truth be told, McMillan actually has hammered five taters, only to have picky umps deny her twice because of minor technicalities.

Edmonds opens the championship tourney Thursday against Walla Walla, with play running through Sunday in Portland, Oregon.

During her CHS days, McMillan was a cornerstone player for the Wolf volleyball, basketball, and softball programs, helping lead the spikers and sluggers to state.

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