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Wolves answer call to duty

April 12, 2026 by David Svien

Teagan Calkins gets strapped in and ready to rock. (Jackie Saia photo)

We’re back in action. Probably.

After a sun-drenched Spring Break which featured no Coupeville High School athletic contests, the Wolves rev back up this coming week, with all four of their teams in action.

Cue the wind and rain, likely. Mother Nature is a fickle mistress…

For now, CHS girls’ tennis is slated to travel to South Whidbey Monday, before hopping over to Friday Harbor four days later for a league clash.

Meanwhile, Wolf track and field hosts a home meet Wednesday before getting up at the crack o’ dawn Saturday to venture off to Forks for an invitational.

On the diamond, Coupeville baseball and softball both have busy weeks.

The diamond men travel to South Whidbey Monday, host La Conner Tuesday, then hit the road Thursday (La Conner) and Saturday (Forks).

Finally, the undefeated softball sluggers have two against La Conner — home on Tuesday, away on Thursday — before pulling doubleheader duty in Forks Saturday afternoon.

As we … spring … back into action, here’s where things stand through Apr. 12:

 

Northwest League baseball:

School League Overall
MV Christian 6-0 10-1
Coupeville 4-0 6-2
Friday Harbor 2-2 3-5
Orcas Island 2-4 3-7
La Conner 1-2 2-5
Concrete 0-3 0-3
Darrington 0-4 0-8

 

Northwest League girls’ tennis:

School League Overall
Coupeville 1-0 2-2
Friday Harbor 0-1 0-2

 

Northwest League softball:

School League Overall
Coupeville 4-0 8-0
La Conner 2-0 3-1
Orcas Island 3-2 4-4
Friday Harbor 2-2 4-6
Darrington 0-3 1-3
Concrete 0-4 0-4

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Jump sizzles in the Big Apple

April 11, 2026 by David Svien

CHS grad Taygin Jump is in her third year as a college track star. (Photo courtesy Christina Jump)

The track and field spotlight was on her Friday night.

Coupeville grad Taygin Jump was back in action in Troy, New York, competing at the RPI Under the Lights Invitational hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The Plattsburgh State junior earned 3rd place in the javelin, chucking her spear 101 feet, eight inches to beat out 21 other competitors.

Jump also set a PR in the discus, flinging it 93-07 to finish 20th out of 41 athletes. That was a solid three feet better than her previous top mark.

The former Wolf, who played volleyball and competed in track during her CHS days, is an honor roll student studying Environmental Planning and Management at Plattsburgh.

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Play pickleball, support students

April 10, 2026 by David Svien

Swing away for a good cause.

The Community Foundation for Coupeville Public Schools is welcoming serve and volleyers back to the CHS gym Saturday, May 16, with proceeds benefitting local students.

Door open at 10:30 AM for check in and warm up, with play in the 2026 Spring Smash Pickleball FUNdraiser kicking off at 11:15.

Cost is $50 per player with the tourney limited to 48 players (24 teams), and you can register as a duo or a single player looking for a partner.

This is a social, with all playing abilities welcomed.

The tourney will be played in a round robin format, with five games guaranteed. Matches will go to 11 points, win by two, with a playoff for the winners of each bracket.

Players are asked to bring their own pickleball rackets, though organizers will have a few extra to borrow, just in case.

Non-marring shoes need to be worn to protect the gym floors, and pickle balls will be provided.

Lunch, snacks, and drinks, including smashburgers, will be sold, and the event is offering t-shirts for sale this time around — cost is $25 for a garment, with shirts needing to be purchased in advance by May 3.

Raffle tickets will be available for purchase during the tourney, with prizes including a pickleball themed basket including an Onix Malice 14 paddle valued at $250.

A “very large bouquet of flowers” valued at $200 and a “pickleball quilted door/wall hanging with extra gifts” valued at $150 are also in play.

Door prizes will be offered for best matching outfits and punniest team name, with bracket winners and the overall winner and runner up walking away with prizes of their own.

The fundraiser benefits the schools foundation, which raises $40,000 a year through fundraisers and donations, with the money being turned into enrichment grants for teachers, scholarships for students, and the Promise Fund.

 

To sign up for the pickleball tourney, pop over to:

https://givebutter.com/springsmash

 

For more info on the Foundation, try:

https://www.4coupevilleschools.org/

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Wolf grad impresses on college diamond

April 9, 2026 by David Svien

Madison McMillan

When she sees the field, she has a big impact.

Playing for a very-deep Edmonds College softball squad, Coupeville grad Madison McMillan has had to be patient during her freshman campaign, sharing duties at third base.

But when the former Wolf is in the lineup, she rakes.

Wednesday night was another example, as McMillan started in the first game of a doubleheader sweep against host Skagit Valley College, collecting two walks, a hit, a run, and an RBI in a 19-4 win mercy-ruled after five innings.

The nightcap went even faster, with the Tritons bouncing SVC 15-3 in just three innings as Coupeville’s progeny cheered on her teammates from the bench.

The sweep pushes Edmonds winning streak to 20 games, with the squad sitting at 20-1.

On the season, McMillan has played in 15 of 21 games, starting nine.

She’s hitting at a .429 clip — fifth-best on the team — with 11 runs, 12 hits, three doubles, two home runs, 15 RBI, and six walks.

McMillan’s stellar play at Edmonds follows on the heels of a superb four-year run at CHS, where she was a key player for Wolf volleyball, basketball, and softball teams, helping both the spikers and diamond women advance to the state tourney.

 

UPDATE:

McMillan actually smashed her third home run of the season, only to be officially denied by an extra-picky ump.

Flexing her muscles, she sent a shot which one fan noted was “to deep, deep center field … one of the longer home runs I’ve seen her hit.”

But…

After a 10-15 minute discussion between the umps, it was ruled McMillan “touched the orange safety bag, NOT the white first base bag when rounding to second,” which is an automatic out under Northwest Athletic Conference rules.

In the postgame shuffle, the home plate ump remarked it was “the farthest jack he has seen this year,” and Instagram gave her some props, even if the home run will never exist in the “official” stats.

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RPI rankings favor Wolves

April 8, 2026 by David Svien

Adeline Maynes is the point of the spear for an 8-0 Wolf softball squad. (Jackie Saia photo)

The WIAA has entered the chat.

Wednesday marked the first time the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association has released Rating Percentage Index (RPI) numbers for spring sports.

And as soon as they did, Coupeville High School made a nice splash, with its undefeated softball squad landing #7 in the 2B rankings.

Meanwhile, the Wolf baseball squad shows up at #19 (out of 47 schools), with the WIAA crediting Steve Hilborn’s team with being 5-2, even though they’re really 6-2.

That’s not an error, but a quirk, as Coupeville’s season-opening victory against 3A Oak Harbor technically came against the Wildcats JV and the RPI rankings don’t count varsity teams beating JV teams, regardless of classification.

Aaron Lucero’s softball sluggers have no quirks on their own schedule, as they beat Oak Harbor’s varsity and sit at 8-0 as Spring Break unfolds.

The Smash Sisters have won six of those eight by 10+ runs and are one of just two 2B softball teams to still have a spotless record, joining #3 Liberty (Spangle), which is 11-0.

And actually, now there is a second quirk, as when the RPI rankings were first revealed Wednesday, Colfax was also undefeated and ranked #4 as shown in this photo.

Then the Bulldogs fell 8-4 to 2A Pullman in an early afternoon game, and slid from #4 to #8, while Adna, River View, Toutle Lake, and Coupeville all jumped a spot.

In the end, how important is RPI? Depends on who you ask.

The rankings are “one tool utilized by the seeding committees to determine first round bracket pairings into the state tournaments.”

So, there’s that, though first you have to punch your ticket to the dance for it to really matter.

Until then, it’s all about bragging rights.

So, yeah, it’s kinda a big deal for the easily hyped-up such as myself.

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