Coupeville Sports

Jodi and Jon Crimmins, aka The Awesome Twosome.

They are Coupeville’s own Brad and Angelina, just more athletic.

And while they may live down on the South End of Whidbey Island these days, allowing their daughter Maggie to play middle school volleyball for Langley (it’s just not right, I say), Jon and Jodi Crimmins remain Wolves at heart.

He was a tennis ace in his younger days (I have the vintage Whidbey News-Times photos to prove it) and she, back when she went by the pre-marriage alias of Jodi Christensen, was the hardest-working basketball player I have ever witnessed take the floor at CHS.

She frequently bounced off the floor, elbowed her own teammates (accidentally, she claimed) in the face while in pursuit of elusive rebounds and earned the respect and admiration of even the crustiest coach.

Off the floor, Jodi worked at Miriam’s Espresso for a stint in her younger days and earned the title of Nicest Person in the Entire Universe. Jon, while just a hair behind his high school sweetheart, still turned out pretty nice himself.

Now Jodi is a teacher and Jon is a forest ranger and they have two kids (the aforementioned Maggie, who needs to switch to the red and black by her high school days, and Aiden). And they remain eternally awesome.

I bring this up because this Friday marks the 16th wedding anniversary of Jon and Jodi, and because, since it’s my blog, I can write about whatever I feel like.

And what I feel like this morning is saying, good on you, Crimmins clan. You guys are the best and I hope your anniversary day — ah heck, your anniversary week — is as splendid as the people involved.

Now, we do need to talk about this whole moving closer to Coupeville thing.

Maggie Crimmins, Falcon? Doesn’t sound right.

Maggie Crimmins, second-generation Wolf, laying down the Elbow o’ Death like her mom once did?

That’s history. That’s destiny.