“This is MY gym.”
Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby, angelic college student. Not quite full pig tails, but the closest I could find.
Ten years back, Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby was wrapping up a splendid high school basketball career.
One of the best to ever wear the red and black on the hard court, she would stride the floor, two little pig tails sticking up in the air, baggy shorts flapping in the breeze. Other teams would wonder why Coupeville had let a ball girl have a uniform and then … then she would carve them up with a surgeon’s precision, leaving bloody, stunned foes in her wake as she sliced ’em off at the knees with a nasty cross-over dribble.
One of the nicest people you’ll ever meet in real life, an all-star behind the counter at Videoville and now an emergency room nurse, she’s back in the gym she once ruled.
Joining fellow former Wolf stud Brittany Black, she’s one of three volunteer coaches along for the ride this season with CHS coaches David and Amy King.
The biggest lingering question (at least for me), can the youthful-looking assistant coach resist pulling a “21 Jump Street” and ripping off her jacket to reveal a Wolf jersey mid-game while screaming, “Put me in coach!!”?
“Ha Ha Ha. Well, so far I have kept my cool in practice. Not sure if I will be able to contain myself in a game though. Stay tuned,” Ellsworth-Bagby said. “I think if I go for the pig tail look they might mistake me for a player, which wouldn’t be a bad thing I guess…”
Jump! Jump! “21 Jump Street!!”
Coupeville Sports 
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