Coupeville Sports

Taya Boonstra, semi-serious.

Visibly impressed by the pomp of Senior Night.

Boonstra and Mitch Pelroy.

Taya Boonstra was the bomb!

The photo bomber, that is. During her delightful four-year run as a Wolf athlete (volleyball, basketball, softball, cheer), the brilliant young woman born as Tatiana took great joy in always knowing where the camera was and playing to it whenever possible.

She was the female equivalent of Hunter “he’s gold, Jerry, gold!!” Hammer, just about a foot shorter.

But I bring her up today not for her feisty play on the court and in the field, or her habit of making photos just that much better.

I bring her up because, once again, a new hoops season has been kicked off by the Everett Herald massacring the names of Wolf players, and, when it comes to that, Boonstra is the patron saint.

At one point in her hoops career, the spelling-challenged Herald referred to her as Taya Boonscara, which, admittedly, is kind of cool sounding.

Thursday night/Friday morning, they were back at it, managing to misspell the names of four of the six Wolf players who scored against Cedar Park Christian. Three of six, if you don’t want to get all nit-picky and call them out on dropping the second capitol letter in Jai’Lysa Hoskins first name.

I, however, feel like being all nit-picky, so it counts!

We’ll give credit where credit is due, as the Herald somehow stumbled blindly into getting Hailey Hammer and Breeanna Messner correct.

But then they turned Makana Stone into Mahana Stone, Amanda Fabrizi into Amanda Fabrici and Bessie Walstad into Bessie Walsted.

The last one continues a four-year tradition of messin’ with Bessie, as they have run virtually every letter in the alphabet through her last name at various points.

My favorite — when they called her Walstud. Which, based on her superior play in multiple sports over her high school career, is actually kind of appropriate.