It’s a Kiel-tastic world, after all!!

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It’s a Kiel-tastic world, after all!!

January 13, 2013 by David Svien

“I will do it. I will carry that ball to the hoop!!” (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Kacie Kiel is as good as her word, as Wolf vets Bessie Walstad and Breeanna Messner watch.

Kacie Kiel is as good as her word, as Wolf vets Bessie Walstad (42) and Breeanna Messner watch.

Kacie (third from right) and big sis Katie (on her right) share time together on the varsity. Is dad Steve Kiel hyperventilating yet?

There are two things you need to know about Kacie Kiel.

One, the Coupeville High School sophomore is a hard-charging hellion on the basketball court.

Often facing off with taller, stronger JV players, she shrugs and then relentlessly throws herself skyward in pursuit of rebounds, fights for loose balls (while trying not to get creamed by teammate and professional ballhawk McKayla “I will rip your head from its shoulders, fool!!” Bailey) and gives the Wolves a burst of energy every time she sees the court.

Secondly, and maybe more important to me, according to her dad Steve, “The girl only reads two things. Stuff for school, and then she complains a lot, and your stories.”

Scrappy and a fan of over-the-top, borderline-embarrassing prose. Excellent!

Just that much more reason to celebrate her varsity debut Saturday at Mount Vernon Christian. It’s always nice to see a hard worker get rewarded, and the fact it allowed her to join big sis Katie, a senior, for a game, makes it even better.

And showing good taste by reading my stories? Well, I’m easily bought by even the smallest slice of flattery.

It’s a Kacie Kiel world. The rest of us just live in it.