Coupeville Sports

Wolf senior cheerleaders Darian Emerick (back seat) and Nicole Becker.

Co-captains Becker and Emily Clay.

Belgium’s #1 cheerleader, Iris Ryckaert. (John Fisken photo)

Legends leave the gym Tuesday night.

Co-captains and four year veterans of the Wolf cheer squad, Nicole Becker and Emily Clay have been there every step of the way for Coupeville High School basketball. Through illness, through birthdays, if there is a game in the CHS gym, the duo are front and center and leading the way.

Hollering from the sidelines, leading their squad in half-time dance performances or monitoring the madness that is the half-court shot contest, they are unparalleled at what they do.

They, along with fellow seniors Darian Emerick and Iris Ryckaert, will be acknowledged Tuesday night along with the six senior basketball players on the Wolf girls’ basketball squad.

Of course, the only way to appropriately cap the evening would be if Clay finally hit one of her half court shot attempts — which she always takes with her back to the hoop, followed by her heaving the ball skyward over her head without looking.

If the basketball gods have a sense of perfection, Clay will swish her trademark trick shot and then she and Becker will be carried out of the gym on the shoulders of their teammates.