Coupeville Sports

     Saturday’s winning 4 x 400 relay squad — l to r, Makana Stone, Madison Tisa McPhee, Jai’Lysa Hoskins and Marisa Etzell. (Jack Tisa photo)

This is shaping up to be a magnificent spring.

Longtime track guru Randy King must be chuckling to himself as he unleashes holy terror on the Cascade Conference, with one heat-seeking missile after another flying by wearing the red and black of Coupeville High School.

Freshman Makana Stone simply has no clue of what it feels like to finish second in a high school race. Her spotless 10-0 mark over the first three meets includes two wins apiece in the 100, 200, 400, 4 x 200 relay and 4 x 400 relay.

Nipping at her heels is senior Madison Tisa McPhee, a state veteran who has won eight of her ten events in 2013.

A superior hurdler and relay runner, the only race she has lost so far was a 100 in which she finished two slots behind Stone, while setting a PR.

The other event she “failed” to win was her debut performance in the high jump, where she walked out, said “what the heck, I’ll try it” and went and claimed third.

Dang!

Toss in senior Jai’Lysa Hoskins, who has run a leg on five winning relay teams, and fast-rising frosh Sylvia Hurlburt, who has been a winner three times, and the Wolf girls are rich in talent.

And that’s not even mentioning Marisa Etzell, Nicole Becker, distance ace Erin Rosenkranz or any of the throwers.

Someone check. Randy King may have even cracked a smile.