Coupeville Sports

Makana Stone: A legend in the making. (John Fisken photo)

Legendary.

That’s where Makana Stone seems to be going. If she’s not already there.

The Coupeville High School freshman has won the first 14 races of her high school career. She’s run the 100, 200 and 400 three times each, ran a leg on a 4 x 100 squad and twice each run as part of a 4 x 200 and 4 x 400 team.

She doesn’t know what second place looks like.

Which got me to thinking — how does she compare to past Wolf greats? So I did a little (emphasis on little) research and what I found is this, she’s freakin’ awesome.

Kyle and Tyler King are the gold standard for CHS track athletes. Both won state titles (Tyler added a state cross country title) and both currently run on scholarship for highly-ranked Division 1 universities (Oklahoma and Washington).

There are other greats, as well, as track and field has a stellar history at CHS, from Kyra Ilyankoff to Jon Chittim to Jennie Cross to Natasha Bamberger and beyond.

But the easiest to judge, thanks to athletic.net, the clearing house for high school track results in recent years, are the King brothers.

And what did I find?

Tyler won 21 events as a junior, 19 as a senior, while Kyle topped out with 24 event wins as a senior, including a state title in the 3200.

That senior year, he went 24-14, finishing second eight times, third three times, fourth once and sixth twice.

It was an amazing season, and you can’t necessarily compare the two as Kyle ran distance races and relays, while Makana runs sprints and relays. You also can’t tell from just the basic wins and losses what their competition was.

And, of course, there are state titles, which are still off in a possible future for Makana. Win in the big race and it means far more than winning in the first meet of the year.

So, nothing is equal.

But still, in his best year, his senior year, one of the greatest track athletes this Island has ever seen, didn’t do what this freshman is doing.

That’s something to think about.