Coupeville Sports

Madison Tisa McPhee, center, kicking butt and taking names. (John Fisken photo)

Madison Tisa McPhee is starting to make her move.

The fleet-footed Coupeville High School senior track star has already been to the state meet once before and wants a return trip in late May.

As the Wolves wound up their regular season meets Thursday, she not only set a PR in her marquee event — the 100 hurdles — she obliterated the previous mark.

Tisa McPhee broke the tape in 16.18 seconds, almost a second faster than her previous best time this season (17.03).

A perfect 6-0 in 100 hurdles races this season, her career best had been a 16.40 at tri-districts as a sophomore. That was the season she went on to place 8th at the state meet.

Her performance drove her up the charts, big-time, as she now owns the fourth-fastest time in 1A and 46th best in the entire state (previously she wasn’t in the top 100).

It also moved her even closer to shattering the school mark, which hangs out in front of her like a carrot, at 16.04.

When she’s not running in the hurdles (she’s also 4-0 in the 300 hurdles), Tisa McPhee has been a key part of the Wolf relay squads. Her teams have won all seven times she has raced, and the 4 x 200 unit set a school record.

Even with 18 wins this season, she has managed to fly under the radar a bit. With freshman Makana Stone being 28-0 in sprints and relays, Tisa McPhee has found an ideal wing woman.

Toss in other young guns like Sylvia Hurlburt, Kirsten Pelroy and Marisa Etzell and fellow vet Jai’Lysa Hoskins, and the CHS girls’ track squad is ready to make some noise come the postseason.

“Makana has been such an asset to the team this year,” Tisa McPhee said. “Until this year I haven’t cared too much about any of our relays. But this year, we’ve gained such an awesome and fast group of girls.”