Jai’Lysa Hoskins (left) and Madison Tisa McPhee will cap their senior years with a trip to the state track meet.
They’re going East.
Five Coupeville High School track stars — two seniors, a sophomore and two freshmen phenoms — came out of tri-districts Saturday at Woolsey Stadium in Seattle with a new destination in mind.
Now they’ll pile into the family station wagon with Wolf coach Randy King behind the wheel, screaming “I will turn this car around!!” every time someone asks to stop at 7-11 for the 200th time and head off to Cheney May 24-25 for the state track meet.
OK, it might not be a station wagon, but they are headed East.
Once there, they’ll be led by senior Madison Tisa McPhee, returning to the big stage she ran on as a sophomore. This time around, she’ll get three cracks at a state title, with performances in the 100 and 300 hurdles and on the 4 x 200 relay squad.
Saturday, Mad Dawg set PR’s in both of her hurdles events, while smashing the school mark in the 300 hurdles.
Joining her on the caravan will be freshmen Makana Stone and Sylvia Hurlburt, sophomore Marisa Etzell and senior Jai’Lysa Hoskins, as the Wolves qualified both their 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 units.
Freshman Kirsten Pelroy could become the 6th Wolf on the trip, as she is the second alternate on both the relay squads. That just depends on how much room there is in the station wagon.
The Wolf girls finished 12th in the 23-team meet, holding their own with schools with much deeper rosters.
On the boys side, Josiah Campbell came the closest to moving on, missing a state berth by one slot in the 100, finishing seventh. He would be the first alternate should one of the top six from the combined forces of District 1, 2 and 3 not be able to go.
Complete results:
GIRLS:
200 — Makana Stone (8th) 27.15
100 hurdles — Madison Tisa McPhee (2nd) 16.13
300 hurdles — Tisa McPhee (4th) 48.01
4 x 100 — Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Marisa Etzell, Sylvia Hurlburt, Stone (4th) 51.31
4 x 200 — Tisa McPhee, Hoskins, Hurlburt, Stone (3rd) 1:47.27
4 x 400 — Kirsten Pelroy, Hoskins, Etzell, Stone (8th) 4:16.40
BOYS:
100 — Josiah Campbell (7th) 11.85
Shot Put — Nick Streubel (13th) 42-03.50
Coupeville Sports 
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