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Soccer players, come together for Jim Copenhaver!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, Community Sports, Girls Soccer, Whidbey's Best on May 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Jim and Suzanne Copenhaver

Are you a Coupeville High School soccer player, present or past?

Or a parent, a coach, a fan, a youth player or a soccer addict who wants to display a final show of support for Dr. Jim Copenhaver, longtime local coach, before he and his family leave Whidbey Island?

Then get your rear to the bleachers at Mickey Clark Field Thursday, May 16 by 5 PM sharp and be part of a farewell photo for the ol’ ball coach. If at all possible, wear your soccer jersey.

Copenhaver, who has donated countless hours to local soccer programs over the years, is moving to New Hampshire with his wife Suzanne and their children to be closer to family.

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“Your salad is MINE, fool!!”

Posted in Softball, Wolves in college on May 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“Maybe, if I just breathe in really, really hard, really, really fast, that sweet, sweet salad will jump right out of the bowl!!”

Shelli Trumbull takes a lot of photos, but this one … this is priceless.

On the surface, it’s a bench shot from a Skagit Valley College softball game, with Trumbull’s daughter, Alexis (smiling, second from left), the former Wolf superstar, in on the action.

But thanks to some perfectly bad (or great) timing, my favorite part of the photo is on the right side, where it appears one of Trumbull’s teammates is trying to hoover the other one’s salad.

Even more so if you click on the picture and enlarge it. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

It doesn’t take much to amuse me, does it?

No. The answer to that is no, it does not.

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Brett Arnold a wanted man!!

Posted in Football on May 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Brett Arnold (right) contemplates his football future.

Tony Maggio is a busy, busy man.

The Coupeville High School football coach has a repeatedly buzzing phone these days, as college coaches and scouts begin to seriously inquire about the future services of many of his seniors-to-be.

Lineman Nick Streubel and running back Jake Tumblin have developed strong followings and now fullback Brett Arnold, who combines a bruising running style, strong blocking skills and near-impeccable classroom performance (he boasts a 3.98 GPA) is drawing interest.

The University of Puget Sound, the alma mater of longtime former Wolf gridiron guru Ron Bagby (who still holds school records for kickoff returns three decades later) expressed interest in Arnold, and a second unnamed school has been buzzing about lately, as well.

The second school, which will be revealed later (being of a gossipy nature, I must know, and yet am denied for just that reason!!) could be anyone from defending national champion Alabama on down.

I’m just saying, if I’m not told, I can make my own wild guesses, so there you go. Roll Tide!

Stay tuned, as the Days of Our High School Football Lives plays out.

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Surprise! Surprise! You’re going to tri-districts!!

Posted in Track on May 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Wolf senior Rachel Wenzel gets at least one more high school track meet after getting the invite to tri-districts.

You thought your season was over? You thought wrong!

After all the numbers were crunched, the data was sifted and the variables taken into consideration, high school track officials released their final list of which athletes had advanced to this week’s tri-district meet (May 16 & 18 at King’s), and there were a few pleasant curve-balls for Coupeville High School.

While Makana Stone and Madison Tisa McPhee knew they had advanced right after the district meet Saturday, junior shot putter Nick Streubel and senior javelin hurler Rachel Wenzel seemed to be on the outside looking in.

Not so fast, however, as they and others slipped in once the final roster was set.

The Wolves will send six individuals and five relay teams to tri-districts, a 25-team meet which is the direct lead-in to the state meet in Cheney May 24-25.

The chosen ones (with this caveat — while relay teams listed are the ones that ran at districts, any and all can be shuffled before tri-districts, depending on Wolf coach Randy King’s strategizing):

GIRLS:

200 — Makana Stone

100 hurdles — Madison Tisa McPhee

300 hurdles — Tisa McPhee

Javelin — Rachel Wenzel

4 x 100 — Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Tisa McPhee, Stone

4 x 200 — Etzell, Tisa McPhee, Hoskins, Sylvia Hurlburt

4 x 400 — Etzell, Hoskins, Kirsten Pelroy, Stone

BOYS:

100 — Josiah Campbell

300 hurdles — Brandon Kelley

4 x 100 — Campbell, Lathom Kelley, Jared Helmstadter, Sam Landau

4 x 400 – Matthew Hampton, L. Kelley, B. Kelley, Landau

Shot Put — Nick Streubel

Triple Jump — Campbell

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Baseball carries Wilcox to the Sunshine State!!

Posted in Baseball, Wolves in college on May 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Jordan Wilcox (right) celebrates his team’s championship. (Brady Manz photo)

Jordan Wilcox is going to the World Series.

The Coupeville High School grad is pounding the ball for a Western Washington University baseball squad that just claimed one of eight spots at the National Club Baseball World Series in Tampa May 24-30.

The Vikings are the Northern Pacific Regional champs and will face Illinois in the opening game of the double-elimination tourney. Western is seeded seventh, behind Texas A & M, Illinois, Iowa, Penn State, California and James Madison and ahead of Florida.

With Western offering a limited amount of “sanctioned” sports, students fill in the gaps by creating and running their own programs for sports not offered by the university.

Many of those club teams are among the most successful the school is affiliated with, from baseball to rugby and mens’ hockey, which has won multiple national titles.

Wilcox, who was a basketball and baseball star during his time in the red and black at CHS, has anchored the Vikings in the infield, while putting up nice numbers at the plate.

The most recent stats I can find show him smacking the ball to a .383 clip (18 for 47) at the plate through 15 games, with two home runs, 13 RBI, 10 runs scored and four stolen bases.

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