Coupeville Sports

Zoie Tingstad

One of Coupeville’s most talented exports lies in a hospital bed right now, and needs our thoughts.

If you pray, that’s the way to go. If you don’t, positive thoughts never hurt anyone. If you can reach out to her, do. Now.

Zoie Tingstad, born Ashley to Christy and Evan, was never content to just be the same as a thousand other girls, so she changed her name and never looked back. She’s been working as a dancer in Los Angeles for years and been very successful at it.

Now, the 2004 graduate of Coupeville High School, sister to Nick and Elizabeth, is fighting a pleural effusion (a buildup of fluid between the layers of tissue that line the lungs and chest cavity) and pneumonia. She faces possible lung surgery that could end her dance career.

This is a graceful, charming, extremely talented young woman, who combined hard work and natural skill to be a success in a difficult business. Her smile could brighten up a room, and her talent lights up the world.

Jazz, ballet, hip hop, lyrical, modern, tap. Zoie can, and has, done it all.

She has also battled back from previous lung surgery, regaining her career and taking it to new heights.

Whether she dances again or not is, of course, hugely important to her. What is more important, however, is that she walks out of that California hospital and never returns.

That she is healthy and happy, that she continues to be a bright shining light in the universe, regardless of what she does.

Zoie Tingstad is one of the truly amazing ones, and all of our thoughts are with her today, and every day.

***You can send a personal message to her at zoie48@hotmail.com***