Breeanna Messner (5), Queen of floor burns.
Makana Stone finds herself in a sticky situation.
Monica Vidoni (24), ballin’ hard and wreckin’ people.
Amanda Fabrizi blows by her opponent for an easy two.
Messner, a color-coordinated hoops assassin.
It’s gonna get feisty up in here.
As we head towards basketball season, the prospect of a Coupeville High School girls’ basketball team that refuses to back down from the traditional powers, and, instead, offers to smack them gently around the head two or three dozen times, is definitely in the air.
Last year’s Wolf JV team was dominated by scrappers like McKayla Bailey, the likely captains of the team, varsity veterans Amanda Fabrizi and Breeanna Messner, are tough as they come (Fabrizi kicked a girl in the head … sort of by accident), and the incoming freshman?
Yee gads…
As eighth graders, Valen Trujillo, Skyler Lawrence, Tiffany Briscoe and Co. transformed in the blink of an eye from extremely nice young women off the court to a pack of rabid pit bulls once the ball was tipped.
Trujillo, the closest thing this school has seen to legendary nicest woman alive/baddest bad-ass on the court Jodi “I will devour your soul” (Christensen) Crimmins in 20 years, made two King’s players leave the gym crying last season.
Nice.
Some of that much-needed aggressiveness was on display during a recent SWISH basketball game that pitted Coupeville against Ferndale, as captured in the photos above by wandering photographer Shelli Trumbull.
Let’s get ready to rumble.
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