Coupeville Sports

Mckenzie Meyer, hanging out with cousin Leroy Meyer.

Whenever Mckenzie Meyer sings, she remembers her older brother, Kyle.

The Coupeville Middle School eighth-grader, who deftly balances sports, drama and band in a busy life, first found music thanks to her older sibling, who passed away recently.

It will be a link that will always keep the two connected.

“Kyle got me into music and I never let go,” Meyer said. “He taught me to sing, which I find is the easiest way to express my emotion, so without him I wouldn’t be the same and I probably wouldn’t be in band.”

Now in her third year of band, Meyer started on the clarinet, before bouncing over to the saxophone.

Regardless of what kind of music she’s playing, it’s a world she enjoys at all times.

“I like all the types of music we play, especially in jazz band,” Meyer said. “I love music and band seemed like the perfect place.”

Like all musicians, she’s a work in progress, and would like to improve “definitely my sight-reading and knowing my notes. I need to work on tone.”

Away from the band, she’s always active (“I spend my spare time listening to music and climbing trees”) and has played volleyball, basketball and track for CMS, while also taking part in the school’s drama club.

Since the middle school doesn’t offer soccer, Meyer kicks up her heels playing for a team out of Oak Harbor, but is already looking forward to joining the Wolf pitch squad next year when she becomes a CHS freshman.

“I can’t wait to play in high school next year!”