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Former Wolf ace caps strong college soccer season!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Wolves in college on November 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Amanda d’Almeida

She’s a veteran now.

Having completed her first season of college soccer, former Wolf star Amanda d’Almeida is no longer one of the green rookies. Now, she’s a seasoned pro.

d’Almeida, who was Coupeville High School’s female athlete of the year as a senior, is attending Carleton College in Minnesota and saw action in 14 games as a freshman.

While foot injuries slowed her down a bit in the second half of the season, she only missed four games for the Knights, who finished 8-9-1 overall, 5-3-1 in conference play. d’Almeida started three games and racked up 388 minutes on the pitch.

Carleton lost a 2-0 heart-breaker to St. Olaf Nov. 2, preventing it from making a long postseason run, but prospects for the future remain bright.

One of the brightest of those is the former Wolf ace, who collected two assists and played a key role on a team that put together a five-game unbeaten streak at one point.

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Payne ignores pain, inflicts agony on foes!!

Posted in Baseball, Football on November 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Cole Payne lays down the law: "We're gonna run right through there, 200 times!!" (John Fisken photo)

Cole Payne prepares to be explosive. (John Fisken photo)

For a kid fighting through injury the entire time, Cole Payne had a pretty good football season.

The Coupeville High School sophomore was the JV team’s biggest weapon, whether working as a receiver on offense or crashing the party and hauling down folks while patrolling the backfield on defense.

Whenever he was on the field, Payne made an impact, a feat his coaches noticed. Without a doubt, he is earmarked for major varsity time the next two seasons.

“My main goal is to start on varsity next year,” Payne said. “I love the challenge and effort you have to put toward the game. To be the best you have to put in work to get better. I enjoy making hits and great catches.”

And he did all that while fighting off pain, having hurt his shoulder at the start of the school year.

“It has really affected the ability that I can play,” Payne said. “If it didn’t happen, I would have had a lot better season.”

Still, he helped lead his team to big wins over South Whidbey and Granite Falls and collected a string of strong personal moments, before getting knocked off the field late in the season.

His most recent injury — a dislocated shoulder — will keep him off the basketball court as he heals, but Payne, who got varsity at-bats as a freshman, expects to be ready for baseball season.

“I remember everything the day I hurt my shoulder,” Payne said. “I was running a route, caught the ball and right away got hit by Wade (Schaef) and like 100% on my left elbow and I dislocated my shoulder.

“But I did hold on to the ball the whole time!”

Holding on to the ball under pressure was a trademark for Payne, who was a consistent target for Wolf quarterbacks Ramon Booker and Joel Walstad. Once he had the ball, he was often electric in the open field, but would like to add more explosiveness to his game.

“I am really good at catching,” Payne said. “I need to work really hard to get faster and I will continue to work and get stronger.

“I think just being the youngest athlete by a year in my grade just pushes me harder to get right where they are,” he added. “All my coaches have influenced me to become a better, more disciplined person. They put me into shape.”

While he can’t decide on his favorite sport (“I think I enjoy football and baseball equally the same. I like to play both sports and that’s what I want to get in to college for”), off the field, he is a big math fan.

And also a huge disciple of working on his lifting under the tutelage of Wolf assistant coaches Dustin Van Velkinburgh and Brett Smedley.

“I enjoy algebra based math. I like biology,” Payne said. “And when ever I have nothing to do I try to get in the weight room to make myself better.

“When ever I have an opportunity to make myself better, I take the opportunity.”

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“I have so much respect for those young men and their coaches!!”

Posted in Football on November 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville and Sultan can be friends?!?!? Who knew?

Dogs and cats, living together! Mass hysteria!!

We’re about one step away from it here. I mean, Coupeville being nice to Sultan? Sultan being nice back to Coupeville?

I may have to stop and take a breath and stop flicking people in the back of the head if this keeps up. Maybe even get a little more mature, bring it up to the level of a 15-year-old and…

Yeah. Don’t hold your breath on that one.

But still, this is nice. This is really the way high school sports should play out.

After Monday’s JV football game in Sultan, a game the Turks thoroughly dominated, the Wolf players surprised the fans by going up into the bleachers to clean up any garbage left behind by the HOME fans.

They’ve been doing it all season, regardless of the field, as Tony Maggio, Dustin Van Velkinburgh, Ryan King and the other CHS coaches rebuild the Wolf program from the ground floor up.

Show respect to your opponent regardless of the score.

And it was noticed by one Sultan fan, Michelle Sentman, who went to the Turk football page on Facebook and posted the following:

Was at the JV game last night. Awesome game. We won 62 to 7. Good coaching and good reffing (not sure if that is right).

After the game each team went to the respective huddles. I then watched the Coupeville team leave the field and come up into our stands.

They looked like they lost something, so a parent asked if they did, reply was no, we are picking up garbage.

I think each parent’s jaw hit the ground, was this a punishment for how the game went? No, replied a player, this is just something we do.

What???????????

Oh my, my Gosh, I have so much respect for those young men and their coaches.

I almost cried, they come to our house, get their helmets handed to them and then clean up after us? Everyone should learn a lesson on that one.

**To see the original post and the replies, head over to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/190995900952666/permalink/613271425391776/

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Stinky pits no match for a hot shooter!!

Posted in Boys Basketball on November 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Aaron Trumbull is locked, regardless of what defense the opponent plays. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

It’s that time of year, that gap between sports seasons when I have to vamp to fill the air space.

So, you get things like this.

You’re so very welcome.

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“I could not be prouder of you all!!”

Posted in Football on November 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Cole Payne sprints to daylight. (John Fisken photos)

Joel Walstad drops back to pass.

Auston Kirk prepares to trigger the play.

A pack of Wolves descends on the ball carrier.

Small moments build into big moments.

As they rebuild the size and strength of the Coupeville High School football program, Wolf coach Tony Maggio and his staff reached a milestone Monday.

When the Wolf JV squad played at Sultan to wrap its season, it was the first time in three seasons the Wolves had been able to complete a full JV schedule.

Injuries and a major lack of bodies had made that impossible the past two seasons, but this year Coupeville fulfilled its schedule obligations, and won a few games along the way behind the play of Cole Payne, Joel Walstad, Jacob Martin, Xavier Clark and others.

Maggio’s thoughts on the season put together by JV coach Dustin Van Velkinburgh and his kids:

“Proud of our JV kids. They will not quit, first time in three years we had enough kids to finish the entire JV Season, winning a few games along the way and very competitive in a few others.

You kids that were out there tonight battling, don’t ever let anyone tell you that you are not good enough, and not trying hard enough, and that one player is any more important than another player … garbage.

You are all Coupeville Wolves, and I could not be prouder of you all.

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