Coupeville Sports

Emilee Crichton: Best of the best

Emilee Crichton is used to tumbling, but not like this.

The Coupeville High School senior, a captain on the Wolf cheer squad, suffered a badly bruised kidney and chest wall Wednesday after a hard fall.

The fall did NOT take place during cheer, but I am prohibited from telling you where or how she fell or the slightly embarrassed Ms. Crichton, who is my next door neighbor, has implied she might send me on a similar fall.

The injury will sideline her from leading her cheer squad for several weeks at least, and possibly the remainder of the basketball season, said mom Vicki Crichton-Wells.

“She hit very hard,” said Crichton-Wells. “We took her to the ER after school and thank goodness no broken ribs.

“Doc said she is grounded for at least two weeks,” she added. “We are just glad she is OK.”

Even when she was potentially knocked loopy, Crichton knew that wasn’t enough to avoid going toe-to-toe with Coupeville’s #1 education enforcer.

“Dang kid still wanted to go to school,” said her mom. “Didn’t want to miss English, she said, because Mrs. Ballard was giving them a new essay…”