Coupeville Sports

Shelli Trumbull and her trusty camera. (John Fisken photo)

Coupeville Sports would not exist without Shelli Trumbull.

She was the first photographer to step up and let me use her photos when I started this here thing 1,650 articles ago.

Since then I have run hundreds of her pics, covering nearly every sport in town. Heck, the banner photo at the top of this blog — featuring Carson Risner and Aaron Trumbull on the baseball field — is hers.

She is always there, shooting, never complaining, never making me pay the big bucks a newspaper would have to pay to get the same work.

Through rain and ice-soaked baseball games to countless times when she has hit the road and followed her children Aaron and Alexis on the road as they compete in numerous sports, she is The Woman.

She was also the first person to step up and buy a lifetime ad on Coupeville Sports, and she paid the premium price for it without blinking.

This has been a true community effort, as too many photographers to count have graciously allowed me to use their work without charging me.

John Fisken, who can often be seen dueling with Shelli for prime shooting room on the baseline, is a biggie. But so are the countless moms, dads and Island County Coroners who have aided me.

Above them all, though, is the woman who helped make this thing a reality in the beginning.

Coupeville Sports would not have caught on without the photos, and I wouldn’t have had the photos without Mrs. Trumbull.

She is the best.