Lathom Kelley, poppin’ collars and knockin’ helmets off. (Sylvia Arnold photo)
Joel Walstad is the favorite to be under center when the Wolves kick off. (John Fisken photo)
Let the countdown begin.
A mere 84 days from now, the Coupeville High School football team will step onto its home turf to kick off a new gridiron season.
And when Lathom Kelley, Wiley Hesselgrave, Josh Bayne and Co. take the field, it’ll be a whole new game for the Wolves.
After eight seasons of being the smallest team, by far, in the 1A/2A Cascade Conference, Coupeville will be on a somewhat more level playing field.
The Wolves will still rep the smallest 1A school in the state. Actually, having lost several students AFTER the classifications were set for the next two years, CHS will have fewer students than several 2B schools.
But, their new opponents in the 1A Olympic League will be much closer in size to them than Cedarcrest or Lakewood in years past.
Coupeville will play home-and-away against their three new league rivals — Chimacum, Port Townsend and Klahowya — while retaining the Island rivalry for The Bucket with South Whidbey.
That matchup, which kicks off the season, will be one of three non-conference tilts.
The Wolves will play one 2A school, Sequim, which went 0-10 a season ago, and one 2B squad, with a revival of an old school rivalry with Concrete on Halloween.
The schedule as it stands now has CHS home for four straight to kick off the year:
9-5 South Whidbey
9-12 Sequim
9-19 Chimacum
9-26 Port Townsend
10-3 @ Klahowya
10-10 @ Port Townsend
10-17 @ Chimacum
10-24 Klahowya
10-31 @ Concrete
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