Chloe Gardner
Perhaps the best “Wolf that Never Was” is officially Whatcom’s best.
Chloe Gardner, who moved away from Coupeville with her family when she was in the third grade, was selected Friday as The Bellingham Herald’s All-Whatcom County Female Athlete of the Year.
As a senior at Nooksack Valley High School, Gardner won a 1A state wrestling title at 145 pounds, helped lead the Pioneers to a fifth place finish in the state softball tourney and advanced to state in cross country, a sport she mainly used as a way to get ready for her “real” sports.
I bring this up because if her parents, Wade and Trina, had not chosen to move the family off The Rock in 2004 (a time when Trina was the #1 barista at Miriam’s Espresso), Chloe would have been doing her butt-kickin’ in the red and black.
Albeit in different sports, since CHS doesn’t field cross country or wrestling teams.
But that’s fine. Gardner is a superb athlete. She would have adapted.
Drop in volleyball or soccer for cross country and basketball for wrestling and we’re good to go.
Except…
If we had a time machine, we could go back and convince a third-grader to convince her family not to move, thereby changing the very course of Wolf athletics!
Seriously, who wants to get working on this idea?!?! Anyone, anyone … Bueller, Bueller?
OK, fine, be that way. Personally, I thought the idea had merit.
To see more on Chloe’s honor, bounce over to:
Coupeville Sports 
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