Coupeville Sports

Kacie Kiel — the K is for Killer! (John Fisken photos)

Serious. Always so serious.

Julia Myers

Wynter Thorne

Monica Vidoni

Madeline Strasburg

Hailey Hammer

Kiel is mobbed by her fan club.

Chimacum seniors Kiersten Snyder (2) and Makenzie Richey join the festivities.

Julia Myers is wise beyond her years.

In her farewell letter to family, friends, fans and teammates Friday night, the Coupeville High School senior wrote the following:

My advice for upcoming players would be to never take one moment for granted. Go out on the court every day and give it all you can because you never know a true value of a moment until it is a memory.

Having overcome two surgeries to return to the hardwood, Myers was pluck and grit personified.

“Elbows,” like her five fellow seniors, earned every memory.

As they walked off their home court for the final time, 8-0 in league and the first Wolf hoops team to put a championship banner on the gym wall since 2002, there were tears.

There were smiles.

There was a family.

Myers, Monica Vidoni, Hailey Hammer, Kacie Kiel, Wynter Thorne and Madeline Strasburg, like any group of athletes, had good moments together and bad moments.

Every family has its fights, but there is not a one among them who wouldn’t have gone to the mat for her sisters if someone else dared to pick on them.

They endured and they triumphed by being wonderful people on, and off, the court.

They are talented athletes, the best core group the Wolves have had since the glory days of the late ’90s and early 2000’s.

But, like that group, they are also amazing young women in all facets of their lives.

That we got to witness a brief slice of their awesomeness, to share in their struggles and their successes, is a blessing.

It’s not over yet.

One more road game, one more win for league perfection. Then, the playoffs and a date with destiny.

Give ’em the rock and sit back. Enjoy the ride and appreciate what you are seeing.

Six young women who have grown before our eyes from tentative freshmen to confident seniors, while never losing their love of life, or each other.

What’s next?

In the words of Kacie “Killer” Kiel — “Now watch me DUNK IT!!”