Coupeville Sports

Tiffany Briscoe (left) and Jae LeVine helped Coupeville make it to state in 2014.

A new season starts in a little over 48 hours.

Coupeville High School athletes will head outside (hopefully not into the rain) Monday to kick off the first day of practice for spring sports.

The new season is the busiest of the three for CHS, with softball, baseball, track, golf, boys soccer and girls tennis vying.

The five Wolf squads (lone Wolf golfer Christine Fields trains and travels with South Whidbey) will be making their debut in the 1A Olympic League.

With fall and winter done, Coupeville has been the second-most successful school in the new league, capturing 23 league wins and a title in girls basketball.

Klahowya, the biggest school (by far) in the new four-team conference, has 30 league wins spread across the six sports (football, volleyball, boys tennis, girls soccer, girls and boys basketball) played so far.

Port Townsend has 15, while Chimacum brings up the rear with 13.

As they head into a new league, the Wolves hope to replicate their success from last spring.

Coupeville sent its baseball and softball teams to state, while Fields, track star Makana Stone and netters Aaron Curtin and Ben Etzell also made the trip to the Big Dance.

It was the first trip to state for a CHS softball squad in 12 years and one of the players who witnessed that never-say-die run up close and personal was Tiffany Briscoe.

As a freshman, she started several games in the outfield for the Wolves and became a more dangerous hitter in the latter stages of the season.

Now, as a sophomore, she will be in a new league, with a new coach, as Deanna Rafferty has replaced David and Amy King, who had to step aside to focus more time on their jobs.

Like her teammates, and fellow athletes in other sports, Briscoe is on the edge of her seat as the hours tick down.

Her thoughts:

“So, I’m super excited for softball to start!

Although all the nerves are starting to kick in with a new coach and all. But so far I’ve heard nothing but great things about her!

This will hopefully be another great season for Coupeville softball.

I’m ready to be back with the team and continue to keep improving our game!”