Coupeville Sports

Scout Smith can’t contain her excitement over the basket she’s about to make. “It’s gonna be epic, dude!!” (John Fisken photos)

Ashlie Shank (left) and Lindsey Roberts spend some quality off-court time together.

Avalon Renninger prepares to pump-fake and drive past her defender.

What brings a team together? A camera. Always.

Rising Wolf star Ema Smith and her #1 fan.

Sarah Wright (33) gazes into the future. “We’re gonna kick some booty at the high school level!”

   Kalia Littlejohn, who has been battling illness all season, texts her future opponents. “Dear Sir or Madam, I’m gonna drop 20 on you. All my best, Kalia.”

Smith is already learning how best to deal with the paparazzi.

Learn their names now, because you’ll be hearing and reading them a lot in the future.

Lindsey. Kalia. Scout. Avalon. And on and on.

The young women who played basketball for Coupeville Middle School may have wrapped up their season Thursday, but they’ll be back.

Bigger. Taller. Stronger. Quicker. More well-honed in the basketball arts.

They were successful on the floor this time around, and that should carry over as they begin to move up and join the very successful CHS squads — the high school varsity and JV went a combined 18-0 in league play — in the coming years.

Until then, here are eight snappy pics of the young guns in action, on and off the court, from the finale in Langley.

The future starts now.