Coupeville Sports

  Oliana Stange, back in her Coupeville days, keepin’ the beat goin’. (John Fisken photo)

OK, don’t get all flustered, but we need to take a moment to celebrate something done by a Langley athlete.

Wait, what?!?!?!?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the name on the blog is Coupeville Sports, but, over time, I have mellowed … a bit.

And, regardless of what uniform she currently wears, Oliana Stange is one of Whidbey’s best, brightest, kindest and most-worthy-of-praise athletes, so deal with it.

Miss Stange, daughter of Coupeville High School tennis guru Ken Stange (and super mom Ericka Cooley), used to run for Coupeville Middle School until a family move took her down South this year.

The former Wolf track star is now running cross country as an eighth grader at Langley Middle School, where she and her teammates capped their season by sweeping both titles at the Cascade Conference Championships Thursday.

Langley trumped Lakewood, King’s, Sultan, Granite Falls and Northshore Christian to top the overall scoring in both the girls and boys races.

Stange finished 25th in her race, covering 1.74 miles in 14 minutes, 5.54 seconds.

Of the five races she ran in this season, it was the longest course she has had to deal with.

So, while she may be a Cougar these days, we’re going to ignore that fact for the moment.

Way to go, Oliana!