Coupeville Sports

   Marc Aparicio (who has since shaved his magnificent beard), hanging out with his children.

Barring a last-second plot twist, Marc Aparicio is on his way to becoming the new head baseball coach at Coupeville High School.

CHS Athletic Director Duane Baumann confirmed Wednesday the school has offered Aparicio the position.

All that remains is for the hire to be approved by the school board, which meets 6:30 PM Monday, Dec. 21 in the Coupeville Elementary School library.

Aparicio’s potential new job is on the agenda.

A 1988 CHS grad who played baseball, football, basketball and track during his time as a Wolf, Aparicio went to state five times.

His ties to the community run deep.

Older brother Mitch was also a multi-sport star for the Wolves and current CHS sophomore Payton Aparicio, a top volleyball and tennis player, is his niece.

After graduation, Marc put in stints in the Air National Guard (electrician), Army National Guard (heavy equipment operator) and the US Coast Guard before retiring this year and moving home to Coupeville, where he lives on Penn Cove.

During his time in the Coast Guard, Aparicio, an aeronautical engineer, spent six months on ice patrol, flying search and rescue missions on the Bering Sea.

He was chief engineer for the H-65 helicopter fleet, a maintenance test pilot, project manager on two of the biggest USCG acquisition programs in history, member of a helicopter operational unit and a senior flight instructor.

If approved by the school board, Aparicio will replace Willie Smith, who retired in the spring after a very successful 19-year run as head baseball coach at CHS.

Aparicio will get some valuable help from Chris Smith.

The father of Wolf players CJ and Hunter Smith, he was JV coach under Willie Smith (no relation) last season, and confirmed Wednesday he plans to return.

“I’m looking forward to working with Marc,” Chris Smith said.