Help Coupeville High School restore 116 years of athletic history by installing title boards like the ones Oak Harbor has in its gym.
Help us restore Coupeville High School’s rich athletic history!
The Wolves have stood tall on the prairie for 116 years, but you might not know it from looking at the championship banners hanging in the CHS gym.
Currently there are just a handful on display, stuck off in the corner, and they don’t go back beyond 1990.
Even those are far from complete, basically omitting virtually everything the highly-successful Wolf tennis programs have accomplished in the last two decades.
But we’re not here to assign blame.
The past is the past, and we’re looking to the future … while, um, embracing the past.
Working in conjunction with Jim Waller and Keven R. Graves at the Whidbey News-Times, I have spent several months tracking down a far more comprehensive history of what Wolf athletes and teams have accomplished from 1900-2016.
The plan I have spearheaded, and which school administration, the Booster Club and others have joined in on, is to replace the handful of dusty banners.
In their place will rise a gorgeous new display of 109 title boards which will showcase four things — all league and district team titles, top 10 team finishes at state and the school’s 17 individual state titles.
The style of title boards we will use is similar to what our neighbors at Oak Harbor High School currently do, which is depicted in the photo up top.
Using Coupeville colors, league titles will be on white boards, district titles on black and state accomplishments on red.
Once put in place, the title boards will need little upkeep, can be easily (and inexpensively) added to in years to come and will restore a true sense of history to our gym.
Since they will hang on the wall opposite the benches — a much more visible location than the current banner set-up — they will be the first thing seen by Wolf athletes (and their fans), as well as rival teams.
They will offer current athletes something to aspire for, honor the accomplishments of those who came before (in many cases, direct relatives of those now playing) and serve as a warning to those who dare to enter the CHS gym carrying another school’s colors.
The school’s booster club has agreed to pay $2,500 towards the initial expense of having the boards created and installed. They have also set aside funding for adding title boards in years to come.
But, going from zero to 116 years of history is a big jump to make, and we’ll need to raise the remaining money needed. That will fall in the $2,500-$3,000 range.
We want to have these installed before school starts in September, kicking off the 2016-2017 school year with a real bang.
I firmly believe there are enough current and former Wolves out there — athletes, coaches, parents, grandparents, fans — who can, and will, come together to make this a reality.
Please consider joining us on this mission, either with a donation or by sharing this story or the GoFundMe link.
Let’s put the growl back in Wolf Nation in time for opening night.
To join the movement, pop over to:
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