The impeccably-dressed Melia Welling. (John Fisken photos)
“Is mom working at PC right now, cause I’m parking this ball somewhere around the produce section.”
I like Melia Welling.
Regardless of whether or not she continues to become a big athletic star and ends up giving me plenty to write about over the next four years (and I think she will), she’s just a great young woman.
Like older brother Julian, she projects a friendliness that is infectious, and you can’t help but root for her.
Melia is on her way to becoming a freshman at Coupeville High School, with a pit stop in Birthday Land today, and she’s already made an impression as an athlete.
Volleyball, basketball, and, most recently, as a softball slugger for Central Whidbey Little League’s high-flying Juniors squad, the Venom, Welling has jumped in feet first.
She hails from an athletic family, which includes big bro and her cousins, Mitchell and Shane Losey, and she’s upholding tradition well.
Her biggest moment so far probably came when she thumped a two-run double in a Venom game.
The blow made Julian come dangerously close to flipping off the top row of the bleachers at the CHS softball diamond, as he screamed like a banshee while Melia beamed from ear to ear at second base.
Whether crunching big hits or giggling away with Cassidy Moody as the duo kept score at middle school boys’ basketball games, Welling is a talented, hard-working young woman who has made a very good impression on those of us in the cheap seats.
From all of us, happy birthday Melia. May the best be yet to come.
Coupeville Sports 
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