Coupeville Sports

Hunter Smith (4) is joined by fellow record holders (clockwise, from top right) Chad Gale, Brian Fakkema, Nick Streubel, Ian Smith, Joe Kelley, Josh Bayne, Ian Barron, Joel Walstad and Brad Sherman.

Imagine a magical world.

In this utopia, a chain-smoking, bee-hived-hairdo-rockin’ lady (we’ll call her Gladys) has been working out of a small office in the back of the Coupeville High School gym complex for decades.

While there she’s been faithfully recording stats and filing them away neatly in frequently-dusted filing cabinets.

Now, come back to reality, where any pursuit of Wolf athletic history involves latching on to whatever scattered records someone pulls out of their dusty attic or spending hours trying not to rip the brittle pages of the bound volumes in the Whidbey News-Times archives.

So, it is, with justifiable trepidation that I approach calling any history definitive.

But, having gone cross-eyed and ink-stained, I am, we’ll say, 98.3% certain that the CHS football records I’m about to present are pretty dang close to being canon.

With one or two niggling doubts still trying to be ironed out.

As you scan these records, the oldest of which hails from 1970 (and yes, I went back WAY before that), remember several things.

One, sacks were not tallied as such in the olden days, so the players of earlier decades may have hauled down a lot of quarterbacks but will never own the record.

Two, the game has changed, with tons of tweaks aimed at ramping up offenses.

Go back in the archives and there are quite a few 6-0 games, and quite a few talented players who never had the chance to put up numbers like the modern day guys.

And three, and this is the biggest of them all — high school football stats, especially at small schools, are notoriously fickle and largely dependent on how good that year’s record keepers were.

But you don’t care about all the rationale, you just want the glossy numbers.

So here you go, my 98.3% correct all-time Coupeville High School football records.

If you disagree, speak up now or forever hold your peace.

And, if you want to argue, have something to back up your story.

Missing stat sheets, newspaper clippings which tell a different tale than what I saw, game film, a time travel machine that allows us to go back and watch it all unfold live.

Bring it on, I say.

BEST INDIVIDUAL SINGLE-GAME PERFORMANCE:

Rushing Yards – (320) Ian Barron-1998
Passing Yards – (403) Gabe Eck-2015
Receiving Yards – (202) Chad Gale-1987
Rushing TDs – (6) Ian Barron-2000
Passing TDs – (4) Corey Cross-1971, Brad Sherman-2001
Receiving TDs – (3) Glenn Losey-1970, Brian Fakkema-2001, Josh Bayne-2014
Tackles – (27) Scott McMartin-1981
Interceptions – (4) Brian Fakkema-2002
Sacks — (4) Nick Streubel-2013

BEST INDIVIDUAL SEASON:

Rushing Yards – (1753) Ian Barron-1998
Passing Yards – (1848) Ian Smith-2010
Receiving Yards – (844) Chad Gale-1987
Rushing TDs – (16) Ian Barron-1998
Passing TDs – (18) Joel Walstad-2014
Receiving TDs – (10) Josh Bayne-2014
Tackles – (142) Joe Kelley-2001
Interceptions – (7) Dan Neider-1986, Hunter Smith-2015
Sacks – (10) Nick Streubel-2013

BEST INDIVIDUAL CAREER:

Rushing Yards – (4713) Ian Barron
Passing Yards – (3613) Brad Sherman
Receiving Yards – (1345) Chad Gale
Rushing TDs – (37) Ian Barron
Passing TDs – (33) Brad Sherman
Receiving TDs – (17) Chad Gale
Tackles – (301) Joe Kelley
Interceptions – (12) Josh Bayne
Sacks – (12) Nick Sellgren

BEST TEAM SINGLE-SEASON PERFORMANCE:

Rushing Yards – (2742) 2014
Passing Yards – (1863) 2014
Receiving Yards – (1863) 2014
Rushing TDs – (26) 2014
Passing TDs – (20) 2014
Receiving TDs – (20) 2014
Tackles – (800) 2008
Interceptions – (20) 1986
Sacks – (22) 1996