Left to right, top to bottom: Drake Borden, Hannah Davidson, Koa Davison, Maddie Georges, Mason Grove, Mitchell Hall, Dawson Houston, Gavin Knoblich, and Mallory Kortuem. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)
L to r: Carolyn Lhamon, Catherine Lhamon, Andrew Martin, Emma Mathusek, Xavier Murdy, Chelsea Prescott, Jacobi Pilgrim, Avalon Renninger, Scout Smith
Maya Toomey-Stout, Sean Toomey-Stout, Zoe Trujillo, Maddie Vondrak, Ulrik Wells, Hawthorne Wolfe, Tia Wurzrainer
For the eighth straight year, it’s time to anoint one Wolf to rule them all.
Sort of.
Love it or hate it, the annual battle to be anointed as the Coupeville Sports Athlete Supreme returns.
With everything going on in the outside world, I decided to jump things forward from May to March, giving everyone one small thing to take their mind off of their cabin fever.
The contest is simple — I nominate 25 Coupeville High School athletes, you get 100 hours to vote (10 AM, Thursday, March 19 to 2 PM, Monday, March 23), and one victor emerges.
In previous go-rounds, you had to have made an impact on at least two varsity teams to be eligible.
This year, with spring sports on hiatus, I’ve changed it to one team.
It’s not easy to get things down from say, 28 to 25 athletes.
The last person cut had a decent fall and winter, and was headed into a spring where they would likely have been a star, putting them over the edge if we were doing this in May.
It is what it is, though.
If you’re ticked at being left out, remember this — it’s a fake award. And the guy who made the nominations (me) is often an idiot.
For those nominated, if you and/or your fan base want to fight for a title previously won by Nick Streubel, Amanda Fabrizi, CJ Smith, Hunter Smith, Joey Lippo, Ethan Spark, and Mason Grove, great.
If not, no worries.
In the end, there’s no real prize for the winner, just a warm feeling in your chest from all that internet love, and the chance to smack-talk everyone (from a reasonable distance).
Sometimes that’s enough.
After several years of unlimited voting, which allowed people to run computer scripts and nuke the vote totals, we went back to semi-restricted voting last year.
That forced people to rely more on rallying fan bases and kept the race exciting until the end.
So, we’re keeping things that way this time around, and it should allow you to vote once per device, every three hours.
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