Coupeville Sports

Cory Whitmore is working on a sixth-straight winning season as CHS volleyball coach. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Wolf softball guru Kevin McGranahan, coming off a 12-0 season, has led the diamond program to four-straight winning campaigns.

It’s a two-man battle, with a third lurking.

When you look at Coupeville High School’s sports programs, volleyball and softball have had the most sustained success over the past half-decade plus.

The Wolf spikers, currently sitting at 5-2, are playing for a sixth-straight winning season, all under coach Cory Whitmore.

CHS is 5-0 in Northwest 2B/1B league play this year, and has eight matches, seven against conference foes, remaining on the schedule.

Meanwhile, the softballers, playing for Kevin McGranahan, have put together four consecutive campaigns which ended with more wins than losses.

The only other Coupeville coach with an active streak of back-to-back winning seasons is football guru Marcus Carr.

His gridiron teams have finished 3-2 and 5-4 the past two campaigns, and are 1-2 this time around, with five games left to play on the regular-season schedule.

Boys basketball (Brad Sherman), girls tennis (Ken Stange), and baseball (Will Thayer) each have a current one-year streak of winning seasons.

Whitmore and McGranahan both were hired in 2016, both taking over programs which had a losing record the season before.

Since then, they’ve each won 60 games and taken a team to state, though their paths slightly diverge.

Whitmore is the only current CHS coach in any sport with more than one season under their belt to never post a losing record.

Meanwhile McGranahan’s softball squad went 12-0 this spring, believed to be the best finish by any Wolf team in school history, in any sport.

Unfortunately, Covid restrictions scrapped any form of playoffs for the diamond queens.

Which is still better than 2020, when the pandemic erased the whole season for spring teams.

How the coaches with the longest active-winning streaks at CHS match-up through Oct. 1, 2021, with Whitmore set to move ahead with a win next Tuesday at home against Concrete.

Cory Whitmore:

2016: 11-6
2017: 13-5 (State)
2018: 11-5
2019: 14-5
2020: 6-3 (Partial season – Covid)
2021: 5-2 (Active)

Total: 60-26

Kevin McGranahan:

2016: 9-11
2017: 12-9
2018: 12-9
2019: 15-10 (State)
2020: No season – Covid
2021: 12-0 (Partial season – Covid)

Total: 60-39