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Side note — see my favorite film from the last year. It’s available on Kanopy, the free streaming site offered by your local library!

This is probably the spot where I should put on a suit and slick my hair back, televangelist-style.

Looks in closet … no suits, lots of shorts.

Looks in mirror … no hair, or at least not enough to get that lush Jim Bakker or Kenneth Copeland ‘do going.

See, a receding hairline is why I don’t have that indoor/outdoor swimming pool, with mansion attached, yet.

Anyways.

I won’t take much of your time. Or offer any miracles, ala the fancy-haired dudes rambling on your Grandma’s TV at 3 AM in the morning.

The facts are these:

Spring sports for Coupeville High School teams start Monday, with the first practices for softball, girls’ tennis, track and field, and baseball.

Games begin about two weeks later.

This blog writer has been there, freezing his tush off on the prairie in “spring” weather since 2012.

Varsity, JV, C-Team, middle school, little league, community sports, I cover it all and you can read about it all for free.

We’re pushing 12,000 articles about the sporting life in Cow Town.

But if I’m going to make it through another season and make a run at a 13-year anniversary this August, I need your support.

WordPress wants its annual $107 in mid-March, and I don’t have it.

I also don’t have the money to get the oil change on the car I’ve been borrowing since my own Xterra melted down and joined all the other vehicles I’ve sent to the great auto wrecking lot in the sky.

And I’m fairly certain the landlord’s cats are eyeballing me.

“You’d better not mess with our ability to get wet food, slick!”

So, here we are again.

If you’d like to see the blog make it through another spring, I’m asking for your support. Whether it’s $5 or a new indoor/outdoor swimming pool, everything helps.

If not, I understand.

There will be a time at some point where I will have to hang up the keyboard and go back to a job that likely requires wearing pants. That’s life.

I leave the decision in your hands.

 

To keep Coupeville Sports chugging along:

 

PayPal:

https://paypal.me/DavidSvien?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

 

Venmo:

David-Svien

 

Snail mail:

David Svien
165 Sherman
Coupeville, WA 98239

 

In person:

The ol’ Mafia-style handshake

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Tenley Stuurmans celebrates with Haylee Armstrong (front) after the sophomore sensation hit a game-winning bucket in a playoff game. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The games are over, but the photos go on forever.

Pics continue to trickle in long after the final buzzer went off for the Coupeville High School hoops teams.

The images above and below, a mix of girls’ and boys’ action, come to us courtesy John Fisken.

To see his camera work in the future, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/

 




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It’s like a scene from The Lion King. Sort of. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s a collection of random photos.

With high school basketball having reached the finish line in Coupeville, we’re cleaning out the leftover pics, so here you go.

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Whidbey’s newest Eagle Scouts are (l to r) Finn Price, Frankie Tenore, and Gwen Miller. (Photo courtesy Heather Tenore)

They’ve unlocked their next achievement.

Two Coupeville High School students and one from Oak Harbor were honored Sunday for becoming Eagle Scouts.

During the ceremony at the Coupeville Rec Hall, Wolves Frankie Tenore and Finn Price were joined by Wildcat Gwen Miller.

Tenore, who was the first female Webelo in Coupeville, and Miller are the first Whidbey Island girls to earn the rank.

The trio join another CHS student, Preston Howard, who achieved Eagle Scout status in 2024, and Wolf soccer player Matthew Ward, who is on target to notch the honor in the next few months.

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Sage Arends is suited up and ready to rock on the taekwondo mat. (Kim Arends photos)

He’s a man of multiple talents.

Coming off a productive basketball season with the Wolf JV, Coupeville High School sophomore Sage Arends is back on the taekwondo mats, collecting medals wherever he goes.

Saturday, the Wolf ace was busy at a regional tournament, where he collected a second-place finish in sparring and a third in Poomsae.

All your medals are ours!

Arends waits to unleash his full fury.

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