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Once were legends!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , , , on December 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tyler King (John Fisken photos)

   Coupeville’s lone D1 scholarship athlete, U-Dub track/cross country whiz kid Tyler King, swung by to help dad Randy run his 7th grade basketball practice. (John Fisken photos)

Breeanna Messner

   Four-sport star Breeanna Messner dropped in to see parents Aimee and Robert Bishop (and give out hugs to the media).

Kacie Kiel (top)

   Kacie Kiel (top), imparting wisdom to the young ‘uns, in this case Wolf junior spiker Ally Roberts.

Joel, Curtin

   High school stars turned college athletes (l to r) Joel Walstad, Aaron Curtin and Ben Etzell catch up while being harassed by the paparazzi.

locks

The Nebraska air has been good to Walstad’s silky locks.

fords and messners

   Messner has a (partial) family reunion after watching cousin Jordan Ford (not shown) score 13 in a win over Concrete.

Julia

   “Elbows” returns. One-time hoops enforcer/photo queen Julia Myers checks out the new bleachers (and drives my page view count up 276%).

Aunt Judy hangs out with her lil' niece, Lydia, and gets bum-rushed by everyone in the crowd.

   Aunt Judy hangs out with her lil’ niece, Lydia, and gets bum-rushed by everyone in the crowd.

Tis the season for heroes to return.

As the holidays hit, former Coupeville High School hoops stars are prone to return to town to see family and check up on the “young punks” who now wear the uniforms they once did.

Travelin’ photo man John Fisken kept one eye cocked at Friday night’s Wolf boys’ hoops games and snagged the photos above to give us a brief visual reminder of the walkin’, talkin’, muggin’ for the camera glory days.

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Hoop alumni ready to rumble!!

Posted in Basketball, Fundraisers, tagged , , , , on December 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Gavin O' Keefe (John Fisken photos)

   Gavin O’ Keefe gets welcomed to the club at last year’s tourney. (John Fisken photos)

Jason McFadyen

Jason McFadyen, still poster-worthy after all these years.

Ten days until things get real.

Alumni from Coupeville, Oak Harbor and South Whidbey are expected for the annual Tom Roehl Roundball Classic, set for Dec. 26 from 10:30-6:00 in the Coupeville High School gym.

The event raises money for scholarships given to local students by the foundation run by the legendary former coach’s family.

Roehl was an assistant football coach at CHS and helped run the Central Whidbey Youth Athletic Association for two decades before his passing in 2003.

The tourney has six teams currently registered, with at least two more on the cusp of joining the fray.

Red Pride (anchored by Mike Vaughn and Scott Stuurmans), The Coupeville Cows (featuring a collection of Shermans and Bagbys) and Central Ballers (led by CHS boys’ JV basketball coach Dustin Van Velkinburgh) will all be returning.

Tourney director Noah Roehl has also pulled together two coups.

The first is the return of Pete Petrov, standout former Wolf point guard, who is returning to make his tourney debut with the Red Pride.

Will it be enough to lift Red Pride back into the title picture?

After winning three straight titles, the Pride fell last year, with the Cows, led by tourney MVP Jason Bagby, beating the Central Ballers in the final.

The second coup is getting a team of relatively younger players to take a chance on making a run at the “old school” legends who have held court the last couple years.

The new squad, made up of players from 2010-2015, will feature Joel and Tim Walstad, among others.

The tourney will kick off with seeding play at 10:30, with the tournament round set tentatively for 2 and the championship game at 4:45.

A popular three-point shooting contest, which debuted last year, will go between the opening rounds.

The Round-Ball Classic helps to fund two scholarships, one which goes to a CHS grad and one to a graduate from South Whidbey High School.

Community support is provided by Harada Physical Therapy, Island Periodontics, Cascade Custom Homes, Jason Joiner with Windermere Commercial and DCG Engineering.

Admission to the tourney is free, but donations may be made to help the foundation’s work.

For more info, pop over to:

http://www.tjroehl.org/

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More photos than there are stars in heaven!!

Posted in Band, Basketball, Cheer, Fashionable Fans, tagged , , , , , , on December 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Allison Wenzel (John Fisken photo)

They call her Allison “Danger” Wenzel. (John Fisken photo)

cheer

   The Wolf cheer squad warms up for a night of hollerin’ and stunts with a moment of sisterly solidarity.

Branden

Brandon Jansen lets rip during the halftime half-court shot contest.

band

The CHS band, ready to get rowdy.

baby

“They’ve got a good beat and I can dance to ’em!”

Mollie

   Mollie (front) and Mckenzie Bailey stake their claim to being Wolf three-ball assassin Kailey Kellner’s biggest boosters.

fans

   Brenden Gilbert (hat) takes his responsibility to anchor the CHS student section seriously, showing up long before tip-off, accompanied by his support crew.

Nicole and Sarah

   Nicole Lester (top) works on Sarah Wright’s ‘do, while Brisa Herrera (left) monitors things.

trio

   Later that night, the trio of (l to r) Sarah Wright, Ashlie Shank and Ema Smith would play, and win. At that moment, however, they were otherwise occupied.

Makana candy

   The semi-annual meeting of the Sour Patch Kids Fan Club unites (l to r) Lindsey Roberts, Makana Stone and Wolf mom/candy smuggler Amy Briscoe.

The camera is a restless beast.

When action isn’t happening on the hard-court, rovin’ photo man John Fisken likes to go hunting for pics wherever he can find them.

Then, he delivers them unto us, a merry medley of band, cheer, fans, wandering babies and Sour Patch Kids bribes, and we are better for it.

Even if we didn’t get any candy ourselves…

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Clickin’ the night away!!

Posted in Basketball, Fashionable Fans, tagged , , , , , , , on December 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Ema Smith (John Fisken photos)

   Wolf hoops star Ema Smith is relieved to know her personal photographer has arrived on scene. (John Fisken photos)

Sandy Roberts

Susan and Sandy Roberts, just here to class up the joint a bit.

crowd

   An overflow crowd enjoys the rock-hard, but beautiful-to-look-at CHS bleachers.

band

“I said no autographs and I meant it!”

Ford and Roberts

   It just got legendary up in here, as former Wolf greats David Ford (left) and Jon Roberts drop in to watch their progeny play some hoops.

Garrett and Mckenzie

Garrett Compton and Mckenzie Meyer hang out during a break in the action.

Robin and Jovanah

Robin Cedillo (left) and Jovanah Foote prepare to drop the beat.

girls on phones

A moment neither one of these girls saw…

girls and papa kiel

   Coupeville’s finest, (l to r) Ashlie Shank, Sarah Wright, Smith and Ashley Menges, get photobombed by Steve “Big Papa” Kiel.

Every great sports photographer knows one important trick — don’t spend all your time focused on the on-court action.

At any Coupeville High School basketball game, there are a ton of other things going on worthy of a pic or two.

Be it band, cheer, celebrity sightings or just people goofing off, you need to get good color to go with the sports action.

The photos above, snapped at Wednesday’s Wolf doubleheader against Orcas Island, come to us courtesy Diet Coke-lovin’ camera clicker John Fisken.

Like what you see?

Well, like I said, he likes his Diet Coke and he’s scheduled to be shooting at Friday night’s CHS girls’ basketball games.

Hint, hint, nudge, nudge, oh wait, is that a concession stand that sells Diet Coke?!?!

How convenient.

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Livin’ the hoops life!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Former Wolf Bessie Walstad (11), sporting a new uniform at George Fox University. (Photo courtesy Renee Walstad)

   Former Wolf Bessie Walstad (11), sporting a new uniform at George Fox University. (Photo courtesy Renee Walstad)

At least two former Wolf basketball stars are taking their game to the college court this winter.

Coupeville High School grads Bessie Walstad and Monica Vidoni are lacing up and running lines, continuing to pursue the hoops dream.

After taking a couple of years off, Walstad, a 2013 CHS grad, has picked the game back up in Oregon, where she attends George Fox University.

She’s playing for the Bruins JV squad, and getting back on the court at the NCAA D-III school has been a thrill.

“It is tons of fun!,” Walstad said.

Vidoni, a 2015 grad, is two games into her first hoops season at Rainy River Community College in Minnesota.

The Voyageurs are 2-0, having beaten Fond du Lac Tribal 71-51 and Hibbing 79-62.

Vidoni’s best game came in the opener, when she scored two points, snagged five rebounds and rejected a shot.

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