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Tackle the future!!

Posted in Boys and Girls Club, Football, tagged , , , , , on May 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf players showed up Friday to hold a flag football clinic for kids from the Boys and Girls Club. (Photo courtesy Jacob Martin)

   Wolf players showed up Friday to hold a flag football clinic for kids from the Boys and Girls Club. (Photo courtesy Jacob Martin)

The strength of the Wolf is the pack.

Proving that to be true, 20 Coupeville High School football players showed up Friday — on a day when there was no school — to help their coaches run a flag football clinic for local children.

The event, put on through the Coupeville Boys and Girls Club, drew 28 participants, said CHS head football coach Brett Smedley.

“We had a great turn out and they had a great time!” he said.

Drawing in both girls and boys on a sunny afternoon, the clinic featured a mix of lessons and fun.

As he continues to build his own program at the high school, Smedley is also reaching out to the sport at other levels.

Getting assistance from a wide range of helpers was invaluable, he said.

“I’d like to thank the Boys and Girls Club, Coupeville Elementary, the CHS Football Team, Coach (Bob) Martin, and Coach (Ryan) King for putting this on!”

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We got next (in a few years)!!

Posted in Basketball, Boys and Girls Club, tagged , , , , on February 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

(John Fisken photos)

“Scuse me, I got ankles to go break.” (John Fisken photos)

"Whoa ... who let the paparazzi in here?"

“Whoa … who let the paparazzi in here?”

kacie

The socks, they rock.

"I'm just sayin', that basketball looks delicious..."

“I’m just sayin’, that basketball looks delicious…”

Elbows

“I learned how to play defense watching Julia Myers. I call my elbows Thunder and Lightning and there’s a storm coming!!”

The next generation is already here.

Making their debut at halftime of the CHS girls’ basketball game Tuesday night, the youngest members of the Coupeville Boys and Girls Club hoops program made a solid debut.

While they came dangerously close to hitting a basket on the regulation 10-foot hoops, they also displayed some fancy dribbling skills and a very loose interpretation of traveling.

Roving photo man John Fisken caught these photos for us, and, who knows, come back in 10 years and we may have just gotten our first glance at a bevy of future Wolf stars.

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Time to hop into hoops!!

Posted in Boys and Girls Club, Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball on November 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Want to play like Anthony Bergeron? Start working today. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Want to play like Anthony Bergeron? Start working today. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Time to lace the basketball shoes back up.

The Coupeville Boys and Girls Club has set Saturday, Dec. 14 for its season-opening Skills Day and Registration. The event will kick off at 9 AM in the Coupeville High School gym, across the street from Prairie Center.

The program is open to players in kindergarten through eighth grade and the season starts in early January. It will include weekly practices, Thursday clinics, and Saturday games.

For more information head over to https://sites.google.com/a/coupevilleboysandgirlsclub.org/basketball-program/

To sponsor a team contact Jamie Scharich at 678-5640.

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McKayla Bailey and the Art of the Photo Bomb!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys and Girls Club, Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball on February 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »

McKayla Bailey: "Oh hey, just passin' by!!"

McKayla Bailey: “Oh hey, just passin’ by!!”

You've been (Hailey) Hammer(ed)!!

You’ve been (Hailey) Hammer(ed)!!

Fabrizi!!

Fabrizi!!

The benchmark.

The benchmark.

Brian Norris approves this message.

Brian Norris approves this message.

Where would the world be without the photo bomb?

It would be a duller, grayer place if every so often you weren’t looking at photos and suddenly noticed that one person in the background doing something completely different from everyone else.

It’s the little cherry on the top of the photographic sundae.

So, as we creep into a Monday, let’s look back at a few of the best captured by ace photog Shelli Trumbull.

P.S. — Click on each photo to enlarge them and bask in the full awesomness.

 

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Today’s hoops stars tutor tomorrow’s stars!!

Posted in Boys and Girls Club, Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball on February 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The next generation version of Bessie Walstad or Breeanna Messner. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

     The next generation version of Bessie Walstad or Breeanna Messner. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Nick Streubel tells his young pupils, "Drink your milk and you too can grow up to be The Big Hurt."

       Nick Streubel tells his young pupils, “Drink your milk and you too can grow up to be The Big Hurt.”

My former video store "assistant manager" (left) surveys the court he's about to wreck.

   My former video store “assistant manager” (left) surveys the court he’s about to wreck.

Makana Stone (left) and Hailey Hammer teach dribbling skills.

Makana Stone (left) and Hailey Hammer teach dribbling skills.

Caleb Valko-style defense. Excellent.

Caleb Valko-style defense. Nice.

Rhiannon Ellsworth (left) and Kacie Kiel train their squad.

Rhiannon Ellsworth (left) and Kacie Kiel train their squad.

"This court is mine!"

“This court is mine!”

"I bow to your excellence!"

“I bow to your excellence!”

How do you build basketball success?

One kid at a time, one hoop at a time, one day at a time.

You get the high school stars to give back, their time and their skills, and you build the small moments when a young child looks up at them and says, “That’s what I want to be. Right there.”

Because, years from now, that small child is the high school star, and he or she gives back their time and their skills and a town’s heritage of basketball excellence rolls on.

One kid at a time, one hoop at a time, one day at a time.

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