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Call him The Poll King!!

Posted in Athlete Supreme, Baseball, Boys Basketball, Football, tagged Athlete Supreme, baseball, CHS Wolves, CJ Smith, Julia Myers, polls on May 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

CJ Smith, your 2014-2015 Coupeville Sports Athlete Supreme. (John Fisken photos)

Julia Myers, second in the voting but first in the hearts of Judy Nation.

Past winners Nick Streubel and Amanda Fabrizi.

CJ Smith destroys polls.

The Coupeville High School junior — and his fervent fan club — outlasted, outwitted and outvoted the field (again), sweeping to victory in Coupeville Sports 3rd annual battle to be named Athlete Supreme.

Smith, who played football, basketball and baseball for the Wolves in 2014-2015, edged out soccer/basketball star Julia Myers with a strong second-half performance.

With 24 hours left in the 3.5-day voting period, Myers held a razor-thin two-vote advantage, but Smith stormed back to win 4,253-3,514.

Overall, 15,385 votes were cast, with Jacki Ginnings (1,660), Matt Shank (1,066) and Valen Trujillo (940) rounding out the top five.

With the win, Smith joins past winners Nick Streubel (2012-2013) and Amanda Fabrizi (2013-2014) in winning an award that has no real trophy (yet) but gets you about seven seconds of fame.

Now, the only question remaining, can CJ defend his crown as a senior and become the first repeat winner in Athlete Supreme history, or is there a Wolf out there preparing to take him down?

To do so, you’ll need two things — a strong athletic year (you’re more likely to be nominated if you play multiple sports) and a really fast voting finger.

To see the complete results and vote totals for all 16 contestants, pop over to:

https://coupevillesports.com/2015/05/17/let-the-insanity-begin/

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Birthday boys bash heads, earn praise!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Basketball, Football, Happy birthday, tagged birthday cake, CHS Wolves, football, Gabe Wynn, Happy birthday, Jacob Martin on April 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Birthday boys Jacob Martin (left) and Gabe Wynn contemplate the chances of gettin’ some cake. (John Fisken photos)

Wynn hits the line at maximum velocity.

Martin prepares to hit someone, hard.

They are the present, and the future, of Wolf sports.

CHS sophomores Jacob Martin and Gabe Wynn, who share a birthday today, are among the brightest stars on the Cow Town scene these days.

During football season, #32 (Martin) and #33 (Wynn) were a hard-hittin’ duo on defense who also piled up some serious yardage on offense.

As they move into their junior seasons, those numbers should only increase.

Wynn is also a hoops stud (he saw varsity playing time as early as his freshman year) and baseball player who is following in the prodigious athletic footsteps of his mom, Robyn (Seth) Myers, a former standout at Oak Harbor.

Which is all fine and good, but the duo also stand tall as two of the classier dudes to rep the red and black.

Watch either one in practice, or in how they respond to their coaches when given instruction, and you will see two young men who represent the best of what Wolf Nation would hope for their athletes to be.

As Jacob and Gabe celebrate their birthdays today, take a quick moment to wish them the best.

They have earned it.

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Heart of a champion!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Boys Soccer, Football, Happy birthday, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, football, Happy birthday, Isaac Vargas, Soccer on April 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Isaac Vargas (John Fisken photos)

The kid has no quit in him.

That’s what I thought early in the first season that I saw Isaac Vargas play.

He was suiting up for the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball squad and still wearing glasses when he played.

During a scramble for the ball, he got smacked in the face and the glasses flew off his nose and hit the court.

Without pausing, he kicked them to the bench and took off down the court, possibly blindly, pursuing his man, who had the ball and was hoping to push the attack.

Vargas, who celebrates a birthday today, has kept that same go-for-broke style through all of his sports, whether it be hoops, soccer or football, where he made an impact as one of the leaders on the Wolf line.

He might not be the loudest or the brashest player — he actually seems pretty laid-back most of the time — but there is obviously a fire that burns in his heart.

Watching him give his all for the past three years, I have to say, I’m impressed.

If everyone played with Ike’s hustle, guts and drive, they’d be better for it.

Happy birthday, Mr. Vargas.

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Trophy time!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Basketball, CMS Wolves, Daniel Olson, Jake Mitten, Matthew Kelley, Sage Downes, SWISH on March 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »

The Coupeville 6th grade SWISH basketball team hoists its trophy. (Pat Kelley photos)

Then Logan Downes (3) got hoisted, as well.

One loss at the wrong time stung the Wolves.

A “heartbreaking” 21-19 defeat at the hands of Burlington-Edison Saturday — a team they had beaten in the regular season — cost the Coupeville 6th grade SWISH boys’ basketball team a shot at a postseason title.

The Wolves rebounded, drilling Mount Vernon Mayhem 28-13 to capture fourth place in the season-ending “C-Fidalgo” Division Tournament.

But it was a bit of a missed opportunity as the four teams to advance to the semifinals were teams Coupeville (7-4 overall) had gone 5-0 against during the regular season.

The opener against Burlington pitted the Wolves against a defensive-minded team, and the score showed as much.

Matthew Kelley banged home a three-point bomb near the end of the first quarter to account for the only bucket in the opening frame.

Up 11-5 at the half, Coupeville went cold after the break, eventually surrendering the lead in the game’s final two minutes.

Kelley paced the Wolves with seven points while Jake Mitten dropped in six and snatched a team-high 14 boards. Sage Downes popped for four and Daniel Olson netted a bucket to round out the scoring.

The loss left a sour taste for a Wolf squad with high hopes.

“There was some crying, which we need to work out since the weekend was not over,” said Coupeville coach Pat Kelley.

Rebounding after a four-hour break, Coupeville ran the Mayhem, who were built like a football squad, off the floor.

“I played the little guys over half the game,” Pat Kelley said. “It was never really close and we had double their score most of the game. They had some garbage buckets at the end.”

Kelley and Downes each hit for nine in the second game, with Mitten hitting for six and Olson swishing four.

Twice Coupeville hit on a beautiful Olson to Kelley to Mitten fast-passing play that resulted in easy buckets.

“Ran this play to perfection,” Pat Kelley said. “Something to see; it takes less then two seconds. Their passing was on.”

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