Posted in Boys Basketball on June 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »
“Target sighted!” (Shelli Trumbull photos)
“Mine! All mine!!”
“Success!!”
There’s no quit in Jared Helmstadter.
As shown in the photos above, the Coupeville High School sophomore-to-be runs down every loose ball he sees on the basketball court.
Helmstadter and his Wolf teammates are continuing to use the “off season” to fine-tune their hoop skills, playing as a team in a SWISH league. With effort such as that shown above, there should be nothing but good things ahead for Coupeville.
Posted in Baseball, Boys Basketball, Boys Tennis, Football, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Golf, Softball, Track, Volleyball on June 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The leaders of the pack, Nick Streubel (left) and Caleb Valko (right) with Wolf football coach Tony Maggio. (Rebecca Lord photo)
Breeanna Messner (left) and one of next year’s strongest contenders for Athlete Supreme, Amanda Fabrizi. (Robert Bishop photo)
You knew Caleb Valko wasn’t going down without a fight.
But not even a considerable rally late in the game from Team Valko, which marshaled its voting bloc in the late hours Thursday night, could upend Nick Streubel, who started strong and finished even stronger.
By the time the week-long voting for our inaugural 2012-2013 Athlete Supreme had reached the finish line Friday morning, 429 votes had been cast, with nearly 200 coming after I went to bed Thursday night.
What had been a two-person battle between Streubel, a junior who starred on the Coupeville High School football, boys’ basketball and track teams and Breeanna Messner, the school’s only four-sport (volleyball, cheer, basketball, softball) athlete turned into a three-way tussle.
Valko, a senior captain on the football and basketball squads, rallied his troops hard and he shot past Messner and made a run at Streubel, pulling within three votes.
Then The Big Hurt surged, spurred by a campaign led by big sis Amanda Streubel, and crushed everyone in sight, garnering 40.56% of the vote total in a 12-athlete field.
There was actually a 13th option, to vote for Other, which didn’t work the way I thought it would, as the results didn’t actually show the names people typed in for those votes. Which would have been awkward if Other had won.
But, in the end, NO ONE beats Team Streubel. NO ONE.
Final vote totals:
Streubel (174)
Valko (111)
Messner (72)
Bessie Walstad (13)
Makana Stone (12)
Madison Tisa McPhee (10)
Other (10)
Jake Tumblin (6)
Aaron Curtin (5)
Austin Fields (5)
Hailey Hammer (5)
Ben Etzell (4)
Christine Fields (2)
Posted in Boys Basketball on June 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Joel Walstad runs into a kung fu cowboy. “Shot to the ribs!!”
“Dang!”
Then there’s the “I’ll try screaming really loud when you shoot” style of defense.
And the always-popular “If I don’t look, I can’t see him make the basket” defense.
Aaron Trumbull operates in the clouds.
Jared Helmstadter blows by the Falcon defender and the ref.
Is it basketball or MMA?
The rugged photos above, shot by road warrior camera clicker Shelli Trumbull, capture the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball team during recent SWISH games against South Whidbey and a squad from Wyoming.
The action was fast and furious, body blows were exchanged and there’s a reason why several of the Wolves can be seen wearing mouth guards while playing.
Hopefully they wore cups too…
Posted in Boys Basketball on June 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Gavin O’Keefe — you’ll believe a Wolf can fly. (Shelli Trumbull photos)
“Oh, captain, my captain!”
Now this you love to see.
Gavin O’Keefe is a basketball junkie, a hoops player through and through, and one of the most explosive players Coupeville High School has on its roster.
Seeing him hobble around on crutches for 98.4% of his junior season after busting his leg in the second game of the 2012-2013 season was dispiriting.
You hate to see anyone miss a considerable chunk of time, but it’s worse when it’s a player who lives and breathes their sport and is primed for a breakout year.
So it’s great to see young Mr. O’Keefe back on the floor and running with his Wolf teammates in an off-season league.
The crutches are gone, Gavin is flying to the hoop and next season looks just that much brighter.
Posted in Boys Basketball, Boys Tennis, Track on May 31, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Meet Jared Smith. Yep, that’s his name now. So much easier. (Shelli Trumbull photo)
From now on I’m calling him Jared Smith.
So much easier.
It appears, after all my wailing over athletic.net misspelling Jared Helmstadler’s name as Jared Helmstadter (see article right below this one) that it was they, and not everyone else, that was right in the first place.
Every one of the Coupeville High School boys’ tennis and basketball rosters that I have from this, his freshman year, are flat-out wrong.
There never was an L there to begin with and that comes straight from his mom.
So, it always been a TER, not a LER, and knowing is half the battle.
The other half of the battle is going back through this site and changing all the L’s for T’s. In 44 freakin’ articles.
Sweet son of a …
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