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Ten-Hut! Military honors Wolf senior athletes!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, Boys Tennis, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Track on June 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Haley Marx (left) and Madison Tisa McPhee

Nathan Lamb

Luke Pelant

Awards season neared an end Tuesday night.

Somewhere out there in the near future, there’s still letters and team awards to be handed out to the track and field team, but, as graduation roars up on Coupeville High School, all the big trophies, plaques and handshakes have been delivered.

Among the awards handed out Tuesday were four aimed at senior athletes.

Sponsored by military branches, they’re a semi-sneaky way for the armed services to get their name on campus, while not requiring any administrators or athletes to officially endorse the military.

Madison Tisa McPhee and Nathan Lamb were picked for the U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award, while the U.S. Army Reserve National Scholar/Athlete Award went to Haley Marx and Luke Pelant.

Weird coincidence: all four played soccer.

Tisa McPhee was also a sensational track star, bringing home two medals from the 1A state track meet (3rd in the 100 hurdles, 5th in the 4 x 200).

Lamb was the #1 player on the Wolf boys’ tennis squad and Marx was a co-captain on the girls’ basketball team.

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Seniors sweep CHS athletic awards!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Basketball, Boys Soccer, Football, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Girls Tennis, Softball, Volleyball on May 31, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Danny Savalza and Kena Knott celebrate Coupeville beating South Whidbey this season and bringing The Bucket home.

Amanda d'Almeida gets some tips from Wofl tennis guru Ken Stange during her final district tennis tourney. (Dan d'Almeida photo)

Amanda d’Almeida gets tips from Wolf tennis guru Ken Stange during districts. (Dan d’Almeida photo)

Bessie Walstad (left), one of two CHS seniors with Maria Rockwell, delivered two huge doubles Friday. (John Fisken photo)

Bessie Walstad (left), seen here with fellow senior Maria Rockwell, was a captain in all her sports. (John Fisken photo)

Drew Chan swingin’ for the cheap seats. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

It was a banner night for the seniors.

The Class of 2013 claimed all four major sports-related honors announced Thursday night by Coupeville High School Athletic Director Lori Stolee.

The memory of Danny Savalza and Amanda d’Almeida will live on in the hallway leading into the CHS gym, where their framed photos will join past winners of the school’s highest athletic honor, the Athlete of the Year.

d’Almeida was a three-time district doubles champ in tennis and made a great final run as a singles player this spring, while also leading the Wolf girls’ soccer team in the fall.

A 4.0 student, she has accepted a scholarship to play soccer at Carleton College in Minnesota.

Savalza played football and soccer, but his impact was also felt off the field. The leader of the Wolf student cheering section, he could rally an entire gym, clad in his (unwashed) thrift store dress and Bow Down hat.

Joining them in hauling away awards were Bessie Walstad and Drew Chan, who were selected for the Cliff Gillies Student Awards.

The honor, named for a longtime principal and executive director of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, go to student/athletes who combine “scholarship, citizenship and participation.”

Walstad was a team captain in volleyball, basketball and softball, while Chan performed the same duties in basketball and baseball.

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I am … Iron Woman!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Basketball, Boys Soccer, Boys Tennis, Cheer, Football, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Girls Tennis, Softball, Track, Volleyball on May 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Breeanna Messner, Coupeville High School’s only four-sport athlete. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Nick “The Big Hurt” Streubel (Nanette Streubel photo)

Madeline Strasburg (Shelli Trumbull photos)

McKayla Bailey

Breeanna Messner was the hardest-working athlete at Coupeville High School this year.

Unlike the olden days (say, the ’80s and ’90s), when virtually everyone played three sports, only 18 Wolves played for three sports teams in 2012-2013.

Heading that list was Messner, the only three-sport athlete to also be on the CHS cheer squad, which meant she juggled two teams in the fall. A key contributor for every one of her teams, the junior proved you can be good at a lot of things (old school style) as opposed to fanatically playing just one sport (new school style).

At a small school like Coupeville, you wish more athletes would make that all-year commitment.

But, proving 2013 is a lot different than 1983, only TWO seniors played three sports, and not a single male athlete completed what used to be viewed as the “standard” season — football, basketball, baseball.

While there are legitimate reasons some couldn’t, or wouldn’t, do so (injuries, academic issues, no desire to play basketball, Coupeville’s only winter sport), we have come here today to hail those who did put out the effort, season after season.

With an eye to the future, the fact 13 of the 18 athletes were freshmen or sophomores speaks well for a possible resurgence of what was once taken for granted — the multi-sport athlete. Or it just means they haven’t burnt out yet.

The 2012-2013 Iron Men and Women of CHS:

Seniors:

Caleb Valko (football, basketball, track)
Bessie Walstad (volleyball, basketball, softball)

Juniors:

Ben Etzell (tennis, basketball, baseball)
Breeanna Messner (volleyball, cheer, basketball, softball)
Nick Streubel (football, basketball, track)

Sophomores:

McKayla Bailey (soccer, basketball, softball)
Aaron Curtin (tennis, basketball, baseball)
Hailey Hammer (volleyball, basketball, softball)
Oscar Liquidano (football, basketball, soccer)
Carson Risner (football, basketball, track)
Madeline Strasburg (volleyball, basketball, softball)
Monica Vidoni (volleyball, basketball, softball)

Freshmen:

McKenzie Bailey (volleyball, basketball, tennis)
Miranda Engle (volleyball, basketball, tennis)
Jared Helmstadter (tennis, basketball, track)
Dalton Martin (football, basketball, track)
Samantha Martin (volleyball, basketball, tennis)
Makana Stone (soccer, basketball, track)

P.S. — If Coupeville considered cheer a sport (which it should, but doesn’t), six girls would join the three-sport club:

Sydney Aparicio (cheer, volleyball, softball)
Lauren Escalle (cheer, volleyball, basketball)
Amanda Fabrizi (cheer, volleyball, basketball)
Julia Felici (cheer, basketball, softball)
Jai’Lysa Hoskins (cheer, basketball, track)
Iris Ryckaert (cheer, volleyball, tennis)

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It’s Zane Bundy’s birthday, and he’ll fly if he wants to!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, Happy birthday on May 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“It’s a bird! It’s a plane!! It’s Super Zane!!!” (John Fisken photo)

Zane Bundy turns 15 today.

Let that sink in.

The little kid who used to hang out at Videoville, the slightly older little kid who used to hang out at David’s DVD Den, will be a sophomore at Coupeville High School next fall.

Oh, and he can fly now too. So there’s that.

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Birthday boy wins big!!

Posted in Boys Soccer on May 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Dawson d’Almeida (far left) and teammates. (Dan d’Almeida photos)

And then Amanda took her brother to dinner, where he was fed by renown chef Andreas Wurzrainer.

Playing for one of the final times before Coupeville loses him to Vienna, Dawson d’Almeida showed continued evidence of being a soccer prodigy.

The younger brother of former Wolf great Amanda d’Almeida, who lettered as a freshman himself this season on the pitch, he will be following his parents overseas next school year.

Until then, he’s content to whip the local talent.

Celebrating his 15th birthday, Dawson combined with four other boys — three from Oak Harbor and one from Sedro-Woolley — to capture first in the boys 13-15 division at a 3v3 soccer tournament over the weekend. The local booters won the final 5-3.

“Not a bad way to spend a birthday weekend for a soccer fanatic!,” said proud dad Dan d’Almeida.

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