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Get your racket and get swingin’

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , on August 26, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The tennis court calls you. (Ken Stange photo)

It’s a golden opportunity.

When I played tennis at Tumwater High School in the late ’80s, I was fighting for playing time with about 30 other netters.

Jump forward to 2025 and if you attend Coupeville schools, the court can belong to you.

The Wolves are attempting to resurrect their boys’ tennis squad this fall, and they need six players to accomplish the goal.

Through the first two days of practice, they have two.

Which means, if you’re in grades 8-12 and have any desire to play the sport of Roger Federer, CHS coaches Tim Stelling and Starla Seal want to meet you — regardless of whether you’re a seasoned court ace or want to make your first bid to rep the red and black.

If interested, practices are set for 3:00-5:00 PM at the CHS courts, Monday-Friday. Those swanky courts can be found just down from the high school gym.

Don’t throw away your shot.

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Embrace your inner tennis star

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , on September 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Learn the game today, play the game the rest of your life. (Starla Seal photo)

The courts call to you.

Coupeville High School tennis coaches Tim Stelling and Starla Seal are launching a tennis club in October.

It’s free and will run each Wednesday from 3:00-5:00 PM at the CHS courts next to the gym.

The club is open to boys in grades 3-12 and girls in grades 3-7.

Since there is an active CHS girls’ tennis program, girls in grades 8-12 are barred from participating due to off-season restrictions set by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

If you have questions, contact sseal@coupeville.k12.wa.us or timstelling@gmail.com.

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Can netters swing for a rebirth?

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , on August 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »

One basket of balls for each season of high school tennis I played back in the day at Tumwater. Who wants to relaunch the sport in Cow Town? (Starla Seal photo)

There are brand new tennis courts next to the Coupeville High School gym, but it remains questionable when they will be used by a Wolf team.

The CHS girls, who played an all road-trip season this past spring while the courts were built, will be ready to claim the area in 2025.

But Coupeville boys could go first this fall … if they can get some players.

There is currently one player signed up with the start of fall sports practices set for Monday, and the program needs more like a minimum of six to be viable.

CMS 8th graders are eligible to play for the high school team, which could help if middle schoolers seize the chance to play.

Be brave and get rewarded! You’re not going to be sitting on the bench, that’s for sure.

The CHS boys’ tennis program has been AWOL since 2019, when Coupeville and South Whidbey competed in the Emerald City League against a bunch of ultra-rich Seattle private schools.

After that, the netters got shut down by the pandemic, then hurt by the school’s reclassification from 1A to 2B.

Boys’ soccer, which is played in the spring in 1A, competes in the fall in 2B, creating a logjam with football, tennis, and cross country also competing for male athletes.

Coupeville was the only school in its current home — the seven-team Northwest 2B/1B League — to try and field four male sports programs in the same season.

Someone was going to lose the numbers battle, and so far, it’s been tennis.

While the program has been shuttered through the past four seasons, new CHS tennis coaches Tim Stelling and Starla Seal, who made their debut with the girls in the spring, still have hopes of relaunching things.

Now, it’s just a question of whether potential players show up starting Monday.

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Wolf netters sidelined, again

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , on August 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Longtime Coupeville tennis guru Ken Stange won’t have a chance to coach this fall. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The rackets remain unstrung, and the courts are empty.

Coupeville High School has cancelled its boys tennis season due to a lack of players, Athletic Director Willie Smith confirmed Thursday afternoon.

It will be the third-straight non-season for the Wolf netters, as the program has been beset from all sides.

Friday Harbor, which was Coupeville’s most reliable tennis opponent, cancelled its fall sports programs at the height of the pandemic.

During that lost season, many Wolf tennis players migrated to soccer, helping save that program from its own cancellation.

The biggest stumbling block for the netters might simply be Coupeville’s move back to the 2B classification in 2020.

At the 1A level, boys soccer is played in the spring. In 2B, those booters join the girls in playing their season in the fall.

With football, cross country, tennis, and soccer all vying for male athletes in the same season at a small school, someone is likely to lose out.

So far, that’s been tennis.

Coupeville is the only one of seven schools in the Northwest 2B/1B League attempting to field four male sports teams in the fall.

The other NWL schools offer:

Friday Harbor — tennis, football, soccer
La Conner — cross country, football, soccer
Concrete — football, cross country
Mount Vernon Christian — cross country, soccer
Orcas Island — cross country, soccer
Darrington — football

While boys tennis sits idle, girls tennis remains strong, and the CHS courts should once again be filled with aces and overheads next spring.

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Wolves, register for fall sports!

Posted in Boys Soccer, Boys Tennis, Cross Country, Football, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , on August 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »

It’s go time.

With the start of fall football practice just six days out, Coupeville has set Wednesday, Aug. 17 as its fall sports registration day for middle and high school athletes.

The event runs from 12-5 PM in the CHS/CMS library.

The high school offers volleyball, girls and boys soccer, cross country, boys tennis, and football in the fall, with CMS fielding volleyball, cross country and (possibly) boys soccer.

Players and parents can submit new sports physicals, pay athletic and ASB fees, as well as complete applications for free and reduced food service.

Physicals are good for two years in Washington state, unless otherwise noted by the doctor.

With the schools moving much of the paperwork online, all student athletes need to have an account set up through the Final Forms link, which is here:

https://coupeville-wa.finalforms.com/

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