Lauren Rose (left), Emma Smith and the CHS spikers will play five straight matches at home to start next season. (John Fisken photos)
Uriel Liquidano (63) and Co. will play for The Bucket at home Sept. 2.
Wolf netters like John McClarin will spend more than 50% of their season on the road this fall.
In exactly 100 days, Mia Littlejohn (20) will get to kick foes in the ankles again.
Where will you be in 94 days?
If you answered, “Ploppin’ my butt on the temporary bleachers to watch the first Coupeville High School football game of the fall,” then, like me, you have absolute faith in Willie Smith.
Back in the CHS Athletic Director chair after an absence of several years, the Scheduling Maniac already has the fall sports schedule 98.37% locked in place, and we’re not even on summer vacation yet.
Now, things happen, and there’s always a chance some dates might get tweaked, or, in the case of tennis, rained out.
It happens.
But if you went ahead and laminated this baby now, I think you’d be pretty safe.
As well as being one of the few people to actually own a laminating machine…
Anyway, as you peruse the schedules, a few things of note.
There are more home games than road games — a rarity on The Rock — with volleyball getting the best break, with nine of 15, including its first five, at home.
Coupeville has kept its rivalry games with South Whidbey in football (where The Bucket is at stake) and girls’ soccer, though at the moment, the Falcons do not appear on the boys’ tennis or volleyball skeds.
After two seasons of having six league games, CHS soccer and volleyball are jumping to nine (three each against Port Townsend, Klahowya and Chimacum), which brings them in line with basketball, softball and baseball.
And, lastly, football kicks off season one of a new look in which the Olympic League and Nisqually League have combined to form a super league for gridiron play.
The Wolves will have seven league games, up from six, and no longer face the same team more than once.
The agreement allows the schools to set a full 10-game schedule, while eliminating the need to scramble and schedule crossover games once week #10 arrives.
Depending on each year’s playoff allocation for District 3, either the top two or three teams advance to the playoffs.
The schedules (as of June 1), with league games starred:
BOYS TENNIS
Tues-Sept. 6 @ Port Angeles
Mon-Sept. 12 Sequim
Wed-Sept. 14 @ Kingston
Fri-Sept. 16 Klahowya (*)
Fri-Sept. 23 @ North Kitsap
Mon-Sept. 26 North Mason
Wed-Sept. 28 @ Chimacum (*)
Fri-Sept. 30 Klahowya (*)
Wed-Oct. 5 Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 6 @ Klahowya (*)
Tue-Oct. 11 @ Sequim
Thu-Oct. 13 @ Chimacum (*)
FOOTBALL
Fri-Sept. 2 South Whidbey
Fri-Sept. 9 @ La Conner
Fri-Sept. 16 Nooksack Valley
Fri-Sept. 23 @ Charles Wright Academy (*)
Fri.-Sept. 30 Vashon Island (*)
Fri-Oct. 7 Port Townsend (*) HOMECOMING
Sat-Oct. 15 @ Bellevue Christian (*)
Fri-Oct. 21 @Klahowya (*)
Fri-Oct. 28 @ Chimacum (*)
Fri-Nov. 4 Cascade Christian (*)
GIRLS SOCCER
Thu-Sept. 8 South Whidbey
Tue-Sept. 13 Chimacum (*)
Thu-Sept. 15 Sequim
Sat-Sept. 17 @ Port Townsend (*)
Mon-Sept. 19 @ Mount Vernon Christian
Thu-Sept. 22 North Mason
Tue-Sept. 27 @ Klahowya (*)
Thu-Sept. 29 Port Townsend (*)
Tue-Oct. 4 @ Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 6 Port Angeles
Tue-Oct. 11 @ Sequim
Tue-Oct. 18 Klahowya (*)
Thu-Oct. 20 @ Port Townsend (*)
Tue-Oct. 25 Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 27 @ Klahowya (*)
VOLLEYBALL
Tue-Sept. 6 Mount Vernon Christian
Tue-Sept. 13 Chimacum (*)
Wed-Sept. 14 Sequim
Tue-Sept. 20 Bellevue Christian
Thu-Sept. 22 North Mason
Tue-Sept. 27 @ Klahowya (*)
Thu-Sept. 29 Port Townsend (*)
Tue-Oct. 4 @ Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 6 Port Angeles
Tue-Oct. 11 @ Sequim
Tue-Oct. 18 Klahowya (*)
Thu-Oct. 20 @ Port Townsend (*)
Tue-Oct. 25 Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 27 @ Klahowya (*)
Sat-Oct. 29 @ Port Townsend (*)
To stay on top of schedules, pop over to:
Olympic League — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?league=21&page_name=school_home&school=0&sport=0
Coupeville Schools — http://coupeville.tandem.co/
Coupeville Sports 