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Don’t pack up that football gear just yet!!

Posted in Cheer, Football on October 31, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Wolf super fan Lisa Roberts-Edlin will have an extra chance to watch daughter Madeline Roberts cheer from the sideline.

The tacklin’ is not done just yet. (John Fisken photos)

Seriously.

The schedule says this Friday is the end for 12 Coupeville High School senior football players and 11 senior Wolf cheerleaders.

The schedule lies.

While the Coupeville High School football team wraps its regular season with Senior Night against Sultan (7 PM at Mickey Clark Field) tomorrow night, that won’t be the end of things.

Since Washington state high school gridiron squads are allowed as many as 10 games, not counting playoff action, the Wolves (3-4) — who did not qualify for postseason play — will get an additional game.

All that’s known right now is that it will be at home, it should be Friday, Nov. 8 and an opponent will be determined after games are played this week.

Possible foes mentioned so far include Chimacum, Life Christian, Vashon Island and Bellevue Christian.

Regardless of who they play, that should give at least one Wolf senior a second shot at a swan song.

Speedy wing Jake Tumblin, who has ripped off 200-plus-yards rushing totals twice this season, is expected to miss the Sultan game as he recovers from a concussion suffered against King’s.

With an extra week of rest, he is expected to be ready in time for the second-chance finale.

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Cheerleaders, History Day champ headline Homecoming court!!

Posted in Cheer, Football, History Day, Homecoming on October 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Clockwise. starting in the upper left, are Julia Felici, Kenzie Kooch, Heni Barnes and Emilee Crichton.

Clockwise, starting upper left, are Homecoming Queen nominees Julia Felici, Kenzie Kooch, Heni Barnes, and Emilee Crichton.

The field has been narrowed to four.

After initial votes were counted, three Wolf cheerleaders and a national History Day winner are the final four senior girls standing, as Coupeville High School works its way towards picking a Homecoming King and Queen.

Kenzie Kooch, Julia Felici, Emilee Crichton and Heni Barnes will battle it out for the crown, while Nick Streubel, Jake Tumblin, Ben Etzell and Brett Arnold are vying for the title of King.

Other nominees:

Junior girls: Wynter Thorne, Ana Luvera, Ivy Luvera, Merle Fitzenhagen.

Junior boys: Josh Bayne, Oscar Liquidano, Isaac Vargas, Aaron Wright.

Sophomore girls: Makana Stone, Jovanah Foote, McKenzie Bailey, Jennifer Spark.

Sophomore boys: Lathom Kelley, Dalton Martin, Zane Bundy, Wiley Hesselgrave.

Freshmen girls: Valen Trujillo, Payton Wilson, Emily Licence, Tiffany Briscoe, Mattea Miller, Carlie Rosenkrance.

Freshmen boys: Gabe Wynn, Clay Reilly, Ethan Marx, Bailey Rosenthal.

The Homecoming game is 7 PM Friday, Oct. 19 at Mickey Clark Field. The opponent is dastardly South Whidbey and both ownership of The Bucket for the next year and playoff hopes will be on the line.

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Former Wolf cheer captain looks back with fondness!!

Posted in Cheer, Wolves in college on October 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Nicole Becker

Becker during her senior season, with fellow cheerleaders Iris Ryckaert (middle) and Emily Clay. (Robert Bishop photo)

Walking away is never easy to do.

But one of the nice things about the Coupeville High School cheer squad is that once you’ve been a part of the team, you never really leave the squad. You move on with life, to college, work and beyond, but you can always come home and be welcomed back.

For Nicole Becker, this football season has been a new experience, one of being on the outside looking in at what she used to be a huge part of.

Last year she was a senior captain for the Wolves, capping a long run that started in elementary school. This season she’s in the stands as a fan, but will always be a part of something bigger than herself, something she will look back on fondly.

Becker’s thoughts on the transition:

When I moved to Coupeville in fourth grade I knew I wanted to be one of those cheerleaders you saw on those red and white boxes Friday night.

I cheered elementary school and a middle school program; that secured my thoughts to be a Coupeville High School cheerleader. Cheering four years and over eight seasons gives you a big family.

While I spent my time on one of those boxes for two years and constantly having football guys turn around to tell me to “shut up” was comforting, also knowing that those girls that stood beside me had my back was the icing on the cake to me.

Now being graduated and going to home football games is weird to me; I’m used to showing up at 6:15 PM and prepping for the game, but this time I showed up at 7. Wow, was that different.

Seeing familiar faces and hugging everyone was still the same, but I wasn’t in a uniform with sparkly eye shadow all over my face. I was me.

I have a loud voice that carries, so still being loud enough to have some of the football players turn around was a great feeling, but not being around a family was kind of lonely.

I have no doubt in my mind that those girls on the sideline are doing CHS proud.

Do I wish to be back up on a box under those Friday night lights? No, not really, I had my time. I’m needed elsewhere.

I have good memories being a part of the CHS cheer team, which will never be forgotten.

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Snappy pics for a crappy afternoon!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Cheer, Girls Soccer, Volleyball on October 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Sodden and overcast and kind of quiet.

That’s the feeling around town this Wednesday. Fall weather is creeping in over the horizon (not that it will keep me out of Penn Cove) and none of the Coupeville High School teams are in action.

To remind you of what has come before (and what will come again) we offer up a medley of John Fisken photos for your easy-reading pleasure.

Also, a reminder.

After games, when I post Fisken pics, there generally is a link to the billion or so other photos he shot at that event. A percentage of sales generated by both Coupeville residents and parents/fans from schools CHS is playing goes to help fund scholarships for Wolf student athletes.

When you buy, everyone wins. When you steal copyrighted photos, it comes back to bite others.

Oh, and the return of the sun? You’ll have to talk to someone else about that.

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Get better, Breeanna!!

Posted in Cheer, Girls Basketball, Softball, Volleyball, Whidbey's Best on September 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Breeanna Messner (John Fisken photos)

Kind of excited after a big play.

It did not end the way she wanted it to.

If you know anything about Breeanna Messner, it is that the Coupeville High School senior — her school’s only four-sport athlete last year (cheer, volleyball, basketball, softball) — does not give up easily.

Whether wearing the red and black for the Wolves like mom Aimee Bishop did before her, or charging up flights of steps or across muddy fields or skipping through Disney Land dressed in a tutu during a race, Messner is a true competitor.

She never backs down, and, if you poke her in the eye like one basketball player did last year, she will get up and ruthlessly drill you with back-to-back-to-back three point bombs, a small smile never leaving her face.

So for her to come out of Tuesday night’s epic five-set volleyball match with Sultan and not make it back on the floor, you knew she had to be really sick.

Whether it’s the lingering aftereffects of taking a shot to the face in a select basketball game two days before, or a reaction to a recent flu shot, she reached a point of no return after the third set Tuesday.

Not that you would have known it by her stats, because she was 13 of 13 on serves and 27 of 27 on service returns when she departed.

Whatever the problem may be, everyone hopes for a fast recovery.

You would hope for that for any Wolf athlete, but Messner, in her unassuming way, has set the gold standard the last several years for what you would like to see in anyone who pulls on a Coupeville jersey.

Before games, she is an oasis of calm, usually quietly sitting next to fellow senior Amanda Fabrizi, head bent low over her schoolwork while also monitoring the play of her JV teammates, ready to yell out encouragement.

Then she’s sprinting to the door of the gym to pick up and squeeze the life out of her beloved little cousin.

Win or lose, she lays it all on the line and I have never seen her play at anything less than full-speed. Off the court, she carries herself with a sense of grace.

You are a class act, Ms. Messner. Wolf Nation is very proud you represent us, and we hope for a speedy recovery.

UPDATE: No concussion! A Wednesday AM visit to the doctor points to a combination of a reaction to the flu shot and her potassium getting out of whack for unknown reasons.

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