Posted in Cheer on January 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »
(Robert Bishop photos)
Want a huge crowd for your basketball game?
Arrange for elementary school cheerleaders to perform at halftime, like they did Tuesday night, and two-thirds of the town will show up and cram the stands.
If Coupeville High School officials were thinking about the green-backs, they’d schedule one of these shows for EVERY home basketball game and rake in the sweet, sweet box office cash.
Just sayin’…
Posted in Cheer, Girls Basketball on January 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Katie Kiel
Emily Clay
Rhiannon Ellsworth
Darian Emerick
Jai’Lysa Hoskins
Iris Ryckaert
Lauren Escalle
Nicole Becker
Haley Marx
Bessie Walstad
You’re not reading these words anyway, so I won’t take up much of your time.
Above are glossy portraits of all 10 Wolf seniors honored Tuesday night (six basketball players, four cheerleaders) and their families. Many of the photos are suitable for framing, and they were hand-delivered to us by photo ace John Fisken, who snuck them out from behind the Canadian Curtain.
If you like what you see, check out his other work, and perhaps buy a few, at http://www.cascadeathletics.com/index.php?league=2&page_name=photo_store&school=0&sport=0&tab=4
Posted in Cheer, Girls Basketball on January 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Elementary school cheerleaders perform a halftime routine Tuesday. (Robert Bishop photos)
Wolf cheerleaders (l to r) Nicole Becker, Iris Ryckaert and Emily Clay.
Aimee Bishop takes a moment away from running things behind the scenes to say hi to her niece.
Senior basketball players (l to r) Bessie Walstad, Haley Marx and Lauren Escalle.
And the spirit of Wolf Nation lives on through us all.
Tuesday night featured the past, present and future all wrapped into one.
Six members of the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball team, and four members of the Wolf winter cheer squad, took their final bows on Senior Night.
At the same time, elementary school cheerleaders shared the stage, performing a halftime show in unison with their high school counterparts.
The departing included hoopsters Rhiannon Ellsworth, Lauren Escalle, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Katie Kiel, Haley Marx and Bessie Walstad and cheerleaders Nicole Becker, Emily Clay, Darian Emerick and Iris Ryckaert.
The newcomers? Many of them are the future of Wolf sports, young girls who will one day be young women and be honored at their own senior nights.
Posted in Cheer on January 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Wolf senior cheerleaders Darian Emerick (back seat) and Nicole Becker.
Co-captains Becker and Emily Clay.
Belgium’s #1 cheerleader, Iris Ryckaert. (John Fisken photo)
Legends leave the gym Tuesday night.
Co-captains and four year veterans of the Wolf cheer squad, Nicole Becker and Emily Clay have been there every step of the way for Coupeville High School basketball. Through illness, through birthdays, if there is a game in the CHS gym, the duo are front and center and leading the way.
Hollering from the sidelines, leading their squad in half-time dance performances or monitoring the madness that is the half-court shot contest, they are unparalleled at what they do.
They, along with fellow seniors Darian Emerick and Iris Ryckaert, will be acknowledged Tuesday night along with the six senior basketball players on the Wolf girls’ basketball squad.
Of course, the only way to appropriately cap the evening would be if Clay finally hit one of her half court shot attempts — which she always takes with her back to the hoop, followed by her heaving the ball skyward over her head without looking.
If the basketball gods have a sense of perfection, Clay will swish her trademark trick shot and then she and Becker will be carried out of the gym on the shoulders of their teammates.
Posted in Cheer, Fashionable Fans on January 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »
“He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”
“He is … don’t look!!”
“Can anyone see what he’s reading!?!?”
“I bet it’s Fifty Shades of Grey!!!”
(Rim shot…)
“Where are our real fans?!?!”
“You mean us?”
“YOU!!!”
“Yep! Fifty Shades of Grey … told ya!”
So, I’m looking through pictures Robert Bishop shot at Tuesday’s epic Coupeville vs. King’s girls’ basketball rumble, and I notice something odd.
During halftime, as the Wolf cheer squad performs their routine, there is a gentlemen in the visitors section who … is … reading a book!!
And he keeps on reading, throughout the entire show, right behind Iris Ryckaert.
The nerve!
I will have you know at least one Wolf cheerleader hauled herself off her death bed to be there and take part that night. Probably more, with all the crud running around as we head through the winter flu and cold season.
But there you are, head buried in a book.
Good thing you’re from King’s and not Coupeville, or we’d have to call you out by name.
P.S. — The photos of Hunter Hammer are by Sarah E. Roy, who I have never met. Hopefully, if she sees this, she will understand this town’s obsession with the one true Page Hit King and its need to see as many photos of him as possible and not contact her lawyers.
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