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           Miranda Engle (back row, far left), the Kiel sisters (back row middle and front row second from left) and Monica Vidoni (front row far right) join their weekend basketball teammates. (MaryAnn Engle photo)

Sports are a full-time, seven-day-a-week occupation.

At least it seems that way for many high school athletes, as they work in select teams around their school squads.

Just a quick glance reveals that
Coupeville High School soccer player Madison Tisa McPhee competes in horse riding events. Miranda Engle, Monica Vidoni and the Kiel sisters (Katie and Kacie), among others, play on the Wolf volleyball squad during the week and a basketball team on the weekend, as shown in the above photo. Tennis players Zane Bundy and Dawson d’Almeida moonlight as select premier league soccer players in Burlington.

And at least three Wolves — Hailey Hammer, McKayla Bailey and Madeline Roberts — are currently playing softball, even though we are nowhere near the spring high school season.

Roberts and Hammer play for the Washington Phantoms, an 18 and under team that competed in their fall state tournament this past weekend, placing 8th. Roberts, a scrappy infielder, has been on the team for two seasons, while Hammer brought her homer-hittin’ power to the squad this year.

Bailey, who was a strong number two pitcher for the Wolves as a freshman (backing up since-graduated Alexis Trumbull) is playing year-round select softball. Her team is actually kicking off its fall season and will travel to Huntington Beach, California on Oct. 20 for a college-exposure tournament.

She and her teammates got a jump on preparation for the tourney with a game last Saturday that was more about getting to know one another than actually keeping track of stats.

“We have some new players and we are still trying to gel together and get to know each others playing styles,” Bailey said. “As for myself, I know I could have done better, but I was happy with my discipline at the plate and my ability to work the count.

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   Katelin McCormick prepares to unleash a wicked throw-in. (Wendy McCormick photo)

  Seventh grade spiker Kyla Briscoe (left) gets some face time with Wolf cheer/basketball/track superstar Jai’Lysa Hoskins. (Amy Briscoe photo)

An orange a day fuels the stars of the future. (Wendy McCormick photo)

The greats start young.

A new generation of future Wolf sports stars is out there on the horizon and can already be seen on middle school courts and Central Whidbey rec soccer fields, as these photos depict.

Spiker Kyla Briscoe and booter Katelin McCormick are just the tip of the wave that is coming, as Wolf Nation prepares for a new golden age of athletic success.

And hey, even if they never win a state title in the years to come, these are still neat photos right now, if nothing else. So, from me, to you, the future!

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Hopefully someone in the Levine family brought a change of clothes for everyone. Otherwise it’s going to be a long ride home.

Left to right, Aimee Bishop, Paul Messner, Breeanna Messner, Robert Bishop, Lark Gustafson.

The mud was flying in Ferndale Sunday.

Braving the muck and grime in the name of health and fun were several Coupeville clans who participated in the Muds to Suds Mud Race at Hovander Homestead Park. Battling their way through 15 different obstacles strewn throughout the course, they emerged drenched but triumphant, as shown in these pictures.

Sean and Joline Levine and their daughters Micky and Jae competed as a family, while Aimee Bishop headed up a five-pack that included her dad Paul Messner, her husband, Robert Bishop, her daughter, Breeanna Messner and friend of the family Lark Gustafson.

“It was a fun course. Lots of mud! The venue was amazing,” said Aimee Bishop. “Such a cool thing to have three generations participate and finish this race!”

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In this shot by Shelli Trumbull we get a chance to marinate in the awesomeness that was Arnold’s Army, comprised of, left to right, Jon Roberts, Chris Potts, Jay Roberts and Jesse Smith. The foursome named themselves in honor of Living Hope Foursquare pastor Garrett Arnold, who is fighting his way back after suffering a bad fall last month.

Instead of staying rooted to the couch on opening day for the NFL, a sizable chunk of Coupeville got off their duffs and went out and became duffers Sunday, all for a good cause.

The Coupeville High School Booster Club held its its 6th Annual golf tournament, and, while no one took home the big cash prize for a hole in one (though former Wolf quarterback James Smith came agonizingly close), much money was raised in support of CHS sports and much good-natured trash-talking took place on the course.

The foursome of Luke Edlin, Trent Barnes, Rich Duchnowski and Dan Stimson, repping the Cougars of VAC 139, took home first place with a score of 56.

Sponsors for the event (AKA the businesses you should support in return) were:

Allstate Insurance (Matt Iverson)

Bailey Dirt Works

Big Rock Design

Branch Business Services

Cascade Insurance Agency

Cascade Custom Homes

CK Electric

Front Street Grill

Front Street Realty

Guild Mortgage

Integrity Home Inspections

Keystone Cafe

Koetje Insurance

Les Schwab Tire Center

Marti Family

MJC Copy Center

Peoples Bank (Home Mortgage – Catherine Martyn)

PSE Energy

Red Apple Prairie Center

South Whidbey Plumbing

Toby’s

Whidbey Island Bank

Windermere Realty

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The boy has moves.

One of the nice things about writing a blog and not writing for a professional newspaper is I can just randomly write about anything I darn well choose.

So, right now, I take a moment to point you to Shelli Trumbull’s newest photo album on Facebook, where she documents the car wash put on today at Windermere Realty to help raise funds for Living Hope Foursquare Church pastor Garrett Arnold, as he recovers from injuries suffered in a fall.

From the pictures it looks like they had a nice turnout, both in terms of people giving up their Saturday to help a beloved member of the community and his family, and in the number of cars they made sparkle.

But this is a sports blog you say. Exactly. One look at the pics and you can see a vast array of Wolf stars, past, present and future. Former Wolf diamond ace Alexis Trumbull, current flamethrower Aaron Trumbull, one-time CHS sports stud/BMOC Jon Roberts and his star-of-the-future son Landon Roberts (he gets a huge chunk of his talent from mom Sherry (Bonacci) Roberts, a former Wolf Athlete of the Year.)

And, of course, none casts a bigger shadow than Hunter Hammer, the six-foot-six, shot put-crushing, rim-rattling beast who brought me more page hits than any other CHS athlete, ever. Plus, the last name … oh, a sportswriter’s dream come too. So many bad puns. So many uses of the words “I will crush you!”

I wept many a salty tear when I lost Hammer Time to college sports. But then I inherited his sister, Hailey Hammer, and the headline-writing good times have never stopped.

So when you put page-hit king Hunter Hammer drying a car in an unorthodox manner in an award-worthy pic by Shelli Trumbull, it’s an easy call. It’s gold, gold I say!! You run that sucker and you run it now!!!!

Pardon me while I go scream for them to STOP THE PRESSES and … oh, wait, I’m not using any presses. Fine, then, with your modern URLs and internetty tube thingees, just go here and enjoy:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.465406800146536.106948.100000316601396&type=1

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