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Let’s get physical (and sign some papers)!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Football, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , on August 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Want to be a football star like Jacob Martin? Gotta jump through The Man’s hoops first — get a physical, fill out paperwork, etc. (John Fisken photo)

The gym will be hopping Thursday.

In preparation for the start of fall sports, a Middle School/High School Sports Day will run 12-8 PM in the CHS gym complex.

Sports paperwork and payments will be accepted until 6 PM in the high school gym, while physicals will be offered until 8 PM in the middle school gym.

Cost for physicals is $45, with all proceeds going to the Coupeville Booster Club’s scholarship fund.

To set up an appointment, call 1-636-675-1632.

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“I love to give back to all the athletes!!”

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on July 24, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Former Wolf coach Ryan King (right) has been working with Jacob Martin as he prepares to chase his college football dream. (Photo courtesy Martin)

You can take the coach out of the school, but you can’t take the coach out of the game.

For the first time in several years, Ryan King isn’t planning on being on the sidelines this coming school year.

The Coupeville High School grad, a captain on the last Wolf football team to post a winning season in 2005, has worked in recent years as a football and basketball coach for both CHS and CMS.

After finishing the middle school girls hoops season this past winter, King decided to take a break from both that sport and high school football, where he had been an assistant under Tony Maggio, Brett Smedley and Jon Atkins.

But while he’s no longer sporting official Wolf coaching gear, the lure of working with athletes is a hard one to resist, and King is reemerging as a personal coach.

This summer he’s been working with football players such as recent CHS grad Jacob Martin, who will be playing for Feather River College, and incoming Wolf senior Jake Hoagland.

The chance to impact players, and help them succeed, has driven King since he first moved from playing into coaching.

This summer’s one-on-one work has re-lit that fire.

“It’s been great; it’s really brought my love for coaching back to full-force,” he said. “There’s something there that reminds me why I’m doing this.”

King tailors his lessons to each player, based on their playing level and goals, with an emphasis on helping each of them improve their speed, skill set and attitude.

“My goal is to help them become better athletes in every way,” he said. “All athletes need one-on-one work, which they might not be able to get during a team practice, and this gives them that chance. It’s a tremendous opportunity.”

With a player like Martin, who is moving from linebacker to strong safety as he jumps up to the next level, King focuses on drills which will help the player in areas such as deep coverage and run pursuit.

“We want to work on his speed and agility, which he’ll need in college,” King said. “Jacob is a hard worker, and you can see tremendous improvement as we work.”

While football and basketball are his calling cards, King is open to working with athletes in any sport.

“Except tennis, cause I don’t know the game,” he said with a laugh. “I’d just tell them go hit the ball. I know that part!”

And while his clients so far are current or former Wolves, he would welcome working with athletes from Oak Harbor or South Whidbey.

King, who is attending school at Skagit Valley College and working at Sherwin-Williams, plans to be in the coaching biz for many years.

Whether that’s as a personal coach or coming back around to work at the school level, what drives him will remain the same.

“I love to give back to all the athletes, at whatever level and in whatever sport,” King said. “That’s why I do this.”

 

Cost is $10 an hour for middle school athletes and $20 an hour for high school athletes. To contact Ryan King, email him at king2233@msn.com.

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Wolf QB nabs Golden opportunity!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Cade Golden rambles for yardage during a Coupeville Middle School game. (John Fisken photo)

He’s gold, Jerry, gold.

Or Golden, as it were.

Incoming Coupeville High School freshman QB Cade Golden has spent a chunk of his summer honing his gridiron skills, traveling around the country to football camps.

The most recent trip was to the University of Alabama, where head coach Nick Saban, the brains behind five national title-winning teams, patrolled the field as drills went on around him.

Now, Golden, who is still a month away from his first fall practice with the Wolves, has been tabbed to join other top gunslingers at Northwest 9, a five-day camp for QB’s.

Run by the Rough Diamonds Athletic Foundation, the event is set for July 30-Aug. 3 in Kirkland.

The camp is being offered on an invitation basis to 35 prep quarterbacks who have been plucked from Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

Golden and his fellow competitors will face off in testing, positional drills, 1-on-1 and 7-on-7 events, with the top finishers being chosen as the inaugural “Northwest 9.”

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Peek into the future!!

Posted in Football, Volleyball, tagged , , , , on July 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Jaelyn Crebbin and fellow CMS spikers start a new volleyball season Sept. 6. (John Fisken photo)

It’s always good to plan ahead.

So, while fall sports at Coupeville Middle School don’t kick off until Sept. 6, here’s an advance look at the game schedules for Wolf volleyball and football.

It’s a six-game set for the gridiron giants and 10 for the spikers, and I’m pretty sure there’s at least one mistake.

As the schedule sits now, it shows the CMS volleyball squad playing Stevens twice, but both times at home, while they have home and away match-ups with all their other foes.

So, it’s likely one of those two tilts is really going to happen on the road, and someone just forgot to put an @ on the schedule.

To stay on top of things like that, keep an eye on the schedule at http://coupeville.tandem.co/

But, for today, here’s what things look like:

Football:

Thur-Sept. 21 Chimacum
Wed-Sept. 27 @ Sequim
Wed-Oct. 4 @ Forks
Wed-Oct. 11 Port Townsend
Wed-Oct. 18 Stevens
Wed-Oct. 25 @ Chimacum

Volleyball:

Wed-Sept. 20 @ Sequim
Mon-Sept. 25 @ Port Townsend
Thur-Sept. 28 Stevens
Mon-Oct. 2 Forks
Thur-Oct. 5 @ Chimacum
Mon-Oct. 9 Sequim
Mon-Oct. 16 Stevens
Wed-Oct. 18 @ Forks
Mon-Oct. 23 Chimacum
Wed-Oct. 25 Port Townsend

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Sports or science, Ford a winner!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on June 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Trystan Ford cuts an imposing figure while playing football for CMS last year. (Photos courtesy Lisa Ford)

Ford and teacher/mentor Terry Welch.

Hello, and goodbye.

Just as he’s about to make the jump to playing high school football, Trystan Ford is hitting the road.

He and his family are moving from Coupeville to Wisconsin, and the former CMS gridiron star, who rings in at 5-foot-9 and 190 pounds as an incoming freshman, will suit up for the Southern Door Eagles this fall.

During his time at CMS, Ford played football and was a thrower for the Wolf track team, while his parents, Bryan (football) and Lisa (cheer), coached.

He plans to stay with both sports in Wisconsin, and may add golf to his repertoire.

Gridiron life, though, is the life for him.

“I like the leadership I have learned, the grit, grind, when I think I have no more I dig deeper and find it,” Ford said. “Nobody and I mean nobody touches my quarterback!”

He enjoys “the commitment, the bonds, the learning, the teaching, the push to do better and of course the payout,” and is more likely to inspire by his play than by screaming at people.

“I’m a quiet leader I have been told,” Ford said. “I take my assignments seriously and I’m a team player, a friend and a student.”

As he moves forward into high school life, he wants to continue to get bigger for football, while also striking a nice balance in life.

“I could work on my strength,” Ford said. “Maybe be less shy, and learn to be serious when needed and a goof when needed.”

A big fan of bands like Metallica, AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Queen, he enjoys the Transformers and Marvel super hero movies and turns to Battlestar Galactica on TV.

In class, he “loves science, computers and math!” and hails CMS teacher Terry Welch for being an inspiration in his life.

“Ms. Welch is my favorite teacher. She truly cares about what happens in my life,” Ford said. “She mentored me through middle school, and even though I won’t be at CHS, Ms. Welch will always mentor me no matter where I am.

“I want to create a fusion reactor and make it more affordable so everyone can afford to run cars on clean energy,” he added. “When I accept the big science prize I want her to be there, as she is who mentored me as my best teacher!”

While he’ll be in a different part of the country from his favorite teacher, Ford has a strong support crew in his family, one he appreciates on a daily basis.

“My mom, she’s always there for me, she knows when I’m slacking and pulls me aside for a “get it together, settle down and play buddy”,” Ford said. “My dad, he teaches me so much.

“Strength, leadership, integrity; if I’m doing it right he’s my number one fan; if I’m doing it wrong, he’s my number one coach, if I’m not giving my full potential, he’s my number one butt kicker.

“I love my mom and dad, they guide me in all I do.”

That carries through to when they practice tough love, as well.

At one point Ford had a C in science and got a warning from the school.

His mom gave him three days to bring it up, and when he didn’t, she let him dress for his next game, then informed the lineman he’d be sitting for the first quarter.

“I learned to never let my team down, my coaches down, my mom and dad down and most of all it killed me not getting in there,” Ford said. “In the second quarter through the end, I was on fire!

“I learned our family motto that day,” he added. “God first, family second, school, then sports. If I stick to that order I can do anything.”

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