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Seahawk fans done lost their freakin’ minds!!

Posted in Fashionable Fans, Football, tagged , , , on January 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

(Photos courtesy Jenn Dohner -- Island Jenn Photography)

(Jenn Dohner photos)

hawk3hawk6hawk1hawk2This entire state is going to explode if the Seattle Seahawks win the Super Bowl.

Or, have the biggest, nastiest Monday morning hangover of all time, if Peyton Manning deflates your hopes and dreams.

Either way, as a die-hard, life-long fan of the six-time Lombardi trophy-winning Pittsburgh Steelers (hey … stop throwing things at me. I’d get a better reception if I said I dealt meth…), I think it’s cute you’re all getting so worked up over a team that hasn’t won anything yet.

But, since the Steelers will be sitting at home this Sunday, you can rant and rave all you want Hawk fans. You’ve earned it.

Now, how do we all feel about Richard Sherman jumping ship and playing for the Steelers? I, for one, think it’s a dandy idea.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

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Big Hurt gets big props from Seattle Times!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , on January 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Nick Streubel (left) is held by by Wolf teammates (l to r) Brett Arnold, Jake Tumblin and Aaron Wright. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

Nick Streubel (left) is held up by Wolf teammates (l to r) Brett Arnold, Jake Tumblin and Aaron Wright. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

The Seattle Times has tabbed its Top 100 high school football recruits from Washington state’s Class of 2014, and there’s one player from Whidbey Island on the list.

And he’s not from 3A Oak Harbor, he’s from 1A Coupeville.

Wolf senior lineman Nick Streubel, who has verbally committed to Central Washington University, is on the list headed up by Bellevue blue chip prospect Budda Baker.

Along with being the only player from Whidbey on the list, The Big Hurt is also the only player from the 1A/2A Cascade Conference to be selected.

Apparently all that King’s and ATM money couldn’t buy a top prospect this year…

To see the complete list head over to:

http://seattletimes.com/html/highschoolsports/2022757288_chiplist26xml.html

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Big Hurt picks Central Washington!!

Posted in Football, Scholarships, tagged , , , on January 19, 2014| 2 Comments »

The Big Hurt and parents David and Nanette Streubel.

Nick “The Big Hurt” Streubel and parents David and Nanette Streubel. (John Fisken photo)

The Big Hurt and Coach V hug it out.

Streubel and Dustin Van Velkinburgh, one of the coaches who taught him the game.

Nick Streubel is staying in-state.

The Coupeville High School senior lineman, a 1A all-state player this past season, verbally committed to Central Washington University Sunday.

He expects to sign with them, accept their scholarship offer and take his football skills to Ellensburg.

Streubel and parents David and Nanette made an official recruiting trip to the campus this weekend and came away impressed with what they saw.

“I’ve always loved Central from when I went there for footall camp as a freshman and loved it ever since,” Nick Streubel said. “The coaching staff is great and fun to be around, as well.”

The Wildcats will be playing for a new coach, having recently hired Ian Shoemaker from a field of 55 applicants.

He spent the past six seasons as the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. While he was there, the Huskies made the playoffs three of the last four years.

CWU, which competes at the NCAA Division II level, has won the conference championship in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference seven of the last 11 seasons. They went 7-4 in 2013.

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Wolf gridiron captain on rebound after surgery!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on January 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Carson Risner (left) anchoring the line for the Wolves. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Carson Risner (left), anchoring the line for the Wolves. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Risner (bottom left) and other captains from the CHS squad celebrate during the team's awards dinner in the fall. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

Risner (bottom left) and other CHS captains celebrate during the football team’s awards dinner. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

And then some snipping was done. (Jennie Prince photo)

And then some snipping was done. (Jennie Prince photo)

A little snip here. A little shave there.

Doctors cleaned up the injured leg of Coupeville High School football captain Carson Risner recently, getting the junior back on-target for being ready for his senior season on the gridiron.

Risner, a two-way starter on the line for the Wolves, was injured during a practice midway through the football season, and is currently sitting out the basketball season while working as a manager for the boys’ hoops team.

He hopes to be back and healthy in time to throw during the track season.

“His surgeon threw discus in college and asked if we wanted a rubber-band and some springs added while he was in there, so he could really get a good launch,” mom Jennie Prince said with a laugh.

“The surgeon was hoping he could play the end of the season of basketball, but our season is over too soon,” she added. “He cannot bend his knee past 90 degrees for six weeks. Then he should be fine. He will take it slow and needs to rebuild his quad muscles. He’s hoping to throw.”

Doctors shaved Risner’s torn-up patella and repaired a 28mm meniscus tear. A medial ligament attached to his patella that keeps it from dislocating is still torn.

Surgery on that would require a six-month recovery time, so the family is waiting to see if it will heal itself, which is very possible.

“He can play with a nice tape job and a patella tracking brace,” Prince said. “If it dislocates again he will consider fixing it, but it still may heal if he’s nice to it.

“His torn MCL from football looks like it never happened,” she added. “Happy about that. ACL is perfect too.”

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Throwback Thursday: Football studs in the house!!

Posted in Football, Throwback Thursday, tagged , , , on January 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Caleb Valko (left) and Kwamane Bowens, old-school style.

Caleb Valko (left) and Kwamane Bowens, old-school style.

All grown up.

    All grown up. (Left photo copyright recruit757.com, right photo by Jennifer Morrell)

What could of been.

Elementary school buds, Caleb Valko and Kwamane Bowens never got the chance to play out their high school football careers in the same town.

Valko stayed in Coupeville and went out as a senior captain, pile-driving hapless runners to the end. Now he’s an assistant coach with the Coupeville Middle School football squad.

Bowens ended up playing high school ball way across the country after a family move and is currently playing D-1 football on scholarship at the University of Hawaii.

Both have been successful in their own way, and the duo remain in touch today, forever linked by the friendship of youth.

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