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A few semi-important things to know before kickoff!!

Posted in Football on September 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »

"My cake's on fire! Too many candles!! Too many candles!!"

Wolf Coach Tony Maggio practices his “What? A penalty on my team?!?!?!?” look.

It all begins now.

In a little under 11 hours, the Coupeville High School football teams kicks off the 2013-2014 high school sports season.

The Wolf volleyball team plays Saturday at a tourney in Oak Harbor, and then the boys’ tennis team and girls’ soccer squad debut next week, but tonight, the spotlight is firmly on the gridiron gang.

Here’s what you need to know:

WHAT: Coupeville vs. Bellevue Christian

WHEN: 7 PM Friday, Sept. 6

WHERE: Mickey Clark Field (behind Coupeville Elementary on S. Main, across from the Asian food store in the building that used to house Videoville.

COST: The district has bumped the price for adults up a dollar this year, from $5 to $6. Parking is free, but, if you’re late, you may have to walk a bit.

OK, so that’s the basics, but you want to have something to say that makes you seem like you know what you’re talking about. So scribble down these factoids and you’ll be set.

1) Bellevue Christian’s mascot is the Viking.

2) Its colors are royal blue, white and silver.

3) It plays in the 1A Nisqually League.

4) Bellevue nipped Coupeville 23-18 last year, winning its first two games, before losing its final eight.

5) Coupeville also won two games a season ago, beating Orcas Island and taking The Bucket away from conference and Island rival South Whidbey.

6) Maxpreps.com ranks Coupeville as the #258 football team in Washington state, 12 slots ahead of Bellevue Christian. Nationally, the Wolves are #12,503, about 500 slots ahead of the Vikings.

7) Coupeville lineman Nick Streubel will be the biggest player on the field.

Toss out these facts — he’s six-foot-four and 315 pounds, his nickname is “The Big Hurt,” he’s already been eyeballed by NCAA Division 1 schools like Washington and Wyoming, and, if he doesn’t hug mom Nanette after the game, he’s not getting dinner on Saturday — and you’ll seem like a dedicated fan.

Or a stalker…

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Fight the power!!

Posted in Fashionable Fans, Football on September 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The usual suspects: (l to r) Aaron Trumbull, Brendan Coleman, Aaron Curtin, Brian Norris (with vuvuzela) and Kyle Bodamer. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

It’s going down in Cow Town.

Friday night is the kick-off to a brand new high school sport season, as the Coupeville High School football squad welcomes Bellevue Christian to town for a 7 PM gridiron rumble.

And with a new school year and a new group of seniors, the fight against the Fun Police is officially getting re-launched.

The powers that be killed “The Wobble” last year and they tried to take away the vuvuzela horns, even as several enterprising Wolf students stayed one step ahead of the crackdown.

Now, a loosely-knit group of rapscallions has put the word on the street. Bring the noise and the funk tomorrow night. They can’t catch everyone.

The official press release from the desk of CHS senior Brian Norris reads:

Soo. My fellow Coupeville students I am calling on you to bring every air horn, cow bell, vuvuzela or any other noise maker you may posses to tomorrow’s game. My one horn won’t be enough.

To which I say … let the games begin!

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Are you ready for some football?!?! Caleb Valko is!!

Posted in Caleb Valko talks smack, Football on September 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Nick Streubel (left) and Caleb Valko, back when they terrorized the gridiron together. (Katie Smith photo)

Friday night will be a whole new experience for Caleb Valko.

“I have actually never seen a high school football game from the stands. I’ve always been on the field,” he said. “That should be a nice experience.”

After years of rampaging across the field, the former Coupeville High School gridiron star, who was a team captain as a senior last season on the Wolf squad that reclaimed The Bucket by beating arch-rival South Whidbey on its home turf, is now a fan.

And a very dedicated one at that.

“I’m so excited for this game, almost as excited as if I were to be suited up,” Valko said. “Probably because these are the guys I played with. I want them to succeed and I don’t have any doubts that that’s what they intend on doing.”

Coupeville opens with a home game Friday (7 PM) against non-conference foe Bellevue Christian. This time around the team leaders will be newly-minted seniors such as lineman Nick “The Big Hurt” Streubel and wing Jake Tumblin.

Watching his close friends go into battle without him at their side will be a new feeling for Valko, who, while not as physically big as Streubel, was the mud-stained soul of Wolf Nation.

“The transition of me playing to me watching is pretty difficult,” Valko admitted. “I know I can’t call out names or get somebody back into the game.

“It’s not my job anymore,” he added. “I’m a fan and an alumni now, not a player. It’s the captain’s jobs to keep the players in line.”

Which doesn’t mean he won’t be screaming his head off. Just from a different part of the stadium.

“Coupeville’s gonna kick Bellevue Christian’s ass!” Valko said. “Last year was a fluke. We almost beat them with 18 kids, half JV, last time.

“They better come ready to fight because I guarantee Streubel will be throwing punches and making tunnels for Jake to pass through!”

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Let’s go spank the Everett Herald!!

Posted in Football, Poking the Herald on September 4, 2013| 1 Comment »

“Gentlemen, prime your buns!!”

Let the paddlin’ commence!

It’s time for the Everett Herald to get nice and irritated with Wolf Nation once again. It’s been too long since we chafed their very souls.

The occasion? The posting of their annual preseason Cascade Conference football poll.

Yes, the very same poll we broke last year, when we mustered enough votes to smack the fans of Archbishop Thomas Murphy and King’s right upside their overly-entitled heads.

Now, we’re already in a wee bit of a hole, down by 29 votes and lodged in seventh place (out of eight teams) as we launch our assault.

No matter. We overcame a bigger climb last year, and held fast when ATM started paying their gardeners and maids to vote.

We are Wolf Nation. We break polls. It’s what we do.

Let the dogs of war loose!

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130903/BLOG18/130909955/1007/What-team-will-win-the-Cascade-Conference

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Where in the world is Korbin Korzan?!?!

Posted in Baseball, Football, World travel on August 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Korbin Korzan and Iris Ryckaert

Notre Dame (the one in Paris, not Indiana)

Ready to zip-line…

Off the side of a mountain.

Farewell from The Atomium in Brussels.

Korbin Korzan traded in a season of football for the trip of a lifetime.

The Coupeville High School junior, who had packed on the muscle in anticipation of returning to the gridiron for the Wolves, had his plans thrown awry when he met Belgian foreign exchange student Iris Ryckaert.

The duo dated during her time in America, and Korzan chose to skip playing football this year so he could spend a chunk of August and September visiting Ryckaert back in her stomping grounds. While their romance is taking a breather — at least for now — Korzan, also a standout Wolf baseball player, got to experience a whole new world.

His thoughts on the still-continuing trip:

Alright, well, probably the first thing I should get out there is that when I return Iris and I will no longer be in a relationship together.

We have made a mutual agreement due to the fact that she will be in a very fast paced university and I will also be very busy working, doing Running Start and my junior year. We have decided that for now best friends is what’s best for the both of us.

I’m confident our paths will cross in the future. True love always finds a way.

Other than that, Europe has been without a doubt the most amazing experience in my life.

I can’t even choose what I have enjoyed most because everything is so perfect here.

I’ve done so many cool activities from riding a Segway up a mountain, zip-lining off a cliff, seeing the Eiffel Tower, exploring all the old buildings in Paris, 23-mile bike rides, visiting many cities (and a country) on the French Riviera such as Cannes, Fréjus, Saint Raphaël, Monaco, Nice, Sainte Maxime, Saint Tropez…

So basically you name it, I’ve done it.

But when it all comes down to it, my favorite part is just experiencing European life with the best friend I could ever ask for.

One in a million get to stay in a house (a very very nice house) for three weeks for free in Belgium and France and I’m that one thanks to Iris. This has been the best summer of my life and I will never forget it.

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