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Your donations can help Coupeville’s football coaches make key equipment purchases. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

They score, you pay, everyone wins.

The Coupeville High School football team is launching the Touchdown Club, its new fundraising project.

You can make a flat donation to the program or pledge a dollar amount for each time a Wolf gridiron giant plunges into the end zone.

Proceeds will help football coaches make important purchases, a lot of which aren’t covered in the money alotted to each program by the Coupeville Booster Club.

“Our booster club does an amazing job,” said Wolf head football coach Bennett Richter, “But as a small school, we don’t have a football specific booster club and are making all these purchases ourselves.”

The biggest emphasis will be on new gear, such as shoulder pads, helmets, and the guardian caps Wolf players use in practice to reduce the potential for head injuries.

“We want to be able to continue to offer kids gear that helps them feel more comfortable in a physical sport and help parents feel comfortable about letting their kids play such a wonderful game,” Richter said.

Any dollar amount is welcome, but those who pledge $20 or more per touchdown will qualify as “Gold Members,” which brings with it big-time perks.

Hit that figure and you can advertise in the program at home games, as well as supply a sign which will be hung in the stadium and along the team’s practice field.

Players will also be signing game-worn jerseys as a personal thank you to “Gold Member” supporters.

For more info, email Bennett Richter at brichter@coupeville.k12.wa.us.

 

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Brett Casey, undisputed Beard King of Wolf football. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Call ’em the Beard Brigade.

Few teams can match the chin warmers offered up by Coupeville High School football coaches.

The Wolves go four-deep, with head man Bennett Richter joined by assistants Brett Casey, Bobby Carr, and Alex Turner.

To a man, they sport impressive facial hair, a testament to the prairie’s reputation for producing only the manliest of men.

Bobby Carr

Bennett Richter

Alex Turner

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Sean Toomey-Stout, preparing to destroy you. (Chelle Herbruger photo)

The spirit is still willing, but the body has spoken.

Coupeville High School grad Sean Toomey-Stout, who beat considerable odds to make the jump from Cow Town to playing at the highest level of college football, is retiring from the sport.

University of Washington coach Kalen DeBoer confirmed the news after practice Tuesday, on a day when the Huskies lost three players to season-ending injuries.

Toomey-Stout, a two-time Male Athlete of the Year winner during his days in Coupeville, will take “a medical retirement” due to “a chronic injury getting to the point he could no longer continue playing.”

Believed to be the first Coupeville athlete to grace a trading card, Toomey-Stout joined Husky football as a walk-on player in 2021.

He was twice named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll, and played in six games last season, including making an appearance in the team’s Alamo Bowl win over Texas.

Toomey-Stout, the only CHS grad to ever rack up stats for Washington’s NCAA D-I football program, collected seven tackles, with a high of three against Colorado and Kent State.

He also saw the field against Oregon, Arizona State, and Portland State.

“The Torpedo” with his former high school coach, and fellow NCAA D-I football player, Kwamane Bowens. (Photo courtesy Bowens)

The twin brother of Maya, “The Torpedo” was a viral video star while in a Coupeville uniform.

Recordings of the night he took a kick to the house behind the blocking of a wayward deer popped up everywhere from Sports Illustrated to CNN.

Sean played football, basketball, and track for the Wolves, winning two state meet medals in the latter sport.

He also competed with older brother Cameron for the unofficial “Best Damn Hair in the Western Hemisphere” award, with the duo usually separated only by a single (well-coiffed) strand.

The shot? Beautiful. The hair? Impeccable. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

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Coupeville football players clash. (Photos by Nikki Breaux and Michelle Glass)

They made the day count.

Beating the arrival of wildfire smoke in the air, Coupeville High School football players stayed busy Saturday, combining a bluff run with a team breakfast and a full practice.

The gridiron giants will be joined by volleyball, cross country, cheer, and soccer players Monday, as practices for fall sports get into full gear.

But, for the moment, football had all the cameras pointed its way.

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Nine weeks, nine potential wins.

Stay hungry, keep climbing.

That’s the advice second-year Coupeville High School head football coach Bennett Richter is passing down to his players.

The Wolves are coming off the program’s first league title and trip to state since 1990, having gone 7-2 last fall.

But, in just a few hours, all of that fades away and a new season officially begins.

Football is the first high school sport to open practices, with teams from across Washington state hitting the gridiron Wednesday.

Volleyball, soccer, cross country, and cheer follow, getting started Monday, Aug. 21.

Coupeville’s first competitive game of the 2023-2024 school year is a home football clash Sept. 1 against former league rival Klahowya.

Richter, using a photo shot by John Fisken, has crafted the handy-dandy gridiron schedule at the top of this story, ready to be printed out and taped to your frig.

Wolf football has four home games, and five road trips, though one of those is just next door to face South Whidbey in The Bucket Game.

So, call it 4.5 home games, and 4.5 road trips.

Homecoming is Oct. 13 against Forks, with Senior Night set for Oct. 27 against Friday Harbor, if you’re curious.

As Wolf coaches, players, parents, fans, and assorted writers watch the clock tick towards the return of prep sports, Richter offers one big reminder.

It applies both to his own football stars, and to athletes in any other sport at CHS.

And that message — stop reading this and go SIGN UP ON FINAL FORMS AND UPDATE YOUR PHYSICAL, if you haven’t already.

You can accomplish great things this school year, but first you have to do your paperwork, and do it early enough where you’re eligible to play immediately.

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