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Summer work fuels fall success

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Wolf senior lineman William Davidson rumbles at summer football camp. (Courtney Sollars photos)

Best way to prepare for breezy fall football Fridays?

Put in the work on hot Thursday afternoons during the summer like Coupeville High School players did recently.

The Wolves, coming off their first league title and trip to state since 1990, traveled to Shelton for a multi-day camp this week.

While in the land of the Highclimbers, Coupeville players participated in a wide array of drills, strong man competitions, and team bonding moments.

Now they’re back home, with less than six weeks until the first game of the 2023 campaign.

That’ll be a home affair Friday, Sept. 1, with non-league rival Klahowya slated to travel to Cow Town for a 6:00 PM kickoff.

Until then, marinate in a batch of camp pics.

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World traveler, gridiron giant

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on July 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Dominic Coffman busts up field during the All-State football game. (Photo property Tommy Wolf/Lit Media Productions)

Different continent, same gridiron dreams.

Coupeville grad Dominic Coffman is off to Spain in February to join the Las Rozas Black Demons, a semi-pro football team in Madrid.

The squad competes in Liga Nacional de Fútbol Americano (LNFA), the first-tier division for American football in Spain.

Las Rozas is the defending champs, breaking through in 2023 to win the LNFA Bowl after three runner-up finishes.

The league was founded in 1988 and is run by the Spanish Federation of American Football.

Coffman makes the jump from being a Wolf to being a Black Demon.

Coffman, who was a three-sport star during his time at CHS, met with the team while in Spain visiting Carlota Marcos Cabrillo, who was a foreign exchange student at Coupeville this past school year.

Life has been busy lately for the dude who was the Northwest 2B/1B League’s Offensive MVP during his senior season of football.

Coffman played in the Earl Barden Classic — the all-state gridiron game for small school players — in late June.

That came on the heels of his earning a 2nd place medal at the state track and field championships as part of Coupeville’s 4 x 100 relay team.

During his final high school football season Coffman led the Wolves with 14 touchdowns, running around (and over) multiple defenders on almost every play.

Also a standout on defense, he helped lead Coupeville to a 7-2 record, with the program capturing its first league title and trip to state since 1990.

Coffman, who was Homecoming King, qualified for the state championships in three sports — football, basketball, and track and field.

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Let Dawson cook!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Dawson Houston (left) and Kwamane Bowens pose with super fan Davin Houston after the Everett Royals won for the fourth time in five games. (Alia Houston photo)

Now, if the stat keepers could just move as fast as Dawson Houston.

The former Coupeville High School quarterback lit up the sky Saturday, throwing for a pair of touchdowns to help spark the Everett Royals to a 50-22 thumping of the Seattle Seminoles.

While it took four days for the semi-pro football franchise to post complete stats — not that any Whidbey-based bloggers were counting the hours (close to 100…) — Houston was impeccable in the moment.

The victory, coming in Everett’s home finale, lifts the squad to 4-1.

The Royals, who also feature former CHS gridiron coach Kwamane Bowens on defense, sit atop the Impact Conference East standings in the Gridiron Developmental Football League.

Houston, getting his most playing time of the season, sliced up the Seminole defense, completing 9-15 passes for 94 yards.

Bowens was his usual explosive self on defense, as well, adding five tackles and an interception.

The former D-I player, who now coaches at Anacortes High School, has 33 tackles, two interceptions, and a fumble recovery on the season.

The Royals get back at it Saturday, hitting the road to face the Spokane Wolfpack.

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A campin’ they will (still) go

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The Wolves are headed to football camp, but in Shelton, not Tenino. (Davin Houston photo)

The road trip is back on, just with a slightly different destination.

When most of the Tenino High School football staff resigned last week, it looked like an annual late June gridiron camp run by the Beavers would fall by the wayside.

The team most affected by that — at least for readers of this blog — was Coupeville, which was primed to jam everyone into vehicles and head down to terrorize people on the black turf.

When news broke, Wolf coaches immediately begin to look for other team-building options.

But now, with the camp moving from Tenino to Shelton, CHS caravan drivers are once more ready to fuel up (at inflated gas prices), cram as many meat sticks as possible into glove compartments, and crank AC/DC up to 11.

“Sounds like (Tenino) Coach (Cary) Nagel has communicated and worked with the Shelton program and will head up the camp there instead,” said Coupeville pigskin guru Bennett Richter.

“This year there will be 10 teams, but with Nagel running things the transition should go quite smoothly!”

Being able to keep the camp alive, even with Tenino coaches in limbo, was huge for everyone involved.

“I’m really just happy our kids will get an opportunity to go to camp this year,” Richter said.

“There is nothing better for a team than when you can get away and have nothing but one goal and each other to focus on.”

In a move which would be very popular with your local blogger — who ain’t taking the Xterra all the way down to Tenino, or Shelton for June football — Richter and Co. are also looking into the possibility of Coupeville hosting its own camp in the future.

Camp Casey, maybe get ready for some pigskin action.

“I have looked into what would need to be done for a camp here next season,” said the Wolf headman. “If I get the word out soon enough, I feel there is a real potential for that.”

With the recent scramble, Richter got a feel for the work involved, but it also fired him up.

“These last couple days have been a rat race to figure out what’s going on,” he said.

“I have basically planned a whole camp in the hopes to get teams here and also planned a whole week for just us to get away and practice, if need be, and now I will not end up using either this year,” Richter added with a laugh.

“But … coaching life … nothing I’d rather be doing!”

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Tenino troubles, Coupeville camp-less

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville football players continue to put in summer work but won’t be going to a scheduled camp. (Nikki Breaux photos)

A resignation at another school has put a wrinkle in the summer schedule for Coupeville High School football.

The Wolves were slated to hit the road July 20-22, returning to Tenino’s annual summer camp, held on its famed black gridiron.

But things went sideways late last week, when the Beavers lost head coach Cary Nagel and most of his staff.

That has led Tenino to cancel the camp, as it scrambles to find a football staff five weeks out from the start of practice for a new season.

Nagel, a Shelton alum who previously coached at his alma mater and Franklin Pierce, has been in charge at Tenino for six years.

During that time, he turned around a program mired in mediocrity, with the Beavers going 10-2 and 9-2 the past two seasons.

Under Nagel’s leadership, Tenino captured its first league title since 2013, and has back-to-back state tourney appearances.

His 2021 squad won a game at the big dance, the first time the Beavers gridiron squad has achieved that since 1986.

In an interview with The Chronicle, a newspaper based in Centralia, Nagel said his resignation was due to “a series of circumstances the past few months.”

“After talking with my family and my close circle, it was time to close the chapter in Tenino,” he said. “Take a deep breath and move on to something else in the future.”

The Wolves rumble on the black turf in Tenino last year.

Coupeville coaches, coming off their own triumphant season, are scrambling to find something to replace the camp.

That could be something involving other schools, or a team-only event, depending on how things develop.

The Wolves had a very strong team-wide performance at last year’s Tenino camp, and that carried over to the season, when they went 7-2 for first-year head coach Bennett Richter.

Coupeville won its first league title since 1990, then hosted Onalaska at Oak Harbor in the first state playoff game for the CHS football program in 32 years.

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