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Stars of the future capture the camera now!!

Posted in Community Sports, Girls Soccer, Volleyball on September 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »

   Katelin McCormick prepares to unleash a wicked throw-in. (Wendy McCormick photo)

  Seventh grade spiker Kyla Briscoe (left) gets some face time with Wolf cheer/basketball/track superstar Jai’Lysa Hoskins. (Amy Briscoe photo)

An orange a day fuels the stars of the future. (Wendy McCormick photo)

The greats start young.

A new generation of future Wolf sports stars is out there on the horizon and can already be seen on middle school courts and Central Whidbey rec soccer fields, as these photos depict.

Spiker Kyla Briscoe and booter Katelin McCormick are just the tip of the wave that is coming, as Wolf Nation prepares for a new golden age of athletic success.

And hey, even if they never win a state title in the years to come, these are still neat photos right now, if nothing else. So, from me, to you, the future!

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No worries! Hayley Waterman still brilliant!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Where are they now? on September 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

  Former Wolf soccer ace Hayley Waterman (back row, far right) now plays for a Seattle indoor rec team by night while doing scientific research by day.

Hayley Waterman can do it all.

That was always clear to anyone who knew her during her time at Coupeville High School, when she juggled soccer, photography, year book, classes, helping take care of her younger siblings and teaming with Kate Harbour to be the Wonder Twins behind the rental counter at Videoville.

Now, all grown up and stuff, she still manages to accomplish more than most of us, while making it look easy.

As shown in the picture above, she’s still playing on the soccer pitch, this time as a member of a Seattle indoor team known as “Somethin’ Like That.” Rec soccer once a week gives her a mixture of fun and exercise, while taking her mind off her day-to-day activities, where she’s well on her way to doing something like solving cancer or stopping the zombie apocalypse.

She lives in the U District with her girlfriend, Rachel, and her 11-year old transplanted-from-Coupeville cat, Siamyan. Working as a Level 1 Technician in a research lab at Puget Sound Blood Center, she’s in with the big guns.

“I’m kinda really busy being a working adult,” Waterman said. “My boss is an awesome genius and one of the few researchers who uses mice as an animal model for transfusion studies. So yeah, I’m doing science and it’s really fun and intense.”

She has plans to continue on to grad school at some point, but for now is happy where she has found herself.

“I really like my boss and what we’re doing. It’s really good science.”

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Ignore the score! Look at the photos!!

Posted in Girls Soccer on September 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

    Wolf defenders, from left, Kelsey Miranda, Marisa Etzell and Anna Bailey fight to deny ATM.

Waiting to enter the game, a trio of Wolf booters eye the action.

       Going all out, Coupeville goalie McKayla Bailey sacrifices her body for the potential save.

Look, there’s not much to be said.

A young, improving but still winless Coupeville High School girls’ soccer team ran into a highly-efficient, dangerous, unbeaten Archbishop Thomas Murphy squad Tuesday and the result was pretty much what you might expect. The final score, at 8-0, wasn’t the highlight of anyone’s day.

That being said, take a gander at some of the action shots up above, delivered by insurance agent/photo whiz Shelli Trumbull. They capture the high points in crystal clear images and make you forget the score as soon as you utter it.

So, go on, take a look. We’ll discuss final scores the next time.

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D’Almeida finds magic scoring touch!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Volleyball on September 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Some nights you look for positives where you can find them.

On a Thursday night when both the Coupeville High School volleyball and girls’ soccer teams lost, there was one big, bright, glaring moment of magic to be found for the Wolves, and it shone from the talented toe of Amanda d’Almeida.

Back from her most recent college recruiting trip, the senior booter scored not one, but two goals (doubling Coupeville’s output on the season), dazzling the Sultan goalkeeper, who spent more time admiring d’Almeida’s shots than was probably necessary.

Unfortunately the heroics of the golden-footed one were not enough to save the Wolves from taking a 6-2 loss, dropping them to 0-6 on the season.

Still, even in defeat, it was a night to remember, as d’Almeida came agonizingly close to the school’s first hat trick. She had another shot deflect off of a teammate’s head (she hit the ball so hard there wasn’t a chance for the other player to duck) and had another beautifully timed shot waved off on a technicality.

Her two successful scores came on a penalty kick and on a play set up by a note-perfect cross by teammate Jennifer Spark.

Meanwhile, back on the Island, the CHS spike squad put up an admirable fight before falling in four tough sets to Cascade Conference juggernaut Archbishop Thomas Murphy. The 25-17, 25-17, 20-25, 25-22 loss snapped the Wolves two-game winning streak and dropped them to 2-4 overall, 1-4 in league play.

Hailey Hammer paced Coupeville with eight kills while Amanda Fabrizi (14 digs) and Breeanna Messner (four kills, 14 digs) sparkled in support of her.

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Tisa McPhee scores big (and there’s still no hyphen in her last name)!!

Posted in Girls Soccer on September 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

How fast is Madison Tisa McPhee?

So fast she can outrun the unnecessary hyphen some newspapers keep trying to put into her last name!

Regardless of how you spell her name, the Coupeville High School senior burns up the track oval, and now, the soccer pitch, where she used her pedal-through-the-floor-speed to outrun and outgun a pack of South Whidbey defenders Tuesday to net her first soccer goal of her high school career.

Tisa McPhee, playing a ball set up by fellow senior sensation Amanda d’Almeida, nimbly avoided a pack of defenders and then out-juked an over-matched Falcon goalie, who waved meekly at a ball she knew she had little chance to stop.

While the Wolves eventually fell 3-1 to their Island rivals, dropping them to 0-5 overall, 0-3 in Cascade Conference play, it was the second straight game Coupeville had found the back of the net, perhaps heralding an offensive awakening.

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