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Kisch swaps soccer coaching gigs

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on April 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Kimberly Kisch is stepping down as Coupeville High School girls’ soccer coach but will continue working on the pitch. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

She’s shifting gears.

After two seasons of working as a coach at the same high school where she once played soccer herself, Kimberly Kisch has resigned.

But that doesn’t mean she’s leaving the pitch, just planning to redirect her efforts to a different age group.

Kisch was hired to coach the CHS girls’ soccer program, but the Wolves have been unable to field a full team the past two seasons due to a shortage of players.

Those girls who did show up have played with the Wolf boys as a co-ed team, with Kisch joining fellow soccer guru Robert Wood on the sideline.

Wood recently stepped down as boys coach, citing the difficulty in balancing the position with his real-world job.

Now, Kisch is joining him in stepping away from high school soccer and will instead focus on continuing her work with younger players.

“I’m not leaving soccer,” she said. “I am just putting more into the younger divisions.

“I took on the Vice President role for Central Whidbey Youth Soccer and I went back to coaching for them in U12. I have had a number of these girls since U8.

“I am back with them and hoping to inspire them to stick with soccer so that we can revive the girls (high school) program.”

In her resignation letter, Kisch expressed her gratitude for the time she had with the high school program, and the hope it would continue to be rebuilt.

“It is important for this program to grow and flourish and I do not feel that I can accomplish this in my current role,” she wrote to Athletic Director Brad Sherman.

“I greatly enjoyed my time working with and learning from you, Coach Rob, and the student players.

“Moving forward I would like to take what I have learned the program needs and feed it into the younger players coming up.

“I am so hopeful that training the lower divisions will be effective in the revival of the high school girl’s program.”

Kisch hopes to remain involved with the CHS program as a volunteer, offering support to her replacement.

“Thank you for the opportunity to be involved with this program,” she said. “I am so grateful to have had the honor of coaching for the team I grew up playing on.”

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Pitch queens rumble to title

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on February 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville booters celebrate another soccer tourney title. (Photo courtesy Kimberly Kisch)

All they do is win.

The Deception FC G14 girls’ soccer squad, which combines players from Coupeville, Oak Harbor, and South Whidbey, made it two titles in a row Monday.

Sweeping through the 2025 Copa Surf tournament at the Starfire Sports complex in Tukwila, the Islanders capped a four-game win streak with a 3-0 victory in the championship rumble.

That followed on the heels of 7-0, 7-2, and 5-1 victories over the weekend.

Deception FC is on a roll. (Photo courtesy Jerry Helm)

The Copa Surf title comes a week after Whidbey’s best swept to a tourney win at the Washington Youth Soccer Founders Cup.

Deception FC is coached by Will Tellez, Jerry Helm, and Matthew Hutchinson.

The four Coupeville girls who star for the squad are Elaina Grose, Lilly Hestbeck, Scotlyn Helm, and Lucy Youderian.

Goaltender Scotlyn Helm lifts another trophy. (Photo courtesy Jerry Helm)

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Whidbey pitch queens reign supreme

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , , on February 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“All your trophies belong to us!!” (Photos courtesy Jerry Helm)

Wear green, win big.

Beating the Philadelphia Eagles to the punch, the Deception FC G14 girls’ soccer squad stormed to a title Sunday at the Washington Youth Soccer Founders Cup.

The team, coached by Will Tellez, Jerry Helm, and Matthew Hutchinson, includes players from Coupeville, Oak Harbor, and South Whidbey.

Deception FC has been chasing the title from town to town over the course of nearly a month.

First round games were in Woodinville, with later bouts staged in Oak Harbor, before the semifinals and championship game went down this weekend at the Starfire Sports complex in Tukwila.

Whidbey’s united squad came out on top in the GU11 Platinum Division, roaring to a 3-0 victory in the semis Saturday, before bouncing back Sunday to win in a penalty kick shootout.

With the game knotted at 1-1 after regulation, the teams waged a tense battle while alternating shots on goals.

Coupeville’s goaltender, “The Notorious Scottie Jay,” — AKA Scotlyn Helm — came up huge in the spotlight, locking down a 3-2 advantage in the shootout and sending her team into a celebration.

Deception FC played at a high level on both sides of the ball throughout the tourney, with Helm anchoring a stingy defense, while Reece Dominguez, Madison Barron, and Ashton “Smash” Lefler all were among the bracket’s top scorers.

 

The champs are:

Madison Barron
Calleigh Criswell
Kellyn Criswell
Reece Dominguez
Kenzi Gonsalves
Elaina Grose
Scotlyn Helm
Sydney Hutchinson
Ashton Lefler
Karsyn Mcintyre
Addison Walters
Lucy Youderian

 

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Young soccer stars rule the pitch

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on November 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville rules the soccer pitch. (Photo courtesy Kimberly Kisch)

Coupeville’s mega-watt booters continue to shine brightly on the big stage.

The Deception FC girls’ G14 team, which features four Cow Town stars, finished atop the North Puget Sound League Division 1, and did so in convincing fashion.

The squad went 9-1-2, while rattling the net for 42 goals while surrendering just 10 scores.

No other team in their six-squad conference scored more than 18 goals, and Deception FC’s +32 rating towered over the second-place team’s +8 mark.

Coupeville is represented on the GU11 team by Lucy Youderian, Elaina Grose, Scotlyn Helm, and Lilly Hestbeck.

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CHS girls’ soccer program sidelined, booters fight on

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on September 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »

With no CHS girls’ soccer program last year, Brynn Parker suited up and played with the Wolf boys. (Jackie Saia photo)

They were close.

Despite a late rally, not enough girls signed up for soccer to revive the shuttered Coupeville High School pitch program.

Even with 8th graders eligible to play, the Wolves narrowly missed out on hitting the figure administrators and coaches needed to see, and the program will go dormant for a second straight season.

All girls who wish to join the CHS boys’ program can do so, however, creating a co-ed team again.

Five of the seven schools in the Northwest 2B/1B League play boys’ soccer, with four other schools — Lopez Island, Providence Classical Christian, Grace Academy, and CPC-Lynnwood — joining the NWL for that one sport.

Coupeville likely won’t be the only co-ed team, as several of its rivals are in a similar place with no girls’ program and have featured mixed rosters in past years.

CHS, which originally sent players to join the Oak Harbor High School team in the ’90s, launched its own girls pitch program in 2004, and had played 19 consecutive seasons through 2022.

The Wolf booters survived the pandemic, but dwindling numbers curtailed the 2023 campaign before it began.

Now, a 16-game season which was set to begin Sept. 11 with a road game at Auburn Adventist Academy has been scrubbed as well.

Former Wolf booter Kimberly Kisch was hired to coach the Wolf girls prior to the 2023 season but has yet to get a chance to lead her own team onto the pitch.

She will once again join CHS boys’ coach Robert Wood to guide the co-ed squad.

That group travels to Auburn Sept. 11, then plays four of its next five games at home.

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