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Moody eager to learn, eager to soar!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Track, tagged Basketball, Cassidy Moody, CHS Wolves, henna art, Ice Age, Pierce the Veil on June 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Cassidy Moody works on the hurdles during a CMS practice this spring. (John Fisken photo)

Cassidy Moody is like a sponge.

The three-sport athlete, who will enter Coupeville High School as a freshman in the fall, is always eager to pick up new advice on how she can fine-tune her game.

That, and her ability to work with her teammates, are particular strengths for a young woman who plans to play soccer and basketball and compete in track and field as a Wolf.

“I’m not afraid to ask for help,” Moody said. “I get along with most everyone.

“I like playing with other people as a team and having fun with everyone while we all get better.”

While she enjoys all of her sports (Moody played volleyball in middle school, since CMS doesn’t have a soccer program), she singles track out as being closest to her heart.

“My favorite is track because it’s like an individual sport where you compete by yourself,” she said. “Also because I love doing the high jump.”

As she moves up a rung in the prep sports world, Moody wants to focus on … focusing.

“I need to work on trying harder at practice and paying attention,” she said. “As an athlete I need to work on paying attention more, and during school I would like to improve my grades and listening.”

When she’s not competing, Moody enjoys sketching, playing the ukulele and singing.

She hails “Ice Age” as her favorite film, “Caraphernelia” by Pierce the Veil as her go-to song, and loves henna art, hanging out with friends and sleeping.

It’s those friends who have helped shape Moody’s life, and continue to do so.

“My friends have pushed me to become a better athlete, being the only major athlete in my family,” she said. “And my closest friends have a huge impact of who I became and who I’m becoming.”

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“I play wherever someone puts me!!”

Posted in Girls Soccer, Horse sports, tagged CHS Wolves, horse riding, Island County Fair, Megan Thorn, Soccer on June 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Megan Thorn flies over the hurdles as a 7th grader at CMS. (John Fisken photos)

Megan Thorn flies over the hurdles as a CMS 7th grader. (John Fisken photos)

Thorn throws down an impenetrable wall, giving teammate Cassidy Moody room to operate during an 8th grade hoops game.

Life on the range calls to Megan Thorn.

“I love to ride my horses, they are my other life.”

A competitor with the Whidbey Western Gaming Association, Thorn, who will be a freshman at Coupeville High School this fall, has appeared several times at the Island County Fair.

With a fair amount of time devoted to her animals, their care and competing with them, she plans to reduce her sports load from middle school as she steps up a school.

After playing basketball (she was a scrappy ball-hawk) and running track at CMS, Thorn is planning on only playing soccer for the Wolves.

“In the beginning of the year I was going to do soccer and basketball, but due to being busy with my horses in the spring time I decided I will only be playing soccer,” she said.

“I love basketball and track but my favorite sport would be soccer,” Thorn added. “I have always played soccer since I was little.”

Part of the allure of soccer has been the chance to be a vital part of a team which needs to work together to succeed.

“I enjoy having a team, people I can count on, people I can ask questions to or just people I can talk to if I need someone,” Thorn said. “I like being an athlete because of the people I get to meet and become friends with.”

On the field, she considers her speed and her willingness to be a team player (“I play wherever someone puts me”) as strengths.

“I need to work on being confident on how I play,” Thorn said. “Just play the game, don’t overthink what I am doing.”

As she jumps into high school life, her focus on mixing “playing strongly and having fun” with nabbing good grades in the classroom remains very much in place.

Those traits were instilled in her by parents Blake and Gretchen Thorn.

“The biggest impact I have would be my parents; they are always supporting me with whatever I do,” Megan said. “I love them so much, and I thank them every day for being there for me.

“They made me who I am.”

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Be there or be square!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Football, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, fall schedules, football, Soccer, tennis, volleyball on June 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose (left), Emma Smith and the CHS spikers will play five straight matches at home to start next season. (John Fisken photos)

Uriel Liquidano (63) and Co. will play for The Bucket at home Sept. 2.

Wolf netters like John McClarin will spend more than 50% of their season on the road this fall.

In exactly 100 days, Mia Littlejohn (20) will get to kick foes in the ankles again.

Where will you be in 94 days?

If you answered, “Ploppin’ my butt on the temporary bleachers to watch the first Coupeville High School football game of the fall,” then, like me, you have absolute faith in Willie Smith.

Back in the CHS Athletic Director chair after an absence of several years, the Scheduling Maniac already has the fall sports schedule 98.37% locked in place, and we’re not even on summer vacation yet.

Now, things happen, and there’s always a chance some dates might get tweaked, or, in the case of tennis, rained out.

It happens.

But if you went ahead and laminated this baby now, I think you’d be pretty safe.

As well as being one of the few people to actually own a laminating machine…

Anyway, as you peruse the schedules, a few things of note.

There are more home games than road games — a rarity on The Rock — with volleyball getting the best break, with nine of 15, including its first five, at home.

Coupeville has kept its rivalry games with South Whidbey in football (where The Bucket is at stake) and girls’ soccer, though at the moment, the Falcons do not appear on the boys’ tennis or volleyball skeds.

After two seasons of having six league games, CHS soccer and volleyball are jumping to nine (three each against Port Townsend, Klahowya and Chimacum), which brings them in line with basketball, softball and baseball.

And, lastly, football kicks off season one of a new look in which the Olympic League and Nisqually League have combined to form a super league for gridiron play.

The Wolves will have seven league games, up from six, and no longer face the same team more than once.

The agreement allows the schools to set a full 10-game schedule, while eliminating the need to scramble and schedule crossover games once week #10 arrives.

Depending on each year’s playoff allocation for District 3, either the top two or three teams advance to the playoffs.

The schedules (as of June 1), with league games starred:

BOYS TENNIS

Tues-Sept. 6 @ Port Angeles
Mon-Sept. 12 Sequim
Wed-Sept. 14 @ Kingston
Fri-Sept. 16 Klahowya (*)
Fri-Sept. 23 @ North Kitsap
Mon-Sept. 26 North Mason
Wed-Sept. 28 @ Chimacum (*)
Fri-Sept. 30 Klahowya (*)
Wed-Oct. 5 Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 6 @ Klahowya (*)
Tue-Oct. 11 @ Sequim
Thu-Oct. 13 @ Chimacum (*)

FOOTBALL

Fri-Sept. 2 South Whidbey
Fri-Sept. 9 @ La Conner
Fri-Sept. 16 Nooksack Valley
Fri-Sept. 23 @ Charles Wright Academy (*)
Fri.-Sept. 30 Vashon Island (*)
Fri-Oct. 7 Port Townsend (*) HOMECOMING
Sat-Oct. 15 @ Bellevue Christian (*)
Fri-Oct. 21 @Klahowya (*)
Fri-Oct. 28 @ Chimacum (*)
Fri-Nov. 4 Cascade Christian (*)

GIRLS SOCCER

Thu-Sept. 8 South Whidbey
Tue-Sept. 13 Chimacum (*)
Thu-Sept. 15 Sequim
Sat-Sept. 17 @ Port Townsend (*)
Mon-Sept. 19 @ Mount Vernon Christian
Thu-Sept. 22 North Mason
Tue-Sept. 27 @ Klahowya (*)
Thu-Sept. 29 Port Townsend (*)
Tue-Oct. 4 @ Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 6 Port Angeles
Tue-Oct. 11 @ Sequim
Tue-Oct. 18 Klahowya (*)
Thu-Oct. 20 @ Port Townsend (*)
Tue-Oct. 25 Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 27 @ Klahowya (*)

VOLLEYBALL

Tue-Sept. 6 Mount Vernon Christian
Tue-Sept. 13 Chimacum (*)
Wed-Sept. 14 Sequim
Tue-Sept. 20 Bellevue Christian
Thu-Sept. 22 North Mason
Tue-Sept. 27 @ Klahowya (*)
Thu-Sept. 29 Port Townsend (*)
Tue-Oct. 4 @ Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 6 Port Angeles
Tue-Oct. 11 @ Sequim
Tue-Oct. 18 Klahowya (*)
Thu-Oct. 20 @ Port Townsend (*)
Tue-Oct. 25 Chimacum (*)
Thu-Oct. 27 @ Klahowya (*)
Sat-Oct. 29 @ Port Townsend (*)

To stay on top of schedules, pop over to:

Olympic League — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?league=21&page_name=school_home&school=0&sport=0

Coupeville Schools — http://coupeville.tandem.co/

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There’s a new Titan in town!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Wolves in college, tagged CHS Wolves, Jenn Spark, Jill Green, Soccer, Tacoma Community College, Titans on May 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Jenn Spark, future college soccer player. (John Fisken photos)

Firing the cannon.

Make it four.

Following in the footsteps of fellow Coupeville High School seniors Makana Stone, Zane Bundy and Dalton Martin, standout Wolf soccer player Jenn Spark is officially down to play college sports.

Spark (and her super-powered kicking leg) will be a Titan, as she plans to suit up for Tacoma Community College in the fall.

A four-year starter for the Wolves, as well as a standout select player for the Whidbey Islanders, she chose the program for several reasons.

“Well, I wanted to continue to play soccer, and I’m interested in the physical therapy program there,” Spark said. “So I emailed the coach to get in touch, and things took off from there.

“I visited the college and met with the team,” she added. “I just really enjoyed the environment at the school, and I really liked the coach and the rest of the team.”

Spark, who battled back from a devastating leg injury during her time as a high school player, plans to pursue a career in physical therapy.

A stellar lock-down defender who earned All-League honors every year she was healthy, Spark also scored her fair share of goals for the Wolves.

The owner of a truly ferocious kick, she once launched a shot from midfield that curled at the last second, smacked off of the top of the goalie’s head and disappeared into the back of the net.

Tacoma Community College plays in the Northwest Athletic Conference.

Home to 35 colleges across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia, the NWAC is the largest multi-state organization of its type in the nation.

The Titans, who are coached by Jill Green, went 8-9-3 last year and went to the playoffs.

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A flippin’ good time!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged CHS Wolves, flip book, John Fisken photos, Mckenzie Meyer, Soccer on April 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Ladies, and gentlemen, Mckenzie Meyer at work. (John Fisken photos)

“Thank you! I’ll be here all day!! Don’t forget to tip your waitresses!”

Mckenzie Meyer was born talented.

I know this because I’ve known her since the day she was born.

As the granddaughter of Miriam Meyer, my boss for many years at Videoville, she was a fairly constant presence at the store.

These days the Coupeville High School sophomore is a soccer player, a track runner, a cheerleader, a horn blower in the band, a whiz kid in the classroom and a billion things more.

But she still has time to entertain the crowd with a little derring-do.

Life’s a stage and Mckenzie? She’s a star, baby.

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