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You’re an ace, Samantha!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged CHS Wolves, Happy birthday, Samantha Martin, tennis on August 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Samantha Martin

Samantha Martin gets it.

The Coupeville High School junior, who celebrates her birthday today, knew the truth even as a freshman.

That was when I ran a feature story on her, as she headed into her first try at playing basketball.

During her interview I asked about favorite movies and music and this is what she had to say:

“My favorite movie is “21 Jump Street,” because, honestly, who doesn’t love a cheesy movie for a great laugh?”

“I love ’80s music, because there is more depth in the music back then compared to music nowadays.”

Smart. Dang smart with impeccable taste.

So, it’s little wonder that she has gone on to become a member of the National Honor Society.

Away from the classroom, Martin has played volleyball, basketball and tennis, becoming a talented doubles player who wields an often-ferocious racket.

She’s a bit of a quiet star, but the example she sets, especially for her large pack of younger siblings, is impressive.

Nimbly mixing athletics with academics, and doing it all with a real sense of grace and happiness, Samantha is a winner.

Happy birthday, Miss Martin. Coupeville is lucky to have you.

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My Oh Myers!!

Posted in A freakin' American hero, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Girls Tennis, Happy birthday, tagged a freakin' American hero, CHS Wolves, Elbows, Happy birthday, Julia Myers on July 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Julia Myers, crackin’ heads and takin’ names.

OK, if you lean in real close and listen carefully, I’m going to tell you a secret.

You ready? Made peace with the universe and prepared to have your world rocked? Holding on tightly to the edge of the couch, in case the shock knocks you off the cushions?

Here we go…

Julia Myers is one of the nicest people you will ever meet.

Oh, I know, I know. Your brain just went poof and turned into liquid and ran out of your ear and is puddling down there on the carpet.

Your mom is gonna be so PISSED.

But now you’re saying to yourself, how can this be?

Cause you’ve seen Julia play basketball for Coupeville High School, elbows slicin’ and dicin’ like Ginsu as she hauled in boards, leaving people from King’s screaming and crying and blubbering.

And that’s just their whiny lil’ coach…

You’ve seen her drop epic stink eye on South Whidbey with just a glance. A glance that coated the court in ice and froze the Falcons in mid-stride.

Of course, if you were watching closely, you also saw Ms. Myers follow up those actions with a small, secret grin, content in the knowledge that she had just blown up the joint and thoroughly wrecked the concentration of any opponent hapless enough to cross her path.

Cause really, that’s the true Julia — one giant smile boppin’ through life to her own tune.

With her large, blended family at her back (OG cool cat and big sis Taylor Herreman taught her everything she needed to know about droppin’ the stink eye on morons), Myers is having fun when she plays, whether it’s soccer, basketball or tennis.

The fact she’s able to have fun is great, because she’s a tough lil’ bugger who refused to let a shredded knee slow her down. She had to sit out sports during her sophomore year, but she came roaring right back as a junior last year.

I hope her senior year is as awesome as she is, and plays out exactly to her hopes and dreams. Julia deserves that much.

Oh, and her birthday, which just happens to be today? May that be splendiferous as well.

Just don’t get between her and any birthday cake. Cause she’s not afraid to swing an elbow or two.

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The dudes abide!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Boys Tennis, Girls Tennis, Happy birthday, tagged CHS Wolves, Eddie Fasolo, Happy birthday, Ken Stange, wild and crazy guys on July 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

“Fast” Eddie Fasolo, all grown up and responsible and stuff, with girlfriend Alexa Glover.

#45, always with the rock in his hand.

Ken Stange hangs out with his tennis players. (Wendy McCormick photos)

I’m contractually obligated to run this photo with any story about Stange. Fact.

They are the wild ones. The renegades. Individuals, through and through.

So, it’s kind of fitting that Ken Stange and “Fast” Eddie Fasolo share a birthday today — one day to honor two dudes who have always done it their way.

Stange is the barefoot-tennis-playin’, goatee-rockin’, dance-move-droppin’ net guru for the Wolves, a man who has made tennis the go-to sport at CHS for everyone from seasoned vets to green newbies not even sure which way to hold the racket on the first day of practice.

He’s had state meet participants under his watch, most recently Ben Etzell and Aaron Curtin last season, but it has always been his ability to bring in the player who had never thought about being an athlete in the first place that cements his rep.

The Wolf tennis squads have blossomed under his tutelage and grown by leaps and bounds. The deepest rosters of any sport at CHS and also the only ones where the coach is willing to recreate a Beyonce video with his players.

Across town, the legend that is “Fast” Eddie never grows old. He just gets more stories to tell.

The son of legendary OG surfer/coolest man to trod the Earth Bob Fasolo, Eddie starred on the hardcourt from the first moment he picked up a basketball.

Playing with brother Rob, the Fasolos laid down the smack (and, in the case of Eddie, talked a lot of it, too.)

But, while he could trash talk with the best of them, Eddie could also back it up, draining jumpers and playing the way his dad taught him — all out, all the time.

As he and girlfriend Alexa Glover await the arrival of their first child, the boy has become a man — and one his father would be proud of.

Can one day survive two legends celebrating their birthday at the same time? It’ll have to, because the dudes abide.

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Mary, Mary, kinda contrary (and that’s a good thing)!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, Happy birthday, tagged CHS Wolves, girls tennis, Happy birthday, Mary Massengale on July 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Mary Massengale

Massengale flies to the ball during her senior tennis season. (John Fisken photo)

Mary Massengale has always been her own person.

And that’s exactly how it should be.

She started her high school career as a football player and ended it on the tennis court. And never took any crap from anyone along the way.

Whether on the field or operating in the real world (we served time together in the restaurant world), she has always been feisty, independent, outspoken and, under it all, a really sweet-natured, likable young woman.

She may not have gotten the big headlines during her time as a Wolf, but I don’t think that was ever a priority with her.

Mary had talent and skill, but played the game on her own terms.

The one time a photographer was able to snap a picture of her playing tennis, it made her mom, Bobbie, thrilled.

Mary just arched an eyebrow, rolled her eyes slightly and went back about her business.

She declined to re-hash her time as a football player, because, even though others found it note-worthy that a freshman girl had suited up and held her own on the gridiron, it was just a small slice of her life.

As she celebrates her birthday today, I hope that Miss Massengale is fully appreciated by all around her.

She is talented, she is her own woman, and she consistently surprises. There is nothing she can’t do.

While Mary may not waste much time sitting around talking about how awesome she is, it’s a word that fits.

She’s not going to toot her own horn, so we’ll do it for her.

Mary Massengale — a quiet winner who deserves some loud applause.

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There’s no smile like a Sydney smile!!

Posted in Cheer, Girls Tennis, Happy birthday, Softball, Volleyball, tagged Cheer, CHS Wolves, Happy birthday, Sydney Aparicio on July 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Sydney Aparicio, an athlete who had fun in every season.

Sydney Aparicio knows a few people.

During her Senior Night festivities for volleyball, family of all shapes, sizes and ages crowded into the Coupeville High School gym. Each one wore home-made t-shirts that identified what their relationship was to the Wolf spiker.

Sydney’s mom. Sydney’s sister. Sydney’s cousin.

There were a lot.

Which is not a surprise, since her parents, Mitch and Tami (Stuurmans) Aparicio united two of Coupeville’s top sports families when they got married.

Sydney, who celebrates her birthday today, played tennis, softball and volleyball, as well as following in her mom’s footsteps as one of the leading CHS cheerleaders.

She did it all well, and always with a huge smile.

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen Miss Aparicio frown. Ever.

I’m sure she has at some point in her life, but her smile was always front and center during her athletic days, win or loss.

Sydney always had fun, regardless of the sport, and it was infectious.

Following in the footsteps of her parents, and a billion aunts and uncles, she set the path for equally bubbly little sister Payton, who will be a Wolf freshman this fall.

She kept the family tradition of excellence alive and seemed to genuinely enjoy herself through every season, every game.

That’s a rare quality, and one shown by a rare young woman.

Happy birthday, Miss Aparicio, and may your days ahead be as smile-inducing as the ones you lived out as a Wolf.

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