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Lippo going to the Big Show!!

Posted in Baseball, Middle School, tagged baseball, big bat, CMS, Joey Lippo, slick glove, spring training on January 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Joey Lippo (left) with fall ball teammate James Besaw. (Teresa Besaw photo)

Lippo (far left) and teammates wielded big bats during the little league season. (Joe Lippo photo)

Joey Lippo is on his way.

The Coupeville Middle School eighth-grader is quickly scaling rungs in the baseball world, attracting attention as he does.

Coming off successful summer little league and fall ball seasons, Lippo has been selected to attend a national level spring training program in Mesa, AZ Jan. 17-20.

The only player to represent Washington state from the 12-14 year-old category, Lippo earned his spot with a stellar performance at a tryout in Bellevue, where he beat out a field of 30 players.

His booming bat and slick glove both nabbed the eyes of scouts.

Coaches at the national event will hail from colleges at the D-1 and D-2 levels, as well as a coach from Team USA.

His father, Joe Lippo, was having trouble staying calm after the news came through. While his son has been attending informal morning practices set up by CHS players — the only middle school student to do so — the invite to Arizona is a major step.

“I can barely contain myself,” Joe Lippo said. “My entire extended family is only mildly surprised. I, on the other hand, want to make town square announcements.”

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Hoops highlights? They shall return!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Middle School on November 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Six days.

Next Monday, Dec. 2, the long dry period will end and actual games will return to Coupeville, as the middle school boys’ basketball team hosts Granite Falls at 3 PM that afternoon.

Four days later the high school hoops season kicks off, with the Wolf girls hosting Cedar Park Christian (5:15/7:00).

Until then, a few more snappy John Fisken pics depicting CMS hoops hotshots doin’ what they do on the hardcourt.

Be strong. The games, they will return.

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Practice? We’re talking about practice?!?!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Middle School on November 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Ben Olsen invades some personal space while playing defense for CMS. (John Fisken photos)

Junior McKayla Bailey limbers up. Never photo bomb your teammates without first stretching.

James Vidoni (30) and Kyle Rockwell do their best "Detroit Pistons in the '80s Bad Boys" imitation. Look it up.

James Vidoni (30) and Kyle Rockwell revive memories of the Detroit Pistons back when they were The Bad Boys. Look it up — that’s why we have Wikipedia.

Anthony Bergeron pushes through the running-heavy portion of a CHS boys’ hoops practice.

Luke Merriman looks to turn the corner on a Langley defender.

Freshman Lauren Grove shoots a runner in the paint.

This is a quiet time for Central Whidbey sports. Sort of.

The Coupeville High School basketball teams are deep into the first week of practice and don’t start actual games until Dec. 6.

Meanwhile the middle school boys’ basketball team is on its own holiday-themed vacation and doesn’t play against another team again until Dec. 2.

But to remind you that there is, indeed, basketball activity out there, we offer up some photos from traveling photographer John Fisken.

Do not fret. The games, they will return.

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Denied! Return to sender!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Middle School on November 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“No sir. Not gonna happen!!” (John Fisken photos)

Nick Etzell swoops to the hoop.

7th grade varsity

Luke Merriman: “Pay no attention to me as I tiptoe through the paint…”

8th grade varsity

Dribbling under pressure.

Boom!

The sound you just heard was a Coupeville Middle School b-baller rejecting a Lakewood shot back into the third row of the bleachers in a game Monday, as depicted in the first photo above.

The pics are courtesy traveling photographer John Fisken.

To see more, check out the links below and remember that a percentage of any sales goes to help fund college scholarships for CHS student athletes.

7th JV: http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf34ce5a150e

8th JV: http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf34ce541500

7th varsity: http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf34ce5b8079

8th varsity: http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf34ce558077

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Spurred by memories of her brother, Mckenzie Meyer soars!!

Posted in Band, CHS drama, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Middle School, Track, Volleyball on November 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Mckenzie Meyer, hanging out with cousin Leroy Meyer.

Whenever Mckenzie Meyer sings, she remembers her older brother, Kyle.

The Coupeville Middle School eighth-grader, who deftly balances sports, drama and band in a busy life, first found music thanks to her older sibling, who passed away recently.

It will be a link that will always keep the two connected.

“Kyle got me into music and I never let go,” Meyer said. “He taught me to sing, which I find is the easiest way to express my emotion, so without him I wouldn’t be the same and I probably wouldn’t be in band.”

Now in her third year of band, Meyer started on the clarinet, before bouncing over to the saxophone.

Regardless of what kind of music she’s playing, it’s a world she enjoys at all times.

“I like all the types of music we play, especially in jazz band,” Meyer said. “I love music and band seemed like the perfect place.”

Like all musicians, she’s a work in progress, and would like to improve “definitely my sight-reading and knowing my notes. I need to work on tone.”

Away from the band, she’s always active (“I spend my spare time listening to music and climbing trees”) and has played volleyball, basketball and track for CMS, while also taking part in the school’s drama club.

Since the middle school doesn’t offer soccer, Meyer kicks up her heels playing for a team out of Oak Harbor, but is already looking forward to joining the Wolf pitch squad next year when she becomes a CHS freshman.

“I can’t wait to play in high school next year!”

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