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Track supernovas vie for top honors

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , , on May 11, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Cyrus Sparacio glides on by. (Julie Wheat photo)

The long and winding road nears an end.

With just two meets left on the schedule — districts and state — Coupeville High School track and field athletes continue to chase top times, distances, and heights.

Currently six Wolves sit among the best in 2B statewide, landing in the top 10 in an event.

That’s up one from a week ago, as CHS senior Marquette Cunningham enters the fray, hurtling from off the board into the top four in the triple jump.

As the calendar turns towards the sprint to the finish line, a look at where Cow Town stars sit through May 11:

 

GIRLS:

Shot Put — Tamsin Ward (8th) 31-09

Pole Vault — Lillian Ketterling (8th) 8-06

 

BOYS:

3200 — Cyrus Sparacio (9th) 10:16.99

High Jump — Wyatt Fitch-Marron (3rd-tie) 6-02; Davin Houston (5th-tie) 6-00

Triple Jump — Marquette Cunningham (4th) 40-09

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Take a final gaze, then move on

Posted in Baseball, Girls Tennis, Softball, Track, tagged , , , , , on May 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf diamond man Avery Eelkema strolls over to look at the final standings for spring sports teams. (Jackie Saia photo)

The turn is made.

Regular season play has wrapped, with three of four Coupeville High School spring sports teams making the transition to the postseason.

Wolf girls’ tennis heads to Seattle Wednesday for the District 1/2 tourney, where the top two finishers in singles and doubles punch their tickets to state.

A day later CHS softball plays in the district tourney in Mount Vernon.

As the top seed in the three-team tourney, the Smash Sisters face the survivor of a loser-out game between Friday Harbor and Orcas Island, taking the field in the championship game.

Win or lose in that bout, Aaron Lucero’s squad has already clinched its second-straight trip to the big dance.

Then Saturday CHS track and field hosts the District 1/2 meet at Mickey Clark Field, with the top two finishers in each event advancing to the 2B state meet.

The only Wolf team already sidelined is baseball, which came up just a game short of advancing to the playoffs.

And with the regular season done, this is the final standings story for the 2025-2026 school year.

If we’re still around in the fall, we’ll rev it back up.

But for now, I can stop venting to my computer about the Northwest 2B/1B League website and its inability to stay on top of things.

So, there’s that…

 

Northwest League baseball:

School League Overall
MV Christian 12-0 18-2
Friday Harbor 8-4 10-8
Orcas Island 8-4 10-8
Coupeville 7-5 9-9
La Conner 3-8 4-12
Darrington 3-9 4-15
Concrete 0-11 0-11

 

Northwest League girls’ tennis:

School League Overall
Friday Harbor 3-1 5-3
Coupeville 1-3 4-5

 

Northwest League softball:

School League Overall
Coupeville 10-0 17-2
Friday Harbor 8-2 12-7
Orcas Island 6-4 7-8
La Conner 3-7 6-9
Darrington 2-8 4-12
Concrete 1-9 1-10

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Wyman wows at league championships

Posted in Track, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on May 9, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Tate Wyman (top) hangs out with his family. (Photo courtesy Amber Wyman)

He was a point-scoring machine.

Coupeville grad Tate Wyman, now a junior at Oregon Tech, helped the Hustlin’ Owls rack up positive numbers in La Grande at the two-day Cascade Collegiate Conference Track and Field Championships.

The former Wolf opened with a busy Friday, finishing 7th in the 110 hurdles, where he nailed a PR of 15.45 seconds, and 10th in the long jump, sailing 22 feet, 00.25 inches.

Wyman also ran a leg on a 4 x 100 relay team which picked up points with a 7th place performance, hitting the tape in 42.74 seconds.

After a brief bit of rest, Ayden and Devon’s big bro returned to action in the triple jump Saturday, garnering another PR by launching his body 41 feet, six inches for a 17th place performance.

When he’s not in action with the track squad, the eldest of the Wyman siblings is an honors student studying embedded systems engineering technology at Oregon Tech.

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Ward, Wolf boys rule at league meet

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 7, 2026| Leave a Comment »

CHS freshman Tamsin Ward, seen in the high jump, won a league title in the shot put. (Ana Paula Oliveira photo)

The crown is theirs.

Putting out a strong effort across the board Thursday, the Coupeville High School boys’ track and field stars stormed to a team title win at the Northwest 2B/1B League Championships.

Sparked by wins from Cyrus Sparacio (800, 1600), Davin Houston (High Jump), Marquette Cunningham (Triple Jump), and George Spear (3200), the Wolves outdueled five other schools to claim top honors in Mount Vernon.

CHS finished with 136.5 points, with La Conner (124) and Mount Vernon Christian (94.5) giving chase. Friday Harbor (86.5), Orcas Island (68.5), and Concrete (8) rounded out the field.

“The boys came together with a true team effort!” said Wolf coaches Bob Martin and Elizabeth Bitting. “Congratulations to the entire team on a well-earned accomplishment.

“Great job, boys!”

The champs. (Photo courtesy Bob Martin)

On the girl’s side of things, Coupeville got a win in the shot put from Tamsin Ward, finishing third in the team standings.

MVC racked up a meet-high 201 points to outduel La Conner (180), CHS (71), Friday Harbor (49), Orcas (16), and Concrete (12).

Overall, Coupeville racked up 30 PRs on the day, with the boys accounting for 21 of those.

The Wolves now have a little over a week to prep for their next event, the District 1/2 meet, which goes down in Cow Town Saturday, May 16.

That meet is a two-in-one affair, with Concrete and seven fellow 1B schools from District 2 competing against each other to qualify for Quad-Districts.

Meanwhile, Coupeville and league mates MVC, Orcas, Friday Harbor, and La Conner will be joined by Summit Atlas, with the top two finishers in each event qualifying for the 2B state meet.

Wyatt Fitch-Marron punches the gas pedal through the floor. (Aiden O’Neill photo)

 

Thursday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Isa Mc Fetridge (6th) 13.5 *PR*

200 — Mc Fetridge (6th) 28.5

400 — Olivia Hall (5th) 1:06.1 *PR*; Taylor Marrs (7th) 1:15.9

800 — Laken Simpson (4th) 2:45.8 *PR*; Mikayla Wagner (6th) 2:56.7 *PR*

1600 — Devon Wyman (5th) 6:31.6 *PR*

3200 — Wyman (2nd) 14:00.4 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (7th) 19.5 *PR*; Lexis Drake (11th) 22.2; Myra McDonald (12th) 22.3

300 Hurdles — O’Neill (7th) 58.2 *PR*; Wyman (10th) 1:06.2; Drake (11th) 1:11.2; McDonald (12th) 1:14.5

4 x 100 Relay — Arianna Cunningham, Drake, Mc Fetridge, Tamsin Ward (3rd) 54.2

4 x 200 Relay — A. Cunningham, Simpson, Drake, Mc Fetridge (2nd) 1:59.3

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, Marrs, Lillian Ketterling, Simpson (2nd) 4:45.1

Shot Put — Ward (1st) 31-09 *PR*

Discus — Ketterling (2nd) 77-10; Marrs (8th) 58-02

High Jump — Ward (5th) 4-06; Frankie Tenore (6th) 4-04

Pole Vault — Ketterling (2nd) 8-06

Long Jump — O’Neill (11th) 12-05.25; McDonald (16th) 10-01.75

Triple Jump — A. Cunningham (6th) 28-07

Arianna Cunningham pushes for the line. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

BOYS:

100 — Marquette Cunningham (6th) 11.8; Nathan Coxsey (9th) 12.1 *PR*; Liam Blas (10th) 12.2; Beckett Green (14th) 12.4; Sage Arends (20th) 12.9

200 — Green (6th) 24.6; Coxsey (10th) 25.0 *PR*; Richmond Bandong (17th) 26.6; Arends (19th) 27.1; Shilo Sandlin (20th) 27.7; Davin Houston (25th) 32.9

400 — George Spear (4th) 57.2; Brian Thompson (10th) 58.7; Will Tierney (11th) 58.8

800 — Cyrus Sparacio (1st) 2:13.7; Ossian Merkel (2nd) 2:22.9 *PR*; Johnathan Jacobsen (5th) 2:27.4 *PR*; Hunter Atteberry (9th) 2:43.9; Nolan Hunt (10th) 3:10.1 *PR*; Zach Blitch (11th) 3:17.1; Zachary Saho (13th) 3:50.0

1600 — Sparacio (1st) 4:43.5; Spear (2nd) 4:50.7 *PR*; Kenneth Jacobsen (4th) 5:16.2; Merkel (5th) 5:26.5 *PR*; Atteberry (9th) 5:48.5; Hunt (12th) 6:39.9 *PR*; Blitch (13th) 8:14.4

3200 — Spear (1st) 10:34.3 *PR*; Sparacio (2nd) 10:49.7; K. Jacobsen (3rd) 11:08.7 *PR*; Edmund Kunz (5th) 12:27.7

300 Hurdles — Edmund Wilson (3rd) 47.0 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — M. Cunningham, Blas, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, Houston (3rd) 45.3

4 x 400 Relay — Wilson, Thompson, Fitch-Marron, Green (2nd) 3:45.2

Shot Put — Saho (3rd) 39-10.50; Khanor Jump (6th) 35-05.50; Blitch (18th) 26-06 *PR*

Discus — Blas (6th) 115-00 *PR*; Jump (8th) 106-05.50; Saho (11th) 98-01 *PR*; Tierney (21st) 67-06.50 *PR*; Sandlin (26th) 61-08.50; Blitch (28th) 56-02.50; J. Jacobsen (29th) 53-09.50

Javelin — Bandong (5th) 114-03; K. Jacobsen (12th) 99-00 *PR*; J. Jacobsen (13th) 98-08 *PR*; M. Cunningham (15th) 97-07 *PR*; Sandlin (20th) 72-10; Hunt (25th) 26-10

High Jump — Houston (1st) 6-00 *PR*; Fitch-Marron (3rd) 5-08; J. Jacobsen (4th) 5-02

Pole Vault — Kunz (4th) 7-06; Merkel (6th) 7-00 *PR*; Russell Miller (7th) 7-00

Long Jump — Wilson (6th) 16-08; Thompson (7th) 16-06.50

Triple Jump — M. Cunningham (1st) 40-09 *PR*

George Spear abides. (Melanie Wolfe photo)

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CMS track stars make bold statement in Sultan

Posted in Track, Middle School, tagged , , , , , on May 7, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Les Queen has won all eight events he’s competed in as a middle school track athlete. (Julie Wheat photos)

New week, new success.

After opening the season at home, the Coupeville Middle School track team traveled to the hinterlands Wednesday, arriving in the wilds of Sultan to face the Turks and Northshore Christian Academy in a three-team royal rumble.

While there, the Wolves piled up wins and PRs, with 18 different athletes enjoying a first-place finish.

Leading the way for the second meet in a row was 7th grader Les Queen, once again claiming top honors in the 200, 400, discus, and 4 x 100 relay.

This is his first year in track, and the 8-0 mark is the best start to a CMS career in the era of athletic.net tracking middle school results, which runs from 2008-2026.

Two meets in, Queen is more than halfway to the Wolf boys single-season win record of 13, set last year by then-7th grader Diesel Eck.

After that he would be chasing Lindsey Roberts, who won 19 times as an 8th grader in 2015, and Tamsin Ward, who went to the top of the podium 16 times as an 8th grader in 2025.

Hot on Queen’s heels Wednesday was 6th grader Juniper Dotson (1600, 100 Hurdles, 4 x 1) and 7th grader Jesse Kehoe (100, High Jump, Long Jump), both claiming three victories.

Across the board the Wolves, who had four other double event winners in Laurel Crowder, Henry Purdue, River Simpson, and Malachi Chapa impressed their coaches.

“Today’s results showed areas that students have been making strong efforts and those areas where even stronger efforts are needed,” said Jon Gabelein.

“While it was the second meet of the season, several students chose to compete in at least one event that they had never competed in before.

“This requires a great deal of confidence, and I was proud of them for being willing to stretch their comfort zone.”

On the long and winding return trip from Sultan, Gabelein polled some of the members of his crew for their thoughts as well.

“When I asked River Simpson about his favorite part of today’s adventure, his easy answer was the bus ride back as this is when the team stops for food,” the coach said.

“His more thoughtful response was running the 100-meter dash as this is when he gets to run his fastest race.

“Sawyer Rudat’s final answer was the bus ride as it is a great opportunity to enjoy some chill time with his teammates.”

It’ll be a shorter trip next time out, as Coupeville stays home for its next meet.

The Wolves host South Whidbey Wednesday, May 13, with action set to kick off at 3:30 PM at Mickey Clark Field.

Anna Powers leads the pack.

 

Wednesday results:

 

GIRLS:

 

8th grade:

100 — Ava Alford (4th) 15.40; Amira Annunciado (8th) 16.34; Claire Lachnit (11th) 16.40; Addison Jacobson (15th) 17.61 *PR*; Vicky Quiroga Rivera (17th) 18.16

200 — Zariyah Allen (2nd) 34.03 *PR*; Emma Green (6th) 34.53

400 — Z. Allen (3rd) 1:13.99 *PR*; Lachnit (5th) 1:28.65

1600 — Anna Powers (3rd) 6:32.13

100 Hurdles — Powers (3rd) 21.08; Kaleigha Millison (4th) 22.61

Shot Put — Jacobson (3rd) 25-04 *PR*; Millison (5th) 22-07.50 *PR*; Annunciado (8th) 19-04.50 *PR*; Alford (10th) 16-08.50

Discus — Lachnit (4th) 52-06.50; E. Green (5th) 51-09; Jacobson (6th) 46-06

High Jump — Z. Allen (1st) 4-05 *PR*; Millison (2nd) 3-10

Long Jump — Annunciado (5th) 10-09; Quiroga Rivera (13th) 7-02.50

 

6th/7th grade:

100 — Josilyn McColl (2nd) 14.68 *PR*; Laurel Crowder (3rd) 14.73 *PR*; Bella Sandlin (4th) 14.85 *PR*; Ava Clark (5th) 15.33 *PR*; Ella Holm (10th) 15.91; Mia Goers (11th) 15.93; Eden Weeks (14th) 16.28; Jasmine Allen (15th) 16.34 *PR*; Sophia Magdolen (16th) 16.40 *PR*; Ruby Folkestad (22nd) 16.92; Ava Black (24th) 16.99 *PR*; Evelyn Merino-Martinez (26th) 17.22; Daisy Leedy-Bonifas (27th) 17.38; Emma Roberts (29th) 17.46 *PR*; Reagan Green (30th) 17.48 *PR*; Dresden Rusch (31st) 17.55 *PR*; Dani Halsing (34th) 18.27 *PR*; Kolby Johnson (35th) 18.75 *PR*; Milly Somes (36th) 20.20

200 — Crowder (1st) 30.34 *PR*; Weeks (5th) 33.35 *PR*; Magdolen (6th) 34.23 *PR*; J. Allen (8th) 35.12 *PR*; Maja Govorcin-O’Connell (9th) 36.62 *PR*

400 — Sandlin (1st) 1:13.98 *PR*; Magdolen (4th) 1:18.36 *PR*; Merino-Martinez (7th) 1:28.17 *PR*

1600 — Juniper Dotson (1st) 6:28.44; Sarai Dangerfield (3rd) 6:56.88; Abby Hunt (5th) 7:15.01

100 Hurdles — Dotson (1st) 21.29; Black (10th) 23.45 *PR*; Leedy-Bonifas (12th) 23.91 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — J. Allen, Leedy-Bonifas, Dotson, McColl (1st) 1:03.10; Hunt, R. Green, Holm, Goers (2nd) 1:05.22

Shot Put — Holm (2nd) 24-11 *PR*; Govorcin-O’Connell (4th) 22-03 *PR*; Weeks (6th) 19-05; K. Johnson (10th) 16-07 *PR*; Rusch (12th) 15-10 *PR*; Clark (13th) 15-06 *PR*; Roberts (15th) 15-03.50

Discus — McColl (4th) 46-10; Halsing (9th) 39-09

High Jump — Crowder (1st) 4-05

Long Jump — Dotson (2nd) 11-09; Sandlin (4th) 11-00; Leedy-Bonifas (6th) 10-04 *PR*; J. Allen (7th) 10-03; Goers (7th) 10-03; Folkestad (12th) 9-05 *PR*; Halsing (12th) 9-05; Magdolen (15th) 9-04; Merino-Martinez (17th) 8-09; Dangerfield (22nd) 8-01; Clark (22nd) 8-01 *PR*; Roberts (27th) 7-08; Black (29th) 7-06 *PR*; Somes (30th) 7-05 *PR*; K. Johnson (32nd) 7-00

Ready to zip around the oval.

 

BOYS:

 

8th grade:

100 — River Simpson (1st) 12.39 *PR*; Aiden Wheat (9th) 13.67 *PR*; Xander Beaman (10th) 13.75 *PR*; Diesel Eck (12th) 14.00 *PR*; Vincent Alguire (18th) 14.42 *PR*; Maverick Light (28th) 17.00 *PR*

200 — Simpson (1st) 25.80 *PR*; Jacob Lujan (4th) 31.23

400 — Malachi Chapa (1st) 1:00.32 *PR*

800 — Henry Purdue (1st) 2:25.91 *PR*; Maverick Walling (2nd) 2:41.75; Archer Schwarz (4th) 2:50.50

1600 — Purdue (1st) 5:23.75; Lincoln Wagner (2nd) 5:55.02; Schwarz (4th) 5:59.53

110 Hurdles — Lujan (3rd) 20.69 *PR*

Shot Put — Alguire (1st) 34-00.25; Eck (2nd) 33-00

Discus — Eck (1st) 100-10; Wagner (6th) 73-05; Light (13th) 50-03.50 *PR*; Sawyer Rudat (17th) 41-07 *PR*

High Jump — Chapa (1st) 5-06 *PR*; Beaman (1st) 5-06 *PR*; Alguire (3rd) 4-10; Wheat (3rd) 4-10 *PR*; Purdue (6th) 4-08

Long Jump — Chapa (2nd) 18-04 *PR*; Simpson (4th) 15-08; Wagner (8th) 13-10; Schwarz (11th) 13-06 *PR*; Rudat (12th) 13-02 *PR*; Walling (13th) 12-11.50; Lujan (15th) 12-05

 

6th/7th grade:

100 — Jesse Kehoe (1st) 13.21 *PR*; Liam Stoner (2nd) 13.81; Logan Dees (4th) 14.31 *PR*; Henry Teirney (6th) 14.87 *PR*; Shiloh Johnson (9th) 15.76 *PR*; LJ Schultz (13th) 16.50 *PR*; Jackson Coxsey (18th) 18.19 *PR*

200 — Les Queen (1st) 27.66 *PR*; Stoner (2nd) 28.80 *PR*; Dees (3rd) 31.18 *PR*; Coxsey (9th) 43.50

400 — Queen (1st) NO TIME LISTED

800 — Miles Abram (1st) 3:03.24 *PR*

1600 — Abram (2nd) 6:28.41

4 x 100 Relay — Queen, Dees, Alton Hansen, Stoner (1st) 54.87

Shot Put — Coxsey (5th) 15-10 *PR*

Discus — Queen (1st) 113-05; Teirney (3rd) 70-08.50 *PR*; S. Johnson (5th) 40-10 *PR*

High Jump — Kehoe (1st) 4-10; S. Johnson (3rd) 4-02 *PR*

Long Jump — Kehoe (1st) 16-02; Stoner (2nd) 14-03 *PR*; Dees (4th) 12-06; Teirney (6th) 11-11; Schultz (9th) 11-02 *PR*

Flying through the air with the greatest of ease.

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