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To the starting line!!

Posted in Middle School, Track, tagged Ashleigh Battaglia, CMS Wolves, first day of practice, Ja Tarya Hoskins, Mason Grove, Sage Downes, Track on April 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

CMS 8th grader Ja’Tarya Hoskins is one of 43 athletes on the Wolf track roster. (John Fisken photo)

Practice begins under cloudy skies. (Bob Martin photo)

The numbers are strong.

Coupeville Middle School track coaches Elizabeth Bitting and Bob Martin are expecting to see 43 athletes when the first practice kicks off today.

That number may increase or contract by the time the Wolves hit the road Apr. 27 to travel to Blue Heron Middle School in Port Townsend for their first meet of the season.

With work set to begin in May on a new track, this will be the final season CMS will have to travel for all of its meets.

The roster (so far):

GIRLS:

Ashleigh Battaglia
Zara Bradley
Anna Dion
Emily Fiedler
Natalie Hollrigel
Ja’Tarya Hoskins
Mallory Kortuem
Mikaela Labrador
Jillian Mayne
Cassidy Moody
Morgan Pease
Avalon Renninger
Lucy Sandahl
Mica Shipley
Helen Sinclair
Zoe Trujillo
Raven Vick
Tia Wurzrainer

BOYS:

Trevor Bell
Gabe Carlson
Christopher Cernick
Ethan Clavette
Koa Davison
Sage Downes
Zachary Ginnings
Mason Grove
Tucker Hall
Aiden Juras
Joseph Kelley
Michael Laska
Aram Leyva
Jean Lund-Olsen
James Mayne
Jake Mitten
Jaylen Nitta
Thane Peterson
TJ Rickner
Ben Smith
Sean Toomey-Stout
Nick Wielandt
James Wood
Sam Wynn
Tian Yu

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Gunnin’ for the top spot!!

Posted in Track, tagged CHS Wolves, Dalton Martin, relay team, state meet, Top 10, Track on April 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lathom Kelley has the fastest time in 1A in the 300 hurdles this season. (John Fisken photos)

The speedy Wolf girls relay team of (l to r) Sylvia Hurlburt, Lindsey Roberts, Lauren Grove and Makana Stone, nab some rest between events.

Dalton Martin shattered the school discus record Thursday and sits at #1 among 1A throwers.

If the season ended right this very moment, Coupeville High School would have three state track and field champions.

Discus hurler Dalton Martin, hurdler Lathom Kelley and the 4 x 200 relay team of Lauren Grove, Lindsey Roberts, Makana Stone and Sylvia Hurlburt all currently hold the top mark by 1A athletes in their event.

Overall, the Wolves have six individuals and three relay units in the top 10 in their division, with Martin and distance runners Danny Conlisk and Abby Parker being Top 10 for all classifications (4A-1B).

The stats:

Girls:

1500 — Abby Parker (2nd in 1A, 7th overall) 6:15.98

4 x 100 — Lauren Grove, Lindsey Roberts, Makana Stone, Sylvia Hurlburt (2nd in 1A) 51.37

4 x 200 — Hurlburt, Grove, Roberts, Stone (1st in 1A) 1:48.40

Boys:

1500 — Danny Conlisk (2nd in 1A, 9th overall) 4:56.75

3000 — Jakobi Baumann (2nd in 1A) 12:37.59

300 hurdles — Lathom Kelley (1st in 1A) 41.48

4 x 100 — Jacob Smith, Gabe Eck, Jacob Martin, Jordan Ford (9th in 1A) 46.09

Shot Put — Dalton Martin (9th in 1A) 44-4

Discus — D. Martin (1st in 1A, 7th overall) 158-05

To compare Coupeville’s top guns against other athletes, pop over to:

http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Division/Top.aspx?DivID=73261

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Kings of the track!!

Posted in Track, tagged CHS Wolves, Dalton Martin, Jordan Ford, relays, school records, Track on March 31, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Jacob Smith, seen here during an earlier meet, won three times Thursday in Langley. (John Fisken photo)

It was an unexpected beat-down.

Sparked by two school records, seven wins and 29 PRs, the Coupeville High School boys’ track and field squad stunned three of its former Cascade Conference rivals Thursday afternoon in Langley.

On the day Wolf seniors Dalton Martin (discus) and Jordan Ford (pole vault) put their names up on the big board in the gym, CHS won its first team meet title in a very long time.

Individual excellence has not been an issue in recent years, but team depth has for Coupeville.

Not so Thursday, as the Wolves rang up 84 points to South Whidbey’s 63.

Sultan (57) and Granite Falls (50) rounded out the team battle on the boys side.

The Wolf girls swept both relay events, but fell prey to the depth issue and finished fourth with 34 points, trailing Granite Falls (82), South Whidbey (82) and Sultan (75).

While Makana Stone and her teammates on the relay squads (Sylvia Hurlburt, Lauren Grove and Lindsey Roberts) tend to get a lot of buzz, and quite fairly with all their accomplishments, Thursday belonged to the boys.

Martin, making his first appearance of the season, shattered the CHS discus mark by eight feet, while Ford broke the pole vault record by three inches.

It was just his second try at the event since moving to Coupeville, and he went 15 inches higher in a week’s time.

Sophomore Jacob Smith was a three-time winner, zipping to titles in the 100 and 200 before joining Ford, Jacob Martin and Gabe Eck to win the 4 x 100.

Dalton Martin won both the shot put and discus, while Lathom Kelley ran the fastest time in 1A this year in the 300 hurdles and Ryan Griggs triumphed in the high jump.

“A great meet for the Wolves!,” said an understandably giddy Coupeville track coach Randy King.

Complete CHS results:

GIRLS:

100 — Madison Rixe (9th) 14.63 *PR*; Mckenzie Meyer (12th) 15.12 *PR*; Ashlie Shank (13th) 15.13 *PR*; Julia Jones (19th) 18.49 *PR*

200 — Lauren Grove (4th) 28.07 *PR*; Lindsey Roberts (6th) 28.95; Rixe (7th) 30.22 *PR*; Shank (10th) 31.27 *PR*

800 — Makana Stone (2nd) 2:27.42 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Roberts (4th) 18.02

300 Hurdles — Meyer (4th) 56.92 *PR*; Lauren Bayne (5th) 1:00.67

4 x100 — Grove, Sylvia Hurlburt, Roberts, Stone (1st) 51.37; Jovanah Foote, Meyer, Abby Parker, Shank (4th) 1:01.05

4 x 200 — Grove, Hurlburt, Roberts, Stone (1st) 1:49.32

Shot put — Skyler Lawrence (4th) 29-09.75; Alexxis Otto (7th) 25-00; Naika Hallam (9th) 20-05.75; Emma Smith (11th) 20-00; Estefanny Liquidano (13th) 15-07.50

Discus — Lawrence (3rd) 84-03; Otto (7th) 73-10; Parker (10th) 64-03; E. Smith (11th) 63-04 *PR*; Allison Wenzel (12th) 63-00; Liquidano (15th) 43-00 *PR*; Foote (16th) 42-03

Javelin — Bayne (5th) 80-11 *PR*; Parker (7th) 74-01 *PR*; Lawrence (8th) 74-00; Hallam (9th) 72-08; Wenzel (10th) 70-02; Otto (15th) 59-04 *PR*; Foote (17th) 46-04

High Jump — Bayne (4th) 4-04

Triple Jump — Grove (3rd) 29-09 *PR*

BOYS:

100 — Jacob Smith (1st) 11.90, Lathom Kelley (2nd) 11.99; Jordan Ford (6th) 12.29 *PR*; Jared Helmstadter (7th) 12.31; Gabe Eck (11th) 12.54; Kyle Burnett (15th) 13.54; Hunter Downes (17th) 14.15

200 — J. Smith (1st) 24.03 *PR*; Danny Conlisk (5th) 25.83; Henry Wynn (7th) 26.25 *PR*; Burnett (9th) 29.24

400 — Helmstadter (2nd) 55.88; Conlisk (3rd) 56.57 *PR*; Wynn (5th) 59.35 *PR*; Nile Lockwood (6th) 1:06.07 *PR*

1600 — Conlisk (3rd) 5:03.82 *PR*; Wynn (6th) 5:10.27 *PR*; Jakobi Baumann (14th) 6:31.51

3200 — Baumann (4th) 14:16.37

300 Hurdles — Kelley (1st) 41.48 *PR*

4×100 — J. Smith, Eck, Jacob Martin, Ford (1st) 46.09; Downes, Grey Rische, Burnett, Connor Thompson (4th) 51.90

Shot Put — Dalton Martin (1st) 44-04 *PR*; Chris Battaglia (7th) 32-02 *PR*; Thompson (8th) 31-10.50; Mitchell Carroll (9th) 31-06 *PR*; Rische (14th) 28-02.25 *PR*; Keahi Sorrows (15th) 28-02; Luke Carlson (17th) 24-02 *PR*

Discus — D. Martin (1st) 158-05 *PR*; Battaglia (5th) 104-09 *PR*; Sorrows (13th) 72-10

Javelin — Rische (5th) 121-05; Ariah Bepler (13th) 92-11 *PR*; Lockwood (16th) 71-09; Carlson (17th) 71-00 *PR*; Sorrows (19th) 64-00 *PR*

Pole Vault — Ford (2nd) 11-09 *PR*

High Jump — Ryan Griggs (1st) 5-06; Battaglia (2nd) 5-04 *PR*; Ford (3rd) 5-02

Long Jump — Carroll (4th) 17-10.50 *PR*; Eck (4th) 17-10.50 *PR*; Battaglia (6th) 17-04.50 *PR*; Bepler (7th) 15-07.50 *PR*; Downes (8th) 14-11 *PR*; Lockwood (11th) 14-08.50 *PR*; Baumann (13th) 10-10 *PR*

Triple Jump — Carroll (2nd) 37-04.50 *PR*; Griggs (3rd) 35-10; Thompson (5th) 35-02

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Putting in work!!

Posted in Track, tagged Abby Parker, CHS Wolves, gun show, handoffs, Lathom Kelley, Track on March 31, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Abby Parker (front) and Mckenzie Meyer work on perfecting their relay hand-offs, as team leader Makana Stone keeps a watchful eye on the young duo. (John Fisken photos)

Feeling perky in the sunshine, Lathom Kelley agrees to bring the gun show to town.

Lauren Grove perfects her ability to hover in mid-air.

Lauren Bayne: “Now, if I lean back and arc my javelin nice and high, I might … might … not hit Ariah Bepler in the head. But no promises…”

Not everyone can pull off that fashion ensemble, but Hunter Downes comes pretty dang close.

Parker and Naika Hallam make a bid to replace the school’s groundskeepers.

Lindsey Roberts attacks a hurdle Bruce Lee-style.

Their track game is strong. Their photo game, stronger.

You have to put the work in if you want to shine on the big stage.

Thursday the Coupeville High School track and field team will head down to Langley for a four-team meet (4 PM) that will represent the last time they compete on Whidbey this season.

A day before their meeting with former Cascade Conference rivals South Whidbey, Sultan and Granite Falls, the Wolves were hard at work fine-tuning stuff.

Relay hand-offs, getting a good release on the javelin, posing for team photos … all in a day’s work.

The pics above are courtesy travelin’ photo man John Fisken.

The action is courtesy of an exciting, record-bustin’ pack of Wolves.

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Wolf frosh burns up the track!!

Posted in Track, tagged CHS Wolves, Danny Conlisk, mile, military, Track, video games on March 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Danny Conlisk flies around the track in a meet earlier this season. (John Fisken photo)

Danny Conlisk is in a hurry to get places.

The Coupeville High School freshman, who tore up the track oval as a middle school runner — going a perfect 7-0 in the 1600 — is right back at it one step higher up the competition ladder.

Three meets in, Conlisk has run in the 200, 400, 1500 and 1600 for the Wolves, and would like to try the 800 soon.

While he’s done well in sprints, the lure of the marquee event is hard to ignore.

“The mile is my favorite event, because I enjoy long distance,” Conlisk said.

He picked up the track bug last year and joined the CMS team “because I simply enjoy running.”

Now that he’s on his way to being a grizzled veteran, Conlisk has discovered he enjoys almost everything about the sport.

“The team, friends, running, competing and beating my PRs” are just a few of the things the freshman phenom would put in the plus column.

While he feels strong both in distance and sprint races, Conlisk would like to “work on my form, to improve even more.”

“My goal is to get my mile run under five minutes,” he said.

“Last meet I ran the 400 for the first time, winning my heat and coming in fifth behind four seniors overall,” Conlisk added. “It would be really cool to win the 400 overall in a meet.”

A big fan of comedy movies (“I like to laugh”) and his PE class, he uses his computer to stay in touch with people from all stages of his life.

“I enjoy playing video games,” Conlisk said. “Since I have lived a military kids life, it lets me keep up with my friends far away.”

His biggest fans, however, are closely following his athletic exploits.

“My mom and dad have made the biggest impact on my life, since I have spent most of my time with them,” Conlisk said. “They make sure I do what I need to do.

“They are pretty awesome and support me big in track.”

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