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Spring sports just around the corner!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Soccer, Girls Tennis, Golf, Softball, Track, tagged , , , , , , on February 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Softball coaches Amy and David King survey the action last season. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Softball coaches Amy and David King wait for the rain to come back. It always does. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Four of the six Coupeville girls who went to the state track meet last year can return in 2014.

The state track meet contingent in 2013 was (l to r) Kirsten Pelroy, Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Sylvia Hurlburt, Madison Tisa McPhee and Makana Stone. Only Hoskins and Tisa McPhee graduated. (Kristin Hurlburt photo)

Saint Patricks’s Day is opening day.

Coupeville High School kicks off its spring sports season — its last as a member of the 1A/2A Cascade Conference — with baseball and softball games and a girls’ tennis match Monday, Mar. 17.

Boys’ soccer and track join the battle a day or two later, and the season runs into early May, when the postseason will start to play out.

Below are the schedules, as they sit today.

Baseball and softball schedules are still being tweaked, and a 20th game will be added to both schedules shortly.

Also, as we go forward, expect weather to play havoc with things (the sun will come out just as the season winds down…), so keep an eye on the schedule at http://coupeville.tandemcal.com/.

Things to keep in mind:

*If boys’ soccer has enough players for a JV squad, they will play the same dates and locations as the varsity, with their games kicking off two hours earlier.

*There is a chance baseball will field a JV team this season. If they do, that schedule will be announced later.

*There is no JV for softball or track and tennis matches are one big mash-up. Varsity netters go first, but JV players then hit the courts as they open up, meaning often varsity and JV are playing at the same time.

*There are no home meets for track this season.

*Coupeville has one golfer — junior Christine Fields, a two-time state meet qualifier (she placed 8th as a freshman, 15th as a sophomore). She practices and travels with South Whidbey, since CHS does not have a team, but competes as a one-woman Wolf squad.

Of the eight teams in the Cascade Conference, three (South Whidbey, King’s and Coupeville) are 1A, but King’s does not field baseball, softball or girls’ tennis teams.

*Coupeville, the smallest 1A school in the state, is jumping to an all-1A division of the Olympic League next school year, where its counterparts will be Port Townsend, Chimacum and Klahowya. Softball and girls’ tennis both play Port Townsend this spring, giving them an early look at their future rivals.

BASEBALL

(Home games — 4 PM)

Mon-Mar. 17 @ South Whidbey
Wed-Mar. 19 South Whidbey
Fri-Mar. 21 @ South Whidbey
Sat-Mar. 29 @ Nooksack Valley
Mon-Mar. 31 @ ATM
Wed-April 2 ATM
Fri-April 4 @ ATM
Mon-April 7 Cedarcrest
Wed-April 9 @ Cedarcrest
Fri-April 11 Cedarcrest
Mon-April 14 Lakewood
Wed-April 16 @ Lakewood
Fri-April 18 Lakewood
Mon-April 21 Granite Falls
Wed-April 23 @ Granite Falls
Fri-April 25 Granite Falls
Mon-April 28 @ Sultan
Wed-April 30 Sultan
Fri-May 2 @ Sultan

BOYS SOCCER

(Home games — 6 PM)

Tue-Mar. 18 Friday Harbor
Tue-Mar. 25 Cedarcrest
Fri-Mar. 28 South Whidbey
Tues-April 1 @ Lakewood
Fri-April 4 Sultan
Tues-April 8 @ ATM
Fri-April 11 Granite Falls
Mon-April 14 @ King’s
Wed-April 16 @ Cedarcrest
Fri-April 18 @ South Whidbey
Mon-April 21 @ Friday Harbor
Tues-April 22 Lakewood
Fri-April 25 @ Sultan
Tues-April 29 ATM
Fri-May 2 @ Granite Falls
Mon-May 5 King’s

GIRLS TENNIS

(Home matches — 3:30 PM)

Mon-Mar. 17 Port Townsend
Tues-Mar. 18 Friday Harbor
Fri-Mar. 20 @ Blaine
Mon-Mar. 24 @ South Whidbey
Wed-Mar. 26 Lakewood
Tue-April 15 ATM
Thur-April 17 @ Granite Falls
Mon-April 21 @ Friday Harbor
Tues-April 22 South Whidbey
Thur-April 24 Lakewood
Mon-April 28 @ Port Townsend
Tues-April 29 Granite Falls
Thur-May 1 @ ATM

SOFTBALL

(Home games — 4 PM)

Mon-Mar. 17 @ Port Townsend
Tues-Mar. 18 South Whidbey
Wed-Mar. 19 @ ATM
Tues-Mar. 25 @ Sultan
Thur-Mar. 27 Cedarcrest
Mon-Mar. 31 Lakewood
Wed-April 2 Granite Falls
Fri-April 4 @ South Whidbey
Tues-April 8 @ ATM
Mon-April 14 @ Sultan
Wed-April 16 Cedarcrest
Fri-April 18 Lakewood
Tues-April 22 Granite Falls
Thur-April 24 @ South Whidbey
Tues-April 29 ATM
Mon-May 5 South Whidbey
Wed-May 7 @ Cedarcrest
Fri-May 9 @ Lakewood
Tues-May 13 @ Granite Falls

TRACK

Thur-Mar. 20 @ Oak Harbor Jamboree
Sat-Mar. 22 @ Seattle Academy Relays
Thur-Mar. 27 @ Sultan
Thur-April 10 @ Cedarcrest
Thur-April 17 @ King’s
Thur-April 24 @ Cedarcrest
Sat-April 26 @ Mountlake Terrace Invite
Thur-May 1 @ Granite Falls
Thur-May 8/Fri-May 9 @ Cascade Conference League Meet (King’s)
Wed-May 14/Fri-May 16 @ Districts (Lynden Christian)
Thur-May 22/Fri-May 23 @ Tri-Districts (King’s)
Fri-May 30/Sat-May 31 @ State (Cheney)

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Wolf track stars exiled!!

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , , , on February 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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CHS track stars Makana Stone (left), Lathom Kelley (center) and Sylvia Hurlburt (sunglasses) will travel to every one of their meets in 2014. (Kristin Hurlburt photo)

The most dynamic athlete at Coupeville High School will NOT perform in front of home fans this spring.

Sophomore sprinter and relay ace Makana Stone, who smashed school records, placed at state and won her first 30+ races as a freshman, will spend the spring on the road.

She and fellow state meet veterans like Sylvia Hurlburt and Marisa Etzell will travel to every one of their 2014 track meets, as CHS, for the first time in memory, will not host a home meet.

The only time the Wolves will perform on Whidbey Island, in fact, is Thursday, March 20 when they kick off the season with an appearance at the Oak Harbor Jamboree (3:30 PM start).

After that, there’s trips to Sultan, Cedarcrest (twice) and Granite Falls, among other destinations, but no home meets and no trips to South Whidbey.

No reason has been given for the lack of a home meet.

Coupeville Middle School will host a home meet April 30, when King’s, Langley and Lopez Island will come to town.

But the lack of a home meet for the high school squad could derail one of the school’s traditions.

Does that mean that Senior Night for thrower Nick Streubel and others will take place on a bouncing school bus somewhere on the back roads of America as Coupeville completes its never-ending road trip?

Probably.

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All your records belong to us, puny mortals!!

Posted in Track, tagged , , , on January 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Sylvia Hurlburt poses with the new school track records she helped set last season.

Sylvia Hurlburt poses with some of the new school track records she helped set last season.

Almost there.

The names are engraved. Now the records just need to be hung on the wall in the entrance way to the Coupeville High School gym.

Then they can be broken again and again and again a few more times.

With three of the five athletes involved in setting new school records in the girls’ 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 being underclassmen last season, the Wolf track squad is primed for much more record-breaking to come.

Sylvia Hurlburt and Makana Stone were only freshmen last season, while Marisa Etzell was a sophomore.

Only Madison Tisa McPhee and Jai’Lysa Hoskins were seniors, and, while they will be greatly missed, there is a pack of speedy girls coming up to try and take their spots on the relay teams.

The future for Wolf track? It’s bright, and very, very fast.

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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.

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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New superintendent’s son impresses with hustle, skills!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Football, Track on October 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Matt Shank

Matt Shank

When the Coupeville School District hired a new superintendent, it also got some talented athletes in the deal.

While Dr. Jim Shank has made the jump from Juab, Utah to heading up the local education establishment, his sons Matt, a junior, and Brian, a freshman, have started the transition by joining the Wolf football squad.

Matt Shank, a receiver, has height and reach, things that helped him quite a bit back in Juab as a basketball player.

His former coach there, Jake Downard, said at the time of his departure, “Matt is a great kid, sad to see him go. He is a big kid with lots of potential. He was a good defender and rebounder. He was well liked by his teammates and by his peers at the school.”

His combination of hustle and friendliness has already won over fans in his new home, and Shank said he has felt welcomed from the start.

“The transition from Juab to Coupeville has been great, the people here are really nice,” Shank said. “As an athlete there has been changes as expected, but I was pleasantly surprised with the team so far, great coaching and great chemistry with the players.”

The fourth of six Shank children, Matt first picked up the competitive football bug in sixth grade, and with one year off in the middle, is now in his fifth year of tearing up the gridiron.

“I started because I’ve always liked football and saw an opportunity to try it in “little league,” and I have enjoyed it ever since,” Shank said.

While he has great potential on the offensive side of the ball, it’s actually defense that draws the most interest from him.

“I enjoy the fun that the team has as a group, and success is always fun to experience, but what I find to be the most fun is defense,” Shank said. “I think that I’m a fast learner and can adapt quickly; I’d like to work on my offensive skills.

“My goals are to start as much as possible on offense and defense and show the coaches I’m a valuable player and of course as many wins as possible and make it to the playoffs,” he added.

In Utah, he was a man for all seasons. Organized sports or hitting the trails on his snowboard, Shank has always been active.

“In Juab I tried about everything,” he said. “Football, basketball, track, golf, soccer and baseball.

“I’ve enjoy everything I’ve played but the top two are definitely football and basketball and spring has always been track,” he added. “But we’ll see how it goes.”

When he’s not playing sports, Shank enjoys messing around with his guitar and spending time with his family. One part of that family, his father, has had a huge impact on him, on the playing field and off.

“I’d have to thank my dad for the time he’s put in to make me a better athlete when I was younger,” Shank said. “Both of my parents have been great, also I had some great teammates in Utah that really helped and glad I had the chance to play with them.

“My dad has always had a strong interest in basketball, as he played in Longview during his high school career,” he added. “He has helped me out a lot with my form, shot, defense and other skills.”

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