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Wolf track wraps amazing season!!

Posted in Track on June 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone won her first 32 races and set four school records (after standout soccer and basketball seasons) and WASN'T the CHS Female Athlete of the Year? Right...

32 straight wins and 4 school records (after strong soccer and basketball seasons) and Makana Stone ISN’T the CHS Female Athlete of the Year? Right… (John Fisken photo)

I got Jared Herlmstadler (right) his L back. Small victories. (Kerry Rosenkranz photo)

Josiah Campbell (left) and Jared Helmstadter. (Kerry Rosenkranz photo)

L to r, Kirsten Pelroy, Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Sylvia Hurlburt, Madison Tisa McPhee and Stone.

It was the season of the girls.

Coupeville High School had some standout boys on its track and field team, with sprinter Josiah Campbell missing state by only a photo finish, but most of the excitement arrived via the girls.

The Wolf females sent six athletes to state, smashed five school records and had four First Team All-Conference picks. Plus, Makana Stone went out and won her first 32 races as a freshman, which no Wolf had ever come close to doing.

When it was all over, veteran CHS track guru Randy King was pleased with what transpired and excited for a future that looks (possibly) even more impressive.

While the Wolves will lose state meet super stars Madison Tisa McPhee and Jai’Lysa Hoskins to graduation, much of the team, including perhaps the best group of female freshmen ever to gather at CHS (Makana Stone, Sylvia Hurlburt, Kirsten Pelroy) could return.

“Madison was our leader and she will be missed!,” King said. “Hopefully, the experience of our girls at state will set us up for a “running start to next year’s season.

“Our boys team should make some advances next year as our frosh and newcomers put their experience and growth together,” he added. “Josiah Campbell is still just learning, and while he just missed state this year, I’m confident he will make it next! Nick Streubel leads a group of fairly talented throwers that should make their mark as well.”

Earning letters in 2013 were:

Girls: Courtney Allard, Anna Bailey, Heni Barnes, Nicole Becker, Marisa Etzell, Hoskins, Hurlburt, Pelroy, Erin Rosenkranz, Stone, Tisa McPhee and Rachel Wenzel.

Boys: Campbell, Matthew Hampton, Jared Helmstadter, Brandon Kelley, Lathom Kelley, Sam Landau, Carson Risner and Streubel.

New School Records:

200 — Stone 26.74

300 Hurdles — Tisa McPhee 48.01

4 x 100 — Hoskins, Etzell, Hurlburt, Stone 51.31

4 x 200 — Tisa McPhee, Hoskins, Hurlburt, Stone 1:47.27

4 x 400 — Etzell, Hoskins, Pelroy, Stone 4:14.98

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Heni Barnes rules the known universe!!

Posted in History Day, Track, Whidbey's Best on June 13, 2013| 2 Comments »

Heni Barnes and her faithful assistant, farmer-in-training Henry Purdue. (Julieanna Purdue photo)

Barnes and coach Wilbur Purdue. (Mark Vessey photo)

Heni Barnes is rollin’ in the deep. The deep, deep cash.

The Coupeville High School track and field star, who also happens to a brilliant student, won a gold medal and $5,000 from the History Channel Thursday after trouncing the field in Senior Individual Documentary at the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day contest.

Barnes wowed the judges with “Striking a Turning Point: The 1917 Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike.”

Dena Royal, who coaches the Oak Harbor High School History Day team, judged the doc at regionals and said it was the best work Barnes had produced.

“I predicted a top three finish for Heni when I first saw her doc at regionals,” Royal said. “Yes, it was that good!”

Barnes, who was coached by Coupeville’s legendary (and modest) farmer/teacher, Wilbur Purdue, is also now a National Humanities Scholar after her win.

During the track and field season, she was the Wolves’ main female threat in the throwing events.

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Photo ace gives bucks to OH! Coupeville next?!?!

Posted in Boys Soccer, Football, Girls Basketball, Son of a Wolf!, Track, Wrestling on June 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Josh Crebbin (in purple) and mom Toni Crebbin (far right).

It’s simple.

Purchase photos, help fund scholarships for Coupeville High School student athletes.

John Fisken, who shoots sports locally, handed out $500 scholarships to Oak Harbor High School athletes Ciera Wiser and Josh Crebbin Friday. Next year, he’d like to do the same in Central Whidbey.

A portion of money raised when people purchase photos from Wolf sports events that Fisken shoots for CascadeAthletics.com next school year will go to fund the prospective scholarships.

They are designed to reward students who may not be their team’s star, but play year in and year out and participate in multiple sports.

Wiser competed in track and basketball for the Wildcats, while Crebbin, son of recently retired CHS volleyball coach Toni Crebbin, played football and soccer, ran track and wrestled.

Crebbin, who was also Oak Harbor’s Male Athlete of the Year and won the Cliff Gillies Award, will attend Washington State University, where he’ll study architecture, while Wiser is going to Western Washington University.

She plans to earn a law degree and specialize in environmental law.

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Wolf linemen wage epic war for Athlete Supreme honors!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Basketball, Boys Tennis, Football, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Golf, Softball, Track, Volleyball on June 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The leaders of the pack, Nick Streubel (left) and Caleb Valko (right) with Wolf football coach Tony Maggio. (Rebecca Lord photo)

Breeanna Messner (left) and one of next year’s strongest contenders for Athlete Supreme, Amanda Fabrizi. (Robert Bishop photo)

You knew Caleb Valko wasn’t going down without a fight.

But not even a considerable rally late in the game from Team Valko, which marshaled its voting bloc in the late hours Thursday night, could upend Nick Streubel, who started strong and finished even stronger.

By the time the week-long voting for our inaugural 2012-2013 Athlete Supreme had reached the finish line Friday morning, 429 votes had been cast, with nearly 200 coming after I went to bed Thursday night.

What had been a two-person battle between Streubel, a junior who starred on the Coupeville High School football, boys’ basketball and track teams and Breeanna Messner, the school’s only four-sport (volleyball, cheer, basketball, softball) athlete turned into a three-way tussle.

Valko, a senior captain on the football and basketball squads, rallied his troops hard and he shot past Messner and made a run at Streubel, pulling within three votes.

Then The Big Hurt surged, spurred by a campaign led by big sis Amanda Streubel, and crushed everyone in sight, garnering 40.56% of the vote total in a 12-athlete field.

There was actually a 13th option, to vote for Other, which didn’t work the way I thought it would, as the results didn’t actually show the names people typed in for those votes. Which would have been awkward if Other had won.

But, in the end, NO ONE beats Team Streubel. NO ONE.

Final vote totals:

Streubel (174)
Valko (111)
Messner (72)
Bessie Walstad (13)
Makana Stone (12)
Madison Tisa McPhee (10)
Other (10)
Jake Tumblin (6)
Aaron Curtin (5)
Austin Fields (5)
Hailey Hammer (5)
Ben Etzell (4)
Christine Fields (2)

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Ten-Hut! Military honors Wolf senior athletes!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, Boys Tennis, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Track on June 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Haley Marx (left) and Madison Tisa McPhee

Nathan Lamb

Luke Pelant

Awards season neared an end Tuesday night.

Somewhere out there in the near future, there’s still letters and team awards to be handed out to the track and field team, but, as graduation roars up on Coupeville High School, all the big trophies, plaques and handshakes have been delivered.

Among the awards handed out Tuesday were four aimed at senior athletes.

Sponsored by military branches, they’re a semi-sneaky way for the armed services to get their name on campus, while not requiring any administrators or athletes to officially endorse the military.

Madison Tisa McPhee and Nathan Lamb were picked for the U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award, while the U.S. Army Reserve National Scholar/Athlete Award went to Haley Marx and Luke Pelant.

Weird coincidence: all four played soccer.

Tisa McPhee was also a sensational track star, bringing home two medals from the 1A state track meet (3rd in the 100 hurdles, 5th in the 4 x 200).

Lamb was the #1 player on the Wolf boys’ tennis squad and Marx was a co-captain on the girls’ basketball team.

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