Coupeville Sports

    Jai’Lysa Hoskins (left) and Madison Tisa McPhee will cap their senior years with a trip to the state track meet.

They’re going East.

Five Coupeville High School track stars — two seniors, a sophomore and two freshmen phenoms — came out of tri-districts Saturday at Woolsey Stadium in Seattle with a new destination in mind.

Now they’ll pile into the family station wagon with Wolf coach Randy King behind the wheel, screaming “I will turn this car around!!” every time someone asks to stop at 7-11 for the 200th time and head off to Cheney May 24-25 for the state track meet.

OK, it might not be a station wagon, but they are headed East.

Once there, they’ll be led by senior Madison Tisa McPhee, returning to the big stage she ran on as a sophomore. This time around, she’ll get three cracks at a state title, with performances in the 100 and 300 hurdles and on the 4 x 200 relay squad.

Saturday, Mad Dawg set PR’s in both of her hurdles events, while smashing the school mark in the 300 hurdles.

Joining her on the caravan will be freshmen Makana Stone and Sylvia Hurlburt, sophomore Marisa Etzell and senior Jai’Lysa Hoskins, as the Wolves qualified both their 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 units.

Freshman Kirsten Pelroy could become the 6th Wolf on the trip, as she is the second alternate on both the relay squads. That just depends on how much room there is in the station wagon.

The Wolf girls finished 12th in the 23-team meet, holding their own with schools with much deeper rosters.

On the boys side, Josiah Campbell came the closest to moving on, missing a state berth by one slot in the 100, finishing seventh. He would be the first alternate should one of the top six from the combined forces of District 1, 2 and 3 not be able to go.

Complete results:

GIRLS:

200 — Makana Stone (8th) 27.15

100 hurdles — Madison Tisa McPhee (2nd) 16.13

300 hurdles — Tisa McPhee (4th) 48.01

4 x 100 — Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Marisa Etzell, Sylvia Hurlburt, Stone (4th) 51.31

4 x 200 — Tisa McPhee, Hoskins, Hurlburt, Stone (3rd) 1:47.27

4 x 400 — Kirsten Pelroy, Hoskins, Etzell, Stone (8th) 4:16.40

BOYS:

100 — Josiah Campbell (7th) 11.85

Shot Put — Nick Streubel (13th) 42-03.50

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     Rachel Wenzel (far right), seen here with fellow track stars (l to r) Anna Bailey, Heni Barnes and Marisa Etzell, closed her track career with a PR Thursday.

It was a chance she didn’t expect to get, so Rachel Wenzel made it count.

After qualifying for tri-districts at the last second, the Coupeville High School senior capped her track career by setting a PR in the javelin Thursday at King’s.

Her throw of 88 feet, nine inches was nearly a foot longer than she had ever thrown in her three years of competing in the red and black and placed her 14th.

Wenzel’s performance was one of just two by CHS athletes in a final Thursday, as the two-day, 25-team tri-district meet has most of its finals Saturday.

Joining her Thursday was junior Josiah Campbell, who placed 13th in the triple jump. The top six advance to state.

Based on their times in the prelims, hurdler Madison Tisa McPhee (100 and 300 hurdles) and both the 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 girls’ relay teams are on target to make the cut for Cheney.

Complete results:

GIRLS:

200 — Makana Stone (8th) 27.35

100 hurdles — Madison Tisa McPhee (2nd) 16.51

300 hurdles — Tisa McPhee (4th) 49.03

4 x 100 — Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Marisa Etzell, Sylvia Hurlburt, Stone (2nd) 51.61

4 x 200 — Tisa McPhee, Hoskins, Hurlburt, Stone (3rd) 1:47.83

4 x 400 — Kirsten Pelroy, Hoskins, Etzell, Stone (8th) 4:16.40

Javelin — Rachel Wenzel (14th) 88-09

BOYS:

100 — Josiah Campbell (7th) 11.84

300 hurdles — Brandon Kelley (12th) 45.59

4 x 100 — Lathom Kelley, B. Kelley, Sam Landau, Jared Helmstadter (10th) 46.62

4 x 400 — L. Kelley, Matthew Hampton, Landau, Helmstadter (12th) 3:46.69

Triple Jump — Campbell (13th) 35-10.75

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Wolf senior Rachel Wenzel gets at least one more high school track meet after getting the invite to tri-districts.

You thought your season was over? You thought wrong!

After all the numbers were crunched, the data was sifted and the variables taken into consideration, high school track officials released their final list of which athletes had advanced to this week’s tri-district meet (May 16 & 18 at King’s), and there were a few pleasant curve-balls for Coupeville High School.

While Makana Stone and Madison Tisa McPhee knew they had advanced right after the district meet Saturday, junior shot putter Nick Streubel and senior javelin hurler Rachel Wenzel seemed to be on the outside looking in.

Not so fast, however, as they and others slipped in once the final roster was set.

The Wolves will send six individuals and five relay teams to tri-districts, a 25-team meet which is the direct lead-in to the state meet in Cheney May 24-25.

The chosen ones (with this caveat — while relay teams listed are the ones that ran at districts, any and all can be shuffled before tri-districts, depending on Wolf coach Randy King’s strategizing):

GIRLS:

200 — Makana Stone

100 hurdles — Madison Tisa McPhee

300 hurdles — Tisa McPhee

Javelin — Rachel Wenzel

4 x 100 — Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Tisa McPhee, Stone

4 x 200 — Etzell, Tisa McPhee, Hoskins, Sylvia Hurlburt

4 x 400 — Etzell, Hoskins, Kirsten Pelroy, Stone

BOYS:

100 — Josiah Campbell

300 hurdles — Brandon Kelley

4 x 100 — Campbell, Lathom Kelley, Jared Helmstadter, Sam Landau

4 x 400 – Matthew Hampton, L. Kelley, B. Kelley, Landau

Shot Put — Nick Streubel

Triple Jump — Campbell

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  Wolf freshman Makana Stone has busted or help bust three school records. (John Fisken photo)

We can go faster. We have the technology.

And by technology, I’m talking about feet. Because those feet are scorching the track right now.

Lost in the hype and hubbub around the 1A District 1 track meet Friday was this little gem — the Coupeville High School girls had busted yet another school record.

This time it was the 4 x 400 relay team (sophomore Marisa Etzell, senior Jai’Lysa Hoskins and freshmen Kirsten Pelroy and Makana Stone), who chopped almost a second off a record that stood for eight long days.

Clocking in at four minutes, 14.98 seconds, they dropped the mark of 4:15.92 they set May 2 at the Cascade Conference Championships.

The record before this year began: 4:17.09. What did they do back then? Walk?

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One word … undefeated.

Mad Dawg doesn’t lose.

She may let you momentarily feel good about yourself in the prelims, but when the finals roll around, Madison Tisa McPhee is a stone cold killer.

Proving that once again Friday, the Coupeville High School senior remained unbeaten in hurdles this season, sweeping both the 100 and 300 hurdles titles at the 1A District 1 track championships in Lynden.

The win in the 300 hurdles was a mixed bag, a big victory marred a bit when Tisa McPhee’s main rival, Kieya Villars of Blaine, hit the second to last hurdle and fell all the way to 8th place.

Villars, who had narrowly edged Tisa McPhee in the prelims, was ranked third in 1A in the event (Tisa McPhee is fourth), but missed the cut for tri-districts. The sophomore did advance in both the 100 and 200, which eases the frustration a bit.

The other big showdown for the Wolves came in the 200, where King’s freshman Anna Parker set a PR to hold off previously unbeaten Wolf frosh Makana Stone for the title. The two will face off again at tri-districts May 16-18 on Parker’s home track.

Stone beat Parker in the 100 at the Cascade Conference Championships in their only previous meeting, but did not compete in the event at districts.

Complete results:

GIRLS:

200 — Makana Stone (2nd) 26.95; Sylvia Hurlburt (8th) 28.26

400 — Kirsten Pelroy (8th) 1:07.16

1600 — Erin Rosenkranz (17th) 6:11.11

100 hurdles — Madison Tisa McPhee (1st) 16.26

300 hurdles — Tisa McPhee (1st) 48.31

4 x 100 — Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Tisa McPhee, Stone (5th) 52.17

4 x 200 — Etzell, Tisa McPhee, Hoskins, Hurlburt (3rd) 1:48.97

4 x 400 — Etzell, Hoskins, Pelroy, Stone (5th) 4:14.98

Shot put — Heni Barnes (12th) 28-00.25

Discus — Barnes (16th) 69-06

Javelin — Rachel Wenzel (7th) 87-11

BOYS:

100 — Josiah Campbell (4th) 11.69

3200 — Matthew Hampton (10th) 10:50.61

300 hurdles — Brandon Kelley (3rd) 44.87

4 x 100 — Campbell, Lathom Kelley, Jared Helmstadter, Sam Landau (5th) 46.43

4 x 400 — Hampton, L. Kelley, B. Kelley, Landau (7th) 3:45.63

Shot put — Nick Streubel (9th) 43-05

Discus — Streubel (11th) 113-02, Carson Risner (13th) 107-08

Triple Jump — Campbell (5th) 37-03

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