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PR’s! PR’s for everyone!!

Posted in Track on April 26, 2013| 1 Comment »

Emma Sullivan, seen here with boyfriend Brendan Coleman, won the 300 hurdles Thursday, her first win as a CHS track runner.

They saved the best for last.

Running in their final regular season meet Thursday, the Coupeville High School girls’ track team won eight titles at a three-team meet in Lakewood. Better yet, all six individual winners did so by smashing their personal records in the event.

Leading the record busters against Granite Falls and the host Cougars was, who else, the phenom that is freshman Makana Stone. Dropping her times in both the 100 and 200, she also ran a leg on a triumphant 4 x 100 relay squad.

The three wins improved her to 28-0 as a high school runner, the best start in school history.

And while a season like the one Stone is putting together tends to draw a huge chunk of the spotlight, Wolf senior Madison Tisa McPhee continues to craft her own tale of excellence. Smashing her PR in the 100 hurdles, she remained unbeaten in hurdles and won her 18th event of the season overall.

The other three individual wins were just as big for the girls who broke the tape, with junior Emma Sullivan (300 hurdles), sophomore Erin Rosenkranz (3200) and freshman Kirsten Pelroy (400) all throwing down the best times of their careers.

It was the first win for Sullivan, the third for Rosenkranz and the fifth for Pelroy, but the first time the relay specialist had won an individual race.

Complete results:

GIRLS:

100 — Makana Stone (1st) 13.44; Sylvia Hurlburt (3rd) 14.00; Emma Sullivan (4th) 14.17; Rachel Wenzel (8th) 14.86; Nicole Becker (10th) 15.16; Courtney Allard (11th) 15.52; Dani Rickard (13th) 16.00; Briess Potter (14th) 16.03

200 — Stone (1st) 27.13; Jai’Lysa Hoskins (4th) 27.99; Madison Tisa McPhee (5th) 28.29; Hurlburt (6th) 28.33; Marisa Etzell (7th) 28.80; Kirsten Pelroy (8th) 29.59; Allard (12th) 33.09

400 — Pelroy (1st) 1:07.17; Anna Bailey (2nd) 1:09.53

1600 — Erin Rosenkranz (3rd) 6:12.80

3200 — Rosenkranz (1st) 13:19.58

100 hurdles — Tisa McPhee (1st) 16.18; Sullivan (3rd) 18.67; Allard (5th) 20.49

300 hurdles — Sullivan (1st) 52.43; Allard (3rd) 59.90

4 x 100 — Hoskins, Etzell, Hurlburt, Stone (1st) 53.26

4 x 200 — Wenzel, Etzell, Hurlburt, Pelroy (2nd) 1:56.88

4 x 400 — Pelroy, Etzell, Hoskins, Bailey (1st) 4:42.14

Shot Put – Heni Barnes (2nd) 27-09.75

Discus — Barnes (4th) 70-02; Rickard (8th) 60-03; Becker (10th) 51-08

Javelin — Wenzel (6th) 78-10; Bailey (8th) 70-02; Barnes (10th) 67-05; Rickard (14th) 59-07; Potter (17th) 49-07

High Jump — Tisa McPhee (3rd) 4-06.00

BOYS:

100 — Josiah Campbell (2nd) 11.82; Jared Helmstadter (11th) 12.53; Sam Landau (12th) 12.60; Brandon Kelley (13th) 12.69; Matthew Hampton (18th) 13.19; Mitchell Losey (21st) 13.93

200 — Campbell (3rd) 24.30; Lathom Kelley (5th) 24.93; Helmstadter (7th) 25.20; Hampton (10th) 26.53; Stephen Edwards (12th) 27.10; Dominic Ellis (16th) 29.17; Losey (17th) 29.20

400 — Hampton (2nd) 58.61; Manuel Lopez-Santillana (4th) 59.41; Ellis (6th) 1:04.99

800 — Landau (8th) 2:51.80; Lopez-Santillana (8th) 2:51.80

300 hurdles — B. Kelley (5th) 48.19

4 x 100 — Helmstadter, Hampton, B. Kelley, Landau (1st) 4:06.71

Shot Put — Caleb Valko (2nd) 40-10; Nick Streubel (3rd), 40-05.25; Carson Risner (10th) 33-00.50; Dalton Martin (13th) 29-06.00

Discus — Risner (4th) 113-01; Valko (6th) 102-08; Streubel (7th) 99-09; L. Kelley (8th) 96-06; Martin (9th) 95-01

Javelin — Ellis (10th) 99-07; Konrad Borden (16th) 85-09; Losey (18th) 79-01

Long Jump — L. Kelley (5th) 17-01; Edwards (7th) 16-04.25; Lopez-Santillana (8th) 14-06.50; Borden (10th) 13-11.75

Triple Jump — Edwards (6th) 34-04; Borden (7th) 30-06.75

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Give it up for Chase Barthbelt while we’re waiting!!

Posted in Middle School, Track on April 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Wolf track stars, l to r, Lauren Grove, Mattea Miller, Carlie Rosenkrance and Valen Trujillo. (Photo courtesy Valen Trujillo)

It’s gonna be a bit.

The one thing I have learned this week is that middle school track results will NOT be posted as quickly as high school results are.

Whether track guru Randy King is simply a faster typist or he’s some sort of streamlined, stat-spewing cyborg, Coupeville High School results are fresh and steaming hot on athletic.net mere hours after a meet wraps.

For the people out there hankering for Coupeville Middle School results from Tuesday’s meet in Langley (Luke Merriman shout-out!), well, it’s Thursday PM and nope, not there.

Lakewood and Langley have posted their results, but I don’t think many in Coupeville were wondering if Langley 8th grader Chase Barthbelt won the shot put.

He did.

If you do know Mr. Barthbelt, tell him two things — congrats, and with a name like that (second only to, and I’m not making this up, Lakewood’s Elena Everybodytalksabout), you would get SO much ink on this web site if you moved to Coupeville.

Talk to your parents.

Oh yes, and Coupeville’s results? They are coming and they will be posted here, some day. Probably about the same time Mr. Barthbelt is in his third meet.

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Oh, it just got real!!

Posted in Track on April 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone in full stride. (John Fisken photos)

Madison Tisa McPhee, middle, blitzes the field in the hurdles.

Madison Tisa McPhee and Makana Stone have been nearly flawless this track season.

Well, Stone, a freshman, IS flawless, 25-0 heading into Coupeville High School’s final regular-season meet today at Lakewood. And Tisa-McPhee, a senior, isn’t far behind, with 17 wins and an unblemished mark in hurdles and relay races.

But two days from now they’ll step into the truly big time when the duo competes in the 37th annual Lake Washington Invitational, the premier all-girls track meet in the state.

Drawing runners from across Washington and from all class levels, it’ll be a huge test for the two 1A runners.

Nationally-ranked athletes like Amy-Eloise Neal of Glacier Peak headline the event, and 10 of the 19 events are expected to feature the #1 ranked girl in the state.

Stone is guaranteed of running in the 100 and is near the top of the alternates in the 200 and 400 while Tisa McPhee is slotted in the 100 hurdles and is the first alternate in the 300 hurdles.

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Next generation track stars debut!!

Posted in Middle School, Track on April 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Valen Trujillo (left) and Lauren Grove.

Action is fast and furious in the hurdles.

Tiffany Briscoe stares down the competition before the discus.

Tiffany Briscoe stares down the competition before the shot put and discus.

Mckenzie Meyer, second from left, ready to race.

Briscoe lets rip.

Is one of them the next Makana Stone?

Only time will tell, but a new batch of Coupeville Middle School track and field athletes saw their first action of the spring season Tuesday at a three-team meet in Langley.

Amy Briscoe was on the scene and provides us with the photos above, which naturally skew heavily to the girls side of the action, since she has two daughters, Tiffany and Kyla.

If you have a son or daughter involved, or just want to be helpful, there are five more meets at which a person could snap photos and send them my way.

The schedule (all meets start at 3:15 PM):

Wednesday, May 1 — vs. Lopez and Langley in Coupeville
Wednesday, May 8 — at Granite Falls
Wednesday, May 15 — at Northshore (King’s)
Wednesday, May 22 — at Langley
Tuesday, May 28 & Thursday, May 30 — at Cascade Conference Prelims/Finals (King’s)

And, if you were hoping to see results here, you need to convince your coaches to post results at athletic.net, like the other schools involved have done. And like CMS did in years past.

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Kids today, with their book smarts and all!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Soccer, Girls Tennis, Softball, Track on April 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Josh Bayne heads home in a hurry. Carrying a GPA above 3.5, he's probably on his way to do some homework. (John Fisken photos)

Josh Bayne heads home in a hurry. With a GPA above 3.5, he’s probably on his way to do some homework. (John Fisken photos)

Emily Gallahar is one of 20 tennis players to carry a 3.0 GPA or better.

If you’re smart, you play tennis.

That’s what our exclusive, in-depth analysis of the five Coupeville High School spring sports teams reveals.

Of course, by in-depth, I mean I scanned the program they gave out at the start of the season, which has little stars next to each athlete’s names to tell you who has GPA’s between 3.0 and 4.0. Then I counted them up and did as little math as possible.

And let me add, when I graduated Tumwater High School and ended my stunning three-year tennis career, I did so with a GPA as far under 3.0 as I could push it. And look where I am now! Um, yes…

Anyway, Wolf girls’ tennis coach Ken Stange is like the Pied Piper of well-educated student/athletes, with 20 of his 28 players (71%) boasting a 3.0 or higher, with 13 at 3.5 or better. Amanda d’Almeida tops the list with a 4.0 as an about-to-graduate senior.

Not that the other Wolf coaches have anything to be ashamed about. All five teams have more than 50% of their team staffed by players with 3.0 or better GPA’s, with baseball (9 of 14 for 64%) second-best overall.

But, if we move up a step and talk about 3.5 or better, softball (43%) almost topples tennis (46%).

Track and boys’ soccer, which had the biggest rosters when the program was printed (34 and 28 athletes), tie for the most 4.0 athletes, with three apiece.

We’ll give that race to track, by a hair, since two of the three soccer players are freshmen (Dawson d’Almeida and Loren Nelson join junior Jared Dickson) and have held on to their GPA’s a shorter time.

Two of the three track 4.0’s are held by veterans (junior Heni Barnes and sophomore Erin Rosenkranz) with freshman Makana Stone still in her first year of taking classes.

In the end, there are no spring scandals, no teams with a bunch of “dumb jocks.” 71 of 118 spring athletes (60%) carry a 3.0 or better and manage to combine class time with athletic success.

If I was prone to jumping to conclusions (I am, I am), I would say it proves one thing — the kids are alright.

Oh, and that they care a lot more about their GPA than I ever did.

Which is two things…

Yep, well, remember, this is being written by someone who finished off his math credits by signing up for remedial math as a senior, doing the entire workbook in one night, then pretending to do work each day while actually doodling cartoons.

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