Coupeville Sports

   Wolf junior Josiah Campbell is ranked in the Top 10 in District 1 in four events. (Photo courtesy Coupeville Booster Club)

They are the face (and feet) of Wolf track.

While every meet provides its own highlights, with PR’s and unexpected, thrilling performances (Rachel Wenzel beating South Whidbey’s unstoppable force of nature Angelina Berger in the javelin), it is Madison Tisa McPhee and Makana Stone who are the standard-bearers for Coupeville High School this season.

Stone, a freshman, is 25-0 and currently ranked in the Top 10 in District 1 in six different events. Tisa McPhee, a senior, has won 17 times (while missing one meet due to a vacation) and is also ranked in the Top 10 in six events, including having the #1 time in the 100 hurdles (9th best in the state for 1A runners).

Tisa McPhee also has the fourth fastest time in the 300 hurdles and fifth best performance in the high jump, while Stone hits in the 100 (4th), 200 (3rd) and 400 (4th).

Both girls are part of three Wolf relay teams that are highly ranked, as well.

The 4 x 100 (4th), 4 x 200 (2nd in District 1, 5th in the state) and 4 x 400 (3rd in the district, 7th in the state), which also include, in various formations, senior Jai’Lysa Hoskins, freshman Sylvia Hurlburt and sophomore Marisa Etzell, are all in the mix for post-season honors.

Hoskins (6th in the 100), Hurlburt (9th in the 200) and junior Heni Barnes (10th in the shot put) round out the Wolf girls currently holding spots in District 1’s Top Ten.

On the boys side, junior Josiah Campbell is The Man, with four Top 10 performances. He is 7th in the triple jump, 10th in the high jump and runs a leg on both the 4 x 100 (6th) and 4 x 400 (8th).

Senior Sam Landau (4 x 100, 4 x 400) and juniors Brandon Kelley (8th in the 300 hurdles, 4 x 100) and Nick Streubel (4th in the discus, 8th in the shot put) each have two Top 10 performances to their credit.

Freshmen Lathom Kelley (4 x 100) and Jared Helmstadter (4 x 400) and sophomore Matthew Hampton (4 x 400) also have their names on the current leader-board.

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   From left to right, speedy Wolves Madison Tisa McPhee, Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins and Makana Stone. (John Fisken photos)

Caleb Valko approves of their winning ways.

We’re gettin’ historical, folks.

Four more wins Friday at the La Conner Invitational lifted Coupeville High School freshman track phenom Makana Stone to an unheard of 25-0. A victory in the 200 and a leg on three separate winning relay teams kept her perfect, with one more regular-season meet left.

By comparison, one of the finest seasons ever put together by a Wolf runner came from Kyle King in 2008, when he won 24 races as a senior, capping his year with a state title in the 3200. Younger brother Tyler won 21 races as a junior in 2010.

The way Stone is blasting off to the heavens in her debut makes it easy to forget Wolf senior Madison Tisa McPhee is having a brilliant senior campaign as well. Three more wins Friday, as she swept both hurdles events and ran on the 4 x 200 relay team, give her 17 for the year — and she missed a meet while on vacation.

Equally impressive in La Conner was senior Jai’Lysa Hoskins, who tied Stone’s four-title day by running on all three relay teams with her younger counterpart and also found time to win the 100.

Both the Wolf boys and girls finished third in the seven-team event, with La Conner and Crescent taking the respective team titles.

While the girls racked up eight titles on the day, Nick Streubel quietly went about his business, setting PR’s in both the shot put and discus as he swept both events.

Complete results:

GIRLS:

100 — Jai’Lysa Hoskins (1st) 13.29; Marisa Etzell (2nd) 13.66; Sylvia Hurlburt (3rd) 13.95; Emma Sullivan (4th) 14.00; Rachel Wenzel (10th) 14.96; Courtney Allard (11th) 14.97; Nicole Becker (12th) 15.14

200 — Makana Stone (1st) 27.46; Hurlburt (2nd) 28.24

400 — Etzell (3rd) 1:08.32; Anna Bailey (4th) 1:11.66

1600 — Erin Rosenkranz (3rd) 6:25.75

3200 — Rosenkranz (1st) 13:47.13

100 hurdles — Madison Tisa McPhee (1st) 17.42; Sullivan (4th) 18.65; Allard (5th) 19.98

300 hurdles — Tisa McPhee (1st) 53.03; Sullivan (2nd) 53.40; Allard (6th) 1:00.98

4 x 100 — Hurlburt, Stone, Etzell, Hoskins (1st) 53.41

4 x 200 — Tisa McPhee, Hoskins, Stone, Hurlburt (1st) 1:51.75

4 x 400 — Stone, Kirsten Pelroy, Etzell, Hoskins (1st) 4:34.61

Shot Put – Heni Barnes (6th) 27-10

Javelin — Wenzel (5th) 86-03

BOYS:

100 — Jared Helmstadter (6th) 12.49; Lathom Kelley (7th) 12.61; Brandon Kelley (8th) 12.64; Sam Landau (10th) 12.76; Mitchell Losey (14th) 14.09

200 — L. Kelley (4th) 25.25; Helmstadter (7th) 26.05; Stephen Edwards (10th) 27.45; Losey (12th) 29.66

400 — Landau (4th) 1:00.13

800 — Matthew Hampton (2nd) 2:18.89

1600 — Hampton (3rd) 5:04.32; Dominic Ellis (8th) 5:43.20; Manuel Lopez-Santillana (10th) 5:46.45

3200 — Jake McCormick (7th) 12:58.58; Lopez-Santillana (8th) 13:33.19

300 hurdles — B. Kelley (7th) 48.98

4 x 100 — Relay team (no names listed) (2nd) 48.83

4 x 400 — Hampton, Helmstadter, B. Kelley, Landau (2nd) 3:59.87

Shot Put — Nick Streubel (1st), 44-0; Carson Risner (5th) 32-07

Discus — Streubel (1st) 131-01.50; Risner (3rd) 105-02.50; Dalton Martin (4th) 103-00

Long Jump — L. Kelley (7th) 15-04

Triple Jump — Konrad Borden (4th) 29-02

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It was their only home meet. So, of course, it rained.

That didn’t stop the Coupeville High School track team from busting records, winning events and shamelessly playing up to the cameras, however.

The photos above are courtesy John Fisken, who came down from Oak Harbor to fire off his camera for Wolf Nation.

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Makana Stone: 21-0. (John Fisken photos)

Madison Tisa McPhee (middle), AKA The Terminator.

They can not lose. They will not lose.

The dynamic duo of freshman Makana Stone and senior Madison Tisa McPhee have been nearly flawless this season.

With three more wins Thursday in her only home meet of the season, Stone is an astounding 21-0 as a high school track runner. Fast enough to overcome a momentary slip on the wet track in one of her races, she continued the greatest kick-off to a CHS track career ever seen.

Hot on her heels is state meet veteran Tisa McPhee, who also collected three wins against South Whidbey and remains unbeaten in hurdles and relays this year. Back from a Hawaiian vacation, the silky-smooth speedster immediately found her groove, even with the change in weather.

Competing on a drizzly day, the duo sparked a team-wide strong showing, as Coupeville captured seven titles on both sides of the scoreboard.

On the girls side of the battle, the Wolves swept all three relay races, with Stone, Tisa McPhee, Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins and Rachel Wenzel, who set a PR in the javelin, claiming multiple victories.

Josiah Campbell paced the boys, taking home three firsts (100, triple jump, 4 x 100), while Nick Streubel and Sam Landau each won twice.

Complete results:

GIRLS:

100 — Makana Stone (1st) 13.57; Sylvia Hurlburt (3rd) 13.94; Rachel Wenzel (8th) 14.92; Dani Rickard (15th) 16.84

400 — Kirsten Pelroy (3rd) 1:08.42

1600 — Erin Rosenkranz (2nd) 6:08.52

3200 — Rosenkranz (2nd) 13:59.07

100 hurdles — Madison Tisa McPhee (1st) 17.13; Emma Sullivan (4th) 19.29; Courtney Allard (6th) 21.29

300 hurdles — Sullivan (3rd) 54.90; Allard (5th) 1:04.03

4 x 100 — Pelroy, Allard, Nicole Becker, Wenzel (1st) 59.17

4 x 200 — Hurlburt, Stone, Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins (1st) 1:51.44; Anna Bailey, Becker, Sullivan, Wenzel (3rd) 2:02.52

4 x 400 — Hoskins, Tisa McPhee, Stone, Etzell (1st) 4:20.90

Shot Put – Heni Barnes (2nd) 25-10

Discus — Barnes (3rd) 81-02; Becker (4th) 59-00; Rickard (5th) 56-08

Javelin — Wenzel (1st) 78-09; Barnes (3rd) 66-06; Bailey (5th) 63-08; Rickard (6th) 55-05

High Jump — Tisa McPhee (1st) 4-08

BOYS:

100 — Josiah Campbell (1st) 11.99; Jared Helmstadter (4th) 12.70; Mitchell Losey (9th) 14.30

200 — Campbell (2nd) 25.22; Helmstadter (3rd) 25.83; Lathom Kelley (4th) 26.68; Stephen Edwards (7th) 27.62

400 — Landau (1st) 57.76

800 — Manuel Lopez-Santillana (1st) 2:26.87; Dominic Ellis (3rd) 2:31.60

1600 — Matthew Hampton (3rd) 5:09.87; Jake McCormick (7th) 6:24.38

3200 — Hampton (2nd) 11:39.52

300 hurdles — Brandon Kelley (2nd) 48.37

4 x 100 — L. Kelley, Campbell, B. Kelley, Landau (1st) 47.67

Shot Put — Nick Streubel (1st), 42-0; Caleb Valko (2nd) 40-02; Carson Risner (4th) 33-07; Nick Weatherford (6th) 31-02; Dalton Martin (7th) 28-09

Discus — Streubel (1st) 127-08; Risner (3rd) 109-07; Martin (4th) 102-07; Valko (5th) 99-02; L. Kelley (7th) 82-05; Ellis (8th) 71-08

Javelin — Streubel (3rd) 103-03; Ellis (4th) 99-04; Weatherford (5th) 98-01; Losey (6th) 87-00; Konrad Borden (8th) 73-06

Long Jump — L. Kelley (2nd) 16-10.50; Edwards (3rd) 15-07.00; Lopez-Santillana (7th) 14-04.50; Borden (8th) 13-08.00

Triple Jump — Campbell (1st) 35-9.50; Edwards (3rd) 33-03; Borden (5th) 30-05

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   They’re kinda fast. Left to right, Makana Stone, Madison Tisa McPhee, Jai’Lysa Hoskins and Marisa Etzell. (Jack Tisa photo)

Something rare is going to happen today.

No, not the rain. That happens every dang day someone refers to this as “spring” and Mother Nature laughs and laughs and laughs…

The singular event in question is the one and only home Coupeville High School track meet of the season, as the Wolves welcome Island arch-rival South Whidbey to Mickey Clark Field for a 4 PM royal rumble.

Local track aficionados can witness the wonder that is freshman Makana Stone, as she takes her 18-0 record once more onto the track. Unbeaten in sprints and relays, she is off to what is believed to be the best start to a career EVER by a Wolf runner.

Hot on her heels is senior Madison Tisa McPhee, back from Hawaii, rested and tanned and ready to resume her beat-down of anyone foolish enough to line up next to her in the hurdles. Unbeaten in hurdles and relays this season, she is cruising towards a repeat visit to the state meet.

Along with the big duo, there are tons of other story-lines to play out, from thrower Nick Streubel vanquishing his foes to whether any of the staples will pop out of fellow thrower Caleb Valko’s head if he flexes too much for his fan club.

Plus, Wolf coach Randy King will be on the mike, announcing events in his velvet baritone. So there’s that, too.

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