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New season, new league, new coaches!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on July 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Brett and Breanna Smedley.

Brett and Breanna Smedley.

Hailey Hammer (right), doin' what she does -- beatin' the snot out of the volleyball.

Hailey Hammer (right), doin’ what she does — beatin’ the snot out of the volleyball. (John Fisken photo)

Sadi Foltz

Sadi Foltz

The coaches change, but Hailey Hammer is a constant.

When Coupeville High School senior volleyball players like Hammer take the court this fall, they’ll be playing for their third coach in as many years.

Breanne Smedley, wife of Wolf assistant football coach Brett Smedley, has been hired to helm the program.

She replaces former CHS star Kirsty Croghan, who had to step down after one season because of the length of her daily commute.

Croghan, who works for the La Conner school district, had sought a similar job in Coupeville, but had been unable to secure one.

Croghan, who led the Wolves through their final season in the 1A/2A Cascade Conference, inherited the job from her high school coach, Toni Crebbin, when Crebbin brought a 20-year coaching career to an end to spend time with her young daughters.

As she leads CHS into the 1A Olympic League, Smedley will be joined on the sideline by Amy King, who will return for her second season as the JV coach.

Coupeville also added another coach at the middle school level, hiring Sadi Foltz to replace Allison Cowan.

Cowan stepped down after one season as the 7th grade coach when her husband was transferred by the Navy.

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Spikers live & love volleyball 24/7/365!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Incoming CHS freshman Allison Wenzel.

Incoming CHS freshman Allison Wenzel.

Wolf sophomores Valen Trujillo (left) and Tiffany Briscoe.

Wolf sophomores Valen Trujillo (left) and Tiffany Briscoe.

Play until you can’t move.

That’s the mantra for Coupeville High School girls who are taking part in intensive all-day workouts at a volleyball camp run by Western Washington University.

The off-season workouts may leave them sore and tired (“Watching my girls walk after two days and 12 hours of volleyball is mildly entertaining…” said mom Amy Briscoe with a laugh), but it also prepares them for the season ahead.

As Coupeville moves out of the 1A/2A Cascade Conference and into the 1A Olympic League, the time is ripe for the Wolves to reemerge as a true powerhouse.

Every extra spike, every dig, every finely-tuned serve will help them get there.

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Spikers rarin’ to go!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , on June 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Haley Sherman (left) and Kacie Kiel.

Haley Sherman (left) and Kacie Kiel.

Freshman phenoms Lauren Rose (left) and Kyla Briscoe.

Freshman phenoms Lauren Rose (left) and Kyla Briscoe. (John Fisken photo)

The spikes are already flying.

The start of a new high school volleyball season is more than two months away (Aug. 25 is the first official day of practice for Coupeville), but, if turnout at open gyms is an indication, volleyball fever is spreading throughout the town.

Wolf JV coach Amy King, who is running things while the school decides on a replacement for departed varsity coach Kirsty Croghan, welcomed 19 girls to the gym Tuesday night.

“It was an awesome turn out!!,” King said. “Almost as many we had for the season last year.”

It was a nice mix of players as well, with three recent alumni — Katie Kiel, Haley Sherman and Bessie Walstad — dropping by to help school the newbies.

And the newbies were there, as five incoming freshman were on scene, which is “almost unheard of.”

Led by Kyla Briscoe, who has been a vocal leader, Abby Parker, Hope Lodell, Kayla Rose and Lauren Rose got a chance to play with returning stars.

Among the returnees on hand were Hailey Hammer, Kacie Kiel, McKenzie Bailey, Miranda Engle, Sydney Autio, Monica Vidoni, Lauren Grove, Ally Roberts, Jae LeVine, Valen Trujillo and Tiffany Briscoe.

“It was a fun time,” King said. “And with how they were just playing around at open gym – once they start training and get serious about it, you’re going to have a lot of fun with write-ups next year!”

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Fall schedules are here (write them in pencil)!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on June 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Marisa Etzell (left) should return to help lead the Wolves into a new league. (John Fisken photo)

Marisa Etzell should return to help lead the Wolves into a new league. (John Fisken photos)

Sebastian Davis

Sebastian Davis could be one of the top returning netters.

Young volleyball stars (l to r) Miranda Engle, Tiffany Briscoe and Valen Trujillo celebrate a point last year.

Young volleyball stars (left to right) Miranda Engle, Tiffany Briscoe and Valen Trujillo celebrate a point.

ATM is 99.2% gone and King’s is nowhere to be seen, so that’s a start.

The schedules for Coupeville High School’s first season in the 1A Olympic League are out, and, despite the fact that there could still be plenty of tweaks before we reach September, they make for interesting reading.

With the exception of one boys’ tennis match with Archbishop Thomas Murphy, the only team the Wolves will face from their former league, the 1A/2A Cascade Conference, is Island rival South Whidbey.

The two Whidbey schools will continue to meet in all four fall sports, keeping the rivalry strong, though the games will now be non-conference affairs.

Still, Wolves gotta eat Falcon meat.

Coupeville will play each of its new league rivals — Chimacum, Port Townsend and Klahowya — home and away, while picking up some old-school rivals again like Concrete and Darrington for non-league games.

Also, the first person to figure out where first-time soccer foe Crosspoint Academy is located gets a gold star.

OK, it’s in Bremerton. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

The schedules as they stand on June 18:

 

VOLLEYBALL:

9-6 @ Oak Harbor Jamboree
9-9 @ South Whidbey
9-11 Friday Harbor
9-18 @ Orcas Island
9-20 @ South Whidbey Invite
9-25 Mount Vernon Christian
10-7 Bellevue Christian
10-14 @ Klahowya
10-15 Darrington
10-16 Chimacum
10-21 Port Townsend
10-23 @ Chimacum
10-27 Klahowya
10-28 @ Port Townsend

 

GIRLS SOCCER:

9-9 South Whidbey
9-13 @ Sequim
9-16 Bellevue Christian
9-18 @ Orcas Island
9-30 Mount Vernon Christian
10-9 @ Bremerton
10-11 @ Crosspoint Academy
10-16 Chimacum
10-18 @ Klahowya
10-21 Port Townsend
10-23 @ Chimacum
10-27 Klahowya
10-28 @ Port Townsend

 

BOYS TENNIS:

**Port Townsend and Chimacum combine for tennis**

9-10 @ ATM
9-18 Klahowya
9-25 @ South Whidbey
9-30 North Mason
10-2 @ Port Townsend
10-10 Port Townsend
10-13 @ Klahowya
10-15 @ Sequim
10-17 @ Port Townsend

 

To see the football schedule, hop over to:

https://coupevillesports.com/2014/06/13/84-days-til-lathom-kelley-cracks-heads/

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Birthday buddies: Fabrizi scores!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Happy birthday, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on June 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Amanda Fabrizi

Amanda Fabrizi

She was electric.

Capping a stellar athletic career at Coupeville High School, Amanda Fabrizi took a quantum leap during her final season in the red and black.

Fabrizi, who celebrates her 18th birthday today, was always a good basketball player. But as a senior, something new surfaced.

Running along side fellow captain Breeanna Messner, Fabrizi brought the grit, toughness and quiet leadership you knew she would. Then she added some sizzle.

She relentlessly attacked the basket, forcing opponents to backpedal and often foul her, and had no fear, regardless of whether it was the opening minute of the game or the final ten seconds.

Of course, Fabrizi was also her team’s best three-point bomber, which meant you had to guard her everywhere on the court.

With her sudden emergence as a player who was willing to take the scoring load on her shoulders, that opened up the floor for sophomore teammate Makana Stone to run wild and blossom into one of the league’s best players.

With a playoff win at home and a chance to play in a post-season all-star game with Messner, Fabrizi got the sort of ending you always hope for when a player works as hard, overcomes as much, as Fabrizi did.

Poke her in the eye? Slam her to the floor? She never missed a game or a beat, coming right back at you.

Off the floor, she couldn’t have been more different. Friendly, outgoing, extremely loyal to her family and friends, a young woman of amazing grace in everything she did.

Her graduation will leave a huge hole for both the Wolf basketball and volleyball squads. Inevitably, someone else will step up and take the spotlight. Circle of life and all.

But Fabrizi won’t be forgotten.

She accomplished much, and she did it the right way. She is an example to show to future Wolf athletes as they come up.

Here walked Amanda Fabrizi. She was a legend, because she never, ever stopped working.

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