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Mitch Pelroy a Man of Steel!!

Posted in Football, Wolves in college on August 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Mitch Pelroy (right) and Montana Western teammate ? compare arm slings. (Haylee Sauer photo)

Mitch Pelroy (right) and Montana Western teammate Connor Langel compare arm slings. (Haylee Sauer photo)

He is indestructible, apparently.

Despite an assassination attempt on his arm, former Coupeville High School football star Mitch Pelroy is still spry and moving up the depth chart at the University of Montana Western.

Pelroy, who had just been moved to being a starter as a cornerback and kick and punt returner for the Bulldogs, got trapped in a play gone wrong during practice and ended up in a sling.

The good news is, no surgery will be needed and he expects to be back on the field in two weeks.

“I fell and my arm was straight and someone else fell through the back of my elbow, completely dislocating it and my arm was like facing the wrong way,” Pelroy said. “I’m doing good though.

“Grades are good, football was doin’ good and I should be good to go after the 10th to work my way back up.”

**Much thanks to Haylee Sauer for letting me use her photo. To see more of her amazing work shooting the Montana Western team, head over to https://www.facebook.com/hayleesauerphotography.

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Move over, Hasselhoff! Kyle King has this beach!!

Posted in A freakin' American hero, Cross Country, Track, Wolves in college on July 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Kyle King, American Hero (Katerina Koeva photo)

The Dude abides.

Faster than you can cue up the theme from “Baywatch,” Kyle King is there to save the day.

The Coupeville High School grad, now a standout college track and cross country runner who ran on scholarship for national power Oklahoma this past season, is also working as a life guard. And he’s doing pretty darn well at his secondary vocation.

Though he’s characteristically modest about his accomplishments, he recently helped save a group of swimmers, including three young children, who were caught in a rip tide at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

King’s recollection of the day:

“We were breaking our chairs and umbrellas down at the end of the day when I heard on the radio we had a Code 2, which is a water emergency. I was a couple hundred yards away so I sprinted down with my buoy.

There were about a total of ten people pulled out in a rip and three little kids, with all the adults trying to hold the kids above the water, so we grabbed the little kids first, all around four years old, and pulled them in.

Most of the adults could make it in once they didn’t have to swim for the kids and themselves. We had to pull one adult in who was completely exhausted from holding his child up.

The whole beach ended up clapping for us once it was all said and done. It was honestly pretty crazy; definitely the craziest moments of my life.

The rip current was so tough it felt like a river.

We didn’t have time to swim out of it though, because there were so many people that needed to be rescued, so we pulled straight against it and handed the kids off to the third lifeguard who was wading in at chest deep. Just two of us were out swimming with the victims.

Everything ended up being 10-4 though.

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Former Wolf coach nabs college gig!!

Posted in Track, Wolves in college on June 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Mike Davis (third from right) with Mary Parker, the coach he’s replacing at EVCC, and some of the throwers he inherits. (Heidi Monroe photo)

The Circle of Life continues in the sports world.

Former Coupeville High School assistant track and football coach Mike Davis, who coached Wolf throwers during Hunter Hammer’s junior and senior seasons, is moving to Hammer’s current school just as he leaves.

Davis is replacing Mary Parker as the throwing coach at Everett Community College.

Parker and Hammer are off to help start a track program at Trinity Lutheran College, a four-year institution in Everett, with Parker coaching and Hammer throwing things as far as he humanly can.

Most recently, Davis coached throwers at Lynnwood High School. Among his athletes there was 2012 3A state champion shot putter Andrew Basham, who is now headed to the University of Washington.

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Hammer Time moves to a bigger stage!!

Posted in Track, Wolves in college on June 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Hammer and the founders of his fan club. (Anne Hammer photo)

Rockin’ the arm tattoo with a cousin. (Lisa McDonough photo)

The biggest building block is in place.

As the school starts up a new track and field program during the 2013-2014 season, Trinity Lutheran College in Everett is starting by bringing in The Man, The Myth, the Legend that is Hunter Hammer.

The Coupeville High School grad, a six-foot-seven tower of power who melts down the internet every time he posts pictures of himself riding little kids tricycles or sporting naughty policeman uniforms, was one of five recruits who signed with the school this week.

He’s following coach Mary Parker over from Everett Community College, where he’s been throwing the shot put, discus and hammer for the past two seasons.

Parker is a former NCAA Division 1 All-American who competed at the US Olympic Trials, and she will coach the throwers for Trinity.

Joining Hammer in signing was Fiji-born thrower Tavaita Ruth Bulai and three runners — Colton Austria of Hawaii, Amie Torkelson of Cheney and Camilla Flores of California.

The former Wolf, who finished 6th in the shot and 8th in the discus at the 1A state tourney during his CHS days, earned All-NWAACC honors throwing the discus at EVCC.

Trinity Lutheran is a four-year college that was founded in 1944.

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Big-time baseball road trip ends for Wilcox!!

Posted in Baseball, Wolves in college on May 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Jordan Wilcox and proud dad Mark. (Mindy Wilcox photo)

And then it ended, decided by one stinkin’ run.

Despite getting a hit from Coupeville High School grad Jordan Wilcox for the fourth straight game, the season finally ran out of miracles for the Western Washington University baseball team Tuesday.

Playing in 88-degree Tampa, the Vikings were edged 5-4 by Penn State, eliminating WWU from the National Club Baseball Association Division 1 World Series. Seeded seventh in the eight team field, Western was the fifth team eliminated.

Penn State, now 3-0, advances to play either James Madison or Florida in the championship.

Western, which beat Illinois and Iowa during the tourney, finished 2-2 with its only losses to schools that are unbeaten so far (PSU and James Madison).

In what turned out to be their final go-round, the Vikings rallied from three down to tie the game in the top of the third. Then, after falling back behind 5-3, they scraped together another run in the fifth, but failed to get the equalizer over the final four innings.

Wilcox, who had a hit in every game, hit .313 in the World Series — fourth-best on his team — and knocked in two runs.

He added another five assists and five putouts in the field against Penn State. The second baseman, a multi-sport star during his time as a Wolf, led Western with 13 assists during the tourney.

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