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Doyle splashes at league championships!!

Posted in Swim, Wolves in college on December 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Lily Doyle (front) and some of her Vassar teammates.

Lily Doyle (front) and some of her Vassar teammates.

Lily Doyle is swimming with the big girls.

The Coupeville High School grad, now a junior at Vassar College, swam in four events at the Liberty League Swim & Dive Championships in Rochester, New York Friday and Saturday. The event, where Vassar finished sixth out of eight schools, brings an end to the 2012 portion of the Brewers’ swim schedule.

Doyle and her teammates won’t return to the water for a competition again until the middle of January.

Swimming over the weekend, Doyle finished 27th in the 200 backstroke (2 minutes, 28.92 seconds), 29th in the 100 back (1:08.78), 36th in the 200 IM (2:37.40) and 50th in the 50 free (28.87).

She is the daughter of Coupeville couple Richard Doyle and Barbara Ballard, who is better known to CHS students as the Gatekeeper to All Things College Related.

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Lily Doyle makes big waves at Vassar!!

Posted in Swim, Wolves in college on November 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Lily Doyle (right), back in her high school days, when she aced classes at Coupeville and kicked butt in the water for Oak Harbor.

Lily Doyle is getting noticed by her coach.

The Coupeville High School grad, now a junior at Vassar College, was singled out for praise by the big boss, Lisl Prater-Lee, on the college’s athletic web site, after Doyle busted out a top personal performance Nov. 17 in the 200 backstroke in a meet against SUNY New Paltz. Her time of two minutes, 33.91 seconds was her best swim of the year.

“Lilian dropped two seconds off her season-best, which is a positive performance in a tough meet,” Prater-Lee was quoted.

That followed on the heels of a strong all-around afternoon in a meet against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (try saying that five times fast) Nov. 10.

In that meet, Doyle swam in four events, placing fourth in the 100 back (1:11.60), fifth in the 200 back (2:35.81) and sixth in the 500 free (6:25.70). She also swam a leg on a 400 free relay team that claimed fourth in 4:09.79.

Doyle and her Brewer teammates are now prepping for the Liberty League Championships Nov. 30-Dec. 1.

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Lock the door, Martha! Tyler King is coming!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college on November 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Mr. Intense, back in his high school glory days.

Tyler King is a natural.

Running 10,000 meters for the first time in his college career Friday, the University of Washington red shirt freshman cruised to a top finish at the NCAA West Regional cross country meet.

The former Coupeville High School stud covered the course at Jefferson Park Golf Course in Seattle in 30 minutes, 27 seconds, the third-fastest time for any Husky. He finished 40th out of 185 runners, helping pace Washington to a fifth-place team finish.

Lawi Lalang of Arizona won the race in 29:02.

While King’s teammate, All-American Joey Bywater, nabbed an automatic berth for the Nov. 17 NCAA championships, the rest of the Husky team will have to wait to see if they get an at-large bid when the full 31-team field is announced Saturday. The top two teams from the regional automatically advanced, as well as the top four individual runners not on one of those two squads.

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Doyle a winner on college swim circuit!!

Posted in Swim, Wolves in college on November 4, 2012| 1 Comment »

Lily Doyle

Vassar

Super-smart and a fairly talented swimmer, Lily Doyle is the complete college athlete package.

The Coupeville High School grad, now a junior at Vassar College, recently kicked off her third season with the Brewers by swimming in three meets clad in the burgundy and gray of her soon-to-be alma mater.

Vassar is 2-1 on the young season, having split with Clarkson (a 229-59 win) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (a narrow 161-138 loss) Oct. 27, followed by a convincing 175-125 thumping of Skidmore College Nov. 3.

Doyle’s best event came in the 200 yard backstroke against Skidmore, when she finished fifth with a personal season-best of two minutes, 34.91 seconds. She added a sixth in the 100 back (1:14.18).

In the earlier three-team meet, she claimed sixth in both of her events (1:12.61 in the 100 and 2:36.26 in the 200), while also swimming a leg on a 400 free relay team.

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Kids today are so dang slow!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college on November 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »

      “I’m so fast, son, I caught this fish, cleaned it, cooked it and ate it in the time it would have taken you all to catch me.”

I blame it on X-Box.

It has sucked the life out of a nation, producing slower and slower runners as the years go by. When the zombies come, the couch potato teens will be the first to go.

This is the only conclusion I can draw from today’s 1A boys’ state cross country meet, where Dillon Quintana of Mount Baker just won the race in 15 minutes, 51 seconds, edging out Tom Bradley of Blaine.

Which is nice, until you realize that, just two years ago, a strapping young harrier from Coupeville, one Tyler “I Will Crush Your Soul and Laugh!” King won the same event, over the same distance, on the same course, in 15:16.9.

Those 35 seconds are an eternity in cross country.

Tyler would have already cooled down, had a sandwich, sent a few emails and maybe, possibly looked at his homework from Mrs. Ballard, just for fun, before Quintana and the rest of the stragglers showed up at the finish line.

Simply put, no zombies are catching Mr. King, who now runs at the University of Washington, any time soon. That’s just not the Coupeville way.

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