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Twice the sports, twice the impact!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Maddie Filipiak, Monica Vidoni, Rainy River Community College, Stats on December 21, 2015| 1 Comment »

Wolf grad Monica Vidoni (left) hangs out with college basketball teammate Maddie Filipiak. (Vidoni photo)

Monica Vidoni is upping the ante.

The Coupeville High School grad is deep into her second sport at Rainy River Community College in Minnesota, making her one of the few Wolves in recent years to play multiple sports at the collegiate level.

Now 10 games into a 25-game womens’ basketball season, which comes on the heels of a volleyball season, Vidoni is back on Whidbey for winter break.

When she and her Voyageurs teammates return to the court Jan. 6, they will carry a 5-5 record into battle with Fond du Luc Tribal.

Rainy River will play nine games in Jan., then wrap up its regular season with six more in Feb.

The Voyaguers have been led by sophomore Shania Thompson, who is averaging 24.8 points per game.

Freshmen Cassie Tomczak (13.2) and Maddie Filipiak (13.1) round out a dangerous trio.

Vidoni has played in eight of her team’s 10 games, scoring 12 points and hauling down 14 rebounds.

Her best game came against Itasca, when she dropped in four points and corralled five rebounds.

Vidoni also came up big against Fond du Lac, when she snagged five boards, and Anoka-Ramsey, where she drilled all four of her free throw opportunities.

A 2015 CHS grad, she played volleyball, basketball and softball all four years she was a Wolf and was a key supporting player on the 2014-2015 girls’ basketball squad which won the school’s first league title in 13 years.

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Once were legends!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged babies, Basketball, Breeanna Messner, CHS Wolves, fans, Joel Walstad, John Fisken photos, Julia Myers on December 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville’s lone D1 scholarship athlete, U-Dub track/cross country whiz kid Tyler King, swung by to help dad Randy run his 7th grade basketball practice. (John Fisken photos)

Four-sport star Breeanna Messner dropped in to see parents Aimee and Robert Bishop (and give out hugs to the media).

Kacie Kiel (top), imparting wisdom to the young ‘uns, in this case Wolf junior spiker Ally Roberts.

High school stars turned college athletes (l to r) Joel Walstad, Aaron Curtin and Ben Etzell catch up while being harassed by the paparazzi.

The Nebraska air has been good to Walstad’s silky locks.

Messner has a (partial) family reunion after watching cousin Jordan Ford (not shown) score 13 in a win over Concrete.

“Elbows” returns. One-time hoops enforcer/photo queen Julia Myers checks out the new bleachers (and drives my page view count up 276%).

Aunt Judy hangs out with her lil’ niece, Lydia, and gets bum-rushed by everyone in the crowd.

Tis the season for heroes to return.

As the holidays hit, former Coupeville High School hoops stars are prone to return to town to see family and check up on the “young punks” who now wear the uniforms they once did.

Travelin’ photo man John Fisken kept one eye cocked at Friday night’s Wolf boys’ hoops games and snagged the photos above to give us a brief visual reminder of the walkin’, talkin’, muggin’ for the camera glory days.

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Bayne Train makes stop at award podium!!

Posted in Football, Wolves in college, tagged awards, Bayne Train, football, Jake Tumblin, Josh Bayne, Simon Fraser University on December 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Josh Bayne, seen here on the way to one of his 25 touchdowns during his senior season at CHS. (John Fisklen photo)

Josh Bayne, seen here on the way to one of his 25 touchdowns during his senior season at Coupeville High School. (John Fisken photo)

They like to give awards to Josh Bayne.

A year after he was tabbed as the 1A Olympic League MVP during his senior season at Coupeville High School, Awesome Joshsome was back at the podium this week.

This time he was being honored as the Rookie of the Year when the Simon Fraser University football team held its awards night.

Bayne played in eight games for the Clan as a true freshman, recording 13 solo tackles and five assists from his defensive back position. He also broke up three passes, defended three others and joined in on a tackle for a loss.

Fellow CHS alumni Jake Tumblin joined Bayne in Canada this season, recording four solo tackles, six assists and a tackle for a loss during his freshman campaign.

The duo faced off twice with former Wolf teammate Nick Streubel, who plays on the line for Central Washington, giving Coupeville five current college football players.

Mitch Pelroy (Montana Western) and Joel Walstad (Midland) round out that group.

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Rough run, stellar career!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged CHS Wolves, cross country, Louisville, Maddie Meyers, NCAA championships, Tyler King, University of Washington on November 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Mr. Intensity, CHS grad Tyler King, shared top billing with Husky teammate Maddie Meyers heading into the NCAA Championships. (Photo property of University of Washington cross country)

When he looks back at his collegiate cross country career, Tyler King may want to forget the final race.

Coming off of an electric 5th place finish at the West Regionals a week earlier, the University of Washington senior had a rough run at Saturday’s NCAA D-1 Cross Country Championships.

Running at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Kentucky, King started strong, then, perhaps worn down by his heroic work at regionals, faded to the back of the field, finishing 248th.

He was in the top 60 after 2,000 meters, eventually finishing the 10,000 meter course in 34 minutes, 20.8 seconds.

Still way faster than you or me will ever hit.

It was a huge step back from last year, however, when the Coupeville High school grad was 40th in the nation as a junior, earning All-American honors.

While King had a rough day, his U-Dub teammates did well, claiming 8th place in the team battle. They had entered the day ranked #11 in the nation, and finished in 20th place a year ago.

The eighth-place finish tied the second-best performance in Husky mens’ history. The 1989 squad finished 4th at nationals.

Syracuse won the team title, while Oregon’s Edward Cheserek (28:45.8) took the individual title, the third-consecutive year the Duck junior has done so.

The title ties him with Oregon’s Steve Prefontaine and the Washington State duo of Gerry Lindgren and Henry Rono for most career titles. None of those three won three straight years, though.

On the women’s side, the Huskies claimed 10th as a team, with Maddie Meyers rolling in with an eighth place finish in the 6K race.

Molly Seidel of Notre Dame (19:28.6) won the individual title, while New Mexico claimed its first-ever team title.

It was the first time in school history both U-Dub cross country teams finished in the top 10 at the same NCAA Championships.

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