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So long, and thanks for all the crab

November 10, 2019 by David Svien

A basket of goodies waits to be bid on at the Coupeville Booster Club Crab Feed. (Lucy Sandahl photos)

Auctioneer Dale Sherman puts his velvet voice to good use.

Alita Blouin (left) and Gwen Gustafson grab a quick break from their kitchen duties.

Janie Keilwitz hits the jackpot.

The raffle crew (l to r, Samantha Streitler, Lily Leedy and Gavin Straub) are ready to rock.

Crab Feed committee members Jeannie Sandahl (left) and Jennifer Kellner celebrate a successful fundraiser.

Unlike the Oscars, we don’t play anyone off stage mid-way through their thank-you’s.

With another Crab Feed in the books, the folks who put on the Coupeville Booster Club’s biggest fundraiser are flush with praise for everyone who helped, so we hand off the mic to them:

 

Thank you, Coupeville, for a successful Crab Feed!

Ever wonder how many people it takes to make an event like this happen?

In addition to the wonderful folks who supported us by purchasing tickets to attend, we’d also like to thank and acknowledge:

 

Bayleaf
Jeremy and Dianna Bodin
Coupeville Schools
Mark Hammer
Kole and Ray Kellison
Randy Payne
Dale and Liz Sherman
Terra Firma Wealth Management
Toby’s Tavern
Brian Vick
Whidbey Island Nordic Lodge
Andreas Wurzrainer

 

Plus, our silent and live auction donators (listed below by name), our dessert bakers (listed below by name), our bartenders, our kitchen volunteers, National Honor Society volunteers, and student/athletes who helped us set up, serve, park cars, and clean up.

This couldn’t be done without you!

 

Live Auction Donors:

Bayleaf
June Blouin
The Compass Rose
Home Depot
Ken Jubert (Wells Fargo Advisers Business Development)
Mariah Knoblich
Molly McPherson
Sandy and Susan Roberts
Saratoga Charters
Derek Wolfe

 

Silent Auction and Raffle Donors:

Ace Hardware
Applebee’s
Aqua
Ashley’s Design
Audette Construction
Nicole Bailey
Blue Fox Drive-In
Boatyard Inn
Ivy Breen
Cascade Custom Homes
Central Collision
Ciao
The Cove
Currents
Cynthia Woerner Photography
Dentistry of Bellevue – Dr. Khurana
Domino’s Pizza
Sandy Dubpernell
Ebey Academy
John Fisken
Heather Forest
Fraser’s
Frida’s
Frontier Lumber
Front Street Grill
Bruce Grim
The Honey Bear
Ivar’s
Jersey Mike’s
Kapaws Iskreme
Michelle Kempees
Kingsman Investments
Clint Knoblich
Lavender Wind
Leann Leavitt
Little Red Hen Bakery
The Bob Martin Family
Mukilteo Coffee
New Image Salon – Joan Payne
The Oystercatcher
Penn Cove Farms
Penn Cove Outfitters Kayak Rentals
Penn Cove Taproom
Penn Cove Vet
Petco
The Pizza Factory
Prairie Bottom Farm
Salon Blue – Naomie Welshans
Seabolt’s Smokehouse
Seaside and Sylvan
The Seattle Mariners
Seattle Pacific University
The Simpson Family
Scott Smith
Willie Smith
The Steller Family
Erin Straub and Family
Sunshine Drip
Terra Firma Wealth Management
Thrive
Toby’s Tavern
Amy and Valen Trujillo
Harriet Vick
Wells Fargo Banking
Wells Fargo Mortgage
Whidbey Health Gift Shop
Whidbey Island Business Group
Whidbey Island Pies
Whidbey Party Store
Winfield Design
Wright Construction

… and our CHS and CMS sports teams and their families.

 

Dessert Bakers:

Matthew Cook
Nikki Enters
Suzan Georges
Shannon Hamilton
Roberta Madsen
Abbie Martin
Maria Reyes
Deb Smith
Heather Tenore
Toby’s Tavern
Teresa Woods

 

Coupeville Booster Club Crab Feed Committee:

June Blouin
Stephanie Grimm
Fawn Gustafson
Shannon Hamilton
Wendi Hilborn
Jennifer Kellner
Mariah Knoblich
Leann Leavitt
Nate Leavitt
Alysabeth Leedy
Aaron Lucero
Jess Lucero (chair)
Abbie Martin
Bob Martin
Maria Reyes
Jon Roberts
Jeannie Sandahl
Erin Straub

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Lucy in the sky with a camera

November 10, 2019 by David Svien

Wolf super fans Mindy and Tim Grove play all the right cards at Saturday’s Coupeville Booster Club Crab Feed. (Photos by Lucy Sandahl)

Scott Stuurmans is pumped to eat some seafood.

Brian Vick knows all the winning numbers.

Tasha and Jarrett Fiedler enjoy a night out.

Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Famer Emma Smith, back home from college for a few days, stops by to sign some autographs.

The guys who make the magic happen.

Coupeville High School basketball coaches Brad Sherman (left) and Scott Fox discuss game strategy while using crab claws to stand in for their players.

The freshmen members of the Crab Crew make an award-worthy debut.

Lucy Sandahl is a woman of many talents.

The Coupeville High School senior, coming off a strong final season on the volleyball court, moved behind the camera Saturday night.

The event was the annual Crab Feed put on by the Coupeville Booster Club, the biggest fundraiser for Wolf sports.

To see everything Sandahl shot, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Events/Coupeville-Crab-Feed-2019/

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“Couldn’t be prouder of their effort”

November 10, 2019 by David Svien

Skylar Parker, seen last spring, is part of a hard-playing Coupeville SWISH basketball squad. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Weather the storm, build for the future.

Playing without its starting point guard, the Coupeville 7th/8th grade SWISH girls basketball team faced tough competition Saturday, but held up well.

The Wolves dropped a close one to “a very good Monroe team,” falling 30-25, before tiredness became a factor in a 22-10 loss to Mount Vernon.

While the losses leave Coupeville at 0-4 on the season, coach Fred Farris remains impressed by how his young, very-inexperienced team continues to show growth.

“The girls played their tails off,” he said. “It’s remarkable how far these girls have come in such a short time, especially considering all but four of the girls have essentially no experience.

“Couldn’t be prouder of their effort.”

The Wolves were without Lauren Marrs, their primary ball handler and a potent scorer, who is battling through a back injury.

Even without her talent as a distributor, Coupeville battled back from 10 down against Monroe to pull within 26-25.

Savina Wells, who paced the Wolves in scoring in both contests Saturday, had “a good look rim out” with two minutes to play, while a follow up put-back from Jada Heaton refused to stay in the bucket, going in, then popping back out.

Without Marrs in the lineup, “Mia (Farris) and Lyla (Stuurmans) were thrust into ball-handling duties and did an admirable job.”

Fred Farris also praised Madison McMillan, who “was everywhere, on the boards and on defense, and scored two big baskets during the comeback.”

“Savina was her usual reliable self,” he added. “It felt like she had 2000 rebounds in the two games and really took charge when we needed her to.”

Coupeville had to bounce right back after its narrow opening loss, playing Mount Vernon less than 10 minutes after the first game ended.

“The girls were clearly gassed and Mount Vernon’s “packed in” 2-3 zone made it tough for us to get to the basket and we struggled to hit outside shots,” Fred Farris said.

“The refs let the game get too physical on both sides, and that, with a very slippery La Venture Middle School gym floor made for a very chippy second half.”

Wells paced the Wolves, dropping 12 points in the opener and another seven in the nightcap, while Brionna Blouin went for five and three.

McMillan (4), Stuurmans (3), and Mia Farris (1) also scored against Monroe.

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Big Hurt takes a bow

November 9, 2019 by David Svien

Nick Streubel hangs out with family on Central Washington University football Senior Night. (Photos courtesy Nanette Streubel and Amanda Jones)

“I taught the boy everything he knows about football, just saying…”

Uncle Nick, the gentle gridiron giant.

“The Big Hurt” went out by delivering a … really big hurt.

Coupeville High School grad Nick Streubel celebrated Senior Night Saturday by leading his Central Washington University football team to a 72-17 win over Missouri’s Southwest Baptist University.

The non-conference rout was the fifth-straight win for the streaking Wildcats, who sit at 6-4 with one game left on the regular season schedule.

Central, which is 4-1 in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, travels to Canada next Saturday, Nov. 16 to play Simon Fraser University (1-4, 1-8).

With a win, the Wildcats clinch half the GNAC title, which they will share with Western Oregon (5-1, 7-3).

The two teams split this season, with the Wolves coming out on top 36-26 in late September, before Central rebounded for a 42-41 overtime win in mid-October.

If Streubel and Co. win out and lay claim to their share of the title, it will be the third-straight year CWU has done so.

While he and his teammates are hopeful of landing a spot in the NCAA D-II playoffs, the former Wolf is nearing the end of what has been a rock-solid college career.

Thanks to two red-shirt seasons, one as a freshman, then a second due to a hand injury, Streubel spent six seasons in the Wildcat program.

A team captain and the face of CWU football this season, the anchor of the offensive line has already graduated but returned for one final go-round on the gridiron.

During his time as a ‘Cat, Streubel has been named to All-League and All-Region teams, while having ESPN announcers hype him as a guy worthy of a look from the NFL.

Way back when he was still a growing man mountain, and not yet the carved-from-granite physical specimen he has become, “The Big Hurt” was a three-sport standout at CHS.

Football, basketball, and track kept him busy, but his greatest moment came after a season-ending gridiron clash against Chimacum his junior year.

The stadium in Port Townsend had been used the night before the Wolves and Cowboys played, and the field was ripped up, mushy, and stinky.

After a game in the trenches, Streubel was given a rushing attempt as a reward for years of work, and he promptly carried at least seven screaming, sobbing Cowboys on his back, crashing forward for yardage, ending the play in the middle of a giant mud puddle.

The Wolves had to high-tail it to catch the last ferry out of town after the game, which gave no one a chance to clean up.

At the dock, Streubel, all 6-foot-3 and 300 pounds of him, coated from head to toe in mud, chased after his coaches, eventually snagging one and wrapping them in a grimy embrace.

So, basically, it’s great to see Nick do so well in college and all.

But, that said, I already witnessed him at his finest on that dock.

The man was a freakin’ legend at 17, and just keeps getting better with time.

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Catherine the Great hits big time

November 9, 2019 by David Svien

Coupeville junior Catherine Lhamon got faster as the cross country season progressed, running her best time Saturday at the 1A state meet. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Lhamon and Wolf coach Luke Samford celebrate in Pasco. (Helene Lhamon photo)

Her junior season ended much better than her sophomore campaign.

A year ago, Coupeville’s Catherine Lhamon was the top female runner for a reborn Coupeville High School cross country program.

Peaking at just the right time, she was running wild on the trails, until late-season leg injuries sent her to the sidelines, unable to run in the postseason.

Jump forward a year, and the Wolf harrier program has exploded in the number of athletes participating, with Lhamon back at the front of the pack.

This time, she avoided injuries, allowing her fleet feet to carry her all the way to Pasco, where she ran in the 1A state meet Saturday.

And not only did Lhamon break from the line at the big dance, but she also finished with a bang.

Passing runners down the backstretch, the Wolf junior recorded a season-best time, and the second-fastest mark she’s ever had in a 5,000 meter race.

Her time of 21 minutes, 44.70 seconds was 18.5 seconds faster than her previous top mark this season, and placed her 92nd in a field of 149 runners.

Lhamon was the only CHS athlete to qualify for state this fall, in any sport, and becomes just the third Wolf, and only female, to make it to high school cross country’s biggest race this decade.

She joins Danny Conlisk, who ran at Pasco in 2017, and Tyler King, who won the 1A state title in 2010.

King trained and traveled with Oak Harbor, Conlisk with South Whidbey, as Coupeville’s own cross country program lay dormant for two decades.

It returned in 2018, led by Lhamon, Conlisk and coach Natasha Bamberger, who won the 1985 state title while attending CHS.

Work commitments led to Bamberger stepping away from the program before this season, and she was replaced by college coach Luke Samford.

Coupeville jumped from two girls in 2018 to five this year, while the boys drew a double-digit turnout in year two.

The increased numbers allowed the Wolves to compete in the team standings at meets this season, another huge step as the program rebuilds.

A prime example of what CHS would like to be sits just up the road in Langley, where South Whidbey has a cross country program which sits in the WIAA Hall of Fame.

Saturday, the Falcons sent both boys and girls teams to Pasco, claiming fourth and eighth in the team standings, respectively.

The top individual finisher for South Whidbey was junior Kaia Swegler Richmond, who claimed 6th place.

The 1A girls race got super-dramatic, as defending state champ Naomi Smith of King’s and top contender Alaina Stone of Colville dueled, separated by a single second at the two-mile mark.

Smith, who is one of the fastest high school harriers in the nation, suffered a late fall, however, allowing Stone to run away with a title in the final prep match-up between the speedy seniors.

Adam Briejer of Charles Wright Academy won the boys race, with the Deer Park girls and Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) boys claiming team titles.

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