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Eat, drink, bid, support the Booster Club

October 23, 2023 by David Svien

“Ooh, you better run, Skippy! Buy a booster club ticket or get kicked in the shin! Your choice!!” (Jackie Saia photo)

The biggest night in Coupeville athletics is back on the calendar.

The booster club’s annual dinner and auction, which got dinged a bit by the pandemic, is back in full force and going down Saturday, Nov. 11.

Doors open at 4:30 PM at the Whidbey Island Nordic Lodge, which is located at 63 Jacobs Road.

Dinner, provided by Serendipity Catering and Events, begins at 6:00, with a dessert auction set for 6:30.

This year is NOT a crab feed but features a “yummy menu!” according to Booster Club bigwig Jess Lucero.

“If someone wants a vegetarian dish, they should request it at the time they purchase their ticket from a board member,” she added.

A silent auction and raffles will run through the evening, with a live auction at 7:00 emceed by The Velvet Voice of the Prairie himself, Dale Sherman.

Among the items up for grabs include a one-week stay at a Maui condo, a sunset cruise, and a four-day, three-night stay at a townhome in Park City, Utah — home of the Sundance Film Festival.

There will also be a variety of themed baskets, including Italian dinner and wine and cheese assortments, as well as Sherman beef, running and Patagonia gear, and local artwork.

Cost for the night is $55 per person, or $400 for a table of eight.

All proceeds go to help the Coupeville Booster Club, which provides major funding for school athletics.

The organization annually awards eight $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors, while also providing a yearly stipend to high school and middle school sports programs.

The club provides roses for Senior Night festivities, varsity letters for Wolf athletes, meal money and goodie bags for road trips, and numerous team improvement items.

These have ranged from literature and DVDs to tarps, weight room equipment, batting cages, upgrades to school athletic fields and facilities, and t-shirts for cancer awareness nights.

The Wall of Fame in the CHS gym, which documents accomplishments from 100+ years of Coupeville athletics?

It wouldn’t exist without the support of the boosters, who provided the biggest financial contribution to its development, and continue to handle updates.

Your bucks help the booster club thrive, and the club helps athletics thrive. The circle of life in Wolf Nation.

 

To buy tickets, call Jess Lucero at (636) 675-1632 or reach out to any of these Booster Club board members:

 

Michelle Armstrong
Garrett Arnold
Dina Guay
Leann Leavitt
Mariah Madsen
Bob Martin
Gordon McMillan
Jon Roberts
Ron Wright

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Win, unleash pigskin pandemonium

October 23, 2023 by David Svien

Riley Lawless, ready to unleash chaos. (Parker Hammons photo)

There may be more Friday Night Lights in the future.

If, and that’s the crucial word here, Coupeville High School football takes care of business Thursday afternoon.

Here’s how it breaks down.

Thursday at 4:00 PM, the Wolves host Friday Harbor in the regular season finale, with Senior Night festivities set for halftime.

Coupeville is 2-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, while the Wolverines are 3-0, including a 37-26 win when the teams played Sept. 29.

Friday Harbor wins meeting #2, it is league champ, and advances to the state playoffs.

But if the Wolves storm back and get some revenge, the two teams share the conference crown at 3-1, having split their series while both swept La Conner.

That scenario would give CHS football back-to-back league titles for the first time in program history.

It would also require a tiebreaker to decide which squad punches its ticket to state.

So, a Wolf win Thursday will make athletic directors Willie Smith (Coupeville) and Brock Hauck (Friday Harbor) initiate “Project Pigskin Pandemonium.”

Cause that’s what we’re calling it … I think. Might have heard wrong on that part.

Anyways, “PPP” will send the two gridiron squads to a neutral location the following Friday, Nov. 3 — which will be La Conner’s stadium.

Game time for the tiebreaker is 7:00 PM, and the action will consist of a half-game.

So, two 10-minute quarters, played under normal high school football rules.

Loser heads to the offseason, winner waits until Sunday, Nov. 5 to discover where the committee has seeded them for state playoff action.

UNLESS…

If the teams are tied at the end of regulation in the tiebreaker “mini-game”, they will decide things by using a Kansas tiebreaker, where they alternate possessions starting at their opponent’s 25-yard line.

Now, if we were truly embracing “pigskin pandemonium” they’d start at the 5-yard line, use a live pig in place of a football, and linemen would be allowed to go Mad Max on each other with mini baseball bats.

But no one asks me.

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Stare into my lens, said the spider to the fly

October 23, 2023 by David Svien

Tom Black is calm and composed as he awaits his closeup. (Jackie Saia photo)

The camera steals the soul, or so they say.

Apparently that fear doesn’t run very deep in Wolf Nation, where fans have little compunction with staring directly at the thing going clicky-click-click.

Cow Town fears no photographer!

Desi Ramirez enjoys a fall afternoon. (Kaitlyn Leavell photo)

One photographer stares down another, with Jackie Saia taking the briefest of breaks from her own gym work. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Skylar Parker, your Homecoming Queen. (Kaitlyn Leavell photo)

CHS Principal Geoff Kappes keeps one eye on his students, and one on the pesky paparazzi. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Fab frosh Haylee Armstrong (left) and Tirsit Cannon, sporting the finest in headgear. (Bailey Thule photo)

A Fathead of Andrew Williams stares through your soul. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“Get in loser, we’re taking photos!” (Parker Hammons photo)

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They hunger for the end zone

October 23, 2023 by David Svien

Wolf QB Logan Downes has thrown for 18 touchdowns and rushed for two this season. (Jackie Saia photos)

Something new every week.

The Coupeville High School football team routed host La Conner 43-12 Friday, a game in which it collected its first two-point conversions of the season.

Hunter Bronec and Aiden O’Neill snagged passes from Logan Downes in lieu of CHS kicking PAT’s.

In the victory, the Wolves racked up six touchdowns — five through the air and one courtesy of a recovered fumble — running their season total to 29.

Jack Porter is the #3 scorer for Coupeville.

Heading into the regular-season finale against Friday Harbor, there’s a tie atop TD mountain, with sophomores Chase Anderson and Aiden O’Neill having each collected six.

Thanks to doing double duty as Coupeville’s kicker, Anderson has built a 17-point lead for the team scoring title.

 

Scoring stats through Oct. 23:

 

Touchdowns:

Chase Anderson – 6
Aiden O’Neill – 6
Jack Porter – 4
Hunter Bronec – 3
Mikey Robinett – 3
Adrian Cunningham – 2
Logan Downes – 2
Peyton Caveness – 1
Davin Houston – 1
Malachi Somes – 1

 

PATs:

Anderson – 16
Downes – 2

 

Field Goals:

Anderson – 1

 

Conversions:

Bronec – 1
O’Neill – 1

 

Points:

Anderson – 55
O’Neill – 38
Porter – 24
Bronec – 20
Robinett – 18
Downes – 14
Cunningham – 12
Caveness – 6
Houston – 6
Somes – 6

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Mud? Fire? Aidan Wilson fears no obstacle!

October 22, 2023 by David Svien

Aidan Wilson, always cheerful, even when he’s about to push himself to the limit.

Aidan Wilson, still kicking fanny and taking names.

The Coupeville High School grad finished 4th out of 134 competitors in his age group Sunday at the Grand Rapids Spartan Sprint in Michigan.

The race sent runners through a course where they had to evade obstacles, diving into mud, climbing up ropes, and jumping over fire.

Spartan Race officials told a local newspaper there were 4,000+ participants, with a 10K, 5K, and kid’s races.

Wilson, competing in his first spartan race, vied in the 5K open division, finishing the course in 41 minutes, 29 seconds.

He was a solid minute-and-a-half ahead of the 5th place finisher in the 18-24 age group, and hot on the heels of the top three racers.

Wilson 1, muddy course 0.

During his time on Whidbey, Wilson more than earned his status as a Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Famer.

He participated in a mind-boggling 16 events as a track and field star, collecting 41 wins across three seasons.

Wilson brought home five state meet medals, earning three 2nd place finishes, and capped his career by placing 7th out of 32 in a two-day, 10-event decathlon featuring competitors from every classification.

One of only eight Wolf boys to earn as many as five state meet medals, it’s likely he would have gone higher on that list if real-world issues hadn’t restricted him to just two trips to the big dance.

The pandemic erased all spring sports when Wilson was a freshman, and the state meet was cancelled during his sophomore season as track officials limited how far schools could travel in the Age of Coronavirus.

Wilson also ran a season of cross country, while raining down goals on the soccer pitch.

He rattled the net for 10 goals as a senior, earning All-Conference First-Team honors, and finished his prep career with 13 scores, putting him #7 on Coupeville’s all-time boys’ soccer scoring chart.

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