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Track stars stay home, pile up PRs

April 15, 2026 by David Svien

Wolf sophomore Nathan Coxsey nailed a season-best time in the 100 Wednesday. (Marquette Cunningham photo)

No bus and ferry for them.

Competing at home for the first time this spring, the Coupeville High School track and field team picked up four wins and 37 PRs Wednesday during an 11-team rumble at Mickey Clark Field.

On a partially sunny prairie afternoon, the Wolves got victories from Tamsin Ward (shot put), Cyrus Sparacio (1600), Davin Houston (high jump), and George Spear (3200).

It was the fourth win this season for both Ward and Sparacio, as the fab frosh continue to lead the way for CHS.

Meanwhile, wily vets Spear and Houston each collected their first victories of the spring, with the latter setting a PR in his event.

Overall, the La Conner boys and Mount Vernon Christian girls claimed team titles, with Coupeville finishing third and fourth, respectively.

Wednesday’s meet was the first in two weeks for the Wolves, who last saw competition back on April 1 in Mount Vernon.

Now that it’s back in action, Coupeville will stay busy, heading to North Kitsap Saturday for the 23-team Dave Snyder’s Lil’ Norway Meet.

That’s a detour, as CHS was originally slated to compete in the Forks Lion Club Invitational but will instead vie with a deep field including schools such as Auburn, Bethel, Port Angeles, and Klahowya.

Longtime CHS track guru Randy King resurfaces to keep an eye on any shenanigans. (Bob Martin photo)

 

Wednesday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Tamsin Ward (4th) 13.69; Isa Mc Fetridge (9th) 14.17 *PR*

200 — Mc Fetridge (5th) 29.67 *PR*; Lillian Ketterling (12th) 32.69 *PR*

400 — Olivia Hall (4th) 1:07.38; Taylor Marrs (12th) 1:14.97 *PR*

800 — Laken Simpson (5th) 2:54.24 *PR*; Mikayla Wagner (6th) 3:06.05

3200 — Devon Wyman (4th) 14:42.88

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (9th) 20.41 *PR*; Myra McDonald (13th) 23.51; Lexis Drake (14th) 24.22; Frankie Tenore (15th) 24.33

300 Hurdles — O’Neill (8th) 1:01.05 *PR*; Wyman (14th) 1:04.37; Drake (15th) 1:09.92; McDonald (16th) 1:13.51

4 x 100 Relay — Arianna Cunningham, Willow Leedy-Bonifas, Drake, Mc Fetridge (5th) 58.09

4 x 200 Relay — Simpson, Drake, Leedy-Bonifas, Mc Fetridge (4th) 2:02.11

Shot Put — Ward (1st) 30-00.50; Inara Maund (18th) 17-10.50 *PR*

Discus — Ketterling (4th) 75-08; Marrs (11th) 54-07

Javelin — A. Cunningham (8th) 74-09; Maund (22nd) 40-07 *PR*

High Jump — Ward (3rd) 4-06; Tenore (6th) 4-04

Pole Vault — Ketterling (3rd) 8-00 *PR*

Long Jump — O’Neill (15th) 12-05.50 *PR*; Leedy-Bonifas (16th) 12-04.25; McDonald (22nd) 10-03.75

Triple Jump — A. Cunningham (6th) 29-05 *PR*; Leedy-Bonifas (10th) 27-04.50 *PR*

 

BOYS:

100 — Marquette Cunningham (10th) 12.29; Liam Blas (12th) 12.37; Nathan Coxsey (14th) 12.49; Will Tierney (19th) 12.80 *PR*; Richmond Bandong (24th) 12.98 *PR*; Sage Arends (28th) 13.34 *PR*

200 — Davin Houston (5th) 24.89; Bandong (15th) 27.50; Arends (17th) 27.57 *PR*; Shilo Sandlin (20th) 28.14 *PR*; Edmund Kunz (24th) 28.92 *PR*

400 — Tierney (10th) 59.58 *PR*; Brian Thompson (11th) 1:00.23 *PR*

800 — Ossian Merkel (5th) 2:32.83; Johnathan Jacobsen (9th) 2:38.84; Russell Miller (13th) 2:57.67 *PR*; Zach Blitch (15th) 3:17.26 *PR*; Zachary Saho (19th) 3:57.48

1600 — Cyrus Sparacio (1st) 4:46.70; George Spear (5th) 5:11.91; Merkel (8th) 5:27.28 *PR*; Kenneth Jacobsen (12th) 5:40.25; Hunter Atteberry (18th) 6:09.85 *PR*; Nolan Hunt (24th) 7:19.62 *PR*

3200 — Spear (1st) 10:46.45; K. Jacobsen (2nd) 11:21.85 *PR*; Kunz (4th) 12:34.93

300 Hurdles — Edmund Wilson (5th) 50.37

4 x 100 Relay — M. Cunningham, Blas, Coxsey, Houston (3rd) 46.38

4 x 400 Relay — Wilson, Thompson, Sparacio, Beckett Green (3rd) 3:59.10; Arends, Blas, Tierney, Coxsey (5th) 4:12.00

Shot Put — Saho (5th) 37-05; Khanor Jump (13th) 32-08.50; Blitch (27th) 22-11 *PR*

Discus — Jump (6th) 102-07; Blas (9th) 93-07; Saho (18th) 80-08; J. Jacobsen (29th) 57-11; Sandlin (30th) 57-02 *PR*; Tierney (34th) 52-05; Blitch (35th) 52-03

Javelin — Bandong (3rd) 125-02 *PR*; Sandlin (16th) 83-01 *PR*; Jump (19th) 75-07; Hunt (32nd) 35-05 *PR*

High Jump — Houston (1st) 5-10 *PR*; J. Jacobsen (5th) 5-04

Pole Vault — Kunz (2nd) 8-00 *PR*; Miller (6th) 5-06 *PR*

Long Jump — Arends (3rd) 18-08 *PR*; Thompson (5th) 17-09.50 *PR*; Wilson (9th) 16-06.75

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Smash Sisters rise in RPI rankings

April 15, 2026 by David Svien

Teagan Calkins has guided CHS softball to a 9-0 start this season. (Jackie Saia photo)

They’re on an upward path.

After returning from Spring Break with a 10-0 win over visiting La Conner Tuesday on the windswept prairie, the undefeated Coupeville High School softball squad continues to get love from the number crunchers.

The Wolves, now 9-0 heading into road trips to La Conner Thursday and Forks Saturday, moved from #8 to #5 among 2B schools in the latest RPI rankings from the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

The Ratings Percentage Index is one part hype machine, one part helpful info nugget, as the rankings are “one tool utilized by the seeding committees to determine first round bracket pairings into the state tournaments.”

Though first you have to punch that state ticket for it to really matter.

Coupeville’s smash sisters have beaten schools from 3A (Oak Harbor), 2A (Lakewood), 1A (East Jefferson and Meridian), 2B (Friday Harbor and La Conner), and 1B (Darrington) thus far.

The Wolves join Liberty (Spangle) as the only 2B squads still unbeaten as the regular season nears the halfway point.

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Winners, one and all

April 15, 2026 by David Svien

Marquette Cunningham (left) and Malachi Somes love the smell of track shoes in the morning. (Julie Wheat photos)

Spring is sizzlin’.

Maybe not weather wise, where most events have played out in cold, gusty prairie wind, and the occasional burst of rain, but Coupeville High School sports teams are racking up wins.

Softball is 9-0, baseball sits at 7-2, and girls’ tennis is a solid 2-2, while track and field has battled for titles at every meet this season.

Who knows? At some point the sun may come out and stay out.

Until then, we have the pics seen above and below to warm up the souls of Wolf parents.

Girls’ tennis dominates on every court.

The CHS diamond men are fighting for a league title.

Wolf seniors (l to r) Aleksia Jump, Dahlia Miller, and Miles Gerber are all aces.

The Smash Sisters are queens of the diamond.

Track and field’s numbers are booming.

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Patience pays off for undefeated Wolves

April 14, 2026 by David Svien

The prairie looked nothing like this Tuesday, but Cami Van Dyke and Co. win in any weather. (Grant Van Dyke photo)

Hits are overrated.

Limited to just three base knocks Tuesday, the Coupeville High School softball team remained undefeated, using 15 walks and a top-tier pitching performance from Adeline Maynes to KO visiting La Conner 10-0.

The win, mercy-ruled after five innings, lifts the Wolves to 5-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 9-0 overall, and keeps them as one of just two squads in 2B who haven’t tasted defeat this spring.

Aaron Lucero’s squad, which came within a two-out error in the fifth of seeing Maynes toss a perfect game, hits the road Thursday for a rematch at La Conner, before playing a non-conference doubleheader in Forks Saturday afternoon.

Back from Spring Break, the Wolves were greeted by a chilly prairie which rudely kicked up the cold wind.

If the weather was less than appealing, the one thing fully warmed up was the pitching arm of Maynes, as the sophomore hurler whiffed 13 Braves, while inducing a pair of groundouts to Cami Van Dyke.

The shortstop, an 8th grader who plays like a grizzled vet, made a very-strong play on the first of those two fielding chances, knocking down a hot grounder, then firing a laser to Ava Lucero for the out.

La Conner only got one runner aboard on this day, and it wasn’t until the 15th Braves batter, who beat a throw to first on a play where the ball got juggled and squirted free.

No biggie, as Maynes promptly chucked three strikes past the next hitter, ending the game the way she started it, throwing heat and essentially playing catch with backstop Teagan Calkins.

The Wolves, a hit-first team, didn’t get their first base knock until Ava Lucero dumped a truly gorgeous bunt single down the third-base line in the third inning.

At that point, CHS was up 2-0, having eked out a run in the first and another in the second using patience at the plate and opportunistic running on the basepaths.

Maynes forced home the only run she would need, drawing a bases-loaded walk to put CHS on the board, before Haylee Armstrong scooted home on a wild pitch an inning later.

Cue the third, which, while not a huge explosion, still put the game on ice.

Ava Lucero’s bunt single followed walks to Capri Anter (who got drilled by a wayward pitch) and Maynes, and once the bags were juiced, the Wolves went to work.

A combination of La Conner wild pitches, passed balls, and mental mistakes allowed CHS to plate three, with Anter and pinch-runner Olivia Martin nimbly avoiding tags at home, before Coupeville used its biggest hit of the day to break things open.

The blow came off the bat of Calkins, with “The Red Dragon” lashing a two-run double to left, one of the few times a hitter was able to out-muscle the wind, which was steadily gusting in across home plate, kicking up infield dirt every two seconds.

Coupeville pushed the lead out to 10-0 in the fourth, with a dirt-covered Anter careening home on a wild pitch, followed by Sydney Van Dyke crushing a two-run single off the fielder’s glove in left.

 

Tuesday stats:

Capri Anter — Two walks
Haylee Armstrong — Three walks
Teagan Calkins — One double, one walk
Emma Cushman — One walk
Ava Lucero — One single
Adeline Maynes — Two walks
Chelsi Stevens — One walk
Cami Van Dyke — Two walks
Sydney Van Dyke — One single, three walks

Emma Cushman waits for her pitch. (Jackie Saia photo)

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Chilly day, warm win

April 14, 2026 by David Svien

Chase Anderson fires BBs. (Jackie Saia photos)

Swing and a miss.

Wolf hurlers Chase Anderson and Camden Glover combined to whiff 17 La Conner hitters Tuesday, propelling the Coupeville High School baseball squad to its sixth win in its last seven games.

Slipping past the visiting Braves 5-4, Steve Hilborn’s squad gets to a flawless 5-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 7-2 overall.

That leaves the Wolves a half-game back of Mount Vernon Christian (6-0) in the race for the NWL crown, with a rematch against the Braves on the mainland set for Thursday afternoon.

La Conner actually got on the board first Tuesday, pushing two runners across in the top of the first, before Anderson clamped down and turned into a K-machine, eventually racking up 13 punch-outs across 5.2 innings of work.

Coupeville got one run back in its half of the first, before taking the lead for good with two more tallies in the bottom of the second.

All three runs were scored after CHS found itself with no one on base and two outs.

Anderson got the Wolves on the board, reaching base on a walk before stealing second, and coming around to score off a La Conner error.

The go-ahead runs were courtesy two more botched plays by the Braves, with Leo Rodriguez and Aiden O’Neill scoring off an error and a passed ball, respectively.

Aiden O’Neill eyeballs the pitcher.

From there Coupeville tacked on two more runs in the fourth to run the lead out to 5-2, then gave two back in the fifth.

Camden Glover and Coop Cooper delivered back-to-back RBI singles in the fourth to pad the lead, sending liners where the defense wasn’t.

While La Conner pulled back within one, the visitors never came close to getting the tying run home, as Coupeville’s pitching staff closed the game with a bang.

Taking the ball from Anderson in the sixth, Glover earned the save by striking out four of the five batters he faced, slamming the door shut on a chilly, windy prairie “spring” day.

 

Tuesday stats:

Chase Anderson — One single, two walks
Coop Cooper — One single, one walk
Camden Glover — One single, two walks
Carson Grove — Two singles, one walk
Riley Lawless — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — Two walks
Leo Rodriguez — One walk
Killian Shaw — One walk
Chris Zenz — One walk

 

Monday’s game washed out:

Coupeville was slated to travel to South Whidbey Monday for a non-conference clash, but, with Spring Break over, Mother Nature decided to bring back the rain and wind.

The game will likely be rescheduled at a later date, according to CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith.

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