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Coupeville Middle School eighth grader Brynn Parker, celebrating a birthday today, is ready to light up the hardwood. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s their gym now.

Coupeville Middle School girls basketball players are hard at work, prepping for their season opener.

That arrives Mar. 3, with Langley traveling up-Island to face off with the Wolves.

After that, CMS is on the road for three straight games, not returning to its own gym until Mar. 17.

The eight-game schedule concludes Mar. 31.

First-year Wolf coaches Kassie O’Neil and Kristina Forbes currently have 23 players, with 13 of those hoops stars hailing from sixth grade.

The roster:

 

Sixth Grade:

Isabella de Souza Oliveira
Rosie Lay
Willow Leedy-Bonifas
Ava Lucero
Taylor Marrs
Adeline Maynes
Rhylin Price
Laken Simpson
Chelsi Stevens
Tenley Stuurmans
Sydney Van Dyke
Elyse White
Marin Winger

 

Seventh Grade:

Capri Anter
Haylee Armstrong
Ava Carpenter
Lexis Drake
Melanie Wolfe

 

Eighth Grade:

Valeria de Jesus Merino
Brynn Parker
Kierra Thayer
Avery Williams-Buchanan
Liza Zustiak

Katie Marti gets feisty. “I will drop three-balls on your head all night, son!” (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Time to begin some spring cleaning.

Both Coupeville High School girls basketball teams have ended their seasons, but I still have a fair number of photos which haven’t run.

So, here’s nine of them, all shot by John Fisken.

To see more of his work, and possibly purchase some glossies for Grandma Gertie in Glendale Heights, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/

 

Ja’Kenya Hoskins defies the laws of gravity.

Carolyn Lhamon would prefer it if you would get your dang grubby hands off her basketball.

Wolf managers Leni Raduenz (left) and Jayden Varljen run this joint.

Reese Wilkinson, ready to rain down pain.

Brooklyn Thayer rumbles down low.

Maddie Georges, queen of drawing the offensive charge.

Jada Heaton dares you to try and take the basketball. “I got two elbows for you right here! Check one! Check two!!”

Skylar Parker pushes the ball upcourt.

Tack still on the attack

Ethan Tack (left) closed his college swimming career with four titles in his final meet. (Photo courtesy Thomas Tack)

Straight out of Coupeville, and still the fastest guy in the pool.

Ethan Tack, who first started swimming at Oak Harbor’s John Vanderzicht Memorial Pool, was once a student in Deb Sherman’s class at Coupeville Elementary.

Now, he’s a veteran of the US Olympic Team trials who just wrapped his competitive swim career at the Naval Academy.

Tack went out with a bang, winning Patriot League Championship titles in four events en route to being tabbed as the swimmer of the meet.

He tapped the wall first in the 200 IM (1:44.58), 400 IM (3:48.60), and 200 fly (1:43.89), while also swimming a leg on the fastest 800 free relay team (6:23.01).

Tack finished his college career having scored the most meet points of any graduating senior at Navy.

The Midshipmen finished the league championships with 874 points, easily winning the team battle over runners-up Army (740.5) and Bucknell (559.5).

One of five brothers in the Tack family — oldest son Spencer was an All-League First-Team soccer player at Coupeville High School — Ethan has been pursuing a degree in computer engineering.

He commissions May 27, then reports to Navy flight school June 3.

“State, here we come!” (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It won’t be a one-night stand.

The Coupeville High School boys basketball team is headed back to the state tournament for the first time in 34 years, and the Wolves will play at least two games.

Depending on how things work out, those two rumbles could stretch out to as many as five.

Coupeville is guaranteed at least two games thanks to being ranked #8 in the 16-team 2B field.

Teams seeded #1-#8 start off in double-elimination mode, while #9-#16 play loser-out games, with all first-round bouts held at “regional sites.”

Twelve of the 16 teams then advance to the main site, which for 2B teams, is the Spokane Arena.

This is the first time the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association has used seeding committees for basketball.

At first glance, it might be easy to think the Wolves are being underrated a bit.

Coupeville (16-0) is the only unbeaten boys team left in 2B, its RPI ranking was higher than #8, and it won a district title — something four of the seven teams ranked ahead of it did not accomplish.

The most likely reasons for Coupeville being seeded #8, and not higher?

Its strength of schedule was low compared to some other schools.

Plus, four of the top seven seeded schools hail from hoops hotbed District 4, and the WIAA pledged not to pit teams from the same district against each other in the first round if possible.

Also, you miss the big dance for 30+ years and you don’t have a rep, something which factored in during the season when Associated Press voters virtually ignored Coupeville.

But hey, it’s a weird, wild hoops world out there, where Chief Leschi started 13-1 and did NOT make it to state, while River View started 0-13, and DID.

Ultimately though, even at #8, the Wolves got what they wanted — a guarantee their first game is not a loser-out affair, and that they will play in Spokane.

“All is good. No complaints here,” said CHS coach Brad Sherman. “Very cool for the guys.”

Coupeville opens against top-seeded Kalama (19-1), which escaped with a District 4 title after two close calls.

The Chinooks, who feature several players from this year’s 2B state champion football team, were pushed hard in their postseason tourney.

Kalama needed a buzzer-beating three-ball to nip Napavine in the D4 semifinals, then edged Morton-White Pass by a point in the title game.

Coupeville’s showdown with the Chinooks is set for Friday, Feb. 25, with a 6 PM tip-off at Battle Ground High School.

Win, and the Wolves jump straight to the quarterfinals of the state tourney.

In that scenario, Coupeville starts play in Spokane Mar. 3.

Lose to Kalama, and the Wolves instead play Mar. 2 against either #9 Lake Roosevelt or #16 River View in a loser-out game.

The state tourney, which runs through Mar. 5, is a modified double-elimination royal rumble, with the top six teams earning trophies.

 

To see the complete bracket, pop over to:

https://www.wpanetwork.com/wiaa/brackets/tournament.php?act=view&tournament_id=3462

With 253 points and one season left to play, Maddie Georges is #43 on the CHS girls basketball career scoring chart. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Another season in the books, another batch of scoring stats to add to the history of the program.

The 2021-2022 campaign was the 48th season for Coupeville High School girls basketball, which kickstarted its program in 1974.

During that time there have been 238 Wolves who have rattled the rims for at least a point during a varsity game.

Or so we can say with some certainty.

The truth is that first team in ’74-’75 exists outside of time and space, as the local newspaper didn’t cover its games, and a scorebook has never surfaced during my sleuthing.

So the career scoring chart I have amassed is close to the final word, but definitely not 100% correct. Yet.

With the current season having reached its conclusion, after a three-game playoff run, it’s time to take a look at where everyone stacks up in the all-time shuffle.

Here we go, with the nine active Wolf players who can return next season in bold:

 

Brianne King – 1549
Zenovia Barron – 1270
Makana Stone – 1158
Megan Smith – 1042
Ann Pettit – 932
Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby – 892
Terry Perkins – 673
Lexie Black – 622
Kristan Hurlburt – 598
Tina Lyness – 594

Marlene Grasser – 574
Judy Marti – 545
Brittany Black – 502
Jen Canfield – 497
Erica Lamb – 497
Emily Vracin – 467
Tina Barker – 464
Vanessa Davis – 448
Lindsey Roberts – 448
Maureen Wetmore – 438

Sarah Powell – 425
Mika Hosek – 424
Cassidi Rosenkrance – 423
Ashley Manker – 404
Shawna West – 388
Katie Smith – 374
Whitney Clark – 359
Amy Mouw – 353
Tracy Taylor – 350
Kailey Kellner – 339

Amanda Allmer – 331
Misty Sellgren – 331
Taniel Lamb – 330
Marie Grasser – 321
Mia Littlejohn – 317
Amanda Fabrizi – 299
Scout Smith – 290
Bessie Walstad – 288
Hailey Hammer – 282
Madeline Strasburg – 261

Carly Guillory – 260
Sarah Mouw – 259
Maddie Georges – 253
Julie Wieringa – 252
Danette Beckley – 249
Chelsea Prescott – 249
Marlys West – 247
Kendra O’Keefe – 244
Breeanna Messner – 235
Hilary Kortuem – 231

Ema Smith – 228
Mikayla Elfrank – 227
Annette Jameson – 223
Beth Mouw – 216
Lisa Roehl – 216
Audrianna Shaw – 212
Linda Cheshier – 210
Izzy Wells – 204
Pam Jampsa – 202
Julia Myers – 202

Kim Warder – 193
Kacie Kiel – 188
Stephanie Clapp – 185
Kassie Lawson – 184
Heather Davis – 182
Jaime Rasmussen – 181
Trudy Eaton – 180
Heidi Bepler – 179
Jodie Christensen – 174
Aimee Messner – 168

Danielle Vracin – 167
Sherry Bonacci – 165
Marie Hesselgrave – 165
Marilyn Brown – 164
Hayley Ebersole – 163
Yashmeen Knox – 163
Traci Perkins – 161
Suzette Glover – 159
Jai’Lysa Hoskins – 151
Jennifer Bailey – 150

Emily Young – 149
Vanessa Bodley – 146
Joli Smith – 142
Jennie Cross – 140
Savina Wells – 133
Taya Boonstra – 132
Sarah Burgoyne – 126
Christi Messner – 125
Kayla Lawson – 124
Avalon Renninger – 123

Carolyn Lhamon – 121
Cheryl Dunn – 119
Hannah Davidson – 116
Jill Whitney – 116
Sarah Wright – 115
Laurie Estes – 114
Debbie Snyder – 113
Tiffany Briscoe – 111
Lauren Escalle – 109
Sally Biskovich – 108

Kara Harvey – 108
Kalia Littlejohn – 106
Kyla Briscoe – 104
Kelly Snyder – 104
Sue Wyatt – 100
Lupine Wutzke – 98
Monica Vidoni – 97
Christine Barr – 95
Lauren Grove – 95
Babette Owensby – 93

Toni Thiefault – 92
Jennifer Pettit – 85
Laura Young – 83
Marnie Bartelson – 81
Cheryl Pangburn – 79
Courtney Arnold – 78
Tonnalea Rasmussen – 78
Sharon Jolly – 75
Amanda Manker – 73
Beth Cavanaugh – 72

Wynter Thorne – 68
Rachelle Solomon – 64
Lindsey Sherwood – 61
Ann Kahler – 60
Ja’Kenya Hoskins – 59
Chelsea Rosenkrance – 59
Lyla Stuurmans – 59
Judy Wallace – 58
Rose Marti – 57
Jean Wyatt – 57

Jennifer Eelkema – 55
Gwen Gustafson – 55
Christine Larson – 53
Courtney Boyd – 52
Kari Johnson – 52
Erin Ryan – 52
Anya Leavell – 51
Nicole Shelley – 50
Traci Barker – 49
Paige Mueller – 49

Stephanie Kipp – 48
Lynn Wilson – 47
Andilee Murphy – 46
Janiece Jenkins – 43
Meghan Metlow – 43
Tia Wurzrainer – 43
Jessy Caselden – 41
Karen Jampsa – 40
Jennifer Meyer – 40
Jill Keeney – 39

Suzanne Enders – 38
Mandi Murdy – 37
Shawn Diem – 35
Min Powell – 35
Abby Mulholland – 32
Lauren Rose – 32
Tammie Hardie – 31
Nezi Keiper – 29
Shannon Rutledge – 29
Taylor Sherman – 29

Anna Myhr – 28
Kirsty Croghan – 27
Lori Friswold – 27
Sarah Vass – 27
Tina Jansen – 26
Kim Stuurmans – 26
Kathy Jolly – 25
Shelby Kulz – 25
Kylie Van Velkinburgh – 25
Melissa Cox – 23

Haley Marx – 23
Lori Hart – 21
Allison Wenzel – 21
Courtney Williams – 21
Aleshia McFadyen – 20
Nancy Dyer – 18
Dina Lanphere – 18
McKenzie Bailey – 17
Carol Estes – 17
Ryanne Knoblich – 17

Kristina Clark – 16
Dawn Clampet – 15
Nicole Laxton – 15
Mollie Bailey – 14
Lindsey Tucker – 13
Jeannette Fixel – 12
Tammy Shubat – 12
Nikki Snyder – 12
Alita Blouin – 11
Kelly Ankney – 11

Naomi Prater – 11
Michelle Riddle – 11
Emily Wodjenski – 11
Alyssa Kelley – 10
Zarah Leaman – 10
Toni Hudson – 9
Katie Marti – 9
Georgie Smith – 9
Cindy Bennett – 8
Susan Estes – 8

Ami Garthwaite – 8
Eileen Hanley – 8
Keri Iverson – 8
Kristine Macnab – 8
Michelle Smith – 8
Carlie Rosenkrance – 7
McKayla Bailey – 6
Lexi Boyer – 6
Rhiannon Ellsworth – 6
Debbie Johnson – 6

Grace LaPoint – 6
Skyler Lawrence – 6
Corrin Skvarla – 6
Janie Wilson – 6
Katy Bennett – 5
Penny Griggs – 5
Marissa Slater – 5
Mia Farris – 4
Denise McGregor – 4
Jessica Sherwood 4

Kara Warder – 4
Christina Mowery – 3
Samantha Roehl – 3
Ashlie Shank – 3
Jamie Townsdin – 3
Brenda Belcher – 2
Rusty Brian – 2
Carol Davis – 2
Lisa Davis – 2
Nicole Fuller – 2

Cathy Higgins – 2
Daisy Kent – 2
Katie Kiel – 2
Charlotte Langille – 2
Morgan Stevens – 2
Tracy Barber – 1
Amy Biskovich – 1
Corinne Gaddis – 1

Savina Wells exits her freshman season already sitting at #85 on the all-time chart.