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“A great race and day!!”

Posted in Cross Country, tagged , , , , on October 4, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville’s Danny Conlisk ran a season-best Thursday, claiming a top 10 finish at a cross country meet in Langley. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Small in numbers, but big in results.

Four of Coupeville High School’s six active cross country runners set PR’s Thursday in Langley, with two claiming especially impressive finishes.

Running at a six-team North Sound Conference meet at South Whidbey High School, Wolf senior Danny Conlisk and freshman Alana Mihill both cracked the top 10.

Mihill, who was running solo with Catherine Lhamon off the Island for the day, set a PR, while Conlisk nailed a season-best covering the 5,000 meter course.

Fellow Wolves TJ Rickner, Uriah Kastner and Chris Ruck also set personal records.

“It was a great race and day,” said Coupeville coach Natasha Bamberger.

“Danny was with the top four runners from South Whidbey throughout most of the race and had an amazing finish,” she added. “Alana a great surprise; took off after the front pack, stayed in contact, pulling herself up.

“Many coaches from other teams cheering her, the lonely Wolf girl out there today.”

Bamberger also praised senior Uriah Kastner, who was a “workhorse, passing runners on the toughest hill sections.”

Coupeville, which has its first in-school cross country program after a two-decade break, gets a chance Saturday to run with the big boys (and girls).

The Wolves are off to Lakewood High, where they’ll be joined by the Coupeville Middle School harriers, for the Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational.

That event is expected to draw in as many as 5,300 runners across 13 races.

“It will be a great day for the team,” Bamberger said. “What a stacked season of huge invitationals.

“These kids are not getting a cushy start. They are having to work for everything they get.”

 

Complete Thursday results:

 

GIRLS:

Alana Mihill (10th) 24:48.62 *PR*

 

BOYS:

Danny Conlisk (10th) 18:58.23
TJ Rickner (47th) 23:19.30 *PR*
Uriah Kastner (49th) 23:26.35 *PR*
Chris Ruck (61st) 25:23.04 *PR*
Kyle Burnett (63rd) 25:30.85

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Mihill favors actions over words!!

Posted in Basketball, Track, tagged , , , , on June 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Alana Mihill has it made in the shade. (Susan Hulst photo)

Alana Mihill is a quiet assassin.

The Coupeville 7th grader doesn’t waste her time chattering away but simply goes out and gets the job done.

The younger sister of CHS soccer star Laurence Boado, she played basketball and competed in track and field during her first year of middle school sports.

Mihill, who was born in Hawaii but moved to Coupeville when she was two, competed in a number of events this spring.

She ran the 200 and 800, threw the javelin and carried the baton as a member of the Wolves 4 x 400 relay unit.

A fan of her science and gym classes (“My favorite is gym because we don’t have to sit the whole time”), she enjoys spending time taking her dog for walks.

Mihill hails CMS track coaches Elizabeth Bitting and Jon Gabelein for their inspiration, and enjoys both of her sports for allowing her to “be active and have fun.”

Whether playing hoops or competing on the oval, she keeps chugging away like the Energizer Rabbit.

“My strength is endurance,” Mihill said. “And I would like to work on my speed.”

The team aspect of basketball gives it a slight edge over the often solo lifestyle of a track athlete when she picks her favorite sport.

“Basketball, because there is less individual pressure,” Mihill said. “I would like to continue in basketball and work on shooting baskets.”

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