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Netters stand tall in the big city

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged Amy Yee, bi-districts, CHS Wolves, girls tennis, Tenley Stuurmans on May 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »

CHS singles aces Tenley Stuurmans (left) and Dahlia Miller were both undefeated this season until districts. (Starla Seal photo)

The stakes were high, the competition was top-tier, and the city was big.

Coupeville High School girls’ tennis players wrapped their season Thursday in Seattle with a strong team-wide performance at the District 1/2 tourney.

And while the Wolves came up just short of sending anyone to state, the small-town net aces impressed their coaches.

“We had some great competition today,” Starla Seal said. “Played their hearts out until the very end. Proud coach moment over here.”

When Coupeville arrived at the Amy Yee Tennis Center, it joined rivals from fellow Northwest 2B/1B League schools Friday Harbor and La Conner, as well as three programs from District 2’s SeaTac League.

Puget Sound Adventist, Forest Ridge, and Summit Classical Christian rounded out the field, with Forest Ridge winning both the singles and doubles titles.

This year that meant more than normal, with Districts 1 and 2 only getting a single slot to state.

The D1/2 tourney reverts back to having two singles players and two doubles teams advance to the big dance again next spring.

This time around, Forest Ridge freshman Julia Mielke thwarted Coupeville’s Tenley Stuurmans in the singles finale, preventing the Wolf netter from making a return trip to Yakima after qualifying for state as an 8th grader.

Stuurmans claimed second in a 10-woman field, with Wolf teammate Dahlia Miller beating her #5 seed to earn 4th place.

In the doubles competition, the title went to Julia Hofler and Yazhen Qui of Forest Ridge, who held off Friday Harbor duo Megan Mellinger and Kira Clark in the title match.

Districts marked not only the end of the season for the Wolves, but the end of the road for CHS seniors Ember Light and Delanie Lewis.

Light, teaming with younger sister Mila, played one of the most-intense matches of the day, with the sisters pushing a Summit Classical duo to tiebreakers in both of their sets.

The Wolves invade Seattle. (Starla Seal photo)

Thursday results:

Singles:

Tenley Stuurmans:

Beat Aubrey Mathewson (Summit Classical) 6-0, 6-1
Beat Dahlia Miller (Coupeville) 6-0, 6-1
Lost to Julia Mielke (Forest Ridge) 6-1, 6-1

Dahlia Miller:

Beat Jacklin Liu (Forest Ridge) 6-2, 6-0
Lost to Tenley Stuurmans (Coupeville) 6-0, 6-1
Lost to Kendall Lee (La Conner) 5-7, 6-3, 9-1(tiebreaker)

Doubles:

Brynn Parker/Delanie Lewis:

Lost to Julia Hofler/Yazhen Qui (Forest Ridge) 6-2, 6-1

Ember Light/Mila Light:

Beat Abril Aguilar/Valaria Nizovtsev (Puget Sound) 6-1
Lost to Kelsey Milojevich/Abby Gilbert (Summit Classical) 7-6(7-5), 7-6(7-4)

With their second season in the books, CHS coaches Tim Stelling and Starla Seal head home. (Delanie Lewis photo)

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She’s young, talented, and state-bound

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged Amy Yee, CHS Wolves, districts, girls tennis, Tenley Stuurmans on May 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Tenley Stuurmans enjoys her day. (Photo courtesy Scott Stuurmans)

Tenley Stuurmans doesn’t believe in wasting time.

The Coupeville 8th grader hasn’t attended a day of high school yet, and still hasn’t played a home tennis match, but she’s off to the state tennis tournament just the same.

Sweeping three matches at the District 1/2 tourney Friday at the Amy Yee Tennis Center in Seattle, Stuurmans claimed the singles crown and punched her ticket to the big dance.

Now, like Cousin Payton Aparicio before her, she’ll make the long trek to Eastern Washington for the 2B/1B state championships.

They go down May 24-25 at the Yakima Tennis Club, and it’ll be a busy couple of days for the Stuurmans clan, as Tenley’s older sister, Lyla, a CHS junior, competes at the state track and field meet in the same town.

Coupeville, which has played its entire season on the road as mediocre spring weather slowed work on new courts, sent five girls to districts, and won four of six contests.

Wolf senior Skylar Parker teamed with younger sister Brynn at first doubles, splitting a pair of matches.

The siblings smoked a duo from Puget Sound Adventist Academy 6-2, 6-0, before falling 6-0, 6-1 to Northwest 2B/1B League rivals Kira Clark and Megan Mellinger of Friday Harbor.

Two of three Parker sisters — Skylar (left) and Brynn (right) — teamed up Friday at districts. (Photo courtesy Corinn Parker)

The other CHS doubles team in action — Sophia Phay and Kauri Hamilton — put up a strong battle before being knocked out 6-2, 6-0 by a tandem from Summit Atlas.

“The girls did great; fought their hearts out!” said Coupeville assistant coach Starla Seal.

For Stuurmans, the first 8th grader to play tennis for CHS since the school returned to being a 2B institution in 2020, Friday was her crowning achievement.

So far.

Despite not being a high schooler until this coming fall, Stuurmans made the jump to playing above her age group in two of three sports this school year.

After playing middle school volleyball, she played both high school and middle school basketball this past winter, taking the court with the JV high school squad.

The net program, with only eight players on the roster, offered a chance to play varsity all season, and Stuurmans has excelled in both singles and doubles.

Friday, she opened against Izabelle Maia of Puget Sound, and rolled her 6-0, 6-1.

After that came a 6-0, 6-3 win over Nikki Cole of Friday Harbor, which clinched her trip to state, and then a 6-3, 6-3 triumph over Kendall Lee of La Conner, who will join her in Yakima.

It made for a long day, but Stuurmans, who was coming off a three-hour slugfest in one match at the end of the regular season, was up for it.

“She’s a fighter and a natural athlete,” Seal said. “Those two combined are a recipe for some good tennis.”