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“I’m very proud of the fight I saw”

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Ari Cunningham launches a serve. (Marquette Cunningham photo)

It was a back-and-forth brawl.

Two closely matched varsity volleyball squads went spike for spike Tuesday on Orcas Island, with the host Vikings eking out a five-set thriller against visiting Coupeville.

The Wolves had to rally from a nine-point deficit in the fourth set to even keep things alive, and did, before running out of steam at the end of a 22-25, 25-21, 25-22, 24-26, 15-10 rumble.

“It was a really hard-fought battle,” said CHS coach Scout Smith. “The girls showed lot of grit and determination.

“Lots of props to Orcas Island – they are well-coached and today they got the best of us.”

While the loss drops her young squad to 2-8 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 4-9-1 overall, Smith prizes the growth she sees, which speaks well for the future as the Wolves rebuild and reload.

“I’m very proud of the fight I saw from our team today,” Smith said.

Coupeville has one regular season match left on the schedule — a non-conference road trip to Sultan next Monday, Nov. 3.

 

Tuesday stats:

Haylee Armstrong — 13 kills, 13 digs, 1 assist, 2 solo blocks
Teagan Calkins — 18 kills, 39 digs, 2 assists, 2 aces
Ari Cunningham — 5 kills, 3 digs, 3 block assists, 2 aces
Lexis Drake — 3 kills, 3 digs, 2 assists, 2 block assists
Adeline Maynes — 11 digs, 4 assists, 4 aces
Dakota Strong — 2 digs
Tenley Stuurmans — 7 kills, 11 digs, 33 assists, 1 block assist, 1 ace
Sydney Van Dyke — 1 dig

Sydney Van Dyke prepares to inflict damage. (Julie Wheat photo)

 

JV:

Time ran out on the Wolves.

With the varsity playing first, and going a full five sets, the JV spikers only had time for one set before having to leg it back to the ferry.

Orcas captured that frame 25-12, but as the “official” recorder of CHS athletics, I’m not counting it as a loss, as we all know the Wolves would have come roaring back to take sets #2 and #3 and net a season sweep against the Vikings.

Don’t like my ruling? Start your own blog, Orcas.

 

Tuesday (limited) stats:

Willow Leedy-Bonifas — 1 kill, 1 dig
Emma Leavitt — 1 assist, 1 ace
Kennedy O’Neill — 1 assist, 1 ace
Chelsi Stevens — 1 kill, 2 digs

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All the numbers, all the highlights

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Haylee Armstrong flexes on the world. (Danica Strong photo)

The stats speak for themselves.

While Coupeville High School volleyball players wait for Thursday’s home finale, we offer up-to-the-moment numbers for varsity and JV, allowing fans to measure where the Wolves sit 80% of the way through the regular season.

Now, we could write more words here, but didn’t someone say something about letting the stats do the talking?

 

Through Oct. 20:

 

Varsity
(12 matches):

 

Kills:

Teagan Calkins – 137
Haylee Armstrong – 69
Dakota Strong – 36
Tenley Stuurmans – 29
Ari Cunningham – 26
Lexis Drake – 12
Capri Anter – 2
Adeline Maynes – 2

 

Digs:

Calkins – 126
Armstrong – 103
Stuurmans – 71
Anter – 38
Drake – 36
Cunningham – 25
Maynes – 24
Strong – 5
Sydney Van Dyke – 4

 

Assists:

Stuurmans – 233
Maynes – 23
Armstrong – 12
Cunningham – 9
Calkins – 7
Drake – 6
Strong – 3
Kennedy O’Neill – 1

 

Solo Blocks:

Stuurmans – 4
Drake – 2
Cunningham – 1

 

Block Assists:

Cunningham – 6
Drake – 5
Armstrong – 3
Calkins – 3
Strong – 2
Stuurmans – 2
Maynes – 1

 

Service Aces:

Stuurmans – 54
Calkins – 31
Armstrong – 16
Cunningham – 14
Drake – 14
Maynes – 8
Anter – 7
O’Neill – 2
Van Dyke – 2
Strong – 1

 

JV
(10 matches):

 

Kills:

Sydney Van Dyke – 35
Kennedy O’Neill – 25
Isa Mc Fetridge – 22
Chelsi Stevens – 19
Cassandra Powers – 10
Emma Leavitt – 8
Adeline Maynes – 4
Olivia Martin – 3
Hailey Grijalva – 2
Willow Leedy-Bonifas – 2

 

Digs:

Mc Fetridge – 34
O’Neill – 34
Leedy-Bonifas – 31
Stevens – 15
Maynes – 11
Van Dyke – 11
Martin – 6
Powers – 5
Grijalva – 4
Leavitt – 2
Kee’Arya Brown – 1
Mary Western – 1

 

Assists:

Maynes – 50
Leavitt – 26
Powers – 11
Van Dyke – 8
Grijalva – 4
Stevens – 3
Mc Fetridge – 2
O’Neill – 2
Leedy-Bonifas – 1

 

Solo Blocks:

Leedy-Bonifas – 1
Van Dyke – 1

 

Service Aces:

Van Dyke – 25
Powers – 19
Leavitt – 18
Mc Fetridge – 17
O’Neill – 16
Stevens – 16
Maynes – 14
Leedy-Bonifas – 5
Martin – 4
Grijalva – 3

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Wolves, Wolverines split spiker rumbles

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 8, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Ari Cunningham rises up to deliver a kill. (Julie Wheat photo)

Some joy; some pain.

Playing on Friday Harbor Tuesday afternoon, the Coupeville High School volleyball squads split their showdowns with the host Wolverines as they reached the two-thirds mark of the regular season.

The Wolf varsity, rebuilding after major losses to graduation, hung tough all match, but ultimately fell 25-22, 25-23, 17-25, 25-16, giving the two schools a split in their season series.

With the loss, CHS, the defending Northwest 2B/1B League champs, slips to 1-5 in conference action this time around, 3-6-1 overall.

Coupeville still has a shot to get back to .500 in league play, but needs to win out the remainder of the way, starting with another road trip, this one to play Mount Vernon Christian next Tuesday, Oct. 14.

Meanwhile, the Wolf JV is soaring, having won five of its last six to get to 4-1 in NWL rumbles, 6-2 overall.

Tuesday, the CHS second squad bounced Friday Harbor 25-15, 25-18.

Just getting on the floor against the Wolverines was a bonus as well, as Coupeville’s JV had to sit out the first meeting between the schools due to their rivals not having a full roster at that moment.

Kennedy O’Neill anticipates the arrival of the volleyball. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

Tuesday stats:

 

Varsity:

Haylee Armstrong — 7 kills, 6 digs, 1 assist, 3 aces
Teagan Calkins — 13 kills, 12 digs, 3 aces
Ari Cunningham — 3 kills, 2 aces
Lexis Drake — 2 kills, 1 dig, 1 assist, 2 aces
Adeline Maynes — 1 dig, 1 ace
Kennedy O’Neill — 2 aces
Dakota Strong — 2 kills, 1 dig
Tenley Stuurmans — 2 kills, 7 digs, 25 assists, 1 solo block, 4 aces
Sydney Van Dyke — 1 ace

 

JV:

Adeline Maynes — 12 assists, 2 aces
Isa Mc Fetridge— 3 kills, 1 dig, 3 aces
Kennedy O’Neill — 5 kills, 5 aces
Chelsi Stevens — 3 kills, 3 aces
Sydney Van Dyke — 3 kills

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Runnin’ (and snappin’) in the rain

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Ari Cunningham glides between the raindrops. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

They dodged the raindrops, and the paparazzi.

Coupeville High School track and field athletes brought their A-game to Saturday’s District 1 meet at Mickey Clark Field, as seen in the pics above and below.

To see everything John Fisken snapped, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-Track-2024-2025/Track-2025-05-17-League-Championships

 

Axel Marshall clears some obstacles.

Zac Tackett unleashes his full power.

Frankie Tenore rises up in the world.

Edmund Wilson catches some air.

Isa Mc Fetridge pounds down the back stretch.

Marcelo Gebhard collects his thoughts.

Devon Wyman pushes the pace.

Cunningham comes roaring up to bring Mc Fetridge a present.

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“The future is looking bright!”

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on March 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Axel Marshall, seen here last season, won the 110 hurdles Saturday at Stanwood. (Parker Hammons photo)

Young guns, having some fun.

That’s not just lyrics from an extra-bouncy 1982 song by Wham, but also an apt description of Saturday’s track and field meet.

Coupeville High School sent its young bunch on the road for the Stanwood Freshman/Sophomore Showcase, returning with 26 PRs and a win in the 110 hurdles from Axel Marshall.

Competing against a packed field of bigger schools, the Wolves claimed seventh place in the freshman boys’ team standings and eighth among sophomores, while the CHS girls were ninth best in both competitions.

Lake Stevens (boys) and Stanwood (girls) finished atop the reader board for freshmen, with Arlington coming out on top in both sophomore battles.

Marshall narrowly missed a double dip, finishing 2nd in the 300 hurdles, while Wyatt Fitch-Marron was 2nd in the freshman high jump.

Toss in some third and fourth-place finishes, plus a lot of personal bests, and the young Wolves made their mark in the big time.

“Great showing by our freshman and sophomore athletes today, well done!” said CHS coach Bob Martin. “The future is looking bright!”

With Spring Break upon them, the Wolves, young or old, don’t have another meet for a bit.

Coupeville returns to action as a complete team Thursday, April 10, when it travels to Shoreline to join Archbishop Thomas Murphy, Shorecrest, and Shorewood for an afternoon of competition.

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

FRESHMEN:

100 — Laken Simpson (10th) 14.90

200 — Willow Leedy-Bonifas (11th) 32.53 *PR*

400 — Olivia Hall (10th) 1:11.85 *PR*; Marin Winger (12th) 1:16.04 *PR*

800 — Lillian Ketterling (13th) 3:13.83 *PR*

1600 — Devon Wyman (14th) 7:33.61 *PR*

3200 — Ketterling (5th) 14:53.62 *PR*; Wyman (7th) 16:04.70 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Ari Cunningham (8th) 22.12

300 Hurdles — Cunningham (6th) 1:06.92

4 x 100 Relay — Cunningham, Leedy-Bonifas, Hall, Simpson (5th) 59.91

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, Ketterling, Winger, Simpson (3rd) 5:07.97

Discus — Ketterling (7th) 68-04

Long Jump — Cunningham (9th) 12-09 *PR*; Leedy-Bonifas (11th) 12-0

 

SOPHOMORES:

800 — Ivy Rudat (10th) 3:09.24; Lexis Drake (12th) 3:16.54 *PR*

1600 — I. Rudat (5th) 7:07.02 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Myra McDonald (6th) 21.16

300 Hurdles — McDonald (4th) 1:04.69

4 x 400 Relay –– Drake, I. Rudat, McDonald, Mikayla Wagner (3rd) 5:26.79

Long Jump — McDonald (8th) 11-0

 

BOYS:

FRESHMEN:

100 — William Hamm (21st) 17.55 *PR*

200 — Nathan Coxsey (11th) 26.94 *PR*

400 — Jonah Weyl (15th) 1:02.95 *PR*

800 — Johnathan Jacobsen (19th) 2:55.58; Isaiah Allen (20th) 2:56.53 *PR*

1600 — Allen (19th) 6:04.04 *PR*

3200 — Edmund Kunz (14th) 13:02.08 *PR*

110 Hurdles — Liam Blas (8th) 21.49

300 Hurdles — Blas (6th) 49.53

4 x 100 Relay — Will Tierney, Coxsey, Richmond Bandong, Beckett Green (4th) 51.00

4 x 400 Relay — Weyl, Blas, Edmund Wilson, Green (4th) 4:04.90

Shot Put — Khanor Jump (5th) 31-11.25 *PR*

Discus — Blas (4th) 85-11 *PR*; Jump (15th) 64-02

Javelin — J. Jacobsen (13th) 53-04

High Jump — Wyatt Fitch-Marron (2nd) 5-06 *PR*; J. Jacobsen (7th) 5-00 *PR*

Long Jump — Wilson (11th) 12-07

 

SOPHOMORES:

200 — Nikolas Rogers (19th) 30.05

400 — Rogers (16th) 1:09.52 *PR*

800 — Joshua Stockdale (11th) 2:21.62 *PR*; Solomon Rudat (15th) 2:28.23

1600 — Stockdale (12th) 5:21.42 *PR*; Kenneth Jacobsen (13th) 5:23.75, Ethan Walling (17th) 5:57.58

3200 — K. Jacobsen (8th) 11:27.40 *PR*; Walling (15th) 12:46.71

110 Hurdles — Axel Marshall (1st) 19.45

300 Hurdles — Marshall (2nd) 48.55 *PR*

Shot Put — K. Jacobsen (13th) 23-02; Zach Blitch (14th) 20-11.50 *PR*

Discus — Blitch (16th) 56-07 *PR*

Javelin — K. Jacobsen (17th) 36-07

Pole Vault — Marshall (3rd) 10-0; S. Rudat (9th) 7-06

Long Jump — S. Rudat (15th) 13-02

Triple Jump — Marshall (3rd) 34-07

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