Teagan Calkins, ready to bring the hammer down. (Marquette Cunningham photo)
It’s not exactly a surprise.
After each delivered four years of big moments across multiple sports, the announcement that Teagan Calkins and Chase Anderson are the 2026 Coupeville High School Athlete of the Year winners was correctly predicted by every pundit from Cow Town to Bangladesh.
Likely.
Honored Wednesday at the school’s annual spring awards night, the Wolf seniors will join previous winners such as Brad Sherman, Makana Stone, and Sherry Bonacci in getting their framed photos installed on the wall leading into the CHS gym.
Chase Anderson, out in support of his fellow athletes. (Marquette Cunningham photo)
Calkins has been the heart and soul of Coupeville’s volleyball, basketball, and softball programs, helping guide the spikers and sluggers to state tournament glory.
As a senior she paced the Wolves volleyball team with 185 kills and 176 digs, while also racking up 12 assists, 37 service aces, and three block assists.
On the hardwood, the three-ball assassin rattled the rims for 160 points, while being a wild woman on the boards and in battles for loose balls.
When Calkins walked off the floor for the final time, she finished a three-year varsity run with 402 points, leaving her #26 all-time for a hoops program which debuted in 1974.
“The Red Dragon” capped her prep days with another standout season as the catcher and most-lethal hitter for a Wolf softball squad which finished 19-4, won league and district titles, and returned to state for the second straight season.
Coupeville played in three games at the big dance, winning one, a year after going 2-2.
In her final moment as a Wolf athlete, Calkins delivered once again, crunching a two-run double into the fading sunlight off of River View.
Calkins gets her props on Senior Night. (Jackie Saia photo)
Anderson dominated on the gridiron, where he flung touchdown strikes as the CHS quarterback, picked off passes while on defense, and handled the kicking duties, nailing long field goals and longer punts.
In June he’ll travel to Yakima to rep the Wolves in the Earl Barden All-Star Classic, which brings together the best senior football players from the 1B, 2B, and 1A classifications on one field.
Put him on the hardwood and Anderson, a hyper-intense defender, hunted baskets.
He led Coupeville in scoring as a junior and senior, finishing his run with 943 points across four seasons, placing him #7 all-time for a Wolf boys’ program which launched way back in 1917.
When spring arrived this year, Anderson returned to the baseball diamond after earning a pair of state meet medals in track as a junior.
He paced Coupeville with a team-high 19 runs, 26 stolen bases, six doubles, and a home run, while also piling up a .362 batting average, 17 hits, nine RBI, and 10 walks.
Mixing his time between multiple positions, Anderson went to the pitcher’s mound eight times, whiffing 46 batters across 25 innings of work.
Anderson flings heat. (Jackie Saia photo)
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