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The tackling, it’s happening again

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on August 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Nine weeks, nine potential wins.

Stay hungry, keep climbing.

That’s the advice second-year Coupeville High School head football coach Bennett Richter is passing down to his players.

The Wolves are coming off the program’s first league title and trip to state since 1990, having gone 7-2 last fall.

But, in just a few hours, all of that fades away and a new season officially begins.

Football is the first high school sport to open practices, with teams from across Washington state hitting the gridiron Wednesday.

Volleyball, soccer, cross country, and cheer follow, getting started Monday, Aug. 21.

Coupeville’s first competitive game of the 2023-2024 school year is a home football clash Sept. 1 against former league rival Klahowya.

Richter, using a photo shot by John Fisken, has crafted the handy-dandy gridiron schedule at the top of this story, ready to be printed out and taped to your frig.

Wolf football has four home games, and five road trips, though one of those is just next door to face South Whidbey in The Bucket Game.

So, call it 4.5 home games, and 4.5 road trips.

Homecoming is Oct. 13 against Forks, with Senior Night set for Oct. 27 against Friday Harbor, if you’re curious.

As Wolf coaches, players, parents, fans, and assorted writers watch the clock tick towards the return of prep sports, Richter offers one big reminder.

It applies both to his own football stars, and to athletes in any other sport at CHS.

And that message — stop reading this and go SIGN UP ON FINAL FORMS AND UPDATE YOUR PHYSICAL, if you haven’t already.

You can accomplish great things this school year, but first you have to do your paperwork, and do it early enough where you’re eligible to play immediately.

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Gridiron giants get preseason props

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on August 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville gridiron guru Bennett Richter stalks the sidelines during the state playoffs. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The hype machine begins.

Coming off its first league title and trip to state since 1990, Coupeville High School football has already nailed down a spot in a preseason top 10.

The Wolves, who went 7-2 for first-year head coach Bennett Richter, return a strong group led by seniors such as Logan Downes, William Davidson, and Mikey Robinett.

Eight days before the opening practice, Coupeville lands at #10 among 2B squads on a list issued by Recruit Radar.

Defending state champ Napavine, which beat Okanogan 41-27 last December, sits atop the preseason rankings.

Coupeville opens its season at home Sept. 1, hosting 1A Klahowya.

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A campin’ they will (still) go

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The Wolves are headed to football camp, but in Shelton, not Tenino. (Davin Houston photo)

The road trip is back on, just with a slightly different destination.

When most of the Tenino High School football staff resigned last week, it looked like an annual late June gridiron camp run by the Beavers would fall by the wayside.

The team most affected by that — at least for readers of this blog — was Coupeville, which was primed to jam everyone into vehicles and head down to terrorize people on the black turf.

When news broke, Wolf coaches immediately begin to look for other team-building options.

But now, with the camp moving from Tenino to Shelton, CHS caravan drivers are once more ready to fuel up (at inflated gas prices), cram as many meat sticks as possible into glove compartments, and crank AC/DC up to 11.

“Sounds like (Tenino) Coach (Cary) Nagel has communicated and worked with the Shelton program and will head up the camp there instead,” said Coupeville pigskin guru Bennett Richter.

“This year there will be 10 teams, but with Nagel running things the transition should go quite smoothly!”

Being able to keep the camp alive, even with Tenino coaches in limbo, was huge for everyone involved.

“I’m really just happy our kids will get an opportunity to go to camp this year,” Richter said.

“There is nothing better for a team than when you can get away and have nothing but one goal and each other to focus on.”

In a move which would be very popular with your local blogger — who ain’t taking the Xterra all the way down to Tenino, or Shelton for June football — Richter and Co. are also looking into the possibility of Coupeville hosting its own camp in the future.

Camp Casey, maybe get ready for some pigskin action.

“I have looked into what would need to be done for a camp here next season,” said the Wolf headman. “If I get the word out soon enough, I feel there is a real potential for that.”

With the recent scramble, Richter got a feel for the work involved, but it also fired him up.

“These last couple days have been a rat race to figure out what’s going on,” he said.

“I have basically planned a whole camp in the hopes to get teams here and also planned a whole week for just us to get away and practice, if need be, and now I will not end up using either this year,” Richter added with a laugh.

“But … coaching life … nothing I’d rather be doing!”

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Two kingdoms, one queen

Posted in Football, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , , on June 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville High School coaches Bennett and Megan Richter await the arrival of the progeny. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Maybe this one I really will get to call “The Chosen One.”

When Coupeville High School girls’ basketball coach (and three-time CHS Female Athlete of the Year) Megan Smith wed Wolf football guru Bennett Richter, two empires united.

And now, unto to CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith, AKA “Pops,” shall be born another grandchild who will one day be a standout Coupeville athlete.

So it is written.

For those following along, news of an impending baby swept through Cow Town, and now, the answer to the question proffered by every Wolf athlete.

Shall it be a boy or shall it be a girl?

To the delight of most of the CHS girls’ basketball team, it shall be a girl.

 

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Clear your fall schedule, today

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Aiden O’Neill (23) and Chase Anderson got plenty of playing time as freshman on a gridiron squad which went to state. (Davin Houston photo)

Forks is in, and Cascade (Leavenworth) is out.

We’re still four months out from the first game, but the football schedule for Coupeville High School is already set, thanks to the diligent work of Athletic Director Willie Smith.

The Wolves, who are coming off their first league championship and trip to the state tourney since 1990, went 7-2 last season under first-year head coach Bennett Richter.

While a strong group of seniors will have departed, record-setting quarterback Logan Downes and a pack of talented younger players — including the tallest group of receivers in years — are expected to return.

That group will have four home games, four road trips — though none of them epic — and one half and half affair when they play South Whidbey.

The game is technically in Langley, making it a fifth road trip, but Coupeville fans can, and will, trundle a few miles down the island en masse for that rumble.

 

The schedule as it sits today, with (*) indicating league games:

Fri-Sept. 1 — Klahowya — (6:00)
Fri-Sept. 8 — @ South Whidbey — (7:00) — BUCKET GAME
Fri-Sept. 15 — @ Sultan — (7:00)
Fri-Sept. 22 — La Conner (*) — (7:00)
Fri-Sept. 29 — @ Friday Harbor (*) — (6:30)
Fri-Oct. 6 — @ Bellingham — (7:00)
Fri-Oct. 13 — Forks — (5:00) — HOMECOMING
Fri-Oct. 20 — @ La Conner (*) — (7:00)
Fri-Oct. 27 — Friday Harbor (*) — (6:00) — SENIOR NIGHT

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