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Oak Harbor AD moves off-Island

Posted in Administration, tagged , , , , , on June 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Jerrod Fleury 

It’ll be a complete turnover.

All three Whidbey Island high schools will have new athletic decision makers next school year, after Oak Harbor Athletic Director Jerrod Fleury was hired as AD by Central Kitsap.

His jump off-Island comes after fellow athletic directors Willie Smith and Paul Lagerstedt announced their retirement from Coupeville and South Whidbey, respectively.

Fleury, who has been an OHHS assistant principal since 2014, became AD at the school in 2018.

That was set to change, however.

Oak Harbor administrators, in the middle of budget cuts, informed Fleury they planned to remove the AD title and transition him from the high school to middle school level for the 2024-2025 school year.

Instead, Central Kitsap, which is a 3A high school in the South Sound Conference, offers a new opportunity for the Pacific Lutheran University grad.

The AD position at Fleury’s new school is a standalone job.

A former collegiate soccer player and coach before his time at OHHS, Fleury is a member of the Tacoma Community College Hall of Fame for his work on the pitch.

He is married to the former Becki Matzen, who was a star Wildcat athlete during my Whidbey News-Times Sports Editor days, and the couple have two sons.

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Aaron Trumbull, always a stand-up guy

Posted in A freakin' American hero, tagged , , , , , on May 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Aaron Trumbull is now a fully-pinned member of Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Trumbull and fiancée Hannah Gluth.

Different uniform, same strong commitment to those around him.

Coupeville grad Aaron Trumbull, who was one of the best to ever pull on a Wolf uniform, never left his teammates high and dry in the many years I watched him play baseball and basketball.

He had talent and drive, but it was the way he always backed up those around him, which impressed me most as he put together a prep career which eventually landed him in the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame.

A key member of the 2010 Central Whidbey Little League Juniors baseball squad which shocked the hardball world by beating the big city boys to win a state title, Trumbull showed grace and maturity beyond his years.

That came to the forefront one afternoon years later, when he was an established star for Willie Smith’s CHS baseball squad.

That season, the Wolf JV didn’t have enough players to fill out a full nine-man roster, so every game a varsity guy would swing down to fill out the lineup.

Trumbull, a top pitcher and first-baseman, had already done his duty a few days before, and this game, there was a different varsity player scheduled to make the trip to the diamond.

Except, said player threw a public hissy fit about the “demotion.”

There was a brief pause, as Smith’s ears began to turn bright red. A righteous explosion was a’comin’, and I was riveted.

But then, without a word, Trumbull jumped off the bench, snatched the ball away from the whiner, motioned to the JV players to follow him, and headed out to make sure his younger teammates would play.

Even if he never hit a jump shot (and he hit a lot of them), even if he never knocked in the state title winning run (which he did), that day Aaron, with no fanfare, showed why he will always be remembered fondly by teammates, coaches, and fans.

He’s just a stand-up guy.

And now Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue gets to have Trumbull on its team, after the former Wolf made the jump Friday from probationary to being a fully-pinned firefighter.

Central Kitsap just hit a homerun.

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