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Many move on, some get spotlight

Posted in Graduation, tagged , , , , on June 9, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Scotlyn Helm is a star in auto racing and soccer. Now, she’s also a middle schooler. (Lindsey Helm photo)

This one comes with an asterisk.

There are three graduation/passages ceremonies in Coupeville this spring, with 12th graders having exited Saturday afternoon.

Meanwhile, 8th graders bounce from middle to high school and 5th graders move on up from the elementary school to CMS, with both of those events slated for this Wednesday.

With high school and middle school, the list of names I was given to publish are fairly complete.

With this one, featuring the elementary school kids, not so much.

There are 91(!) students making the move to 6th grade, but the parents of 27 of those children opted not to allow their offspring’s name to be released to “non-district media” when they went through the enrollment process.

So be it.

If you read this article and notice your child — a 5th grade grad — is missing, that was your decision.

Now, if you want to change your mind, as some parents did last year, contact the elementary school secretaries and let them know, and they’ll send me updates with which to tweak this story.

If not, again, so be it. You’re the parent, not me, and I respect that.

But, for now, here are the 5th grade grads we can give a moment in the spotlight to:

 

The (partial) Class of 2033:

Sandra Andrade
Lindsey Ashby
Willow Baker-Bilyeu
Kaleb Batterman
Konnor Batterman
Seraphina Bentabou
Eveyln Budde
Adelaide Burley
Eulalie Bylsma
Kai Cardina
River Castellanos
Greta Castle
Ezra Chapa
Cora Cranford
Abigail Dangerfield
Isla Darr
Scarlet Day
Christopher DiDonna
Genevieve Dingman
Cruz Fasolo
Benjamin Ferrera
Rollin Francis
Quinton Freeman
Caden Fuller
Trinidad Garcia
Miguel Garcia Fernandez
Jacob Greene
Broderick Griffith
Scotlyn Helm
June Jackson
Lily Jacobson
Amelia Jahn
Summer Jorgensen
Abigail Kolbet
Lillian Lachnit
Kenlee Lester
Adelind Liggitt
Ava Magdaleno
Evelynn McDonald
Greyson McGuinness
Brinley Meek
Elleri Meyer
Leonidas Mitchell
Oren Morton
Anna Nelson
Hillary Partida-Flores
Sean Peterson
Jayden Placido
Daniel Powers
Anna Richards
Elizabeth Richards
Matthew Richards
Silas Rudat
Alayla Schwarz
Evan Sierra
Gwendolyn Smith
Luna Strong
Ezra Tercero
Isaac Toon
Valerie Trevino
Jax Wheat
Owen Whitmer
Zora Worthington
Sienna Wright

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Middle school memories await

Posted in Graduation, tagged , , , , on June 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The sign stays, but Coupeville’s current 5th graders are off to middle school.

They’re heading down the street.

Coupeville Elementary School 5th graders celebrate advancing to middle school with a moving on ceremony this Friday, June 14.

The event will be in the PAC at the high school.

It starts at 1:30 PM, with attendees asked to arrive by 1:15.

 

Next year’s 6th graders are:

Colton Ashby
Jack Bailey
Scarlet Barnes
Kaylee Beshear
Liam Blasko
Amelia Bronson-Thayer
Sophia Burley
Laurel Crowder
Sarai Dangerfield
Stella Day
Johnathyn Driscoll
Xander Flowers
Ruby Folkestad
Luca Gabriel
Talon Gamble
Francis Garcia Partida
Maja Govorcin-O’Connell
Reagan Green
Callie Hagen
Jaxon Hammond
Liam Hansen
Asher Harris
Audrey Hewitt
Hendrix Holeman
Ella Holm
Damien Howard
Autumn Hunt
Henry Jackson
Shiloh Johnson
Jonathan Kappes
Jesse Kehoe
Kaylee-Raye Keith
Charlie Lester
Chance Lindsey
Sophia Magdolen
Edric Marchman
Carson Marley
Branden Martinez Flores
Hunter Mc Clellan
Sofia Mc Clellan
Jonah Meek
Evelyn Merino-Martinez
Gunnar Merkel
Kamea Micolichek
Anneliese Miller
Saul Payan Vasquez
Jordin Powell
Leslie Queen
Millicent Reynolds
Emma Roberts
Danabella Sandlin
Alyvia Schoene
William Schofield
Andrew Schuring
Camilla Somes
Darius Stewart
Liam Stoner
Diana Teran Herrera
Teagan Trammel
Brenden Tumulty
Bayou Warren
Eden Weeks
Magnus Western
Autumn Weyl
Ozland Wilkerson
Elijah Williams
Lou Ella Zito

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Lost season, not lost honor

Posted in awards, tagged , , , , , on April 21, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Shelton High School honored senior spring athletes in a unique way.

How do you honor a lost season?

The COVID-19 pandemic erased spring sports for high school and middle school athletes in Washington state, bringing a halt to things before a game was played.

Now, some schools are choosing to go ahead and still hand out athletic letters, even in the absence of competition.

A recent Skagit Valley Herald story by Vince Richardson found Burlington-Edison is awarding letters to all senior spring athletes.

Meanwhile, La Conner will letter athletes in grades 9-12 if they fully complete a six-week training program set up by their coaches.

Go further down the road and you’ll end up in Shelton.

Back in the late ’80s, when I was a shaggy-haired Tumwater tennis player, the Highclimbers were one of our biggest rivals in the old-school Black Hills League.

These days, Shelton’s Athletic Department is bidding for all the internet fame after posting a video in which senior athletes who would have been four-year lettermen get their moment in the quarantine spotlight.

 

 

No word yet on whether Coupeville AD Willie Smith will accept my challenge – liberate a golf cart, get a pair of long, retractable grabbers, then go door-to-door doing something similar, while never actually leaving the cart. 

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