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Ciera St Onge (John Fisken photos)

Ciera St Onge (John Fisken photos)

Aiden

   Aiden Crimmins (right, in glasses and robe) hangs out with his fellow sophomores, who are bringing back the student cheering section.

They are twin titans of school spirit.

Coupeville High School senior Ciera St Onge and sophomore Aiden Crimmins share a birthday and a willingness to put themselves out in front of the crowd.

St Onge has been at the forefront of the Wolf cheer team for several years, bringing a sparkle in her eye and a skip in her step to her work on the sidelines.

Vivacious and full of life, she is a ball of fire, whether it’s football or basketball season.

Crimmins, who is looking a little like Clark Kent these days, turns into Superman when it’s time to help lead the student cheering section.

He and his fellow sophomores, guys like Jimmy Myers, Uriel Liquidano and Jonathan Thurston, have revived the art of wearing costumes and verbally harassing rival free-throw shooters.

After a bit of a down period, as a once-proud, jam-packed CHS student section dwindled down to one guy looking at his phone, it’s nice to see the thrill back.

Both St Onge and Crimmins have bought in, completely, to supporting their classmates and their school.

That both are also highly intelligent, super friendly people who succeed at everything they do, is a given.

On this, their joint birthday, let’s all take a moment to cheer for THEM and for all they do.

Can I get a C-I-E-R-A and an A-I-D-E-N?

What does that spell?

Awesome! Yep, that’s what it spells.

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Wolf senior cheerleaders (l to r) Elizabeth Bishop, Ciera St Onge, Camilla Rische and Cassidy Rydell. (ohn Fisken photos)

   Wolf senior cheerleaders (l to r) Elizabeth Bishop, Ciera St Onge, Camilla Rische and Cassidy Rydell. (John Fisken photos)

Rydell

Rydell

Bishop

Bishop

St Onge

St Onge

Rische

Rische

One final bit of team unity.

One final bit of team unity.

They were small in numbers, but big in spirit.

When Coupeville High School sports went inside for the winter, the number of Wolf cheerleaders crashed from 25-30 girls down to 5-7.

That didn’t make them any less loud or proud, however, as they filled the CHS gym with their vocal work during basketball season.

Monday night’s boys’ hoops game against Klahowya brought an end to their work days in their home gym, but, before the cheerleaders wrapped up the season, they stopped to honor their four seniors.

Popping up at mid-court to document the moment was travelin’ photo man John Fisken, who provides us with the pics that reside above.

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Courtney Arnold (left), during her days as a Wolf cheer captain.

Courtney Arnold (left), during her days as a Wolf cheer captain.

Sherry Roberts (right),spending quality time with Sydney Aparicio.

Sherry Roberts (right), spending quality time with Sydney Aparicio.

How perfect is it that these two share a birthday Friday?

Former Wolf greats Sherry (Bonacci) Roberts and Courtney Arnold may be the two sunniest people in the entire known universe.

People seeking a tan in Washington state can head to a tanning bed.

Or, they can hang around the dynamic duo for a bit and soak in the invisible Vitamin D that comes out of every pore each time Sherry and Courtney smile.

Which is about once every 1.3 seconds.

Courtney was born to be a cheerleader, the daughter of the original sunny delight herself, former CHS cheer guru Sylvia Arnold.

She walked in big footsteps, but Courtney made a name for herself, becoming a cheer captain and leading her team not only on the sidelines but also in full-scale cheer competitions.

Now she’s off at college, in sunny Cali, and hitting the big 2-2.

One thing has never changed, however. She remains an irrepressible, shining star, a young woman who combines grace and beauty with a sweet spirit and a genuinely caring heart.

The same could be said of Mrs. Roberts, who may be a few years older but has lost none of her teenage sparkle.

Her face is on the wall of honor in the hallway of the CHS gym, acknowledging her days when she was tabbed as the school’s Female Athlete of the Year.

The same gym-filling smile is usually on display, live and in person, at every basketball game, as she watches her successors play the sport she so excelled at.

One of those successors is daughter Lindsey, a star on the court and in front of the paparazzi camera for the Coupeville Middle School 8th grade squad.

With talent handed down from both parents (dad Jon Roberts was also a CHS Athlete of the Year) and the same feisty attitude on the court that her mom proudly displayed, the younger Roberts is coming for all her mom’s records.

When she gets there, no one will be prouder than Sherry, who is quick to bestow her approval and love to as many as possible.

Courtney and Sherry share a birthday, a sweetness of spirit, a love of life and everything that comes with it.

Any town would be lucky to claim one of them as its own. To have both is a blessing.

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Sylvia (John Fisken photos)

   Sylvia Hurlburt may not be in uniform (she was busy snapping photos of her own) but the cheerleader is always strong in this one. (John Fisken photos)

camilla

“You get up and cheer or I will come up there!!” Camilla Rische lays down the law.

Robin

Robin Cedillo’s energy could light up a medium-sized city by itself.

Jovanah

Jovanah Foote, strength and grace.

CHS cheer coach Cheridan Eck approves this message.

CHS cheer coach Cheridan Eck approves this message.

Cheerleaders have a special gene.

There is something deep inside them that fuels great passion and spirit and drives them to send those feelings out into the world.

Doubt it?

Take a gander at these five photos from Friday night’s Coupeville/Klahowya girls’ basketball game and be proven wrong.

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Camilla Rische

Camilla Rische

There are rumors that, on the day of her birth, Camilla Rische’s first word was “rah” and not “wah.”

For, if a person can be born to be a cheerleader, surely she was.

Through rain or shine, sleet or howling wind, out on the football field or inside a cozy gym, Miss Rische is the very definition of “loud ‘n proud” come to life.

In more ways than one.

She is fiercely loyal to the Wolves, a vibrant, boisterous young woman whose voice rises above the din.

She’s not there on the sideline just to stand around. The girl has work to get done.

But she’s also fiercely loyal to her family, starting with younger brothers Grey Rische and Jared Helmstadter.

The first time I ever spoke to her was when I was talking to her grandmother in the stands before a basketball game.

We were discussing Jared, as I was about to write a story about his amazing journey from being a preemie to becoming a rampaging force of nature on the basketball court.

Camilla, rocking back and forth in her seat, suddenly leaned forward and, in a voice that carried the same weight as Marlon Brando in The Godfather, informed me of the correct spelling of Helmstadter.

“H-e-l-m-s-t-a-gets complicated here-d-t-e-r!”

Long pause, eyebrow cocked…

“So get it right!!”

Long pause, then an explosion of giggles as she sat back in her seat.

That is Camilla.

Full of life, irrepressible, joyous, ready to smack you upside the head, sweet smile intact, if you mess with her family.

She is one-of-a-kind and Wolf Nation has benefited greatly from her presence the past few years.

As she celebrates a birthday today, we want to wish her all the best. May your day shine as brightly as you do, Miss Rische.

And, if you notice, I spelled Helmstadter correctly. So, there’s that, too.

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