Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘CHS Wolves’

Hunt for The Bucket begins again

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Wolves, incoming. (Julie Wheat photo)

Throw out the records.

When Coupeville High School football heads down to Langley this Friday to clash with South Whidbey, it doesn’t matter that the Falcons are 0-3 and the Wolves 0-5.

The annual non-conference rumble between next-door neighbors is for bragging rights, and an actual trophy, “The Bucket,” which comes complete with noticeable dent, thanks to a miffed South Whidbey coach who kicked it after losing it a few years back.

The “original” bucket once held licorice, but was filled with water by a Coupeville student, who dumped it on the South Whidbey crowd at a volleyball match, setting off a near-riot.

Looking to turn a negative into a positive, athletic directors Willie Smith (CHS) and John Patton (SWHS) transformed the weapon of mass hydration into a trophy, which is held for a year by the winning football program.

With Wolf coaches Tony Maggio and Jon Atkins each winning twice, Coupeville, with a smaller student body, kept the rivalry intense for the first decade.

But now, South Whidbey, which is currently a 1A school, has reeled off six straight wins against its 2B neighbors, stretching the lead out to 11-4 overall.

The Falcons, who will also be celebrating Homecoming this Friday (7:00 PM kickoff), are coming off a bye week, thanks to a rival which cancelled.

The last time they were on the gridiron they were whacked 63-0 by Friday Harbor, coming on the heels of losses to Brewster (55-6) and Bellevue Christian (43-15).

Coupeville, which will be playing a 1A foe for the fifth time in six games, has fallen to Annie Wright (25-7), Cascade (30-19), Granite Falls (58-27), Cedar Park Christian-Bothell (31-7), and Friday Harbor (28-14).

Wolf foes — not counting South Whidbey — are a combined 15-10 so far this season, with both Annie Wright and Granite boasting 4-1 records.

As we head into the 16th edition of the Battle for the Bucket, here’s a look at how things have gone:

2009 — SW 28-6
2010 — SW 33-7
2011 — SW 35-0
2012 — CHS 18-13
2013 — SW 57-33
2014 — CHS 35-28
2015 — SW 27-14
2016 — CHS 41-10
2017 — CHS 18-0
2018 — SW 48-20
2019 — SW 35-7
2020 — No game (Covid)
2021 — SW 33-7
2022 — SW 47-28
2023 – SW 48-28
2024 – SW 30-26

Read Full Post »

Sundays are for stats

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Haylee Armstrong unleashes a wicked ace. (Julie Wheat photo)

It’s a numbers game.

Coupeville High School volleyball coaches compile stats, I add them all up (while trying to keep everything straight), and then you get to marinate in the finished product.

As we sit here on a Sunday, we’re 60% through the regular season schedule, and the race for the top of the stat sheet rages on.

Through Oct. 5:

 

Varsity
(9 matches):

 

Kills:

Teagan Calkins – 98
Haylee Armstrong – 49
Dakota Strong – 29
Tenley Stuurmans – 22
Ari Cunningham – 19
Lexis Drake – 8
Capri Anter – 2
Adeline Maynes – 2

 

Digs:

Calkins – 76
Armstrong – 71
Stuurmans – 47
Anter – 38
Drake – 27
Cunningham – 20
Maynes – 12
Sydney Van Dyke – 3
Strong – 2

 

Assists:

Stuurmans – 165
Maynes – 21
Cunningham – 8
Armstrong – 7
Calkins – 5
Drake – 5
Strong – 2

 

Solo Blocks:

Stuurmans – 2
Drake – 1

 

Block Assists:

Cunningham – 5
Armstrong – 3
Drake – 3
Strong – 2
Calkins – 1
Maynes – 1
Stuurmans – 1

 

Service Aces:

Stuurmans – 44
Calkins – 23
Cunningham – 12
Drake – 12
Armstrong – 9
Anter – 7
Maynes – 4
Strong – 1

 

Chelsi Stevens, rackin’ up the stats.  (Frankie Tenore photo)

 

JV
(7 matches):

 

Kills:

Sydney Van Dyke – 24
Kennedy O’Neill – 17
Isa Mc Fetridge – 16
Chelsi Stevens – 15
Emma Leavitt – 8
Cassandra Powers – 7
Adeline Maynes – 4
Hailey Grijalva – 2
Olivia Martin – 2
Willow Leedy-Bonifas – 1

 

Digs:

Mc Fetridge – 30
O’Neill – 30
Leedy-Bonifas – 18
Maynes – 11
Stevens – 9
Van Dyke – 7
Martin – 5
Grijalva – 4
Powers – 4
Leavitt – 2
Kee’Arya Brown – 1
Mary Western – 1

 

Assists:

Maynes – 38
Leavitt – 26
Van Dyke – 6
Powers – 5
Grijalva – 4
Mc Fetridge – 2
O’Neill – 2
Stevens – 1

 

Service Aces:

Leavitt – 18
Powers – 15
Van Dyke – 15
Maynes – 12
O’Neill – 11
Mc Fetridge – 10
Stevens – 7
Grijalva – 3
Martin – 3
Leedy-Bonifas – 2

Read Full Post »

“They all ran amazing!”

Posted in Cross Country, tagged , , , , , on October 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Atteberry, running fast and taking names. (Elizabeth Bitting photos)

It’s an all-day kind of thing.

Running with the big boys (and girls), Coupeville High School cross country runners spent Saturday immersed in their favorite fall sport.

The Wolf harriers hit the road at 5:30 AM and were just beginning to work their way back to Whidbey come dinner time after surviving the massive John Payne XC Invitational.

The mega-event attracted somewhere around 150 teams to University Place, with high school, middle school, and club runners mixing.

It made for a challenging experience, but that’s just the way CHS coach Elizabeth Bitting likes it.

“What a long day! But they all ran amazing!! Everyone got a PR!!” she said as the bus wheeled away from the meet site and headed in search of dinner.

Having thrived on the 5,000-meter course at the Payne Invitational, the Wolves will hit the trail hard next week, competing twice.

Coupeville travels to Friday Harbor on Wednesday, Oct. 8 for a Northwest 2B/1B League meet, then follows that up with a visit to Granite Falls three days later for the Mountain Loop Invitational.

The best-dressed cross country team in the land.

Also looking rather natty with their matching shorts.

 

Saturday results:

 

GIRLS:

Varsity:

Mikayla Wagner (79th) 22:25.1
Aleksia Jump (210th) 24:38.2
Ivy Rudat (211th) 24:41.1
Devon Wyman (242nd) 25:17.3
Allie Powers (244th) 25:17.7
Ava Lucero (351st) 31:09.2

 

BOYS:

Varsity:

George Spear (11th) 18:01.8
Cyrus Sparacio (25th) 18:43.3
Ezekiel Allen (42nd) 19:03.5
Kenneth Jacobsen (46th) 19:06.5
Beckett Green (107th) 20:34.8
Isaiah Allen (121st) 20:51.0
Johnathan Jacobsen (165th) 22:35.5

 

JV
(Silver):

Ossian Merkel (63rd) 20:31.9
Will Tierney (168th) 22:16.8

 

JV
(Bronze):

Hunter Atteberry (13th) 22:12.3
Nolan Hunt (146th) 26:57.4
Donovan Fox (168th) 28:39.0
Zach Blitch (180th) 29:46.5
Zachary Saho (206th) 41:15.4

The Wrecking Crew, ready to unleash.

Read Full Post »

Young booters build bright future

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Wyatt Fitch-Marron gets things kicked off. (Julie Wheat photos)

They stood their ground.

Playing the defending state champs Saturday — on the day Orcas Island celebrated Homecoming — the plucky Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad gave its all against the juggernaut.

“Great game. Orcas won 8-0, but we played so much better than our first game against them,” said CHS coach Jim Kunz.

“We were organized and kept good coverage.

“We drove the ball down the field for quite a few shots. Unfortunately, none made it to the back of the net.”

While the deadly-efficient Vikings rattled home a collection of goals, Coupeville’s back line stood tall.

“Defense gave them a great fight with Sam Richards in the goal,” Kunz said.

“One of Sam’s many fantastic saves ended with his arms around the ball while an Orcas player tried to kick it through his chest.”

Wolf goalie Sam Richards leads the handshake line.

Also possibly helping the hometown team a bit was a lack of a full ref contingent, which caused some of the calls to be skewed.

“We knew going into this game that it would be extremely tough,” Kunz said. “Unfortunately, there was only a center ref and one line ref.

“Many offsides situations weren’t called and some of those resulted in goals, which was very disappointing,” he added.

“We had the line ref in the second half and Orcas got called offsides time and time again.”

Coupeville, which has a very young roster this season, sits at 2-5 at the halfway point of the season, with four of its final seven regular season games set to go down at Mickey Clark Field.

The first of those home games arrives Friday, Oct. 10, when CHS hosts Cedar Park Christian-Lynnwood.

“I’m excited to see our Wolves playing as a team,” Kunz said. “I imagine we’ll be giving some opponents a run for their money over the next few weeks.”

Read Full Post »

A goliath arises!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , on October 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Don’t worry, prairie skies will look just like this during the “spring” softball season as well… (David Svien photos)

I left Coupeville for two months-plus, and things changed.

Slightly, but in a very positive way.

After years of watching fouled-off missiles bounce off of homes in a nearby trailer park, hit the windshields of passing cars, or lure teenage girls into sprinting across the road in pursuit (often without looking for cars), Coupeville High School finally has a legit softball backstop.

Nothing is getting away from this netting. I said, nothing.

Plus, the scoreboard got moved into a more-prominent position, one in which it also will stop getting hit by wayward foul balls.

With softball arguably the most-successful sports program at CHS, the Wolf diamond queens deserved the upgrade, as did fans who have dodged incoming death from the sky for years.

Bout dang time.

Read Full Post »

« Newer Posts - Older Posts »