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Football is upon us!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, jamboree, John Fisken photos, La Conner on August 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Smith looks for running room, as Ryan Labrador trails the play. (John Fisken photos)

Jacob Zettle stays hydrated on a sizzling afternoon in La Conner.

Coupeville was the only school to bring its cheerleaders. Thereby proving, as always, the Wolves have far more spirit than their rivals.

Dawson Houston snags a wayward ball.

The Wolves have a meeting of the minds.

Teo Keilwitz runs to daylight.

Which gets a thumbs up from Jake Hoagland.

Rampaging freshman Sean Toomey-Stout already has the whole “tackling like a wild beast” thing down cold.

No one worried about the score, but Friday was still important.

With Coupeville High School’s football team sitting eight days away from its season opener (Sept. 3 at home vs. South Whidbey), the Wolves got a chance to go out and hit someone who wasn’t their own teammate.

The occasion was a three-team jamboree down La Conner way, with Coupeville and Burlington-Edison filling out the marquee.

The game gave the Wolves a chance to run through their offense and defense under game-like conditions (and the watchful eye of first-year head coach Jon Atkins).

It also might have provided a little bit of an informal scouting session, as Coupeville returns to La Conner in Week 2 (Sept. 9) for a non-conference game with the Braves.

As the teams battled under a scorching sun, wanderin’ paparazzi John Fisken worked the sidelines, capturing the late-summer gridiron action.

To see more (and possibly purchase some glossy, mantle-worthy pics while helping fund scholarships for CHS student/athletes) pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11762&league=21&page_name=photo_store&pid=0.5.24.0.206&school=24&sport=0

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Choose your lane!!

Posted in Track, tagged CHS Wolves, lanes, levies, new look, Track on August 26, 2016| 1 Comment »

Coupeville High School’s new track oval, sporting just-added lanes, glimmers in the Friday afternoon sun. (Scott Losey photos)

Lines upon lines, all leading to a bright future for CHS track.

For the first time in 35 years, there are new lanes on the Coupeville High School track oval.

Of course, it helps that the oval itself is brand spanking new as well, as the levy approved by local voters continues to pay off with upgraded facilities.

While the track itself has been in place for a week or two now, Friday was L-Day, as lines were officially painted, taking the whole thing to another level of reality.

Still ahead is obtaining all the moving parts (hurdles, pole vault pit equipment, electronic timing devices, etc.) needed for CHS to start hosting track meets again.

As the old six-lane track deteriorated, the school lost the ability to host meets around 2008.

The plan is to take full advantage of the gorgeous new eight-lane track, as school officials want Coupeville to be a destination for teams.

Along with holding regular home track meets, CHS wants to host postseason events such as the district meet, which would bring in multiple teams and a new level of excitement.

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26 years later, still the gold standard!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, Class of 1990, football, Jason McFadyen, Ron Bagby, Todd Brown, undefeated on August 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf QB Jason McFadyen runs the offense during the last truly great CHS football season. (Photo courtesy Carmen McFadyen)

It came from the dusty "archives" -- Ron Bagby's football contract for the 1990 season.

It came from the dusty “archives” — Ron Bagby’s football contract for his undefeated season. (Jack Sell photo)

The core of the 1990 Wolf gridiron squad. (Photo courtesy Noah Roehl)

Ron Bagby made $86.80 per game in 1990, while delivering arguably the best football season in Coupeville High School history.

That’s just one of the facts I discovered this morning, while digging through several boxes of long-buried, and mostly hand-written, Wolf gridiron records.

The boxes were recovered, Indiana Jones-style, after CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith led me through a maze of back rooms ripe with the smell of history (or maybe just unwashed uniforms).

“Don’t breathe through your mouth!!!” he giggled.

While the mass of paperwork stashed in the boxes should spur several stories, the one which immediately jumps forward is the tale of the ’90 football squad.

With the recent installation of the school’s new Wall of Fame in the CHS gym, current players can gaze upwards towards two football league titles — 1974 and 1990 — both won by teams which went undefeated in the regular season.

While CHS fell 34-14 in its 1990 state playoff opener, falling to visiting Rainier on a brutally windy prairie afternoon, that squad still looms large in Wolf lore.

Through the remainder of Bagby’s 26-year coaching career, and much shorter stints by his successors — Jay Silver, Tony Maggio, Brett Smedley and now first-year man Jon Atkins — Coupeville has never made it back to state in football.

While the school’s basketball, track, baseball and tennis teams have continued to pile up league titles and bring home state trophies, the football program has been on a bit of a dry streak.

As they aim for their own shot of glory in 2016, they can look back to ’90 for inspiration.

It was a year when Coupeville claimed 10 of the 23 spots on the All-League team, yet somehow Bagby was passed over for Coach of the Year by the Northwest B League.

Linemen Chris Frey and Mark Lester and running back/defensive back Todd Brown were All-League on both sides of the ball, while four other Wolves got the nod at one position apiece.

Matt Cross (offensive line), Brad Haslam (kicker), Todd Smith (defensive end) and Frank Marti (linebacker) joined the two-way honorees.

Concrete, which held Coupeville to a season-low in points (while still losing to the Wolves) had seven All-League picks, with Darrington (4), Friday Harbor (2) and Orcas-Lopez (2) rounding out the rosters.

The biggest surprise in 2016 is looking at an All-League sheet and seeing Darrington’s Rob Wales listed as Coach of the Year during a season when Bagby’s marauders beat the Loggers 18-8 and went (ahem) undefeated.

Moving on, the 1990 season is one of the rare ones for which I’ve actually discovered a fully-detailed team stat chart.

No poking through piles of papers, adding things up by hand, and then discovering at the last second that yes, we are missing a stat sheet for game #4 and David can feel the brains leaking out of his ear.

Now, of course, one caveat.

While the offensive stats are all there, I could find only a smidgen of the defensive ones. So, no tackles or sacks, just interceptions.

Hey, it’s a start.

The tale of the tape:

Coupeville beats Sultan 35-6
Coupeville beats Cascade sophomores 29-22
Coupeville beats Mariner sophomores 44-22
Coupeville beats Snohomish sophomores 25-6
Coupeville beats Friday Harbor 28-21
Coupeville beats Concrete 10-0
Coupeville beats Darrington 18-8
Coupeville beats Orcas-Lopez 36-0
Coupeville beats La Conner 41-22

Team stats:

Total points: 266-107 in favor of CHS
First downs: 148-71 in favor of CHS
Passing: 61-113 for 933 yards and 8 TDs
Rushing: 359 carries for 2,340 yards and 28 TDs
Total Yards: 3,273 (364 a game)

Individual stats:

Passing:

Jason McFadyen 60-108 for 892 yards and 7 TDs
Frank Marti 1-2 for 25 yards
Brad Haslam 1-3 for 16 yards and 1 TD

Receiving:

Ben Biskovich 22 catches for 345 yards
Brian Barr 13-209
Marti 11-183
Haslam 11-62
Todd Brown 2-7

Rushing:

Brown 156 carries for 1248 yards
Marti 80-522
Haslam 45-273
Kit Manzanares 27-170
McFadyen 17-88
Jason McManigle 3-20
Les Hall 6-19

Touchdowns:

Marti 12
Brown 11
Biskovich 4
Haslam 4
McFadyen 3
Barr 1
McManigle 1

PAT:

Haslam 22

FG:

Haslam 2

INT:

Biskovich 5
Barr 2
Haslam 2
Marti 2

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Back to the pitch!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, Lauren Grove, Mia Littlejohn, practice, Soccer on August 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Freshman Avalon Renninger gets ready to rumble with the big kids. (John Fisken photos)

May Rose unleashes her patented kick o’ death.

Mallory Kortuem keeps an eye on the ball while heading up-field.

Crushin’ it. Anna Dion sets up the play.

Sage Renninger: “I’m a veteran. I’ll run when I feel like it.”

Mia Littlejohn, who has spent the summer playing select ball, is already in mid-season form.

Ema Smith: “Guys! Guyyyyssss!!!! Stop tryin’ to hit me in the freakin’ face, you psychos!!”

The start of a new season brings a smile to Wolf goalie Lauren Grove’s face.

They can wander, but the beautiful game always calls them home.

As summer winds down, the Coupeville High School booters are back it, prepping for a new season and another run at Klahowya.

Coming off of back-to-back second-place finishes in the 1A Olympic League, the young ‘n hungry Wolves are eyeing the top prize this season.

To get there, they’ll have to put in work, which is why they were toiling away under the sunshine Wednesday, when wanderin’ paparazzi John Fisken strolled by, camera in hand.

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Causin’ a racket!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, John McClarin, Joseph Wedekind, netters, San Juan Capistrano, tennis on August 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »

John McClarin, looking easy-breezy as tennis practice kicks off. (John Fisken photos)

Summer lessons have made Jakobi Baumann a lean, mean tennis machine.

Grey Rische goes low for a volley.

Once a young turk, Jimmy Myers is now a grizzled vet for the Wolf net squad.

The magician, Mason Grove, at work.

Joseph Wedekind: "I have to swat you. You're a tennis ball, I'm a hard-court assassin. It's just the way things are in this world."

Joseph Wedekind: “I have to swat you. You’re a tennis ball, I’m a hard-court assassin. It’s just the way things are in this crazy, mixed-up world.”

Like the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, the netters have migrated back to the hard-courts.

As summer winds down, the Coupeville High School tennis players have grabbed their rackets and kicked off the opening week of practice.

While the Wolves lost several key players to graduation, they return a number of talented veterans, who will mesh with bright-eyed newcomers.

All are intent on defending Coupeville’s 1A Olympic League title and adding a fresh title board to the school’s brand spanking new historical display in the gym.

As they toiled under longtime CHS tennis guru Ken Stange Wednesday, the Wolves also had to deal with a wandering paparazzi or two, who were intent on capturing their early-season work.

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