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Big kicks, quick camera clicks!!

Posted in soccer, tagged CHS Wolves, Connor McCormick, John Fisken photos, Micky LeVine, Rock on 3v3, Soccer on May 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »

CHS teammates Loren Nelson (red) and Connor McCormick find themselves on opposite sides of the battle for once. (John Fisken photos)

Back from college, former Wolf star Micky “Two Fists” LeVine returns to kick some fanny on the pitch.

CHS boys’ soccer coach Kyle Nelson (17) proves he can kick as well as coach.

“I’m coming for all the goals! All of them!!”

“I am the law.” CHS quarterback Hunter Downes gets a view of the game from the other side of the ball.

McCormick looks for a little help as Zack Nall closes in on him.

Tanner Kircher’s power lies in his silky, flowing locks.

The “old man” can still gun it in the open field. Whidbey Islander coach Sean LeVine may be sore tomorrow, but he’s on fire today.

They came, they saw, they played a little soccer.

Well, actually a lot of soccer.

Memorial Day weekend kicked off in style in Oak Harbor as the North Whidbey Soccer Club held its 11th annual “Rock On! 3v3” tourney Saturday and Sunday.

A ton of current, former and future Coupeville High School players took part, from Micky LeVine to Abraham Leyva to Jake Mitten and far beyond.

The tourney featured fast-paced, high-scoring play, with action taking place on a field 40 yards long by 30 yards wide.

Each team played with three players and there were no goalies.

Bouncing back and forth from field to field to capture a little taste of everything was wanderin’ photo man John Fisken, who provides us with the pics seen above.

To see more (and possibly purchase some, thereby keeping him clickin’ away) pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Rock-On-3v3-soccer-20160529/

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Prairie legends? Without a doubt!!

Posted in Hall o' Fame, tagged Brian Miller, CHS Wolves, Hall of Fame, Marilyn Sherman, Ryan O'Keefe on May 29, 2016| 3 Comments »

Ryan O'Keefe (top with children Gavin, Kendra and Kramer

Ryan O’Keefe (top with children, l to r, Gavin, Kendra and Kramer). Bottom, as a CHS ace and early diamond days. (Photos courtesy Renae Mulholland)

Four-time state track meet medalist Brian Miller.

Marilyn (Sherman) Clay (back row, far left) and fellow Wolf cheerleaders pose with awards won by the CHS boys' basketball squad. (Photo courtesy Diane Eelkema)

Marilyn (Sherman) Clay (back row, far left) and fellow Wolf cheerleaders. (Photo courtesy Diane Eelkema)

A terror on the hard-court, Clay (bottom, far right) played at a time when female athletes rarely received the notice they deserved. (Photo courtesy Jack Sell)

Unsung excellence.

It’s what the three athletes who comprise the 49th class inducted into the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame embody.

Dynamic stars, in different decades, the trio set records, won awards and yet have never really gotten their full due, for various reasons.

But today, as we welcome Ryan O’Keefe, Brian Miller and Marilyn (Sherman) Clay to these hallowed digital walls, they get their well-deserved moment in the spotlight.

After this, you’ll find them up at the top of the blog, under the Legends tab, cause that’s what they are.

We’re starting with the young gun in the bunch, Miller, who was a strong athlete all across the board, but left his biggest impact in track and basketball.

Competing at the same time as Coupeville’s most successful male track stars of all time — Kyle and Tyler King — Miller’s accomplishments went a bit under the radar.

They shouldn’t have.

Before this year’s trio of Lindsey Roberts, Makana Stone and Dalton Martin joined the club, Miller was one of just four Wolves in the school’s 116-year history to win three medals at the same state track meet.

As a senior in 2008, he showed incredible range, finishing 5th in the javelin, 6th in the high jump and running a leg on a 4 x 400 relay team which claimed 6th.

Toss in a 3rd place finish in the high jump as a sophomore, and his track career remains one of the best CHS has ever seen.

Miller wasn’t a one-trick pony, either, raining down 597 points across three seasons as a varsity basketball player.

He led the team in scoring as a junior, was second as a senior and fourth as a sophomore.

During his junior and senior seasons, Miller’s main running mate on the hardwood was Kramer O’Keefe, the son of our second inductee.

Ryan O’Keefe, part of a spectacularly-talented athletic family, which includes children Kramer, Kendra, and Gavin — all in the Hall for their own stellar play — had his greatest success on the diamond.

Coming hot on the heels of fellow Wolf great Raymond Cook (who was two years ahead in school), O’Keefe — then pitching as Keefe, before the family restored the O, was as good a mounds-man as Coupeville has ever seen.

When CHS played doubleheaders, O’Keefe would toss the opening game, then move to shortstop in the nightcap with Cook sliding onto the mound.

Among his many highlights was a 15-strikeout one-hitter to carry Coupeville to a state playoff win and a nine-game winning streak as a senior where he threw a complete game every time out.

Hidden away in his earlier days was the time O’Keefe pitched seven innings for his junior high team, then went out that same night and tossed a six-inning game for his little league squad.

That ability to do a bit of everything was also showcased by our third and final inductee, Clay.

Attending school at a time before Title IX, she never had the opportunities current Wolf female athletes take for granted.

While school records are spotty (at best) and the News-Times writers of the day ignored anything which wasn’t football, baseball or boys basketball, any time you talk about female athletes in the early days, Clay’s name pops up in the conversation.

A talented tennis player who also was a cheerleader, sang in the chorus, acted in the school play and frequently appeared on the honor roll, she was one of the trailblazers today’s stars should recognize.

Which wouldn’t be too hard to do, as she frequently appears at CHS sporting events with husband Bob, following the exploits of her countless relatives.

You can’t be a Sherman in Coupeville and not know at least one or two names on the roster, most days.

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Twice the cake, twice the stars!!

Posted in Happy birthday, tagged Basketball, Brittany Powers, CHS Wolves, Happy birthday, Luke Carlson, Popsicle on May 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Birthday buddies Luke Carlson and Brittany Powers.

They are birthday buddies, united by a cake day, a school and a love for competition.

Coupeville High School sophomores Brittany Powers and Luke Carlson, who celebrate birthdays today, are fast-rising, outgoing athletes who are even better people off the field or court.

Carlson has played football and thrown in several events as a member of the Wolf track team, but his best moments this year came around the CHS softball field.

Hanging out with pal Jordan Ford in a couch they hauled to the side of the field, or handing out Popsicle’s to his track mates as they headed back to the gym, Luke is a friendly face wherever he pops up.

Powers, who has divided time between basketball and volleyball in her days at CHS, is just as friendly … off the court.

On the hardwood, the mighty mite is a raging beast unleashed, which is just how her coach, Amy King, likes it.

One of the scrappiest of the Wolves, Brittany helped power the Coupeville JV girls by fighting for every ball, banging elbows off of people’s heads (when necessary) and being an all-around ball-hawk.

She collected an impressive set of dings and bruises for King’s Maraduers, while also showing a touch for dropping baskets that should benefit her going forward.

Both of our birthday buddies have sparkled thus far, and I’m sure in the second half of their high school careers, sports and otherwise, they will continue to excel.

Happy birthday Brittany and Luke, from all of us in the stands.

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Sole Sisters sizzle!!

Posted in Track, tagged Cheney, CHS Wolves, Lindsey Roberts, Makana Stone, relays, state meet, Track on May 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Lindsey Roberts, roaring up the outside,

CHS frosh Lindsey Roberts, here with coach Chad Felgar, roared up the outside lane Saturday, claiming fourth in the 100 hurdles. (Sherry Roberts photo)

The Sole Sisters — Lauren Grove, Roberts, Sylvia Hurlburt and Makana Stone, broke school records in both relays this weekend. (Sylvia Hurlburt photo)

Jacob Smith (and his mom) bask in the glow of his first state meet medal. (Deb Smith photo)

Sole Sisters 4 Ever. (Eileen Stone photo)

This will go down as one of the great years in Coupeville High School track history.

Capping a brilliant two-day run through the 1A state meet in Cheney, the Wolves picked up six more medals Saturday, running their total to nine.

That’s the most medals won at one state meet since the 2008 CHS squad also claimed nine.

While 2016 doesn’t match 2006, when the CHS boys won four state titles, including the only relay crown in school history, this year’s pack of Wolves can stand proud.

The girls finished 11th in the team standings, the best of any District 3 school, while the boys placed 15th, just a point-and-a-half behind Port Townsend.

Naches Valley won the girls title (South Whidbey was 17th), while Zillah took the boys trophy home.

Entering this year’s meet, Coupeville had four athletes who had won three or more medals at a single state meet — Jon Chittim (who won four in 2006), Tyler King, Kyle King and Brian Miller.

They nearly doubled that this weekend, with seniors Makana Stone and Dalton Martin and freshman Lindsey Roberts all hitting the trifecta.

Martin is the first Wolf in history to win three throwing medals at the same state meet (2nd in discus, 8th in both javelin and shot put), while Roberts and Stone became the first CHS girls to reach the three-medal, one-meet level.

The irrepressible freshman was the first to do what even former Wolf greats like Natasha Bamberger, Jennie Cross and Madison Tisa McPhee had not, when she sandwiched a shocker in the 100 hurdles in between legs on two relay squads.

Roberts, who was the only frosh to toe the starting line in the hurdles, was seeded eighth, but came roaring up on the outside to knock off half the pack and finish fourth.

Packaged around that, she teamed with the “Sole Sisters,” — Stone, Sylvia Hurlburt and Lauren Grove — to run strong in both the 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 races.

The 4 x 2 team equaled last year’s 3rd place showing, breaking a school record, while the Wolves claimed sixth in the 4 x 1.

Coupeville broke the school record in the shorter race during Saturday’s prelims.

Stone then capped her prep career with a second-place showing in the 400, trailing only three-time state champ Maya Jackson of Northwest across the line.

That left the Wolf senior with seven state meet medals, while her quicksilver running mate since 7th grade, Hurlburt, zoomed away with four of her own for her stellar career.

While the Wolf girls were running wild on the oval, Martin was pulling off his second surprise of the meet.

Jumping from a #16 seed in the javelin to medal Friday, he vaulted from a #12 seed in the shot put to put the final stamp on his life as a Wolf.

With a second-place showing in his premier event, the discus, Martin finished with four state meet medals for his high school run.

After freshman Chris Battaglia tied his PR in the high jump with a leap of 5-04, sophomore Jacob Smith delivered the final high note for Wolf Nation.

Roaring to a fourth-place finish, he put the track community on notice he’ll be back, and he wants more medals.

Many more.

While Wolf seniors Hurlburt, Stone, Martin, Jared Helmstadter, Lathom Kelley and Jordan Ford (8th in the pole vault Friday) depart, Coupeville should return several marquee athletes next season.

Eight of the 13 Wolves who competed in Cheney are underclassmen, led by Roberts, Smith and Grove, who now has three state meet medals of her own.

Other potential returnees with state experience include Skyler Lawrence, Danny Conlisk, Mitchell Carroll, Henry Wynn and Battaglia, as well as Allison Wenzel, Connor Thompson, Ashlie Shank and Grey Rische, who were alternates this year.

Complete Day 2 results:

Girls:

400 — Makana Stone (2nd) 58.74

100 hurdles — Lindsey Roberts (4th) 16.39 *PR*

4 x 100 relay — Lauren Grove, Roberts, Stone, Sylvia Hurlburt (6th) 50.98

4 x 200 relay — Grove, Roberts, Hurlburt, Stone (3rd) 1:46.41 *SCHOOL RECORD*

Boys:

200 — Jacob Smith (4th) 23.06

Shot Put — Dalton Martin (8th) 47-07.75 *PR*

High Jump — Chris Battaglia (14th) 5-04 *PR*

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Ignore the rain, today’s about Zane!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, Football, Happy birthday, tagged cake day, CHS Wolves, football, Happy birthday, Soccer, Zane Bundy on May 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Zane Bundy, through the years.

The best-dressed booter in the biz. (John Fisken photos)

Doin’ what he does.

Zane Bundy is special.

The Coupeville High School senior, who celebrates a birthday today, is a rarity, in many ways.

I’ve seen him grow up seemingly for all of his life, because in his early days he was a fixture at Videoville and David’s DVD Den, the constant companion to mom Janine or dad Mark.

Whether he was knee-deep in the video game section, trying to fast-talk his way to renting a questionable movie that he absolutely, positively needed to see or scampering around the aisles, Zane was a friendly ball o’ fire.

As he grew, both in age and shooting up like a weed in height, young Mr. Bundy picked up the mantle of soccer star and ran with it.

Both as a select player and high school booter, he’s been one of the most consistent stars we’ve had in Coupeville in the last decade.

Zane had a nose for goal-scoring, but also showed an extremely deft touch with the ball when setting others up for the shot.

And, despite always being a pretty dang skinny kid, he has never been afraid to rumble in the scrums, taking and exchanging body blows with the burliest of foes.

Proving people can always surprise you, Bundy slipped off the pitch as a senior to join the CHS football team for the first time.

Utilizing his booming leg, he led the Wolves in scoring and was among the best prep field goal kickers in the state.

He even snagged himself a tackle late in the season, which delighted Zane and coach Ryan King, while causing his mom to (momentarily) hyperventilate.

And lo and behold, it’s football, not soccer, which he’ll be playing in college.

Who saw that coming?

Through it all, whether he was playing “the beautiful game” or staying one step ahead of grunting, 300-pound would-be tacklers, Bundy has never changed as a person.

And that, ultimately, is what has always made him one of my favorite athletes, on and off the field.

He remains today the same fresh-faced, super-friendly person he was as a young boy, though now, as a young man set to graduate high school in a week, he’s become quite the fashion fiend.

Athletes come and athletes go, and a few will always rise above the crowd, for any number of reasons. Some positive, some negative.

With Zane, it has been nothing but positive, from day one to his final moments as a Wolf.

I hope he goes down to Santa Barbara City College and makes a big splash with the Vaqueros gridiron squad. That goes without saying.

But regardless of how his entree into college football goes, this is a young man who will be a success in life, and that’s far more important.

He is too kind, too smart, too friendly, too talented, not to do well.

Today is a small sliver of his life, and I hope his cake day is a smashing one. But I also hope every day around his birthday is equally winning.

Face it, Zane, you’re a pretty awesome guy.

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