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Wolf girls shuffle hoops coaches

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on November 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Scout Smith (left) will coach the CHS varsity girls’ basketball team this winter. (Julie Wheat photo)

They’re changing up roles, for a season.

Coupeville High School girls’ basketball head coach Megan Richter is slated to deliver baby #2 shortly after the season tips off, so she’s handing off a chunk of her duties to JV coach Scout Smith.

Smith will slide into the main chair, with Lark Gustafson and Alita Blouin running the second squad during the 2025-2026 campaign.

While she won’t be front and center for a bit, Richter will be available as a resource and intends to be back on the sideline fulltime next season.

For now, though, “I’ll be around for the first couple of weeks as long as my body allows, but Scout is in charge from the beginning to the end this season.”

Smith, who scored 290 points during her time as a player with the Wolf hoops program, just wrapped her first season as varsity head coach with CHS volleyball.

A former CHS Female Athlete of the Year winner, she played volleyball, basketball, and softball for the school, helping lead both the spikers and diamond dandies to state as a team captain.

After graduating with degrees from the University of Washington and Gonzaga, she returned to her alma mater as a teacher and coach.

For her part, Smith is ready and raring to get going.

“I am super excited to lead this team this year,” she said.

“We have a great group of girls. A lot of really talented athletes and they are a blast to work with.

“I’m really glad I get to continue working with so many of the same players I just had in volleyball.”

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Water wizard preps for final splash

Posted in Swim, tagged , , , , on November 18, 2025| 1 Comment »

Finn Price is back in the water for his senior season. (Photo courtesy Rachel Price-Rayner)

He’s a two-timer looking to be a three-timer.

Coupeville High School senior Finn Price, who has advanced to the 1A/2A state swim and dive championships the past two seasons, is back for a final run in the pool.

Since CHS, a 2B school, doesn’t have a swim program of its own, the Lone Wolf hits the road, joining any South Whidbey water wizards, then completing the daily trek to Kamiak High School in Mukilteo.

While there Price trains and competes alongside swimmers from the 4A school, before going his own way during the postseason.

As a junior, he competed at state in the 100 and 200 free while battling a double ear infection, earning 5th place in the 100 free consolation finals.

A year earlier, Price capped his sophomore campaign by winning the state meet consolation finals in the 200 free, while also claiming fifth in the 100 free.

Coupeville’s aquatic king, who is also an Eagle Scout, advanced to districts as a freshman, winning the consolation finals in the 200 to kick off his impressive run.

With one final swing at glory, Price is determined to write an impressive final chapter.

“He’s excited to get going and has set some good goals for the 100 and 200 free,” said mom Rachel.

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Robotics squad back in action

Posted in robotics, tagged , , , , on November 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Ready to win the day. (Photos courtesy Alison Perera)

They’re powered up.

After competing in tandem with Oak Harbor for a while, Coupeville High School has launched its own robotics team once again.

The squad is officially FTC Team 32666, but they’re better known as the “32-Bit Devils” and they’re ready to shake up the robotics world.

School Board Director Alison Perera and physics/math teacher Logan Inces are the advisors, with 11 middle and high school students on the roster.

That group includes juniors Lina Shelly, Haylee Armstrong, and Lindy Sylvester, as well as sophomores Ryan Beaston and Noah Stribrny, and freshman Frank Morrell.

Eighth graders Ross Allred, Farrin Workman, Ash Prats, Hayli Marley, and Jade Peabody complete the team.

The 32-Bit Devils have competed in two league events in the FIRST Tech Challenge so far and currently sit sixth out of 12 teams.

Coupeville will step into the big time Dec. 7, when it attends a 26-team tourney off-Island featuring numerous squads from Seattle and Edmonds.

The FIRST Tech Challenge is “a robotics competition where teams of students design, build, and program small robots to score points in a series of fast-paced matches.”

Each match is played on a small court with two alliances (red and blue), and the alliances switch up with every match, meaning your partner in one round can be your rival later in the tourney.

This year’s game requires building a robot which shoots a wiffle ball into a standing goal.

L to r, it’s Alison Perera, Lindy Sylvester, Lina Shelly, Haylee Armstrong, Frank Morrell, Hayli Marley, Jade Peabody, Ross Allred, Farrin Workman, and Logan Ince.

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CHS alumni still sparkle

Posted in Football, soccer, Volleyball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on November 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Mia Farris

The curtain has descended on fall college sports.

At least as it concerns a pack of Coupeville High School grads who suited up across the nation this spring.

Nezi Keiper wrapped up a successful two-year run on the soccer pitch at Edmonds College, where she helped anchor her team’s defense.

The former Wolf played in the Northwest Athletic Conference All-Star game as a freshman and was part of a team which went 7-7-2 during her sophomore campaign.

Nezi Keiper (far right)

On the gridiron, Marcelo Gebhard played his freshman season at Lewis-Clark Valley College in Idaho, while Ben Smith reached the end of his collegiate run with a year at Lakeland University in Wisconsin.

Smith was on the field in eight games as a grad student for a squad which won its final three games to finish 4-6.

He racked up 20 tackles (14 solo, six assists), with six tackles for loss, two sacks, two quarterback hits, and a forced fumble.

Ben Smith

Meanwhile, volleyball aces Lyla Stuurmans and Mia Farris made strong debuts at Skagit Valley College and Whatcom College, respectively.

Their squads split two matchups, with SVC (17-15) earning a spot in the regional playoffs before being eliminated this past weekend.

Stuurmans filled up the stat sheet with 168 kills, 70 digs, three assists, seven solo blocks, 35 block assists, and 21 service aces, compiling 213.5 points for the Cardinals.

Farris collected 52 kills, 195 digs, 10 assists, one solo block, seven block assists, and 37 aces as Whatcom finished 7-17 overall.

Fellow Wolf grads Madison McMillan (softball – Edmonds College) and Landon Roberts (baseball – Walla Walla College) have both seen some fall ball action already, with most of their games awaiting the arrival of spring.

Finally, college vets Taygin Jump (Plattsburgh State) and Tate Wyman (Oregon Tech) are nearing the start of another winter indoor track season.

Madison McMillan reunites with her high school teammate.

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Booters build for bright future

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on November 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Rising stars (left to right) Lillian Ketterling, Tamsin Ward, Olivia Stewart, and Amelia McGrath. (Photo courtesy Jandellyn Ward)

It’s never too early to think about playing at the next level.

Four Whidbey Island soccer players pulled themselves out of bed at 4:15 AM Sunday morning to make the trek to Bellevue and participate in a College Coaches Showcase Camp.

Sophomore sensation Lillian Ketterling and fab frosh Tamsin Ward attend Coupeville High School, while freshmen Olivia Stewart and Amelia McGrath do their schooling in Oak Harbor.

All four play together on the Deception FC soccer squad when not suiting up for their high school teams.

The Showcase Camp, hosted by Bellevue College, was for “high school players who want direct coaching and evaluation from college coaches on the field.”

The event featured coaches from 11 colleges, including Washington State University, Seattle University, and Oregon State University.

Those coaches ran the drills and scrimmages, offering players first-hand evaluations of their performances.

There was also a parent-inclusive recruiting seminar, focusing on NCAA rules and timelines to give players and their families a realistic view of the process.

“I think it’s invaluable to be able to start this early and know what to expect going forward, as a parent as well as the athlete,” said mom Jandellyn Ward.

“Hearing the coaches talk, being able to ask questions and also introducing themselves to them. Those were the best parts.”

The day also gave the Whidbey pitch queens a chance to step up their games, playing alongside other high-grade athletes.

“The girls got to scrimmage with obviously players they had never seen before,” Jandellyn Ward said. “So it was nice for them to be outside their comfort zone for a little while.”

While the high school season is done, club soccer continues for the fearsome foursome.

Up ahead on the schedule are tournaments in Tukwila in January and February, which will give the booters more chances to be seen by college recruiters.

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