Chelsea Prescott is the 2020-2021 Coupeville High School Female Athlete of the Year. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)
Xavier Murdy is the Male Athlete of the Year.
There’s two more names to add to the ring of honor.
Senior Chelsea Prescott and junior Xavier Murdy were tabbed as Coupeville High School’s Athletes of the Year Monday in a virtual ceremony.
Prescott, a four-year star for the Wolves, had very-strong seasons in softball and volleyball during her final year at CHS.
Opening on the diamond, with the pandemic flipping things around, she led CHS softball to a flawless 12-0 record as it returned to the Northwest 2B/1B League after a long absence.
Playing shortstop for the Wolves, Prescott brought a booming bat, quick wheels, and a laser arm to the lineup, plus a low-key, infectious spirit.
After she moved inside for volleyball, she remained on point, lashing winners left and right for a squad which finished second behind two-time defending state champ La Conner.
Prescott peppers a winner.
Tabbed as a First-Team All-Conference pick, Prescott capped her run on the CHS volleyball court by signing to play at Medaille College in New York.
During her days as a Wolf, the young woman who could hit a homerun, then rip out and replace a toilet with one hand, while repairing a car with the other, was a rare athlete.
She came up playing baseball in little league, often pitching, then played volleyball, basketball, and softball at CHS.
Murdy, currently leading a first-place Wolf basketball team in rebounds, assists, and steals, is that rarity — a star who seems to delight in other’s success even more than his own.
His junior year started on the baseball diamond, where he helped Coupeville finish second behind Friday Harbor, moved to the soccer pitch, where he helped restart the program, and is finishing on the hardwood.
Working with teammates such as Hawthorne Wolfe and his own brother, sophomore Alex Murdy, X-Man has been indispensable for a red-hot Wolf team which sits at 6-3 heading into the final week of the season.
Need a big bucket? He can get it.
Need 27 rebounds? He’s on it.
He’s the glue which holds everything together.
And now, like Prescott, and his own basketball coach, Brad Sherman, Murdy will be immortalized on the wall outside the CHS gym – one of the best of the best to ever wear a Wolf uniform.
Murdy sacrifices for the team.
