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More medals, more memories

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 31, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Katie Marti celebrates the newest addition to her trophy case. (Christi Messner photo)

They picked up some more mementos.

Capping three days in warm, windy Yakima, the Coupeville High School track and field team earned medals in four more events Saturday at the 2B state championships.

Both Wolf boys relay teams ran in finals, while shot putter Katie Marti and 800-meter runner Carson Field also medaled.

Marquette Cunningham focuses inward in the moments before everything gets really loud. (Elizabeth Bitting photo)

Overall, nine different CHS athletes are bringing at least one medal home with them this season, with senior Cael Wilson topping things with three, including a 2nd place finish Friday in the high jump.

He finishes his run in the red and black with five state medals, tying him with older brother Aidan.

The siblings account for two of the 13 Wolves to collect five or more medals in the modern era of state meets, which kicked off back in 1963.

The other eight Coupeville medalists in 2025 all collected their first one — or first and second in the case of relay aces Preston Epp and Chase Anderson.

That puts CHS track and field on the edge of cracking triple digits next spring, with 99 Wolves having earned at least one medal over the last 62 years.

The Wolves bask under the blue skies of Yakima. (Photo courtesy Bob Martin)

This season, eight of the nine medalists were boys, with that squad finishing 10th in the team standings.

The Wolves tallied 24.50 points, with Freeman edging Saint George’s 75-60 to take the crown.

Coupeville’s fellow Northwest 2B/1B League mates, Mount Vernon Christian (9) and Orcas Island (6.50) claimed 21st and 25th, respectively.

On the girls’ side, Marti picked up two points for her work in the shot put, placing CHS in a tie for 35th with NWL rival Orcas Island.

Saint George’s cruised to a team title, crushing runner-up Freeman 103-66.50.

NWL squad La Conner claimed 4th with 43 points, while Mount Vernon Christian (18) and Friday Harbor (17) were 14th and 15th.

Sophomore Kenneth Jacobsen has run in state meets for both track and cross country. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

Shot Put (Finals) — Katie Marti (7th) 34-09 *PR*

Javelin (Finals) — Marti (15th) 95-00

 

BOYS:

800 (Finals) — Carson Field (8th) 2:08.73

3200 (Finals) — Kenneth Jacobsen (15th) 14:53.61; Field (16th) 15:11.96

4 x 100 Relay (Finals) — Marquette Cunningham, Davin Houston, Preston Epp, Chase Anderson (6th) 44.75

4 x 400 Relay (Finals) — Anderson, Blake Burrows, Cael Wilson, Epp (5th) 3:35.60

 

After moving over from baseball, Chase Anderson had a strong first season in track. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

Coupeville’s 2025 state meet medalists:

 

Chase Anderson:

4 x 100 Relay — 6th
4 x 400 Relay — 5th

 

Blake Burrows:

4 x 400 Relay — 5th

 

Marquette Cunningham:

4 x 100 Relay — 6th

 

Preston Epp:

4 x 100 Relay — 6th
4 x 400 Relay — 5th

 

Wyatt Fitch-Marron:

High Jump — 7th

 

Davin Houston:

4 x 100 Relay — 6th

 

Katie Marti:

Shot Put – 7th

 

Matthew Ward:

Triple Jump — 5th

 

Cael Wilson:

High Jump – 2nd
Pole Vault – 6th
4 x 400 Relay – 5th

On to next season for Wolf coach Elizabeth Bitting! (Jackie Saia photo)

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Record tied, medals collected

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Cael Wilson tied the CHS record in the high jump Friday at the state meet. (Photo courtesy Bob Martin)

It took them a quarter-century, but they finally caught him.

Coupeville High School senior Cael Wilson soared through the Yakima heat Friday at the 2B state track and field championships, tying a school record in the high jump which has lasted 25 years.

The mark of six feet, four inches was set in 2000 by Rich Wilson (no relation), and it’s remained on the Wolf record board untouched since that point.

Until Friday.

Now, after Cael Wilson earned second place in the event, edged out by Trenton Sandburn of Freeman, there will be two Wilsons sharing the CHS record.

It was a dynamic performance by the current Wolf ace, who was joined by Coupeville freshman Wyatt Fitch-Marron, who also medaled, placing 7th in the event.

Ultimately though, no one was catching Sandburn, who hit 6-07 but couldn’t get over the bar in his attempt to break the 2B state record of 6-09, set by Bob Swannack of St. John-Endicott in 1989.

After strong work in the prelims, Chase Anderson (left) and Preston Epp will run in two relay finals. (Jackie Saia photo)

It was a two-medal day for Cael Wilson and will be a three-medal meet by the time he’s done.

He followed up the high jump performance by claiming 6th in the pole vault and also ran a leg on a 4 x 400 relay squad which clinched a medal by advancing to Saturday’s eight-team final.

Barring a plot twist which keeps him from participating in the relay, Cael Wilson will finish his CHS career with five state meet medals, tying older brother Aidan.

He will be the ninth Wolf boy, and 13th Coupeville track star overall since 1963 to collect five or more medals.

Saturday’s finale will feature Coupeville athletes competing in six events, with medals guaranteed in three.

The Wolves have top-eight slots locked down in the boys 800, as well as both boys relay races.

Katie Marti is also slated to vie in the shot put and javelin, while Carson Field and Kenneth Jacobsen will run in the 3200, with all three of those events featuring full 16-athlete fields.

Coupeville’s boys, with four medals in the bag through two days, sit in third place in the 2B team standings with six of 17 events scored.

Onalaska leads the way with 28 points, followed by Saint George’s (19), the Wolves (16.50), Reardan (16), and Northwest Christian (Colbert) rounding out the top five with 15 points.

 

Friday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

800 (Prelims) — Lyla Stuurmans (14th) 2:34.03

Discus (Finals) — Katie Marti (13th) 93-09

Katie Marti (left) and Lyla Stuurmans flank Matthew Ward, who earned a medal in the triple jump Thursday. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

BOYS:

400 (Prelims) — Preston Epp (11th) 52.15 *PR*

800 (Prelims) — Carson Field (5th) 2:02.46

4 x 100 Relay (Prelims) — Marquette Cunningham, Davin Houston, Epp, Chase Anderson (7th) 44.43

4 x 400 Relay (Prelims) — Anderson, Blake Burrows, Cael Wilson, Epp (5th) 3:31.53

High Jump (Finals) — Wilson (2nd) 6-04 *PR* *SCHOOL RECORD*; Wyatt Fitch-Marron (7th) 5-10

Pole Vault (Finals) — Wilson (6th) 11-06

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Prairie pics from a classy clicker

Posted in Baseball, Girls Tennis, Softball, tagged , , , , on May 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Wolf netters Delanie Lewis (left) and Ember Light celebrate Senior Night. (Julie Wheat photos)

The prairie is alive with the sound of a legend clicking away.

Julie Wheat was quite the volleyball and softball star back in the day for the Wolves, and she was an early inductee into the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame.

You can find her in our lil’ digital shrine under her maiden name of Swankie, but these days she’s a wife, mom, and talented photographer.

To see the full breadth of her work, check out her web site at https://www.julienatalieimagery.com/.

During recent Senior Night festivities, Wheat went to work documenting softball, baseball, and tennis, as you can see in the pics above and below.

To see much more from those games and celebrations, and possibly purchase some snaps for Grandma Betty Sue out in Grand Rapids, pop over to:

 

Baseball:

https://julienatalieimagery.pixieset.com/coupevillebaseballseniornight20242025/

 

Girls Tennis:

https://julienatalieimagery.pixieset.com/coupevilletennisseniornight20242025/

 

Softball:

https://julienatalieimagery.pixieset.com/coupevillesoftballseniornight/

 

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Two stars, one happy union

Posted in Wedding of the Century, tagged , , , , on May 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Hope Lodell and Dane Lucero 

Two empires have united in our latest Wolf Nation wedding of the century.

This past Sunday, a day after dad Aaron finished coaching the Coupeville High School softball team at the state tourney, Dane Lucero exchanged vows with fellow Wolf grad Hope Lodell.

The duo, who started dating in 2017, have been off-Island in St. Louis the last two years but are now back full-time in Cow Town.

Lodell, a 2018 Coupeville grad, was an Olympic League MVP as a volleyball spiker, and an All-League centerfielder during her softball days.

Plus, she could do a handstand at like three days old and often amused herself by doing pullups on the overhang on the CHS softball dugout.

One of a handful of Wolf athletic greats who I’ve actually known since the day they were born, Hope is a bright, shining supernova of awesomeness.

And her new husband, a 2019 CHS grad, is a pretty good dude, as well.

After arriving from Missouri, he played football, basketball, and baseball for the Wolves and was greatly appreciated by his coaches.

A rock-solid team player who excelled in whatever role he was asked to fill, Dane set a great example for the pack of Lucero sisters who have followed in his footsteps.

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Wolf ace swings away with Sox

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Landon Roberts hangs out with his fan club Prez. (Photo courtesy Sherry Bonacci)

No rest for the talented.

With the high school baseball season done, Coupeville High School senior Landon Roberts is staying busy on the diamond.

He made his debut with the Skagit Sox American Legion team Thursday, helping his new squad blank the Cascade Baseball Club 4-0 in the Cardinal Classic hosted by Skagit Valley College.

Back at home in Cow Town, mom Sherry Bonacci was manning her computer at the Coupeville School Board meeting where Landon was honored for being a Lion’s Club Student of the Quarter.

The lanky one was not there in person, however, as diamond duty was calling his name.

Roberts ripped a single in his first at-bat, then advanced a runner from second to third with a squibber to shortstop his next time up.

In the field, the Wolf ace, who graduates with the Class of 2025 in a few days, patrolled the outfield and came up with a gem.

Snagging a fly ball near the line, Roberts whipped a frozen rope to second to nail the brave, yet foolhardy runner, who wasn’t quite as fast as he thought he was.

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