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She wants all the wins

Posted in Track, Wolves in college, tagged CHS Wolves, hammer throw, SUNY Plattsburgh, Taygin Jump, track and field on April 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Taygin Jump is here to win all your titles. (Photo courtesy Christina Jump)

Taygin Jump ended the regular season with a bang.

The Coupeville grad, now a sophomore track and field star at Plattsburgh State, competed in three events Friday at the SLU Twilight Invite in Canton, New York, handily winning both the hammer throw and javelin toss.

Jump chucked her hammer 125 feet, five inches, finishing 21 feet, 11 inches ahead of the second-place finisher.

The former Wolf ace also claimed the title in the javelin with a heave of 95-09, this time placing exactly 22 feet ahead of her nearest rival.

The one event Jump didn’t win Friday was the discus, but she set a PR anyway, claiming fourth place (out of 11 competitors) with a throw of 82-09.

Aleksia and Khanor’s older sister, who is majoring in Environmental Planning & Management/Geology, tallied 26 points for the Cardinals, who finished second in the team standings.

Up next is the State University of New York Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships May 2-3 in Cortland, New York.

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“Lot of positives to take away”

Posted in Softball, tagged Capri Anter, CHS Wolves, Island rivalry, OHHS Wildcats, Softball, Sydney Van Dyke on April 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Capri Anter (left) and Sydney Van Dyke whacked home runs in the big city Thursday afternoon. (Photo courtesy Colleen Henderson-Van Dyke)

“There is just no substitute for live reps.”

With that in mind, Coupeville High School softball coach Aaron Lucero took a collection of Wolf sluggers to Oak Harbor Thursday for the first JV game of the season.

And once in the big city, the young guns held their own against a 3A school, rallying late to eke out a 6-6 tie with the host Wildcats before daylight ran out.

The game, which featured a pair of final-inning two-run home runs from Coupeville’s Capri Anter and Sydney Van Dyke, and several spiffy defensive plays by catcher Ava Lucero, was a perfect confidence builder.

“A great experience for a number of players who don’t get the opportunity,” Aaron Lucero said.

“I’m proud of the resilience and never being out of the fight.”

Trailing 6-2 in the late going, Coupeville got its bats barking, and how.

Emma Cushman sparked things with a single, with three consecutive extra-base hits providing the big boom.

Anter, who jacked a home run in her team’s most-recent varsity contest, belted an inside-the-park round tripper to cut the lead to 6-4.

Following hot on her footsteps, Ava Lucero crushed a double, before Van Dyke walloped a two-run tater to knot things up.

While the offense came up big, so did the Wolf defense.

Anter whiffed 10 Wildcats from the pitcher’s circle, “pitching well and making adjustments when she ran into trouble and wasn’t getting the calls.”

Meanwhile, her battery mate was superb, with Ava Lucero throwing out a runner at second and scrambling to recover a wild pitch and catch an incoming runner at the plate to preserve the tie.

Mary Western keeps an eagle eye on things. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Coupeville had 10 players in uniform, with eight of them getting on base.

Allie Powers and Mary Western rounded out the Wolf roster, with everyone involved getting the nod of approval from their coach.

“Lot of positives to take away from the game,” Aaron Lucero said. “We have items to work on but will get there.”

Thursday stats:

Capri Anter — One home run, three walks
Emma Cushman — Two singles
Emma Leavitt — Two singles
Ava Lucero — One double
Olivia Martin — One walk
Chelsi Stevens — Two singles
Danica Strong — One walk
Sydney Van Dyke — One single, one home run, one walk

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Kisch swaps soccer coaching gigs

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged Central Whidbey Soccer Club, CHS Wolves, Girls Soccer, Kimberly Kisch, resignation on April 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Kimberly Kisch is stepping down as Coupeville High School girls’ soccer coach but will continue working on the pitch. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

She’s shifting gears.

After two seasons of working as a coach at the same high school where she once played soccer herself, Kimberly Kisch has resigned.

But that doesn’t mean she’s leaving the pitch, just planning to redirect her efforts to a different age group.

Kisch was hired to coach the CHS girls’ soccer program, but the Wolves have been unable to field a full team the past two seasons due to a shortage of players.

Those girls who did show up have played with the Wolf boys as a co-ed team, with Kisch joining fellow soccer guru Robert Wood on the sideline.

Wood recently stepped down as boys coach, citing the difficulty in balancing the position with his real-world job.

Now, Kisch is joining him in stepping away from high school soccer and will instead focus on continuing her work with younger players.

“I’m not leaving soccer,” she said. “I am just putting more into the younger divisions.

“I took on the Vice President role for Central Whidbey Youth Soccer and I went back to coaching for them in U12. I have had a number of these girls since U8.

“I am back with them and hoping to inspire them to stick with soccer so that we can revive the girls (high school) program.”

In her resignation letter, Kisch expressed her gratitude for the time she had with the high school program, and the hope it would continue to be rebuilt.

“It is important for this program to grow and flourish and I do not feel that I can accomplish this in my current role,” she wrote to Athletic Director Brad Sherman.

“I greatly enjoyed my time working with and learning from you, Coach Rob, and the student players.

“Moving forward I would like to take what I have learned the program needs and feed it into the younger players coming up.

“I am so hopeful that training the lower divisions will be effective in the revival of the high school girl’s program.”

Kisch hopes to remain involved with the CHS program as a volunteer, offering support to her replacement.

“Thank you for the opportunity to be involved with this program,” she said. “I am so grateful to have had the honor of coaching for the team I grew up playing on.”

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Doubly delightful day for netters

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged CHS Wolves, girls tennis, Granite Falls, road trip, Tenley Stuurmans on April 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Tenley Stuurmans won twice Wednesday in Granite Falls. (Bailey Thule photo)

Shuffle the lineup, shuffle the results.

Coupeville and Granite Falls coaches agreed to play Wednesday’s non-conference girls’ tennis match with an emphasis on doubles action, and the Wolves came away with their first team win of the season.

The Tigers, who were playing host, requested that CHS singles players be paired with newer teammates and play pro sets, creating a different learning experience.

“Mashed up the doubles teams and brought some doubles teams back together,” said CHS coach Starla Seal. “Experienced players could act as a guide for the new players.

“Overall, it was a good match.”

With the action moving along at a good clip, the teams even had time to play two singles matches at the end, with Wolf netters Tenley Stuurmans and Dahlia Miller remaining undefeated on the campaign.

Coupeville will be back at home Friday, hosting The Bush School in a non-league tilt — the team’s second-to-last home rumble of the spring.