Koa Davison is ready for his close-up. Maybe. (Deb Smith photos)
A pack of fleet-footed Wolves, hanging out and waiting for their next event.
“Nope, I’m still cold!!”
“Yep, we’re coming for your records. All of them.”
Aram Leyva busts a gut down the backstretch. (Pat Kelley photos)
Relay mates Zoe Trujillo (back) and Avalon Renninger celebrate.
And so it begins.
A brand new middle school track season officially kicked off Wednesday, as Coupeville hopped over to Port Townsend for a three-team meet.
Bringing 42 athletes, the Wolves outnumbered their hosts from Blue Heron Middle School, who had 26, but fell way short of Stevens.
A large school that funnels students to 2A high school Port Angeles, Stevens had a whopping 119 athletes on site.
Even so, Coupeville dominated the day.
“We undoubtedly won the meet,” said CMS coach Bob Martin. “Our athletes swept many of the events; they’ve put in the work and it showed!”
With so many athletes involved, Martin and co-coach Elizabeth Bitting did extraordinary work keeping track of Coupeville’s stats.
Keep in mind, it’s the first meet, everything was topsy-turvy and a good chunk of these athletes are new to Coupeville Sports and try not to go bonkers if I flip some numbers or names here.
(Pretty) complete results:
GIRLS:
60 — Ja’Tarya Hoskins 8.30, Cassidy Moody 8.39; Lily Zustiak 8.50; Helen Sinclair 9.62; Raven Vick 9.72
100 — Mallory Kortuem 14.37; Morgan Pease 14.47; Zustiak 15.44; Natalie Hollrigel 15.63; Mica Shipley 15.70; Ashleigh Battaglia 16.40; Mikaela Labrador 16.93
200 — Moody 29.00; Lucy Sandahl 31.00; Zustiak 33.87; Zoe Trujillo 34.35; Labrador 34.38; Jillian Mayne 38.60
400 — Kortuem 1:11; Sandahl 1:14; Trujillo 1:16
800 — Tia Wurzrainer 3:00.97
75 hurdles — Moody 14.02; Hoskins 14.50; Battaglia 16.00; Vick 16.98
200 hurdles — Kortuem 32.09; Pease 35.95
4 x 100 relay — Hoskins, Sandahl, Kortuem, Moody (1st) 59.00; Zara Bradley, Hollrigel, Avalon Renninger, Wurzrainer (2nd) 59.15
4 x 200 relay — Hollrigel, Renninger, Trujillo, Wurzrainer 2:06.28
Discus — Renninger 54-9; Shipley 35-8; Battaglia 33-04
Javelin — Vick 72-9; Mayne 59-4; Sinclair 53-6
Long Jump — Pease 12-1; Battaglia 10-7, Sinclair 10-1; Shipley 9-1
BOYS:
60 — Sean Toomey-Stout 7.75; Jaylen Nitta 8.08; Sage Downes 8.09; Ethan Clavette 8.18; Nick Wielandt 8.39; Gabe Carlson 8.73;
100 — Toomey-Stout 12.85; Jean Lund-Olsen 13.03; Wielandt 13.48; Jake Mitten 14.01; Downes 14.33; Carlson 14.35; Clavette 14.53; Matthew Kelley 14.56; Ben Smith 17.01; James Mayne 17.01
200 — Wielandt 26.29; Thane Peterson 26.92; Nitta 28.70; Chris Cernick 31.80; Zach Ginnings 36.52; Mayne 36.88
400 — Aram Leyva 1:05; Peterson 1:08; TJ Rickner 1:23
800 — Leyva 2:38; Rickner 3:02
1600 — Leyva 5:19; James Wood 5:30; Koa Davison 5:45; Tucker Hall 5:48; Aiden Juras 6:07; Rickner 6:21
75 hurdles — Lund-Olsen 13.37; Mitten 13.87; Cernick 14.79; Smith 19.08
200 hurdles — Mason Grove 34.7; Smith 40.4
4 x 100 relay — Lund-Olsen, Toomey-Stout, Nitta, Weilandt 53.18; Mitten, Downes, Kelley, Smith 57.05
4 x 400 relay — Davison, Hall, Leyva, Wood 4:46
Shot Put — Trystan Ford 23-04; Ricky Rebischke-Smith 20-02, Tian Yu 19-09
Discus — Peterson 95-06; Clavette 47-04; Ford 37-00, Rebischke-Smith 37-0; Yu 34-00
Javelin — Carlson 70-05; Ford 68-10; Ginnings 58-09; Yu 46-01; Rebischke-Smith 42-07
High Jump — Kelley 4-08; Mitten 4-04; Grove 4-02
Long Jump — Toomey-Stout 16-06; Lund-Olsen 15-11; Downes 13-06, Carlson 12-00, Ginnings 10-01
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