Coupeville fans await the start of a new school year. (David Svien photo)
The calendar turns to August, and the countdown begins.
As we sit here Sunday morning, there’s 17 days until the start of fall football practice (Aug. 21), with cross country, volleyball, tennis, cheer, and soccer all officially ramping up Aug. 26.
The Coupeville High School booters are first to take the field, with a jamboree in Oak Harbor Sept. 5, while the Wolf football squad gets the first official game a night later at home against Port Townsend.
After that, we’re fully into the 2019-2020 school year.
Coupeville Sports turns seven years old Aug. 15, so this will be the eighth school year in the history of a blog which has already run 7,111 articles (as of this one).
If you’re new to this, here’s what to expect, based on the last seven years.
If I stay focused, I’ll produce 75-100 articles a month going forward, covering all CHS and Coupeville Middle School teams, as well as local community sports.
This will be a mixture of game and feature stories, and I try and report on every game either the same day it happens, or by the next morning.
Our unwritten agreement is that when you get up in the AM, and have your coffee, or cold cereal, or your coffee in your cold cereal, if it’s that kind of morning, you’ll be able to read about everything which happened the night before.
Sports-wise, at least.
I operate on my own and am NOT EMPLOYED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
If you have an issue with anything I write, you’ll get much further by talking to me than by harassing administration and/or coaches.
Email me at davidsvien@hotmail.com, message me on Facebook or talk to me at a game.
The same works if you have a story idea.
Coupeville Sports, unlike the local newspapers, operates without a pay wall.
Always has. Always will.
If you want to read for free, so be it. But, if you like what I’m doing and want to be part of my support group, even better.
If you want to help keep my fingers pounding away into the wee hours of the morning, donations are greatly appreciated and can be done in person, by mail (165 Sherman, Coupeville, WA), or through PayPal.
Here’s a handy-dandy link:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/DavidSvien
I’m not a non-profit, but I don’t make much profit. And I’m fine with that.
So, onward we go, into a new school year, the second, and, most likely, final one in the North Sound Conference.
Will CHS, one of the smallest 1A schools in the land, be granted its freedom by the new classification counts and return to 2B after many years?
Who will be the CHS Athlete of the Year winners? My money is on Maya and Sean Toomey-Stout pulling off a family daily double.
There’s a thousand other questions lingering — some big, some small — all waiting to have their answers documented on the bloggiest blog in all of Cow Town.
Here … we … go.
Coupeville Sports 