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Write me something. Anything.

Posted in community, tagged , , , , , , on March 15, 2020| Leave a Comment »

The Sad Coyote compels you.

Coupeville students (of any age), parents, teachers, coaches:

If you’re looking for things to occupy you during the six-week school shutdown, I have an offer.

Write something. ANYTHING.

Sports or non-sports. Doesn’t matter.

Buff and polish every word, or just drop some random thoughts.

Vent about the spring sports season you’re losing.

Tell us about your cat, or what you just watched on Netflix.

Write a poem, or, especially for young children, draw us something and take a photo.

Then send it to me, either on Facebook or at davidsvien@hotmail.com, and I will publish it on Coupeville Sports, so the whole world can see your work.

As a community, we are likely going to be forced apart in the coming weeks. This is a way to shorten that distance.

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“I want to shatter all those records!!”

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Dawson Houston (John Fisken photo)

Wolf freshman QB Dawson Houston. (John Fisken photo)

Brad Sherman? Dawson Houston is coming for you.

The Coupeville High School freshman quarterback has a big goal for his prep career, and it involves shredding everything his Offensive Coordinator accomplished back in his own school days.

“For my career? Honestly I want to shatter all those passing records,” Houston said. “I’m not gonna lie.”

Right now, just like Sherman before him, he’s willing and eager to learn, content to make an impact at whatever level he finds himself.

“This season I want to at least start on JV,” Houston said.

While he may be young, Houston, who is one of three QB’s on the Wolf roster (with junior Hunter Downes and sophomore Shane Losey), is already a bit of a grizzled veteran.

He first stepped on the gridiron when he was six, and, even with a season lost to a broken leg, has put in seven years as a player.

“I started because it looked fun and I wanted to get out there with the players,” Houston said.

The game quickly became his favorite (he also plays basketball and baseball), one he immensely enjoys.

“I like everything. From kickoff to buzzer going off,” Houston said. “It’s just an amazing sport. It’s the best.”

Away from the game, he enjoys creative writing classes, and credits his fourth grade teacher, Patsi Waller (“she helped me become a good writer”) for getting him interested.

A fan of the action flicks “White House Down” and “London Has Fallen,” Houston likes going bowling with his family, but spends a lot of his time working on fine-tuning his quarterbacking skills.

“My strengths are my accuracy when throwing and making the right choices on some pass plays,” Houston said. “I need to work on my speed and hits more. Gotten a little rusty.”

Circling back around to his career goals, the young gunslinger already knows what he would do if his football dreams pay off down the road.

“My parents tell me if I want something I gotta earn it,” Houston said. “Ever since I was little I told my mom that when I get in the NFL (if I do) I’d get her a ruby red 64 1/2 Mustang.

“My dad? He wants season tickets.”

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Mica Shipley a cheerleader for life!!

Posted in Cheer, Track, tagged , , , , , on July 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Mica Shipley

Mica Shipley (Submitted photo)

Mica Shipley knew early on she wanted to be a cheerleader.

“I’ve been doing All-Star cheer since I was six,” she said. “I started because I was so mesmerized by all that was going on and I wanted to do that.”

Shipley will be moving to the next level this fall, when she enters Coupeville High School as a freshman.

A two-sport athlete (she also competes in track and field), she has embraced the opportunity to join the Wolf cheer squad.

“My favorite thing about cheer is tumbling and flying,” Shipley said.

She credits her mom with having “a huge impact in my life” and enjoys spending time with family and friends when she’s not busy with cheer.

“My mom is such an inspiration in my life,” Shipley said. “She is an inspiration because she never gives up and she encourages me to do the same.

“I got hurt very badly a while back and I was going to give up on cheer and if it wasn’t for my mom I wouldn’t be the person or cheerleader that I am today.”

In school, Shipley looks forward to her creative writing class, while away from the classroom she tries to spend as much time at the beach as possible.

While the battle over whether cheer should be viewed as a sport or an activity will probably rage on forever, there is no doubt how the Wolf frosh feels on the subject.

“I think that cheer is a sport, because even though we are not competing against a team we are doing just as much, maybe even more work then the football players,” Shipley said. “For example, we have to lift people in the air, which takes a lot of strength and conditioning.”

There’s also the intensive amount of work the Wolves put in under coach Cheridan Eck.

“We also have to tumble, which means a lot of practice and we have to learn all the cheers perfectly and we have to do jumps which takes a lot of stretching,” Shipley said. “So, even though we do not go against anyone, we practice like we are.

“We are going against ourselves to get better and better each game,” she added. “In my opinion, that’s a sport.”

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