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King zings one more time!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on October 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tyler King: "I run, son. I run."

Tyler King: “I run, son. I run.”

One more milestone down.

Running in his final Pac-12 Cross Country Championships, Tyler King placed 26th Friday morning.

The former Coupeville High School star, now a senior at the University of Washington, finished in the top third of the 79-runner field.

Edward Cheserek of Oregon won the individual race in 23 minutes, 6.3 seconds, while King zipped across the line in 23:54.1.

He won state titles in both track and cross country during his days at CHS and has been on scholarship at Washington while achieving All-American status.

The Huskies, who are ranked #20 in the country, finished fourth in the team standings.

Two-time defending NCAA champion Colorado edged Stanford for the title, while Oregon was third.

The race, hosted by Washington State, was held at the Colfax Golf Club, and featured six Top 25 teams.

U-Dub finished a slot ahead of UCLA, which had entered the day ranked #15 nationally.

King and his teammates now have two weeks to get ready for the NCAA West Regionals, which UW will host in Seattle.

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King, as in zing!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on October 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tyler King (left), still fast after all these years.

Former CHS state champ Tyler King (left), still fast after all these years.

Tyler King, the big time. Big time, Mr. Tyler King.

Oh, you’ve already met? Good, good.

As he continues to write the final chapter in his stellar college running career, Coupeville High School grad (and living legend) Tyler King spends a lot of time hanging out with the best in the business.

Friday morning, that brought him and his University of Washington cross country teammates to Wisconsin, where the Huskies ran in the Adidas Invitational, an event that draws a bigger field than the NCAA Championships themselves.

While there King acquitted himself quite nicely, finishing in the top third of a 244-runner field.

He covered the 8K course at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course in Madison in a crisp 24 minutes, 22 seconds to claim 83rd place.

King was the third fastest U-Dub male finisher.

The Husky men claimed 13th, out of 36 teams, with Syracuse, the #2-ranked team in the nation, collecting the championship trophy.

Marc Scott of Tulsa was the individual winner in 23:35.

King’s training partners did even better, as the Husky women, who are ranked #10, finished 8th as a team in their race.

Boise State’s Allie Ostrander won the individual title, while top-ranked New Mexico flexed its might in capturing the team title.

Maddie Meyers topped the Washington women with a 29th place performance.

Up next for King and Co. is the Pac-12 Championships Oct. 30 in Colfax.

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Different uniform, same superstar!!

Posted in Cross Country, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Oliana Stange, back in her Coupeville days. (John Fisken photo)

  Oliana Stange, back in her Coupeville days, keepin’ the beat goin’. (John Fisken photo)

OK, don’t get all flustered, but we need to take a moment to celebrate something done by a Langley athlete.

Wait, what?!?!?!?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the name on the blog is Coupeville Sports, but, over time, I have mellowed … a bit.

And, regardless of what uniform she currently wears, Oliana Stange is one of Whidbey’s best, brightest, kindest and most-worthy-of-praise athletes, so deal with it.

Miss Stange, daughter of Coupeville High School tennis guru Ken Stange (and super mom Ericka Cooley), used to run for Coupeville Middle School until a family move took her down South this year.

The former Wolf track star is now running cross country as an eighth grader at Langley Middle School, where she and her teammates capped their season by sweeping both titles at the Cascade Conference Championships Thursday.

Langley trumped Lakewood, King’s, Sultan, Granite Falls and Northshore Christian to top the overall scoring in both the girls and boys races.

Stange finished 25th in her race, covering 1.74 miles in 14 minutes, 5.54 seconds.

Of the five races she ran in this season, it was the longest course she has had to deal with.

So, while she may be a Cougar these days, we’re going to ignore that fact for the moment.

Way to go, Oliana!

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Hey, remember Tyler King? Still freakin’ fast!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , on October 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

"Of course I'm still fast. How dare you question the very laws of the universe?!?"

   “Of course I’m still fast. How dare you question the very laws of the universe?!?”

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about former Wolves playing college football.

It’s deserved, certainly, but we can’t forget the Coupeville High School alum, who, while not a gridiron warrior, is currently competing at the highest level of college sports.

Tyler King, an All-American cross country runner on scholarship at the University of Washington, is three races deep into his final year as a Husky and he hasn’t lost a stride.

The UW senior opened his final campaign with an 11th place finish at the UW-Seattle U Open Sept. 1 (he zipped through 4.5 miles in 22 minutes, 19.32 seconds).

After that has come runs at the Sundodger Invitational Sept. 19 and the Washington Invitational Oct. 2.

King was 14th at Sundodger, covering 8,000 meters in 24:44.04, then claimed 33rd at Friday’s race.

In a highly-competitive field which included two of the top five schools in the nation in Stanford and Oregon, he ran a 23:55.3.

That was a step up from his junior year performance in the race (24:20) and garnered him praise from Husky coach Greg Metcalf on the school’s official web site.

King and his teammates travel to Madison for the Wisconsin Invitational Oct. 16, then charge into the post-season.

The Pac-12 Championships are Oct. 30, followed by the NCAA West Regionals Nov. 13 and the NCAA Championships Nov. 21.

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He might have been rushin’, but he’s All-American!!

Posted in A freakin' American hero, Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

"Indiana, prepare to be invaded!"

So much ‘merica.

Best lean in the biz.

Stretching his body across that finish line like a boss, Coupeville’s Tyler King officially stamped himself an All-American.

King’s 40th place finish at Saturday’s NCAA D-1 Cross Country Championships in Indiana sounded great when Coupeville Sports first reported it that afternoon.

Turns out it was even better than thought.

Not only was King’s run (he covered 10,000 meters in 30 minutes, 56 seconds) his best performance in his time at the University of Washington, but it nabbed him the final All-American spot available.

The redshirt junior joined senior teammate Aaron Nelson (21st) in earning that status. It was the first time in school history that two Husky men were honored at the same championship.

Nelson was also an All-American in 2013, and his feat of being a two-time honoree will be one that King can eye in 2015.

U-Dub actually netted three All-Americans, as speedy junior Maddie Meyers also grabbed the honor on the women’s side.

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