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CHS track sending baker’s dozen to state

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Carson Field won three district titles Saturday, propelling him to a final run at the 2B state meet in two weeks. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“What a day!”

Coupeville was the epicenter for track and field action Saturday, with the Wolves hosting the District 1 Championships, while delivering a dazzling performance for their home fans.

The CHS boys claimed a team title, with the girls’ squad finishing 3rd, while 13 athletes in red and black punched their ticket to the 2B state meet.

Coupeville coaches Bob Martin and Elizabeth Bitting will travel with their stars to Yakima for that event, slated to go down May 29-31 at Zaepfel Stadium at Eisenhower High School.

Saturday’s district meet, which was a 2-in-1 affair with both 1B and 2B teams vying, featured 13 schools.

In the 2B battle, Coupeville’s boys romped to the team title, racking up 145 points, with Mount Vernon Christian second with 72.

Friday Harbor (66), Orcas Island (58), and La Conner (46) rounded out the field.

Coupeville’s 4 x 400 relay team was the fastest in town. (Jaime Burrows photo)

On the girl’s side, MVC (153) was top dog, with La Conner (89), Coupeville (62.5), Friday Harbor (49.5), and Orcas Island (21) chasing the Hurricanes.

Providence Classical Christian and Lopez Island won 1B girls and boys team titles in eight-school battles.

For 2B competitors such as Coupeville, districts was the last stop before state.

Earn a top two finish Saturday, and you’re in. Hit the line in third, you’re close, but no cigar.

Katie Marti (Shot Put, Discus, Javelin) and Carson Field (800, 1600, 3200) paced the Wolves, each winning three titles.

Cael Wilson, Preston Epp, and Chase Anderson also qualified for state in three events, with Lyla Stuurmans earning her invitation in two.

Blake Burrows, Malachi Somes, George Spear, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, Matthew Ward, Marquette Cunningham, and Davin Houston round out Coupeville’s state qualifiers.

With both of the boys’ relay teams advancing, Wolf coaches will pick alternates for those squads, which may bump the total higher.

Of the 13 CHS stars scheduled to make the trip, two have previously collected state meet medals while at the big dance.

Seniors Lyla Stuurmans and Cael Wilson have three and two, respectively.

Overall, 90 Wolves have brought home a medal since the modern era of state track and field meets began in 1964.

Matthew Ward will cap his senior season with a trip to state to compete in the triple jump. (Jandellyn Ward photo)

Saturday’s meet dodged a forecast calling for high winds and heavy rain, with teams dealing with just a few splatters of liquid sunshine and a couple of moderate prairie breezes.

Whether they advanced to state, or wrapped their season Saturday, each Wolf in action got a shout-out from their coaches.

“The atmosphere was electric with anticipation as our athletes gave it everything they had,” Bob Martin said.

“We’re incredibly proud of every athlete. The dedication and heart shown today was inspiring.”

Martin and Bitting also praised the contributions of their assistant coaches, and the combined forces of Wolf Nation which came together to pull off a successful big-time meet.

“A huge thank you to our incredible community of volunteers who helped create a seamless experience for the 13 schools in attendance,” Martin said.

“And to our team parents — your hospitality was unmatched, with a breakfast spread that could rival a gourmet brunch!”

Olivia Hall set a PR in the 400 at districts. (Maria Summers photo)

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Isa Mc Fetridge (6th) 14.23 *PR*; Laken Simpson (8th) 14.36

200 — Mc Fetridge (5th) 29.95

400 — Olivia Hall (4th) 1:07.66 *PR*; Marin Winger (5th) 1:19.42

800 — Lyla Stuurmans (1st) 2:39.34; Lillian Ketterling (6th) 3:05.72; Ivy Rudat (7th) 3:08.53

1600 — Stuurmans (2nd) 6:01.86; Mikayla Wagner (4th) 6:43.80; I. Rudat (5th) 6:52.31 *PR*; Devon Wyman (6th) 7:08.38 *PR*

3200 — Wagner (3rd) 13:34.10 *PR*; Aleksia Jump (6th) 14:51.71; D. Wyman (7th) 15:45.16 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Ari Cunningham (7th) 21.75; Frankie Tenore (10th) 24.40

300 Hurdles — Tenore (8th) 1:08.15

4 x 100 Relay — Cunningham, Willow Leedy-Bonifas, Ayden Wyman, Mc Fetridge (4th) 57.97

4 x 200 Relay — Simpson, Leedy-Bonifas, Lexis Drake, Mc Fetridge (4th) 2:00.24

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, Ketterling, I. Rudat, Simpson (4th) 4:47.68

Shot Put — Katie Marti (1st) 34-08 *PR*

Discus — Marti (1st) 89-08; Ketterling (3rd) 82-01

Javelin — Marti (1st) 102-05

High Jump — A. Wyman (4th) 4-04

Pole Vault — A. Jump (4th) 7-00; I. Rudat (6th) 6-00; Ketterling (6th) 6-00

Long Jump — Leedy-Bonifas (7th) 13-00; Cunningham (8th) 12-10.25

Triple Jump — Leedy-Bonifas (6th) 27-02.50 *PR*

Aleksia Jump prepares to charge into action. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

BOYS:

100 — Chase Anderson (1st) 11.51; Marquette Cunningham (3rd) 11.78; Matthew Ward (4th) 11.83 *PR*; Davin Houston (8th) 12.13; Marcelo Gebhard (9th) 12.18 *PR*; Liam Blas (12th) 12.33; Beckett Green (14th) 12.35

200 — Houston (5th) 24.00 *PR*; Green (8th) 24.43 *PR*; M. Cunningham (11th) 24.78

400 — Preston Epp (2nd) 53.17; Blake Burrows (3rd) 54.95 *PR*; Dane Hadsall (6th) 58.65 *PR*; Jonah Weyl (7th) 1:02.46

800 — Carson Field (1st) 2:02.66; Solomon Rudat (5th) 2:24.49; Ethan Walling (7th) 2:32.28; Johnathan Jacobsen (10th) 2:37.40; Finn Price (12th) 2:43.38

1600 —Field (1st) 4:43.29; Malachi Somes (2nd) 4:51.03 *PR*; George Spear (4th) 4:53.82 *PR*; Kenneth Jacobsen (5th) 5:14.30; Walling (10th) 5:39.65; Edmund Kunz (11th) 5:47.54

3200 — Field (1st) 10:27.36 *PR*; Spear (2nd) 10:45.69; K. Jacobsen (3rd) 11:26.09 *PR*; Kunz (4th) 12:18.57 *PR*

110 Hurdles — Axel Marshall (4th) 17.86 *PR*

300 Hurdles — Marshall (3rd) 46.29 *PR*; Blas (6th) 46.71 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — M. Cunningham, Houston, Epp, Anderson (1st) 44.41

4 x 400 Relay — Anderson, Burrows, Wilson, Epp (1st) 3:35.55

Shot Put — Gebhard (3rd) 38-07; Zac Tackett (4th) 36-09; Khanor Jump (9th) 30-04.50; David Somes (13th) 25-04.50

Discus — Tackett (3rd) 129-09; Blas (8th) 97-02 *PR*

Javelin — Anderson (3rd) 135-09; Gebhard (8th) 111-08; Ward (10th) 93-07

High Jump — C. Wilson (1st) 6-00; Wyatt Fitch-Marron (2nd) 5-10 *PR*; Houston (4th) 5-08; J. Jacobsen (9th) 5-00

Pole Vault — C. Wilson (2nd) 12-06; S. Rudat (8th) 8-06; Kunz (10th) 7-00

Long Jump — C. Wilson (3rd) 20-06 *PR*; Fitch-Marron (10th) 16-05.75 *PR*; Edmund Wilson (11th) 15-11.25; Green (12th) 13-10.50

Triple Jump — Ward (1st) 40-02 *PR*; M. Cunningham (3rd) 37-00.50; Marshall (6th) 35-09

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Bashers boppin’ to the big dance

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , , on May 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »

CHS sluggers (l to r) Taylor Brotemarkle, Jada Heaton, Teagan Calkins, Mia Farris, and Madison McMillan made it to state in volleyball and softball this year. (Grant Van Dyke photo)

Eastern Washington, the Wolves are headed your way, red-hot bats in hand.

Dodging raindrops Thursday at the Skagit Playfields in Mount Vernon, the Coupeville High School softball squad decisively claimed the District 1 title, while punching its ticket to the 2B state tourney.

The Wolves, who are 18-1 after crunching Friday Harbor 15-5 in the championship game, have won 17 straight after a one-run loss to 3A Oak Harbor way back in March.

Slotted #4 in the final Washington Interscholastic Activities Association RPI rankings, Aaron Lucero’s squad will find out its state path Sunday.

That’s when a seeding committee releases the 16-team bracket for the royal rumble, which is slated to play out May 23-24 at the Gateway Sports Complex in Yakima.

This is the fourth trip to state for CHS softball, and its first in the 2B classification.

The Wolves advanced in 2002 (winning four of five games to earn a 3rd place trophy), 2014, and 2019, all as a 1A school.

Aaron Lucero has the Wolves rollin’ at 18-1. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Now, Lucero, in his first season at the helm of the Wolf program, joins former Coupeville diamond gurus Randy Dickson, David King, and Kevin McGranahan in leading a softball team to state.

His band of sluggers has carved a brutal path through foes this season, outscoring their rivals 276-37.

No, that’s not a misprint, and yes, it could have been even more lopsided if Lucero hadn’t pumped the brakes at time.

Narrow victories over Lakewood, Forks, and Granite Falls have proven Coupeville’s iron will under pressure, while the Wolves have also captured 14 of those 18 wins by enforcing the mercy rule, which shuts down games after five innings if one team leads by 10 or more runs.

Friday Harbor, which eliminated Orcas Island 9-1 in a loser-out playoff opener Thursday, hung tough in the championship game, but the Wolves ultimately had too many weapons.

The Wolverines scratched out a run in the top of the first, but the lead would be short-lived.

Coupeville started to attack almost immediately, using relentless speed and guile on the basepaths to once again keep a foe tense and ready to break at all times.

Mia Farris cracked a one-out single, followed by Teagan Calkins eking out a walk, before the dance began.

A stolen base led to a wild pitch, then, after Madison McMillan tied the game on an RBI groundout, the Wolves took the lead for good on a frantic play.

With Calkins bouncing on third, a pitch got away from the Friday Harbor catcher, and “The Red Dragon” shot for the plate.

Unexpectedly, the ball shot back a little quicker to the backstop’s glove than probably expected, but Calkins went under the tag like a professional limbo dancer, her arm caressing the plate as the catcher juggled and dropped the ball.

The safe call went up, Calkins did the slow strut to the bench, and the momentum had changed.

Teagan Calkins can destroy you with her bat, feet, or arm. Pick your poison. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

While Friday Harbor escaped the inning trailing just 2-1, the Wolves were already starting to feel it.

Freshman pitcher Adeline Maynes held the Wolverines at bay in the top of the second, before her sluggers went off for five more runs in the bottom half of the frame.

It started with Jada Heaton, noted softball magnet, sacrificing her body one more time by getting plunked for the 11,478th time this season.

From there, Ava Lucero, Farris, Calkins, and McMillan cranked RBI base hits to push the lead to 7-1, with Calkins almost ripping off the pitcher’s arm with a gnarly shot right back up the middle.

“I’ll do it again! You know I will,” (allegedly) murmured the one-woman wrecking crew.

Friday Harbor, fighting to keep its season alive, did cut the lead back to 7-3 and held Coupeville scoreless(!) in the third inning, but it wasn’t enough.

Wolf shortstop Taylor Brotemarkle pulled off a highlight reel-worthy defensive play, veering to her left to snag a hard-hit chopper before firing a cannon shot to Lucero at first for the out.

And then the Wolf offense fired right back to life.

Haylee Armstrong celebrates with her fan club president. (Michelle Armstrong photo)

Calkins smacked an RBI single to light the fuse in the bottom of the fourth, while Haylee Armstrong capped a five-run frame with a run-scoring base knock of her own.

In between? Madison McMillan broke the universe.

The senior third baseman, master of the mammoth moonshot, unleashed a three-run home run to straightaway center field, the ball puncturing a hole in the grey clouds which hung over the field.

Rumors that the softball sailed so high up in the air it knocked a spy satellite out of orbit are just that … rumors. NASA will not confirm or deny.

Back on Earth, Friday Harbor, being pesky and persistent to the end, snipped the margin back to 12-5 and pulled off a pretty impressive double play in the fifth to (momentarily) hold off its fast-approaching doom.

Enter Calkins, who plated Brotemarkle with yet another RBI single, before dancing around the basepaths herself, disrupting the defense with a bold dash for home.

With the game at 14-5 and the possibility of enforcing the mercy rule, Wolf frosh Sydney Van Dyke, already a grizzled vet in her second season as a starter, ambled to the plate.

Slicing a single into the mist in left, the ball hitting the grass and skidding away, it sent McMillan streaking home and the Wolves off to the promised land.

“Every player contributed today!” Aaron Lucero said. “Really proud of their composure and intensity.

“On to state!!!!”

Fab frosh Sydney Van Dyke (left) and Ava Lucero are state bound. (Grant Van Dyke photo)

 

Thursday stats:

Capri Anter — One single, one double, one walk
Haylee Armstrong — One single
Taylor Brotemarkle — One walk
Teagan Calkins — Three singles, one walk
Mia Farris — Three singles
Jada Heaton — One single, one walk
Ava Lucero — One single
Madison McMillan — One single, one home run, one walk
Sydney Van Dyke — One single

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Lone Wolf splashes back to state meet

Posted in Swim, tagged , , , , on February 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Overcoming illness, Coupeville’s Finn Price qualified for another trip to the state swim championships. (Rachel Price photo)

Federal Way is calling Finn Price one more time.

The Coupeville High School junior, battling his way through the winter crud Saturday, earned a return trip to the state swim championships.

The lone Wolf, who has been dealing with “his usual Districts cold/flu” according to mom Rachel, still claimed a third-place performance in the 200 free to punch his ticket to the big dance.

Price was ranked #2 in the 100 free, but “didn’t have much in the tank” and finished fourth.

He is likely to nab a wild card in the event, however, based on his time, and could be hitting the water in both events when state goes down Feb. 21-22 at the King County Aquatic Center.

The only current male swimmer at CHS, a 2B school, Price joins athletes from 1A South Whidbey during the regular season and they train and travel with 4A Kamiak.

Once the postseason begins, Coupeville’s aquatic star competes on his own.

For now, Price has a week to recuperate, before he does double duty next weekend, with the state swim meet and his Eagle Scout ceremony both on tap.

Price slices through the water. (Christi Messner photo)

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Lo and behold, aquatic excellence!

Posted in Swim, tagged , , , , on November 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Alexandra Lo slashes through the water. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The lone wet Wolf continues to impress in the pool.

Coupeville High School freshman Alexandra Lo travels and trains with Oak Harbor since CHS doesn’t have a swim program.

Now, with the postseason upon her, Lo headed off to Anacortes this weekend, where she participated in the 1A/2A district meet.

All while still repping a 2B school.

Lo earned 6th place in the 200-meter freestyle and 12th in the 100-meter in her first run at postseason aquatic glory.

A Wolf ready to prowl the water in Anacortes. (Photo courtesy Brad Sherman)

The season is likely over for the Wolf fab frosh, though there is still a chance she could pick up a wild card entry to the state meet if things break right.

Either way, Coupeville’s swim ace will stay in the pool, as she competes with the North Whidbey Aquatic Club.

Lo is the lone Wolf girl currently involved in high school swimming — though former Coupeville student Riley White also made it to districts, but as a member of the Oak Harbor squad.

CHS junior Finn Price will hit the pool this winter, once again wearing Wolf red and black, but joining South Whidbey swimmers in training and traveling with Kamiak during the regular season.

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She’s young, talented, and state-bound

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , on May 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Tenley Stuurmans enjoys her day. (Photo courtesy Scott Stuurmans)

Tenley Stuurmans doesn’t believe in wasting time.

The Coupeville 8th grader hasn’t attended a day of high school yet, and still hasn’t played a home tennis match, but she’s off to the state tennis tournament just the same.

Sweeping three matches at the District 1/2 tourney Friday at the Amy Yee Tennis Center in Seattle, Stuurmans claimed the singles crown and punched her ticket to the big dance.

Now, like Cousin Payton Aparicio before her, she’ll make the long trek to Eastern Washington for the 2B/1B state championships.

They go down May 24-25 at the Yakima Tennis Club, and it’ll be a busy couple of days for the Stuurmans clan, as Tenley’s older sister, Lyla, a CHS junior, competes at the state track and field meet in the same town.

Coupeville, which has played its entire season on the road as mediocre spring weather slowed work on new courts, sent five girls to districts, and won four of six contests.

Wolf senior Skylar Parker teamed with younger sister Brynn at first doubles, splitting a pair of matches.

The siblings smoked a duo from Puget Sound Adventist Academy 6-2, 6-0, before falling 6-0, 6-1 to Northwest 2B/1B League rivals Kira Clark and Megan Mellinger of Friday Harbor.

Two of three Parker sisters — Skylar (left) and Brynn (right) — teamed up Friday at districts. (Photo courtesy Corinn Parker)

The other CHS doubles team in action — Sophia Phay and Kauri Hamilton — put up a strong battle before being knocked out 6-2, 6-0 by a tandem from Summit Atlas.

“The girls did great; fought their hearts out!” said Coupeville assistant coach Starla Seal.

For Stuurmans, the first 8th grader to play tennis for CHS since the school returned to being a 2B institution in 2020, Friday was her crowning achievement.

So far.

Despite not being a high schooler until this coming fall, Stuurmans made the jump to playing above her age group in two of three sports this school year.

After playing middle school volleyball, she played both high school and middle school basketball this past winter, taking the court with the JV high school squad.

The net program, with only eight players on the roster, offered a chance to play varsity all season, and Stuurmans has excelled in both singles and doubles.

Friday, she opened against Izabelle Maia of Puget Sound, and rolled her 6-0, 6-1.

After that came a 6-0, 6-3 win over Nikki Cole of Friday Harbor, which clinched her trip to state, and then a 6-3, 6-3 triumph over Kendall Lee of La Conner, who will join her in Yakima.

It made for a long day, but Stuurmans, who was coming off a three-hour slugfest in one match at the end of the regular season, was up for it.

“She’s a fighter and a natural athlete,” Seal said. “Those two combined are a recipe for some good tennis.”

As her grandparents look on, the district champ gets a hug from dad. (Photo courtesy Scott Stuurmans)

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