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   Maggie Crimmins kicks off our parade of CHS fall sports portraits. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

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Savannah Smith

Aurora Cernick

Tiger Johnson

Megan Thorn

Dewitt Cole

Heidi Meyers

Before every new high school sports season begins, photo day is a time-honored ritual.

John Fisken hoists his camera and madly clicks away, getting a pic of every girl and boy who will be in uniform for the Wolves — or at least every one who remembers to show up for photo day.

Then he’s nice enough to send them my way.

As the season progresses, I sprinkle those portraits across the top of numerous stories.

But, without fail, especially during a busy season like fall, with volleyball, tennis, soccer, cheer and football, there will be some which haven’t seen the light of day.

So, today, I offer up a mixture of portraits, which, for whatever reason, haven’t had their moment in the spotlight until now.

Sort of spring cleaning, just in late fall.

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   Join the Coupeville Booster Club. Otherwise Sage Renninger (left) and Lauren Bayne let the crabs loose. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Ask not what Wolf athletes can do for you, ask what you can do for Wolf athletes.

With a new school year up and rolling, now is a perfect time to jump on the bandwagon and join the Coupeville Booster Club.

Get in while the gettin’ is good, before the annual crab-chompin’ shindig hits town, and get that warm glow in your chest.

There are multiple levels of commitment, up to and including donating your time by serving on the club’s inner circle.

Your basic membership levels:

$25 — Wolf Backer

$50 — Individual

$75 — Family

$125 — Business (includes Wolf flag perfect for hanging in the window of said establishment)

Or, you can make a donation, sponsor a scholarship, contribute an item for the auction during the annual Crab Feed or help in a billion other ways.

Why do so?

Because, if Wolf sports are like a body, the Coupeville Booster Club is the spine, the thing holding everything together and giving it purpose.

It’s an invaluable resource for CHS and CMS coaches, athletes, parents and fans which funds scholarships, buys varsity letters, provides snacks for teams stuck on long bus and ferry trips and clothes Wolf coaches in snazzy polo shirts.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg for what the Booster Club accomplishes.

From helping put on the Homecoming parade to funding the Wall of Fame we raised in the high school gym, the list goes on and on.

To join, there’s a couple of quick and easy options.

You can talk to them at home football games or mail a check (written to “Coupeville Booster Club”) to P.O. Box 452, Coupeville, WA 98239.

Or, you can grab your credit or debit card and pop over to the Club’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/coupevilleboosterclub/

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   CHS freshman Genna Wright knocked in a goal Thursday in her high school soccer debut. (John Fisken photo)

Genna Wright is wasting no time.

While her first day of school as a Coupeville High School freshman is still five days away, the youngest member of the Wright family athletic dynasty is already nabbing headlines.

The irrepressible Genna, youngest of four siblings, banked home a goal in her high school debut Thursday, providing the biggest highlight for the Wolf girls soccer team at a season-opening three-team jamboree.

Coupeville fought to a scoreless tie with fellow 1A rival South Whidbey, then fell 3-1 to host Oak Harbor, a large 3A school, in shortened games.

“A good showing for our first outing,” said CHS coach Kyle Nelson. “(Genna had) a nice goal from a little distance, well placed in the upper right.”

The Wolves open the regular season Thursday, Sept. 7, when they travel to Langley for a rematch with South Whidbey.

The non-conference tilt against the Falcons kicks off at 6 PM.

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   Lauren Rose and her volleyball teammates will be road warriors, playing 9 of 14 regular season matches on the road. (John Fisken photo)

Schedules are tricky things.

Jump back some 78 days and I was brave (or naive) enough to publish the first batch of fall sports schedules for Coupeville High School.

Of course, just as I suspected, stuff has changed. A few little tweaks here, a few radical detours there.

So now, as we sit less than 72 hours away from the first official game of the 2017-2018 school sports year, here’s the revamped, buffed ‘n shined version of the fall sports schedules.

Will things continue to change? Without a doubt.

After this, weather will play a big part in how smoothly the tennis schedule plays out.

And, of course, we live on an Island that gets a fair amount of wind and relies on ferries, so…

Use this as a guide, but keep on eye on http://coupeville.tandem.co/ and http://www.olympicleague.com/ for updates.

And here you go, 98.3% correct … at least for a moment:

Boys Tennis (varsity and JV):

Tues-Sept. 5 Port Angeles (3:15)
Mon-Sept. 11 @ Sequim (3:30)
Wed-Sept. 13 Kingston (3:15)
Fri-Sept. 15 @ Klahowya (4:00)
Thur-Sept. 21 South Whidbey (Site and time TBA)
Fri-Sept. 22 Overlake (3:30)
Mon-Sept. 25 @ North Mason (4:00)
Wed-Sept. 27 Chimacum (3:15)
Fri-Sept. 29 @ Klahowya (4:00)
Tues-Oct. 3 North Kitsap (3:15)
Wed-Oct. 4 @ Chimacum (4:00)
Thur-Oct. 5 Klahowya (4:00)
Thur-Oct. 12 Chimacum (3:15)
Mon-Oct. 16 South Whidbey (Site and time TBA)

Football (varsity):

Fri-Sept. 1 @ South Whidbey (7:00)
Fri-Sept. 8 La Conner (7:00)
Fri-Sept. 15 @ Nooksack Valley (7:00)
Fri-Sept. 22 Charles Wright Academy (7:00)
Fri-Sept. 29 @ Vashon Island (6:00)
Fri-Oct. 6 @ Port Townsend (5:30)
Fri-Oct. 13 Bellevue Christian (7:00) HOMECOMING
Fri-Oct. 20 Klahowya (6:00)
Fri-Oct. 27 Chimacum (6:00)
Sat-Nov. 4 @ Cascade Christian (7:00)

Football (JV):

Mon-Sept. 25 @ Charles Wright Academy (5:00)
Mon-Oct. 2 Vashon Island (5:00)
Mon-Oct. 9 Port Townsend (5:00)
Wed-Oct. 11 @ Olympic (4:30)
Mon-Oct. 16 @ Bellevue Christian (TBD)
Mon-Oct. 23 @ Klahowya (5:00)
Mon-Nov. 6 Cascade Christian (5:00)

Girls Soccer (varsity):

Thur-Sept. 7 @ South Whidbey (6:00)
Sat-Sept. 9 Bellevue Christian (1:00)
Tues-Sept. 12 @ Chimacum (4:30)
Thur-Sept. 14 @ Sequim (5:15)
Sat-Sept. 16 @ Port Townsend (1:15)
Mon-Sept. 18 Mount Vernon Christian (4:00)
Thur-Sept. 21 @ North Mason (4:00)
Tues-Sept. 26 Klahowya (5:00)
Thur-Sept. 28 @ Port Townsend (6:00)
Tues-Oct. 3 Chimacum (5:00)
Thur-Oct. 5 @ Port Angeles (5:00)
Tues-Oct. 10 Sequim (4:00)
Tues-Oct. 17 @ Klahowya (4:00)
Thur-Oct. 19 Port Townsend (5:00)
Mon-Oct. 23 Klahowya (4:00)
Wed-Oct. 25 @ Chimacum (4:30)

Volleyball (varsity):

Tues-Sept. 5 @ Mount Vernon Christian (6:00)
Sat-Sept. 9 @ South Whidbey Invite (9:00)
Tues-Sept. 12 @ Chimacum (5:45)
Fri-Sept. 15 @ Yakima Sundome Invite (TBA)
Tues-Sept. 19 @ Bellevue Christian (6:30)
Thur-Sept. 21 @ North Mason (5:15)
Tues-Sept. 26 Klahowya (4:00)
Thur-Sept. 28 @ Port Townsend (5:45)
Tues-Oct. 3 Chimacum (5:45)
Thur-Oct. 5 @ Port Angeles (5:00)
Tues-Oct. 10 @ Sequim (4:45)
Tues-Oct. 17 @ Klahowya (4:00)
Thur-Oct. 19 Port Townsend (5:45)
Tue-Oct. 24 @ Chimacum (5:15)
Thur-Oct. 26 Klahowya (4:00)
Sat-Oct. 28 Port Townsend (1:15)

Volleyball (JV):

Tues-Sept. 12 @ Chimacum (4:30)
Tues-Sept. 19 @ Bellevue Christian (5:00)
Thur-Sept. 21 @ North Mason (4:00)
Tues-Sept. 26 Klahowya (5:15)
Thur-Sept. 28 @ Port Townsend (4:30)
Sat-Sept. 30 @ Sequim JV Tourney (9:00)
Tues-Oct. 3 Chimacum (4:30)
Tues-Oct. 10 @ Sequim (3:30)
Tues-Oct. 17 @ Klahowya (5:15)
Thur-Oct. 19 Port Townsend (4:30)
Tue-Oct. 24 @ Chimacum (4:30)
Thur-Oct. 26 Klahowya (5:15)
Sat-Oct. 28 Port Townsend (12:00)

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   Katrina McGranahan was Olympic League MVP in 2016 as Coupeville High School volleyball roared to a league title. (John Fisken photo)

Fall has been Klahowya’s domain.

When you look at the three-year history of the 1A Olympic League, KSS has been the strongest across the board, the only one of the league’s four schools to post winning records in all four sports.

But Coupeville, which used a stellar winter and spring to take the varsity wins crown away from the Eagles in 2016-2017 (triumphing 51-48 across 10 sports), has been making inroads in the fall.

The Wolf volleyball squad has bounced from 1-5 to 3-3 to 8-1 over the past three seasons, unseating Klahowya for the league title in 2016.

CHS girls soccer has yet to topple the Eagles, but has finished in second place three years running.

Wolf boys tennis has back-to-back titles, hasn’t lost a league match since 2014, and would have more wins if bad weather hadn’t sliced away multiple matches the past two years.

The weak link for Coupeville has been football, but even there, the Wolves haven’t stunk up the joint like some other school’s fall teams — Chimacum boys tennis is winless — and they remain the only Olympic League rival to beat Port Townsend on the gridiron.

As we head into a new season, the goals are simple.

Repeat titles for volleyball and tennis, a miracle on the soccer pitch and continued growth on the football field.

And, if nothing else, hang tough and whisper “winter is coming.”

Those three words will assuredly haunt the rest of the Olympic League, as they herald the return of a Coupeville girls basketball squad which, at 27-0 in league play, is the best conference squad in any sport.

Olympic League varsity fall sports (2014-2017):

*League games only*

Football:

School W/L Points
Port Townsend 17-2 832-185
Klahowya 13-6 574-407
COUPEVILLE 6-13 415-656
Chimacum 1-18 267-821

Volleyball:

School W/L Sets
Klahowya 18-3 57-17
COUPEVILLE 12-9 43-34
Chimacum 9-12 35-40
Port Townsend 3-18 15-59

Girls Soccer:

School W/L Goals
Klahowya 20-0 109-5
COUPEVILLE 13-8 53-38
Port Townsend 5-16 26-79
Chimacum 3-17 18-90

Boys Tennis:

School W/L Matches
COUPEVILLE 11-2 62-25
Klahowya 10-5 64-37
Chimacum 0-14 16-78

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