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Girls score! Your move, guys!!

Posted in Fashionable Fans, Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, fans, John Fisken photos, Kailey Kellner, Lindsey Roberts on December 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Lindsey Roberts tries out a new look for her hoops head shot. (John Fisken photos)

Kailey Kellner’s fan club is all in for their favorite long-range sniper.

The Wolf JV, mean-muggin’.

Super fans Emma Smith (#3 sign) and Ashley Menges are on hand to root for fellow frosh Ashlie Shank and Maddy Hilkey.

Senior class big wigs McKenzie Bailey (left) and Jazmine Franklin can run the school and still find time for a photo op. It’s called multitasking.

The CHS varsity, eternally loose before their game.

CHS football phenom Lathom Kelley (standing, backwards hat) makes sure his folks are ready to get loud.

“We’re coming for all the wins. All of them!!” Wolves (l to r) Tiffany Briscoe, Mia Littlejohn, Kailey Kellner and Roberts prepare to drop another butt-whuppin’.

The bar has been set, the mic has been dropped.

Given first crack at a substantial photo shoot this season, the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball team (and its fans) responded strongly.

Now, as the Wolf boys near their own date with destiny (in the form of a camera-wielding John Fisken) this Friday, when they host Concrete in a non-conference tussle, the only question is — can they respond? Will they respond?

Well, that’s two questions, but you get the point.

My advice to the CHS boys hoops stars? Loosen up, play to the camera, crack a freakin’ smile every once in awhile.

You’re off to a great start, atop the 1A Olympic League. Enjoy the moment and realize there’s more to life than adopting a cold stare every time the camera comes your way.

You’re not food-deprived wrestlers, after all. You can kick ass and still have fun.

No one remembers the photos where ten dudes stare at the camera with a monotone snarl on their face. Dare to switch it up once in awhile.

Otherwise you’ve already ceded the battle to your female counterparts, who understand how to play the on-court game and off-court game equally well.

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Clickin’ the night away!!

Posted in Basketball, Fashionable Fans, tagged Band, Basketball, Cheer, CHS Wolves, Diet Coke, fans, John Fisken photos, Mckenzie Meyer on December 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wolf hoops star Ema Smith is relieved to know her personal photographer has arrived on scene. (John Fisken photos)

Susan and Sandy Roberts, just here to class up the joint a bit.

An overflow crowd enjoys the rock-hard, but beautiful-to-look-at CHS bleachers.

“I said no autographs and I meant it!”

It just got legendary up in here, as former Wolf greats David Ford (left) and Jon Roberts drop in to watch their progeny play some hoops.

Garrett Compton and Mckenzie Meyer hang out during a break in the action.

Robin Cedillo (left) and Jovanah Foote prepare to drop the beat.

A moment neither one of these girls saw…

Coupeville’s finest, (l to r) Ashlie Shank, Sarah Wright, Smith and Ashley Menges, get photobombed by Steve “Big Papa” Kiel.

Every great sports photographer knows one important trick — don’t spend all your time focused on the on-court action.

At any Coupeville High School basketball game, there are a ton of other things going on worthy of a pic or two.

Be it band, cheer, celebrity sightings or just people goofing off, you need to get good color to go with the sports action.

The photos above, snapped at Wednesday’s Wolf doubleheader against Orcas Island, come to us courtesy Diet Coke-lovin’ camera clicker John Fisken.

Like what you see?

Well, like I said, he likes his Diet Coke and he’s scheduled to be shooting at Friday night’s CHS girls’ basketball games.

Hint, hint, nudge, nudge, oh wait, is that a concession stand that sells Diet Coke?!?!

How convenient.

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Puttin’ the fan in fan-tastic!!

Posted in Fashionable Fans, Volleyball, tagged fans, Jim Shank, John Fisken photos, Paul Messner, volleyball on November 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Downes (and his favorite garbage can) are here to lead the cheers. (John Fisken photos)

Paul Messner (and his magnificent beard) hangs out with daughters Aimee Bishop (left) and Barbi Ford.

Wolf football coaches Ryan King (left) and Brett Smedley are just here for the photo ops.

Coupeville Schools Superintendent Dr. Jim Shank and the real power behind the throne, youngest daughter Ashlie.

“I walk the line!” Sydney Autio’s papa is here to enforce the (volleyball) law.

Sarah Wright’s parental units, Christine and Ron, happily endure another night sacrificing their rears to the rock-hard bleachers. It’s what proud parents do.

Zane Bundy (8) rallies the troops.

Which of these Wolf Buddies will one day be CHS athletic stars themselves? Probably all of them.

There are no more home games.

Well, at least for a few weeks.

Basketball is coming up strong on the outside, but, until then, the remaining fall contests for Coupeville High School are all on the road.

As the Wolf spikers head to Puyallup today for a district playoff game against Cascade Christian and the Coupeville gridiron squad preps for Friday’s finale at Vashon Island, one final look back at the home court advantage.

Wolf fans were loud and proud this fall, and the student section continued to regroup and bloom anew.

Look back in pride, then on to the next season, with the hope that Coupeville will pack the stands for its hoops squads.

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The spirit is strong in these ones!!

Posted in Fashionable Fans, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, fans, Gabe Wynn, Makana Stone, Soccer, volleyball on September 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Gabe Wynn pauses to read the always-thin Whidbey Examiner while Orcas Island serves in the volleyball match. (John Fisken photos)

Wynn and crew arrive in soccer territory, bearing Wolf Nation’s colors.

Former Wolf volleyball stars Katie (left) and Kacie Kiel return to the gym of their youthful days.

Makana Stone and Anthony Bergeron luxuriate in a Wolf soccer win, as Coupeville romped to a 5-0 win.

Back to the gym for the cheer crew that never rests.

Positive thinking through hand-painted signs.

“Dang! That Kalia Littlejohn scores every time she touches the ball!!”

Wolf spikers salute their fans (and the flag).

It was not an easy day to be a fan.

Friday offered Coupeville High School fans a quandary, as the options were many.

Wolf football was across the pond, set to play Port Townsend at 6:30, but, in a rare occurrence, both CHS volleyball and soccer had Friday night home games as well.

Making matters more complicated, volleyball was in two locations, as both the varsity and JV played at the same time in separate gyms. At the exact same time as soccer kicked off.

To their credit, Wolf fans stepped up and had a strong presence at all of the events, with many of them flying back and forth between events.

Leading the way was a pack of CHS students who got dudded up in uniforms (and helmets) and led the cheers at both volleyball and soccer.

Along for the ride was travelin’ photo man John Fisken, who provides us with the pics above.

I guess it paid to get him that 12-pack of Diet Coke, after all.

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It’s Friday night! Do you know where your kids are?!?!

Posted in Fashionable Fans, Football, tagged CHS Wolves, fans, football, Jacob Martin, John Fisken photos, Lindsey Roberts, Zane Bundy on September 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »

An injury might have sidelined Jacob Martin, but he still stayed busy all night long. (John Fisken photo)

An injury might have sidelined Jacob Martin for a moment, but he still stayed busy all night long. (John Fisken photo)

Wolf soccer stars (l to r) Ema Smith, Lindsey Roberts, Kalia Littlejohn and Mckenzie Meyer crossed the water to root for their boys.

CHS athletes turned fans-for-a-night Payton Aparicio (left) and Lauren Bayne fuel up for a long night of cheering.

Kaila Olin, a Port Townsend grad, spends her Friday night working the game along side her dad.

Zane Bundy gets things kicked off.

“Oh, we’re gonna get loud. Don’t worry about that…”

Roberts makes dang sure she only has to make one trip to the concession stand, while Wolf spiker Lauren Rose kicks off a new career as a noodle model.

And then, as always, the giggles took over.

Ridin’ the ferry. Ridin’ the ferry all year long.

It’s what Whidbey athletes and fans do, and the familiar routine played out again, as a chunk of Wolf Nation flooded onto a boat or two and bobbed its way over to Port Townsend for a dash of Friday Night Lights.

Coupeville returned with a win (28-26 over Chimacum), a share of first place in the 1A Olympic League standings and a string of snazzy photos courtesy travelin’ camera clicker John Fisken.

The faces change from year to year, but the feeling remains.

Something magical about small town football Fridays, on and off the field.

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