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“It’s going to be a great season!!”

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, first day of practice, football, Hunter Downes, Jacob Zettle on August 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Jacob Zettle puts in work during summer drills. (John Fisken photos)

Freshman Dawson Houston (left) runs the offense during a scrimmage.

Coupeville’s five home football games are represented in these incredibly-detailed welcome signs drawn (freehand!!) by Wolf cheerleader Claire Mietus.

And so, it begins, again.

The 2016-2017 prep sports year officially kicks off at 9 AM Wednesday morning, as Coupeville High School football takes to the practice field for the first time in the Jon Atkins era.

Girls soccer, volleyball and boys tennis follow suit next Monday, Aug. 22, with the first official game Sept. 3, when the Wolves host South Whidbey on the gridiron.

With the Wolf seniors playing for their third coach in their prep career (Tony Maggio as freshmen/sophomores and Brett Smedley as juniors), it’ll be a season of transition.

The hope is to make it a successful one, as well, as Coupeville looks to improve on last year’s 1-9 mark.

Thoughts from the players as they pull on their helmets and prepare to put in work:

Jacob Zettle (junior):

This season is going to be a fresh start for us all; new playbook, new coach, new start.

I am excited and have been preparing all year, from getting in the weight room to catching with our quarterback.

We will have fun out there, and we will play hard.

And I can tell you this much, we ain’t goin’ 1-9 this year.

Hunter Downes (junior):

I just want to freaking win!

Clay Reilly (senior):

All I’ve got is I’m ready to embarrass South Whidbey and bring back The Bucket!

Jacob Martin (senior):

I think this season will be great because we’re disciplined, and have good leadership.

Our team goal is to win league and make the playoffs.

My knee is healing up well and I might make the first game.

Uriel Liquidano (senior):

South Whidbey doesn’t know what’s coming their way.

I just hope they are ready, because we have some hungry Wolves that want to eat some chicken.

It’s going to be a great season!

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To the starting line!!

Posted in Middle School, Track, tagged Ashleigh Battaglia, CMS Wolves, first day of practice, Ja Tarya Hoskins, Mason Grove, Sage Downes, Track on April 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

CMS 8th grader Ja’Tarya Hoskins is one of 43 athletes on the Wolf track roster. (John Fisken photo)

Practice begins under cloudy skies. (Bob Martin photo)

The numbers are strong.

Coupeville Middle School track coaches Elizabeth Bitting and Bob Martin are expecting to see 43 athletes when the first practice kicks off today.

That number may increase or contract by the time the Wolves hit the road Apr. 27 to travel to Blue Heron Middle School in Port Townsend for their first meet of the season.

With work set to begin in May on a new track, this will be the final season CMS will have to travel for all of its meets.

The roster (so far):

GIRLS:

Ashleigh Battaglia
Zara Bradley
Anna Dion
Emily Fiedler
Natalie Hollrigel
Ja’Tarya Hoskins
Mallory Kortuem
Mikaela Labrador
Jillian Mayne
Cassidy Moody
Morgan Pease
Avalon Renninger
Lucy Sandahl
Mica Shipley
Helen Sinclair
Zoe Trujillo
Raven Vick
Tia Wurzrainer

BOYS:

Trevor Bell
Gabe Carlson
Christopher Cernick
Ethan Clavette
Koa Davison
Sage Downes
Zachary Ginnings
Mason Grove
Tucker Hall
Aiden Juras
Joseph Kelley
Michael Laska
Aram Leyva
Jean Lund-Olsen
James Mayne
Jake Mitten
Jaylen Nitta
Thane Peterson
TJ Rickner
Ben Smith
Sean Toomey-Stout
Nick Wielandt
James Wood
Sam Wynn
Tian Yu

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Basketball’s back: Girls Rule!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Allison Wenzel, Basketball, CHS Wolves, first day of practice, John Fisken photos, Kailey Kellner on November 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

“My name’s Kailey Kellner and I’m a killer from long range.” (John Fisken photos)

Even with her fingers still bandaged from a soccer injury, Lauren Grove moves like a pro.

Nicole Lester, part of a promising batch of freshmen, enjoys her first day as a high school hoops star.

Frosh Lindsey Roberts, thinking about breaking all of mom Sherry’s basketball records (there’s a bunch).

Sarah Wright (second from right) approves this drill, while Lauren Rose (second from left) has officially become more laid-back than Matthew McConaughey.

Ema Smith is just here for the dancing.

Up on her toes and ready to attack like a panther, Allison Wenzel shows the form that made her a defensive dynamo last season.

Now we see who wants it most.

The first day of high school basketball kicked off Monday, and when the Coupeville girls’ hoops squad hit the floor, they opened what should be an intriguing season.

The Wolves are the defending 1A Olympic League champs (both the varsity and JV went 9-0 last year), but only return three varsity vets in Makana Stone, Mia Littlejohn and Kailey Kellner.

Stone was a slam-dunk league MVP as a junior, when her 367 points in 22 games was the sixth-best single season performance in program history.

But, after the top three, it’s a wide open battle for positions, as the cream of last year’s JV squad faces off with a talented pack of freshmen.

Toss in a couple of complete newcomers, and every practice will count as Wolf coaches David and Amy King figure out their roster.

As the Wolves stretched and ran, and then stretched and ran some more, travelin’ photo man John Fisken came in from the stormy weather outside and clicked away, snagging us the pics that reside above.

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Basketball’s back: Boys rock!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, DeAndre Mitchell, first day of practice, Gabe Wynn, John Fisken photos on November 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

DeAndre Mitchell, secretly daydreaming about dunking the ball. (John Fisken photos)

Wiley Hesselgrave, super-thrilled for conditioning.

Gabe Wynn (center) always knows where the camera is, a trick he picked up from girlfriend/noted photo fiend McKenzie Bailey.

Bouncing back after an injury cost him a chunk of the football season, Hunter Downes is ready to tear it up.

The Wolf brain trust (l to r, it’s Anthony Smith, Trent Diamanti and Dustin Van Velkinburgh) is in mid-season form.

Ethan Spark is a wild beast ready to be unleashed on the world.

“I have the POWER!!” Jared Helmstadter crushes his audition to play He-Man in the new “Masters of the Universe” movie.

Defense, first, last and always.

The first day of basketball practice brought a huge chunk of Wolf boys to the CHS gym Monday, and, once they were there, the early emphasis was on getting ready to defend.

The Wolves used pool noodles to work on posture, running through a defensive technique under the watchful eye of the Coupeville coaching staff and wanderin’ photo man John Fisken.

Looking to continue their upward climb — the Wolves won seven games last season, their best mark in four years — Coupeville has one sure thing in senior Wiley Hesselgrave.

After him, it’s a wide-open battle for positions, with a mix of returning players and promising newcomers, all dead set on being on the varsity roster come opening night.

Let the battle begin.

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