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Tick-tock, almost time to rock

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on August 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“I’m (almost) back, baby!” (Bailey Thule photo)

The calendar rolls once more, and the countdown begins.

As of today — August 1, 2024 — there are 20 days left until Coupeville High School football begins fall practices.

The Wolf gridiron team hits the field Wednesday, Aug. 21, with soccer, volleyball, and cross country athletes making their returns on the following Monday — Aug. 26.

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Suns out, (gridiron) guns out

Posted in Everything changes, Tennis, tagged , , , , on August 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville sophomore Malachi Somes hauls in a pass during the early days of practice. (Nikki Breaux photos)

The work begins.

Coupeville High School football practice kicked off Wednesday, with soccer, cross country, cheer, and volleyball set to launch this coming Monday.

With the sun out (at least for a few days more), the guns were out, as seen in the pics above and below.

Now, just wait until an October game plays out in wet, dense fog, and we’ll see how many Wolves opt to go back to wearing multiple layers.

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The tackling, it’s happening again

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on August 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Nine weeks, nine potential wins.

Stay hungry, keep climbing.

That’s the advice second-year Coupeville High School head football coach Bennett Richter is passing down to his players.

The Wolves are coming off the program’s first league title and trip to state since 1990, having gone 7-2 last fall.

But, in just a few hours, all of that fades away and a new season officially begins.

Football is the first high school sport to open practices, with teams from across Washington state hitting the gridiron Wednesday.

Volleyball, soccer, cross country, and cheer follow, getting started Monday, Aug. 21.

Coupeville’s first competitive game of the 2023-2024 school year is a home football clash Sept. 1 against former league rival Klahowya.

Richter, using a photo shot by John Fisken, has crafted the handy-dandy gridiron schedule at the top of this story, ready to be printed out and taped to your frig.

Wolf football has four home games, and five road trips, though one of those is just next door to face South Whidbey in The Bucket Game.

So, call it 4.5 home games, and 4.5 road trips.

Homecoming is Oct. 13 against Forks, with Senior Night set for Oct. 27 against Friday Harbor, if you’re curious.

As Wolf coaches, players, parents, fans, and assorted writers watch the clock tick towards the return of prep sports, Richter offers one big reminder.

It applies both to his own football stars, and to athletes in any other sport at CHS.

And that message — stop reading this and go SIGN UP ON FINAL FORMS AND UPDATE YOUR PHYSICAL, if you haven’t already.

You can accomplish great things this school year, but first you have to do your paperwork, and do it early enough where you’re eligible to play immediately.

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Soccer net sounds a siren call

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on August 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »

A new season of Wolf girls’ soccer approaches. (Bailey Thule photo)

A new season looms. Do you know where your shin guards are?

Rain drops falling in Coupeville are an early reminder fall high school sports are closer than you might think.

Football kicks off practice next Wednesday, Aug. 16, with soccer, cheer, volleyball, and cross country slated to welcome athletes back to action Aug. 21.

Barring a surprise comeback by boys’ tennis, Kimberly Kisch will be the only first-year CHS coach this fall, taking over a girls’ soccer program she once played for back in her own school days.

As she preps for replacing the retired Kyle Nelson, the former Wolf booter is getting the word out, hoping to draw a large roster of players for her debut campaign.

Whether you’re a returning veteran or a first-time player, Kisch looks forward to passing on the lessons she learned on the pitch.

Kimberly Kisch

Practices for CHS girls’ soccer will run from 3:00-6:00 Monday through Friday at the fields on Terry Road, next door to the baseball field.

Players need to bring water, wear shin guards and appropriate clothing, and possess “a good attitude and respect (for) all members of the team” while “focusing on the game and the team goals” and “putting out their best effort.”

Kisch, like all Wolf coaches, also would love to see players fill out their Final Forms online BEFORE practice starts.

“Please don’t let administrative paperwork hinder your participation in CHS sports,” she said.

Parents and players with questions can contact the new coach at kkisch@coupeville.k12.wa.us.

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A new season beckons

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on August 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Wolf senior Dominic Coffman is ready to crush it. (Photos courtesy Nikki Breaux and Dominic Coffman)

The thermometer says summer, the calendar says fall.

Sort of.

Temps pushed 80 degrees in town Wednesday, but that didn’t stop the Coupeville High School football team from kicking off the first day of practice for a new season.

Volleyball, soccer, cross country, and tennis all begin Aug. 22, but the gridiron giants get a jump on things.

That’s because the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association requires football players to have 12 practices to be eligible for games, while all other sports only need 10.

The first official game of the 2022-2023 school year arrives Sept. 2, when Wolf football travels to Klahowya for a non-conference tilt.

With things underway, we present a smorgasbord of pics from a team camp held in Tenino several weeks back.

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