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Posted in schedules, tagged , , , , , on June 12, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Maddy Hilkey and her CHS volleyball teammates kick off the season Sept. 5 against Mount Vernon Christian. (John Fisken photo)

81 days.

It’s both forever and just around the corner, and it’s the gap between today and the first game of the 2017-2018 school year.

Wolf football is first up, with a road game Sept. 1 at South Whidbey, with The Bucket on the line.

After that, boys tennis and volleyball hit the ground running Sept. 5, with girls soccer the last to debut Sept. 7.

With CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith on top of things, the schedules below are already (virtually) locked-in.

Now, of course, things can and will change over the next three months (hopefully not dates so much, but times can certainly shift).

So, treasure this list, pore over it, memorize it, laminate it and light candles around it, but also don’t forget to keep an eye on the following web sites as we get closer to fall:

Coupeville Schools — http://coupeville.tandem.co/

Olympic League — http://www.olympicleague.com/

And now, drum roll, the fall sports schedules (* = league game):

Boys Tennis (varsity and JV):

Tues-Sept. 5 Port Angeles (3:15)
Mon-Sept. 11 @ Sequim (4:00)
Wed-Sept. 13 Kingston (3:15)
Fri-Sept. 15 @ Klahowya (*) (4:00)
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 (*) SENIOR NIGHT (3:15)

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 (*) HOMECOMING (7:00)
Fri-Oct. 20 Klahowya (*) (6:00)
Fri-Oct. 27 Chimacum (*) SENIOR NIGHT (6:00)
Sat-Nov. 4 @ Cascade Christian (*) (7:00)

Football (JV):

Mon-Sept. 11 South Whidbey (5:00)
Mon-Sept. 18 @ La Conner (5:30)
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 (*) (TBD)
Mon-Sept. 18 Mount Vernon Christian (4:00)
Thur-Sept. 21 @ North Mason (6:45)
Tues-Sept. 26 Klahowya (*) (6:45)
Thur-Sept. 28 @ Port Townsend (*) (6:45)
Tues-Oct. 3 Chimacum (*) (6:45)
Thur-Oct. 5 @ Port Angeles (6:45)
Tues-Oct. 10 Sequim (5:15)
Tues-Oct. 17 @ Klahowya (*) (6:45)
Thur-Oct. 19 Port Townsend (*) (6:45)
Mon-Oct. 23 Klahowya (*) SENIOR NIGHT (6:45)
Wed-Oct. 25 @ Chimacum (*)(4:30)

Girls Soccer (JV):

Tues-Sept. 12 @ Chimacum (*) (4:00)
Thur-Sept. 14 @ Sequim (3:30)
Sat-Sept. 16 @ Port Townsend (*) (4:00)
Thur-Sept. 21 @ North Mason (4:00)
Tues-Sept. 26 Klahowya (*) (4:00)
Thur-Sept. 28 @ Port Townsend (*) (5:00)
Tues-Oct. 3 Chimacum (*) (4:00)
Tues-Oct. 10 Sequim (3:30)
Tues-Oct. 17 @ Klahowya (*) (5:00)
Thur-Oct. 19 Port Townsend (*) (4:00)
Mon-Oct. 23 Klahowya (*) (4:00)
Wed-Oct. 25 @ Chimacum (*)(4:00)

Volleyball (varsity):

Tues-Sept. 5 Mount Vernon Christian (6:30)
Tues-Sept. 12 @ Chimacum (*) (6:15)
Fri-Sept. 15 @ Yakima Sundome Invite
Tues-Sept. 19 @ Bellevue Christian (6:30)
Thur-Sept. 21 @ North Mason (6:15)
Tues-Sept. 26 Klahowya (*) (6:15)
Thur-Sept. 28 @ Port Townsend (*) (6:15)
Tues-Oct. 3 Chimacum (*) (6:15)
Tues-Oct. 10 Sequim (5:15)
Tues-Oct. 17 @ Klahowya (*) (6:15)
Thur-Oct. 19 Port Townsend (*) (6:15)
Mon-Oct. 23 @ Chimacum (*) (6:15)
Wed-Oct. 25 Klahowya (*) SENIOR NIGHT (4:00)
Sat-Oct. 28 @ Port Townsend (*) (TBD)

Volleyball (JV):

Tues-Sept. 5 Mount Vernon Christian (4:00)
Tues-Sept. 12 @ Chimacum (*) (5:00)
Tues-Sept. 19 @ Bellevue Christian (5:00)
Thur-Sept. 21 @ North Mason (5:00)
Tues-Sept. 26 Klahowya (*) (5:15)
Thur-Sept. 28 @ Port Townsend (*) (5:00)
Tues-Oct. 3 Chimacum (*) (5:00)
Tues-Oct. 10 Sequim (3:30)
Tues-Oct. 17 @ Klahowya (*) (5:15)
Thur-Oct. 19 Port Townsend (*) (5:00)
Mon-Oct. 23 @ Chimacum (*) (5:00)
Wed-Oct. 25 Klahowya (*) (5:15)
Sat-Oct. 28 @ Port Townsend (*) (5:00)

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Welcome home, Ian Barron!!

Posted in Football, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on June 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Ian Barron has gone from zero name-checks on Coupeville’s record board to a much more pleasing six. (Jon Roberts photos)

The 2016 CHS volleyball squad put up four new records.

The most electrifying running back in Coupeville High School history is finally getting his due.

Wednesday afternoon, after much work tracking down records, and much support and help from the school’s Booster Club, I got to witness the CHS football and volleyball record boards brought up to date.

It’s been one of several projects for which I’ve spent the past year harassing people day and night, and it’s a thrill to see it finished.

While volleyball only needed to be tweaked a bit, mainly to reflect records set last fall by Hope Lodell, Valen Trujillo and Co., the football board has been a sore point for some time.

It was only 50% filled in, and 48% of that featured incorrect records.

Now, that’s not an issue, as Ian Barron’s many rushing marks are finally being acknowledged, and the current generation of Wolves have legitimate records to dream about breaking.

Well done, one and all.

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Spotlight swings to younger brother!!

Posted in Basketball, Football, Track, tagged , , , , on June 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Ben Smith charges after a loose ball during a middle school basketball game. (John Fisken photo)

There’s a second star in the family.

Jacob Smith has attracted a fair amount of attention the past two years, breaking school records and winning state meet medals in track.

But hot on his heels comes younger brother Ben, a three-sport athlete who’s making the jump to Coupeville High School in the fall.

During his middle school days, the younger Smith brother played football and basketball, while also running track like his older sibling.

“My brother has made a huge impact on me during track season,” Ben Smith said. “I may drop track (in high school), but I see it as a talent to continue, though.

“I’ve been told I should continue it.”

Football, where he’s a hard-hitting two-way player, has grown to be his favorite.

“It has become the sport I have the most talent at, out of all of them,” Smith said.

A fan of hip hop and horror and science fiction films, he looks forward to history class, as well.

“I enjoy history, as I study a lot of it,” Smith said. “It’s a very easy subject, in my opinion.”

His best middle school sports memories include “breaking the football defensive yardage record and scoring my first few points in basketball.”

While he’s excelled in the sports he’s played, he’s “always open to try new things” and may mix things up with high school offering more sports teams than middle school did.

Whatever he ends up playing, Smith will get the most he can out of every athletic opportunity.

“It gets my body going and keeps me healthy to a limit I want,” he said. “And I could use this athleticism to go somewhere I would want.

“I would like to continue my soccer career or football and continue my positions within them and use them for college sports if I make any college teams.”

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Shootin’ for the record books!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on May 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf QB Hunter Downes, seen here last spring, is gunning for several career school marks. (John Fisken photos)

Hunter Smith, his primary target, also has his eye on busting records.

   Downes (his noggin protected from the blazing sun) strikes a pose at football camp last weekend. (Photo courtesy Downes)

The man in black (pants) fled into the record books, and the gunslinger followed.

As he prepares for his senior season, Coupeville High School quarterback Hunter Downes, the gunslinger in this story, is hot on the trail of his school’s QB records.

The man he’s pursuing is the guy helping shape him, Wolf offensive coordinator Brad Sherman, who threw for 3,613 yards and 33 touchdowns before graduating in 2003.

Downes, who opened spring practices with his teammates Tuesday, spent last weekend in Everett at a USA Football regional development camp.

The camp allows high school players to work on their skills and techniques with current NCAA coaches while also putting them in a pool for possible inclusion on the U.S. national team.

After missing all but two games of his sophomore year with an injury, Downes put up one of the best seasons in CHS history as a junior.

He threw for 1,569 yards and 17 touchdowns, missing the school’s single-season TD mark (18 by Joel Walstad in 2014) by a hair.

Downes did tie the school’s single-game TD record, dropping four against a tough Bellevue Christian defense on the road while playing on a slippery, rain-splattered turf.

That equaled a mark set by Wolf legend Corey Cross in 1971, and tied by Sherman in 2001.

With his precision passing, Downes helped his #1 target, fellow junior Hunter Smith, set school single-season records with 916 yards and 11 touchdown receptions.

The duo are ankling to shred the record board this fall, when they kick off their senior campaign Sept. 1 on the road against South Whidbey.

Downes, who has 1,841 yards and 18 TD’s in a little over a season of action, needs 1,773 yards and 16 TD’s as a senior to top Sherman’s career records.

Smith is even closer, with 1,335 yards and 13 TD’s in two seasons as a receiver.

He trails Chad Gale (1,345 and 17) by just 10 yards and four scores, while also needing three interceptions (he has 10 in his career) to pass Josh Bayne’s CHS career mark of 12.

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CHS coaching carousel madly spinning!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Football, Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on May 19, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Clockwise, from left, are Kyle Nelson, Michael Golden and Jerry Helm.

Everything’s beginning to fall into place.

While nothing is 100% set in stone until the school board approves the hirings, Coupeville High School Athletic Director Willie Smith is rapidly filling open coaching positions.

On the heels of Emily Stevens and Amanda Jones being offered cheer coaching positions — https://coupevillesports.com/2017/05/11/alumni-return-to-coach-chs-cheer/ — CHS has tabbed new assistant football coaches and a new girls head soccer coach.

Jerry Helm and Michael Golden will join second-year man Brad Sherman as assistants to Wolf gridiron coach Jon Atkins.

Meanwhile, Kyle Nelson will pull double duty, adding the girls soccer squad to his duties with the Wolf boys.

Nelson joins CHS tennis coach Ken Stange as the only coaches to be in charge of two varsity programs at the school.

Approval of all five hires are on the agenda for Monday’s school board meeting.

Coaching jobs still open include high school boys basketball (head and assistant coach), high school volleyball (assistant coach) and middle school girls basketball (head coach).

Nelson, who replaces Troy Cowan, has been the Wolf boys head soccer coach since 2014.

He inherits a girls team which went 8-7-1 last season and should return a solid core in Mia Littlejohn, Sage Renninger, Kalia Littlejohn and Lindsey Roberts.

Helm is CHS royalty, a four-sport star in his time in the red and black before graduating in 1998. He is a captain with Central Whidbey Island Fire and Rescue.

To find out more about his story, check out this “Where Are They Now?” piece I wrote a few years back:

On the track or at work, Jerry Helm blazes a successful path!!

Of the new hires, Golden is the one most in need of an introduction.

A native of Alabama, where he played and coached football, he moved his family to Whidbey last fall to bring his startup — http://wolf-tek.com/ — closer to the bustling West Coast tech community.

Golden’s wife Laura is a published author who works with Random House, and they have two sons, Cade and Tanner.

Both are following their dad, but in different ways.

Cade, who trains with Seahawks QB Jake Heaps, “is a lover of all things football and carries a football everywhere,” while Tanner is “a young tech genius who’s already writing software code and likes to write like his mother.”

Golden grew up in Pell City, Alabama, following a family tradition which saw his grandfather, dad and brother all embrace gridiron life in a state which loves football and then some.

“I’ve always had a passion for football at a very young age and carried a football everywhere I went until I was 30,” Golden said.

He was a QB for Pell City from 1991-1993, and continued playing for local teams while focusing on academics while in college at Gadsden State and Auburn University.

While playing in the Birmingham Metro League, Golden got the coaching bug, which has carried him through highly-successful stints with little league, middle school and high school teams.

That included a ten-year run with Pell City, a 6A high school which went to the playoffs every year.

His love of football and technology have always meshed well.

“I love studying plays and trying to figure out how to outsmart our opponents,” Golden said. “I look at myself more as a football engineer or architect.

“I believe in ‘build the offense or defense around your team, not the team around the offense or defense’.”

Golden also believes in putting in the work, both as players and coaches.

“I truly believe fundamentals and correct techniques are the success of any championship program,” he said. “I also believe in having fun and being a good role model for the kids.

“I want to help kids not only be successful on the field but also be good students in the classroom.”

While he and his family have only been in Coupeville for a relatively short time, they’ve already come to love their new home.

“Last year I coached with the locally famous Bob Martin on the middle school team,” Golden said. “Bob is one of the best coaches I’ve worked with and I truly appreciate all his hard work.

“I really appreciate the warm welcome this lovely town has given us over the last year,” he added. “We truly appreciate being here and can’t wait to get more involved in the community.”

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