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Don’t you (forget about Zane)!!

Posted in Football, Wolves in college, tagged football, fundraiser, kicker, Santa Barbara City College, Zane Bundy on August 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Zane Bundy led CHS football in scoring as a senior. (John Fisken photos)

Bundy celebrates Senior Night with family.

Gone, but not forgotten.

After blazing a mighty trail across Wolf Nation as a soccer and football player, Zane Bundy is now off pursuing his college sports dream.

Bundy is a freshman at Santa Barbara City College, where he’s trying to make the Vaqueros squad as a kicker.

A four-year starter for the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad, Bundy mixed up things as a senior and joined the Wolf football squad.

He ended up leading CHS in scoring and finished among the top kickers in Washington state, earning interest from SBCC, a school with a strong football tradition (and 11 conference championships to its credit).

As the Vaqueros prepare for their season (they open against Ventura Sept. 3), players are raising money to help with expenses.

Donations will go towards helping with “a new rack of dumbbells, resistance-bands, our end of year banquet and awards ceremony, pregame meals, travel expenses, game-day attire and assistant coaching stipends.”

If you’re interested in learning more and helping Bundy, pop over to:

http://app.eteamsponsor.com/ETS/supportUs/22635649?fund_participant_id=23689720&program=208368&fundraiser=22635649&participant=23689717&source=sms

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Paperwork first, stardom second!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Football, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, football, paperwork, physicals, volleyball on August 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »

CHS gridiron ace Jacob Martin strides into his senior season. (John Fisken photos)

Wolf spikers reach for the stars.

It’s time to start seriously thinking about fall sports.

The calendar still says summer, but the first marker heralding a new year of school sports is fast approaching.

This Thursday (Aug. 11) brings the CMS/CHS Sports Sign Up Day, which will run from noon-6 PM in the Coupeville High School gym.

Athletes and their parents can take care of registration and fees while getting schedules.

In a change from previous years, there won’t be any physicals offered that day.

All athletes need to have an updated physical prior to the start of practice to be eligible to participate.

High school football is first up, starting practice Aug. 17.

Girls soccer, boys tennis and volleyball start Aug. 22, while middle school volleyball and football begin practices Sept. 6.

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The legend walks away!!

Posted in Football, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, football, Hall of Fame, legendary, Sid Otton, Tumwater High School on August 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Sid Otton (center, back row), who started his career in Coupeville, is headed into his 49th and final season as a high school head football coach. (Photo property of Jamie Dowers/Tumwater High School Football)

The most successful coach to ever call Coupeville High School home is bringing an end to his legendary career.

Sid Otton, the winningest high school football coach in Washington state history, announced the coming season, his 49th in the game, will be his final one.

While most of his 384 wins, and five of his six state titles, have come at Tumwater (where he was my 9th grade health teacher), Otton’s first win came on Whidbey.

He got his start at Coupeville in 1967, where he coached the Wolf gridiron squad for two seasons.

During that time, he was also the baseball coach, leading CHS to a Northwest B League title in the spring of 1969.

After taking a year off to go back to college, Otton coached Colfax for four seasons, where his undefeated 1971 squad was tabbed by the Associated Press as state champs.

Back then, there were no postseason games.

After that, he moved to Tumwater, where he has been at the helm of the T-Birds since 1974, winning state titles in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993 and 2010.

During his run as a football coach, Otton is 384-129, with six state titles, three second-place finishes, 25 league titles, 26 trips to state, three perfect seasons and 15 one-loss seasons.

He coached two sons (Tim and future USC quarterback Brad, who I once nailed in the face with a tennis ball during practice, the highlight of my prep net career) and several grandsons.

Otton is also, not that he probably cares, in the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame.

The end of the upcoming season will mark a huge change for Tumwater football, as Otton’s two longest-tenured assistants, Pat Alexander and Steve Shoun (my accounting teacher back in the day) will also retire.

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Former Wolf takes over RedHawk gridiron program!!

Posted in Football, tagged 1A Olympic League, Alex Heilig, CHS Wolves, football, new hire, Port Townsend, rivalry on August 6, 2016| 2 Comments »

When Coupeville and Port Townsend recreate this scene in Oct., the RedHawks will be coached by a former CHS assistant. (John Fisken photo)

Alex Heilig will be coaching football at Coupeville High School this coming season.

But just for one game.

The former Wolf assistant coach, who interviewed for the CHS head coach job that was filled by Jon Atkins, has been hired as the new head football coach at Port Townsend.

This news comes from Michael Carman at the Peninsula Daily News, who broke the hiring this afternoon.

Heilig, who was a teacher at CMS and an assistant coach under Tony Maggio, spent 2014 as an assistant at South Whidbey, then was head coach at Granite Falls in 2015.

The 2A Tigers went 1-9 last season.

Now, he’ll take over a program which has won back-to-back 1A Olympic League titles, replacing Nick Snyder, who resigned to spend more time with his family.

The RedHawks went 10-1 last season, bringing Snyder’s record at PTHS to 43-19.

Heilig, who is married to former Wolf three-sport legend Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby, inherits a program which lost a chunk of starters to graduation, but is still primed to be a power in an expanded league.

The four Olympic League schools (Coupeville, Port Townsend, Chimacum and Klahowya) are joining with the Nisqually League (Cascade Christian, Charles Wright, Bellevue Christian and Vashon Island) for football for the next two years.

Port Townsend travels to Coupeville this season, arriving Oct. 7, which is Homecoming for the Wolves.

Now, it’ll be two homecomings in one.

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Battle for The Bucket bumped!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, opening night, schedule change, South Whidbey, The Bucket on July 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Teo Keilwitz and Co. will have one extra day of practice before their season opener. (John Fisken photos)

That gives Julian Welling (left) and Hunter Downes extra time to work on their snaps.

One extra day to fan the rivalry flames.

The biggest football game of the year will be the first one this season for Coupeville High School, but the day it will be played is changing.

The Wolves host Island arch-rival South Whidbey in their first game under new head coach Jon Atkins, when they will bid to reclaim The Bucket after losing it last year in Langley.

The game, originally set for Friday, Sept. 2, is being bumped a day due to a shortage in available game officials.

It’s now set for Saturday, Sept. 3, with kickoff at 7 PM.

Coupeville, which is currently working on installing a new track oval around the football field, offered to make the change for a number of reasons.

“I volunteered us to move out,” said CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith. “I did this for a couple of reasons: it will give our new football staff one more day to prepare, it gives maintenance another day to prep, we will get a great draw no matter what with South Whidbey, so it just makes sense.”

The Falcons upended the Wolves 27-14 in last year’s opener — a game most famous for South Whidbey’s aging scoreboard going dark for more than a quarter.

While both schools are coming off of less-than-spectacular 1-9 seasons (Coupeville beat Chimacum last year, while South Whidbey was win-less after opening night), the rivalry burns bright.

At the heart of the battle is The Bucket, which is a … bucket, which bears Coupeville’s logo and school colors on one side and South Whidbey’s on the other.

The winning school holds on to the trophy until the next year’s game.

The two teams have traded ownership back-and-forth in recent years, with the Wolves winning in 2012 (18-13) and 2014 (35-28).

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