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“Torpedo” calls it a career

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, medical retirement, Sean Toomey-Stout, University of Washington on August 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Sean Toomey-Stout, preparing to destroy you. (Chelle Herbruger photo)

The spirit is still willing, but the body has spoken.

Coupeville High School grad Sean Toomey-Stout, who beat considerable odds to make the jump from Cow Town to playing at the highest level of college football, is retiring from the sport.

University of Washington coach Kalen DeBoer confirmed the news after practice Tuesday, on a day when the Huskies lost three players to season-ending injuries.

Toomey-Stout, a two-time Male Athlete of the Year winner during his days in Coupeville, will take “a medical retirement” due to “a chronic injury getting to the point he could no longer continue playing.”

Believed to be the first Coupeville athlete to grace a trading card, Toomey-Stout joined Husky football as a walk-on player in 2021.

He was twice named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll, and played in six games last season, including making an appearance in the team’s Alamo Bowl win over Texas.

Toomey-Stout, the only CHS grad to ever rack up stats for Washington’s NCAA D-I football program, collected seven tackles, with a high of three against Colorado and Kent State.

He also saw the field against Oregon, Arizona State, and Portland State.

“The Torpedo” with his former high school coach, and fellow NCAA D-I football player, Kwamane Bowens. (Photo courtesy Bowens)

The twin brother of Maya, “The Torpedo” was a viral video star while in a Coupeville uniform.

Recordings of the night he took a kick to the house behind the blocking of a wayward deer popped up everywhere from Sports Illustrated to CNN.

Sean played football, basketball, and track for the Wolves, winning two state meet medals in the latter sport.

He also competed with older brother Cameron for the unofficial “Best Damn Hair in the Western Hemisphere” award, with the duo usually separated only by a single (well-coiffed) strand.

The shot? Beautiful. The hair? Impeccable. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

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Wolves find their practice groove

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, pancakes, practice, Zane Oldenstadt on August 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville football players clash. (Photos by Nikki Breaux and Michelle Glass)

They made the day count.

Beating the arrival of wildfire smoke in the air, Coupeville High School football players stayed busy Saturday, combining a bluff run with a team breakfast and a full practice.

The gridiron giants will be joined by volleyball, cross country, cheer, and soccer players Monday, as practices for fall sports get into full gear.

But, for the moment, football had all the cameras pointed its way.

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Suns out, (gridiron) guns out

Posted in Everything changes, Tennis, tagged Bobby Carr, CHS Wolves, first practice, football, Malachi Somes 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 Bennett Richter, CHS Wolves, first practice, football, Northwest League 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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Fill up your calendar (in pencil)

Posted in schedules, tagged CHS Wolves, cross country, fall schedules, football, Soccer, volleyball on August 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Ayden Wyman and her fellow Coupeville High School athletes are prepping for a new season. (Amber Wyman photo)

Everybody’s got a different setup.

A look at mostly official schedules for Coupeville High School fall sports teams showcase a variety of quirks based on which Northwest 2B/1B League schools play a certain sport.

How it breaks down, with * indicating a conference clash:

BOYS SOCCER:

Concrete and Darrington don’t suit up in this sport, while four outside schools — Lopez Island, Providence Classical Christian, Grace Academy, and Cedar Park Christian-Lynnwood — join the NWL for just boys’ soccer.

Coupeville has a 12-game schedule, but while all of the opponents are league foes, only one game against each rival counts in the conference standings.

So, first four tilts are treated as non-league affairs, with the final eight counting towards playoff seeding.

Tue-Sept. 12 — Friday Harbor — (4:00)
Fri-Sept. 15 — Providence Classical Christian — (6:00)
Tue-Sept. 19 — @ Grace Academy — (3:30)
Sat-Sept. 23 — Orcas Island — (12:00)
Fri-Sept. 29 — Cedar Park Christian-Lynnwood — (6:00) *
Tue-Oct. 3 — @ Mount Vernon Christian — (4:00) *
Fri-Oct. 6 — Grace Academy — (6:00) *
Tue-Oct. 10 — @ Friday Harbor — (4:30) *
Fri-Oct. 13 — @ Providence Classical Christian — (3:30) *
Tue-Oct. 17 — @ Lopez Island — (2:30) *
Fri-Oct. 20 — La Conner — (6:00) * — SENIOR NIGHT
Tue-Oct. 24 — @ Orcas Island — (3:00) *

CROSS COUNTRY:

The Wolves run at “home” once, but otherwise are road warriors.

Sat-Sept. 9 — @ Sehome Invitational — (10:00)
Sat-Sept. 16 — @ Westling Invitational (South Whidbey) — (10:00)
Wed-Sept. 20 — @ Orcas Island — (3:00)
Sat-Sept. 23 — @ King’s Invite — (1:00)
Wed-Sept. 27 — HOME meet (Fort Casey) — (3:30)
Sat-Sept. 30 — @ Twilight Invite (Marysville) — (TBD)
Sat-Oct. 7 — @ Hole in the Wall (Lakewood) — (9:00)
Thur-Oct. 19 — @ Northwest 2B/1B League Championships (MVC) — (3:30)

FOOTBALL:

The current setup of the NWL has three 2A schools and four 1A institutions, with Coupeville playing home and away with La Conner and Friday Harbor as it attempts to defend its league crown.

Sat-Aug. 26 — @ Sultan Jamboree — (11:00)
Fri-Sept. 1 — Klahowya — (6:00)
Fri-Sept. 8 — @ South Whidbey — (7:00) — BUCKET GAME
Fri-Sept. 15 — @ Sultan — (7:00)
Fri-Sept. 22 — La Conner — (7:00) *
Fri-Sept. 29 — @ Friday Harbor — (6:30) *
Fri-Oct. 6 — @ Bellingham — (7:00)
Fri-Oct. 13 — Forks — (5:00) — HOMECOMING
Fri-Oct. 20 — @ La Conner — (7:00) *
Fri-Oct. 27 — Friday Harbor — (6:00) * — SENIOR NIGHT

Zane Oldenstadt and Co. return to defend their league title. (Michelle Glass photo)

GIRLS SOCCER:

Coupeville, La Conner, Friday Harbor, and defending league champs Mount Vernon Christian play, while Orcas Island, Concrete, and Darrington sit out.

Home and away games count towards six league contests.

Thur-Sept. 7 — @ Granite Falls — (5:30)
Sat-Sept. 9 — Sultan — (1:00)
Wed-Sept. 13 — @ Auburn Adventist Academy — (4:00)
Sat-Sept. 16 — @ Ocosta — (3:00)
Tue-Sept. 19 — @ Mount Vernon Christian — (6:00) *
Thurs-Sept. 21 — La Conner — (6:00) *
Thur-Sept. 28 — Friday Harbor — (4:00) *
Sat-Sept. 30 — Adna — (2:00)
Thur-Oct. 5 — Forks — (4:00)
Sat-Oct. 7 — University Prep — (1:00)
Tue-Oct. 10 — Mount Vernon Christian — (6:00) * — SENIOR NIGHT
Thur-Oct. 19 — @ La Conner — (6:00) *
Wed-Oct 25 — @ Friday Harbor (4:30) *

VOLLEYBALL:

All seven NWL schools spike and set, but Coupeville’s first meetings with MVC and Orcas will be non-league contests.

The Wolves play eight conference matches — two each against 2B rivals La Conner and Friday Harbor, and one apiece against the 1B schools.

JV start times are listed first, varsity second.

Sat-Sept. 2 — @ Oak Harbor Jamboree — (9:00)
Thur-Sept. 7 — South Whidbey — (5:00/6:30)
Wed-Sept. 13 — Neah Bay — (5:00/5:00)
Fri-Sept. 15 — @ SunDome Tournament (Yakima) — (TBD)
Tue-Sept. 19 — @ Mount Vernon Christian — (5:00/6:30)
Thur-Sept. 21 — Orcas Island — (5:00/3:30)
Sat-Sept. 23 — @ S. Whidbey Invite — (10:00)
Tue-Sept. 26 — @ La Conner — (5:00/6:30) *
Tue-Oct. 3 — Friday Harbor — (5:30/4:00) *
Sat-Oct. 7 — Forks — (2:00/3:30)
Tue-Oct. 10 — Concrete — (5:00/6:30) *
Thurs-Oct. 12 — Mount Vernon Christian — (5:00/6:30) *
Sat-Oct. 14 — @ Orcas Island — (TBD) *
Tue-Oct. 17 — @ Bush — (5:30/7:00)
Thur-Oct. 19 — @ Darrington — (5:00/6:00) *
Tue-Oct. 24 — La Conner — (5:00/6:30) * — SENIOR NIGHT
Thur-Oct. 26 — @ Friday Harbor — (6:00/4:30) *