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Wolves find their practice groove

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , 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 , , , , 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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Fill up your calendar (in pencil)

Posted in schedules, tagged , , , , , 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) *

“Let’s get this party started!” (Jackie Saia photo)

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“Torpedo” still blowing up

Posted in Football, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on August 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Sean Toomey-Stout, urban legend. (Chelle Herbruger photo)

It’s the run everyone still talks about.

Back in 2018, Sean Toomey-Stout had a kickoff bounce off his hands — one of the few times the Coupeville High School four-year, two-way starter ever juggled a live ball.

Not that it mattered, as “The Torpedo” snatched the ball up, then took it to the house while escorted for 95 yards by a wayward deer which had entered the playing field right as the kick descended from the clouds.

At the time, multiple videos of the run cropped up across the internet, from local sites to international ones, and Maya’s twin brother became a viral sensation.

Now, as Sean prepares for another season of college football at the University of Washington, continuing to beat the odds as a walk-on player getting significant playing time, the video is still never far away.

The latest mention comes to us from Dan Raley, who covers the Huskies for Sports Illustrated:

https://www.si.com/college/washington/football/huskies-toomey-stout-turns-video-into-game-time-viral-fame

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