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Track stars defend home turf in style

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on April 25, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Zachary Saho set PRs in the discus, shot put, and 800 Saturday. (Jackie Saia photo)

They had home field advantage and they claimed it.

Competing on their own oval Saturday, the Coupeville High School track and field squad dominated six other schools, sweeping to lopsided wins in the Cow Town Classic Invite.

The Wolf boys stormed to a massive win, piling up 235 points while runner-up Clallam Bay collected 85.

Lopez Island (58), Chief Leschi (48), Neah Bay (41), Forks (36), and Concrete (25) rounded out the competitors.

On the girls’ side of things, CHS finished with 196 points, with Forks (85), Lopez (84), and Neah Bay (84) bunched up in a second-place battle.

Clallam Bay (21), Chief Leschi (8), and Concrete (6) brought up the rear.

On the day Coupeville snagged 14 wins and 33 PRs, with Cyrus Sparacio (800, 1600, 3200), Kennedy O’Neill (100 and 300 Hurdles), Arianna Cunningham (Javelin, 4 x 100 Relay), and Wyatt Fitch-Marron (4 x 1, 4 x 4) winning multiple events.

Sparacio, just a freshman, hit PRs in all three of his events, as well.

Cyrus Sparacio hits the gas. (Julie Wheat photo)

While Fitch-Marron finished second in the high jump, the sophomore smashed his PR by four inches, elevating six feet, two inches.

That puts him just two inches away from the school record of 6-4, jointly held by the non-related Rich Wilson and Cael Wilson.

While the times were fast and the wins many, making the day a total success were the volunteers, who poured into Coupeville’s stadium ready and rarin’ to go on a sunny Saturday.

“A great big shout out to all our volunteers!” said CHS coaches Elizabeth Bitting and Bob Martin. “Not one spot was empty!

“From the elementary school principal (Erica McColl) to Melissa and Brett Casey, to the many parents, family members, even a King (Randy) was present.

“EVERY position was filled. This helped with the meet running so smoothly.”

Fresh off their home success, Coupeville returns to action next Saturday, May 2, when it travels to Sammamish High School for the 22-team BCS Invitational, the final regular-season meet.

After that comes the league meet, districts, and, hopefully, the state championships.

Kennedy O’Neill glides through the hurdles. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Tamsin Ward (3rd) 14.24

200 — Isa Mc Fetridge (2nd) 28.71 *PR*

400 — Taylor Marrs (4th) 1:13.40 *PR*

800 — Laken Simpson (1st) 2:51.29 *PR*; Mikayla Wagner (2nd) 3:02.10

1600 — Devon Wyman (1st) 8:19.26; Wagner (2nd) 8:19.42

3200 — Wyman (2nd) 14:07.90 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (1st) 20.61; Lexis Drake (2nd) 22.55; Myra McDonald (3rd) 23.62; Frankie Tenore (4th) 24.30

300 Hurdles — O’Neill (1st) 1:01.87; Wyman (2nd) 1:07.10; Drake (3rd) 1:12.50; McDonald (4th) 1:16.27

4 x 100 Relay — Arianna Cunningham, Olivia Hall, Ward, Mc Fetridge (1st) 54.08

4 x 200 Relay — A. Cunningham, Drake, Simpson, Mc Fetridge (3rd) 2:00.43

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, Marrs, Lillian Ketterling, Simpson (2nd) 4:40.57

Shot Put — Ward (2nd) 31-07 *PR*; A. Cunningham (4th) 23-01 *PR*

Discus — Ketterling (2nd) 78-03; Marrs (6th) 59-10.50 *PR*

Javelin — A. Cunningham (1st) 76-04

High Jump — Ward (3rd) 4-06; Tenore (4th) 4-02

Pole Vault — Ketterling (1st) 8-03 *PR*

Long Jump — O’Neill (6th) 12-02; McDonald (8th) 10-05.50

Devon Wyman claimed a victory in the 1600. (Marquette Cunningham photo)

 

BOYS:

100 — Marquette Cunningham (3rd) 12.60; Liam Blas (5th) 12.64; Nathan Coxsey (9th) 12.85; Beckett Green (12th) 13.05; Edmund Wilson (13th) 13.09

200 — Davin Houston (2nd) 24.27; Green (4th) 25.38; Richmond Bandong (6th) 26.68 *PR*; Will Tierney (8th) 27.02; Sage Arends (10th) 27.21 *PR*; Shilo Sandlin (11th) 27.42 *PR*

400 — George Spear (3rd) 57.10 *PR*; Tierney (4th) 57.76 *PR*; Brian Thompson (5th) 58.93; Coxsey (6th) 1:03.80

800 — Cyrus Sparacio (1st) 2:08.47 *PR*; Ossian Merkel (4th) 2:27.19; Johnathan Jacobsen (5th) 2:30.93 *PR*; Kenneth Jacobsen (6th) 2:37.38; Hunter Atteberry (7th) 2:37.66 *PR*; Zach Blitch (11th) 3:15.22 *PR*; Nolan Hunt (12th) 3:35.29; Zachary Saho (13th) 3:36.86 *PR*

1600 — Sparacio (1st) 4:43.31 *PR*; Merkel (2nd) 5:28.39; K. Jacobsen (3rd) 5:29.77; Atteberry (4th) 6:05.94; Hunt (5th) 7:34.82

3200 — Sparacio (1st) 10:42.73 *PR*; Spear (2nd) 10:55.79; K. Jacobsen (3rd) 11:59.18

300 Hurdles — Wilson (3rd) 48.64 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — M. Cunningham, Blas, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, Houston (1st) 48.67

4 x 400 Relay — Wilson, Thompson, Fitch-Marron, Green (1st) 3:53.33; Tierney, Coxsey, Arends, Blas (3rd) 4:08.78

Shot Put — Saho (2nd) 42-10 *PR*; Khanor Jump (4th) 36-02.50 *PR*; Blitch (13th) 22-05

Discus — Blas (3rd) 112-00.50 *PR*; Jump (4th) 110-06 *PR*; Saho (8th) 90-04 *PR*; J. Jacobsen (11th) 65-02; Tierney (12th) 63-11.50 *PR*; Sandlin (13th) 57-11 *PR*; Blitch (15th) 55-05

Javelin — Bandong (3rd) 105-06; K. Jacobsen (6th) 94-08 *PR*; Sandlin (7th) 92-02 *PR*; J. Jacobsen (13th) 78-10; Hunt (20th) 23-10

Hammer Throw — Jump (1st) 106-07

High Jump — Fitch-Marron (2nd) 6-02 *PR*; Houston (3rd) 5-08; J. Jacobsen (4th) 5-04

Pole Vault — Russell Miller (1st) 7-00 *PR*; Edmund Kunz (2nd) 7-00

Long Jump — Arends (2nd) 18-01.75; Wilson (5th) 16-08.25; Thompson (6th) 16-07.50; Merkel (13th) 11-06.50 *PR*

Squishy cows were given to top finishers. (Erin Coxsey photo)

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“What a great night!”

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Frankie Tenore is honored on Senior Night. (Jackie Saia photos)

Sometimes a tie can feel an awful lot like a win.

Walk across Mickey Clark Field Saturday night, a wee bit of October chill in the air, and the scene on the Coupeville sideline post-game was a portrait of celebration and achievement.

The Wolf girls’ soccer squad, back after a two-year hiatus, had just wrapped its final home game with a dramatic defensive stand in stoppage time, forcing a 3-3 stalemate with visiting Sultan.

The non-conference tie brings Coupeville’s record to 2-7-1, with two road games left on the regular season schedule.

It also marked another milestone for a Wolf squad on which 13 of 15 players are 8th graders or freshmen.

Standing toe-to-toe, and hip check-to-hip check with veteran booters from a school whose student body outnumbers Coupeville 466-192.5, is a huge achievement.

“What a great night!” said Wolf coach Jasmine Ader. “We’ve been waiting for this moment and started to see it with how well we played on Lopez Island in the last game.

“Our trajectory is going straight up, exactly where we want it.”

That joy and sense of achievement carried over from the team’s one old pro, defender Frankie Tenore, who had Senior Night honors to herself.

“I’ve played soccer almost my whole life, been on co-ed teams like we had the past two years, and girls’ teams,” she said. “I’m so happy to see our program come back this strong, and to get to play with this amazing team.”

While Tenore will soon depart for new adventures, the youngsters — there are eight 8th graders and five fab frosh on the roster — plan to keep making big plays in her honor.

Finley Helm patrols the net with flair.

Goaltender Finley Helm, just an 8th grader, came up huge in the waning moments Saturday, making three saves in a two-minute stoppage time which felt more like 10 minutes.

Flying out of the goal, sliding across the ground, boldly snatching balls away from her rivals just as they cocked their legs to shoot, she made her old man, CHS assistant coach Jerry Helm, beam under the lights.

Complimented for her often-daring play by a passerby, she looked up and nodded.

“It’s my net!!!”

And then she softly giggled, and went about the rest of her night, awash in well-earned joy.

With the Wolves being such a young team, they don’t know what they don’t know. And one of those things is the old rule that few high school teams come back from a two-goal deficit.

Young and full of fire.

Sultan slipped in a couple of quick goals in the game’s first 10 minutes, off of misdirected balls which found openings in the midst of a scrum of players, and things could have seemed bleak.

Instead, Coupeville’s young guns just started firing.

Tamsin Ward and Lyla Grose came flying in, locked and loaded, often with Lillian Ketterling setting them up with well-placed passes.

Some shots slid wide. Some were stopped by Sultan’s netminder. But some got through.

Ward made a sensational run up the right side, leaving a pack of Turk defenders in her rearview mirror, then punched in Coupeville’s first goal midway through the first half.

Not content to stop there, she netted the tying score in stoppage time, giving her 10 tallies in this, her freshman season.

That makes her just the fourth Wolf girl to hit double-digits in a single campaign — joining Mia Littlejohn, Kalia Littlejohn, and Genna Wright — and already has her sitting at #7 on the career scoring chart for a program playing in its 20th season.

Sultan snatched the lead back eight minutes into the second half, with a Turk shooter snagging a rebound and dumping the ball into a tiny open window, but the Wolves never broke.

Instead, they kept on the offensive, pushing the attack, and then taking advantage when a defender sent Ward sprawling deep in Sultan territory.

Granted a penalty kick, Coupeville put Ketterling on the line, and the sophomore sensation responded with an ice-cold move, slapping the ball into the upper part of the net as the goalie could do little else but watch the ball fly past her head.

It was the first high school goal for the scrappy pitch powerhouse, who is the heart and soul of a team with a bright future.

Lillian Ketterling gives Tenore some love.

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Wolf girls reclaim soccer pitch

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on September 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Frankie Tenore brings the heat. (Julie Wheat photos)

The walk through the wilderness has paid off.

After two years of joining with their male counterparts to form a co-ed team, Coupeville High School’s female booters are once again the masters of their own domain.

Playing as a complete girls’ soccer team for the first time in 1,050 days, the Wolves, led by new coach Jasmine Ader, opened the 20th season in program history Monday, hosting East Jefferson.

And while the young Wolves ultimately fell 6-4 to their non-conference foes, it was a big step forward.

After several years of playing with Oak Harbor as a co-op team, CHS launched its own girls’ soccer program in 2004.

The Wolves survived the pandemic, but a lack of players prevented them from fielding a full roster in 2023 and 2024. During that time, several girls were on the CHS boys team.

That included this year’s captain, Frankie Tenore, who is the only senior on the current 14-woman roster, and young stars Lillian Ketterling and Tamsin Ward.

The trio headline a squad which has tons of potential, with more than half the roster being only 8th graders.

“A dream for any coach,” Ader said. “List a few good sports dynasties and soon we will be one.”

One of those 8th graders, Lyla Grose, got the Wolves on the board, delivering a first-half score while sunny skies graced the prairie.

“Grose has been practicing her strike over the last few months,” Ader said. “Her confidence is growing. I can’t wait to see more goals from her.”

East Jefferson, which is a mashup of Port Townsend and Chimacum players, came in with a veteran team and it showed as the Rivals carried a 6-1 lead into halftime.

Showing pluck and a fiery nature, the young Wolves never backed down, however, scoring three second-half goals to get back in the game.

Ward, a freshman who played on the co-ed varsity as an 8th grader, accounted for the full hat trick, while her teammates rallied behind her offensive firepower.

“At halftime I needed the Wolves to only think about our positives,” Ader said. “We had at least double the shots, held the ball on the opposing side, and had possession control most of the half.

“We had so many great runs on and off the ball — at the end the opposing goalkeeper was exhausted.”

Lillian Ketterling, a terror on the pitch.

Ketterling and Tenore anchored the Wolf defense, while Ader also praised the effort of new-to-the-team players such as Ellie Marshall, Bettie Woolworth, and Hailey and Hazel Goldman.

As the Wolves build back, they are setting themselves up for future success by bringing in players from every grade.

That includes getting elementary and middle school girls to support the current team, while planning to one day wear the red and black themselves.

“For the future Wolves, we hope you girls come and watch us play,” Ader said. “We have built a foundation for girls in Coupeville to play soccer for many years to come. We are excited for our program’s future.”

And there will be plenty of opportunities to catch a game in person, with the Wolves playing seven of their first eight at home this season.

Up next is a clash with Lopez Island Wednesday, with kickoff set for 4:00 PM.

On to the next game!

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Wolves, Wildcat soar as Eagles

Posted in Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , , , on February 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Whidbey’s newest Eagle Scouts are (l to r) Finn Price, Frankie Tenore, and Gwen Miller. (Photo courtesy Heather Tenore)

They’ve unlocked their next achievement.

Two Coupeville High School students and one from Oak Harbor were honored Sunday for becoming Eagle Scouts.

During the ceremony at the Coupeville Rec Hall, Wolves Frankie Tenore and Finn Price were joined by Wildcat Gwen Miller.

Tenore, who was the first female Webelo in Coupeville, and Miller are the first Whidbey Island girls to earn the rank.

The trio join another CHS student, Preston Howard, who achieved Eagle Scout status in 2024, and Wolf soccer player Matthew Ward, who is on target to notch the honor in the next few months.

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Wet field, slick pics

Posted in soccer, tagged , , , , on November 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Lillian Ketterling splashes her way to success. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The field was drenched, but the cameras stayed dry.

Or dry enough to keep on clickin’, as John Fisken wandered off to La Conner Friday to capture the Coupeville High School co-ed soccer squad in action.

To see everything he snapped, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-Soccer-2024-2025/Soccer-2024-11-01-at-LaConner

 

“The gum … that’s in your mouth. I see it, you see it, we all see it. In my hand now, mister.”

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