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Jeff Stone, a legend at multiple local high schools, attacks the course at a fundraiser event. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

If you golf, the paparazzi will be there.

Responding to the thunk of drivers hitting balls, and the gentle sizzle of hotdogs on the grill, wanderin’ camera clicker John Fisken haunted the Whidbey Golf Course recently.

The links were abuzz thanks to an annual fundraiser for Oak Harbor High School athletics, with a considerable crowd in attendance.

The pics seen above and below have at least one Coupeville connection to make them semi-relevant to a blog which doesn’t normally cover the Wildcats all that closely.

Plus, I’m not going to say no thanks to free photos, am I?

Not likely.

 

To see everything Fisken snapped on the day, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Events/OHHS-Golf-Tournament-2023-06-03/

 

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It’s a squeaky-clean win-win.

Get your vehicle de-grimed at a car wash Saturday, June 3, and you can help Coupeville’s Scout Troop 4058 attend a bold hiking trip to New Mexico.

The crew of 13 scouts and their adult leaders are off to the famous Philmont Scout Ranch in late July for their adventure, which each member needing to cover $3,000 in travel expenses.

The car wash, set to go down in the parking lot at Coupeville’s Windermere Real Estate (5 South Main St.) kicks off at noon.

The minimum suggested donation is $10, but, if you’re feeling generous, let your wallet speak loudly.

Every dollar helps the scouts, who are heading to the home of the “Boy Scouts of America’s premier high adventure base.”

Philmont promises to “challenge scouts with more than 214 square miles of rugged northern New Mexico wilderness.

“Backpacking treks, horseback cavalcades, and training and service programs offer young people many ways to experience this legendary country” is their mantra.

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A partial list of stories coming to Coupeville Sports in the near future. It changes hourly this time of year.

This is unique.

As far as I can tell, there are no other web sites or blogs in the state of Washington doing what I do here on Coupeville Sports.

No one else has chosen to hyper-focus on one small town and write about everything sports-related in it – high school, middle school, elementary school.

On the fog-enshrouded prairie in the middle of a rock slapped down somewhere out in the middle of the water, you can get your athletic props — whether you’re a professional basketball star cashing checks in a foreign country or a 3rd grader.

And, thanks to my off kilter sleeping habits at times and obsessive need to document every last bit of info I stumble upon, this is all delivered on an almost daily basis.

If you go back and count the days in 2023 where nothing new was published on Coupeville Sports, you’d have several fingers and toes left to use.

Today, midday on May 17, I’m sitting at 69 stories this month — slightly more than four a day, every day — with 375 for the year and 10,145 since the blog debuted Aug. 15, 2012.

Unlike other publications which work at a much-slower pace, be they local or international, I have been free to read since day one, and will be free to read until we reach the end of wherever this road takes us.

And it is a journey we are taking together.

I may be smacking my fingers on the keyboard at 2 AM, but Coupeville Sports wouldn’t make it without the photographs, news tips, or (occasional) elbows to the ribs from you, the readers.

If it’s happening in Coupeville, or at least has some vague connection to Cow Town, and I haven’t written about it yet, it’s probably not personal.

Email me at davidsvien@hotmail.com and let me know what’s crackin’.

Last, but certainly not least, an enduring thank you to everyone who has ever donated to the cause, your support keeping me one step ahead of a return to the dish pits.

Years of abuse from working on farms, in restaurants, or moving large rocks from one side of a field to the other have resulted in a cranky back and assorted aches and pains.

But the mysterious back and body medicine sold at the $1.25 store helps, and I still have the use of my fingers — most mornings — so the blog churns on.

Want to read for free? So be it.

Want to help me keep paying for my internet, allowing Coupeville Sports to keep being its unique self? Check out the links below.

 

PayPal — https://paypal.me/DavidSvien?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

 

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Snail mail — 165 Sherman, Coupeville, WA 98239

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Give Wolf cheerleaders a helping hand. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Eat pancakes, help finance Coupeville High School cheer.

The Wolf spirit team is hosting a fundraiser breaker at Applebee’s in Oak Harbor Sunday, May 28, with profits going to help purchase new uniforms and safety mats.

The event is scheduled to run from 9-11 AM and tickets cost $10.

In return, you nab pancakes, sausage, and juice or coffee.

To purchase fundraiser tickets, contact CHS assistant cheer coach Tara Crouch at tcrouch@coupeville.k12.wa.us or speak to a Wolf cheerleader in person.

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Abby Mulholland (left) and Gwen Gustafson celebrate a basket. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Family friends have launched a GoFundMe to help Abby Mulholland and her parents.

The 2022 Coupeville grad, who played volleyball, basketball, and tennis for the Wolves, was seriously injured in a rollover car accident a week ago while at college.

Mulholland, who was a passenger in the back seat, was ejected from the vehicle.

She suffered two neck fractures, a brain bleed, a broken arm, broken pelvis, hip fracture, liver laceration, spleen laceration, deep knee cuts, and a bruised lung.

Initially housed at a hospital in Idaho, Mulholland is expected to be transferred to Spokane for the start of her rehabilitation.

While all signs have been positive, the former Wolf faces a lot of work to get back to 100%, and family friends are asking the community to help her parents, Moose and Renae, during the coming weeks and months.

Abby is part of one of Coupeville’s core sports families.

She is the granddaughter of the late, great Dorothy Keefe on her mom’s side of the family, and whether they go by Keefe or O’Keefe these days, her uncles and cousins can be found all over the school record books.

After playing volleyball and basketball herself, Abby finished her high school career as the #1 singles player for Ken Stange’s Wolf tennis team.

Mulholland rips a return.

 

To read more and help the family, pop over to:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/mullholland-family-medical-go-fund-me

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