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Free throws trip up Wolf girls

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville junior Haylee Armstrong rattled the rims for a team-high 14 points Friday night on Orcas Island. (Julie Wheat photo)

“We gotta make free throws.”

Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball coach Scout Smith, who was a precision shooter in her own playing days, could do little but watch in silent horror Friday as her squad gave one away on Orcas Island.

Despite getting to the line twice as many times as the host Vikings, the Wolves could not get the ball to stay in the basket, and it stung them badly in a 42-39 loss.

The defeat, coming in the Northwest 2B/1B League opener for both teams, drops CHS to 0-1 in conference action, 1-3 overall heading into a Tuesday home tilt with NWL powerhouse Mount Vernon Christian.

Friday’s fracas was decided at the charity stripe, and it could have been a blowout for Coupeville.

The Wolves earned 24 chances at the stripe to just 12 for Orcas — a rare case of the road team getting the benefit of the doubt — but the rim was unforgiving.

While the Vikings were just 5-12 with the action stopped, they still made two more free throws than their foes, as Coupeville netted just 3-24.

That blew a huge hole in the Wolves ability to hold on to the lead, or rally back in the final moments.

Up 13-10 after one quarter of play, with Haylee Armstrong going off for seven points to lead the way, the Wolves settled for a 19-19 tie at the half.

Coupeville was still within 31-29 after three frames but couldn’t quite get there and will look for some sweet revenge when Orcas travels to Cow Town later in the season.

Armstrong paced the Wolves Friday, pumping in 14 points, while Teagan Calkins banked in 11 in support.

Tenley Stuurmans (5), Adeline Maynes (4), Kennedy O’Neill (4), and Ari Cunningham (1) also scored, with Lexis Drake providing a defensive spark in her time on the floor.

The game marked a return to action for Maynes, who sat out two games after being crunched in the head in the season opener, while Stuurmans, a sophomore, cracked the 100-point career scoring club and now sits with 103 points.

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Some milestones, some pain

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Wolf hoops hotshot Haylee Armstrong cracked the 100-point career club in Tuesday’s season opener. (Photo courtesy Michelle Armstrong)

The net was unforgiving.

The Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball team suffered through a cold-shooting night for much of Tuesday’s season opener, and if you can’t score, you can’t win.

The second quarter particularly stung the Wolves, leaving a new-look CHS squad on the wrong side of a 45-28 score in an Island rivalry rumble with visiting South Whidbey.

Coupeville, which is being coached by Scout Smith this season as Megan Richter takes a leave of absence to deliver her second child, could not get anything to drop in the first quarter.

Haylee Armstrong made off with a steal and slapped home the bucket midway through the frame, but that was it for the Wolves, as everything else slid off the rim, popped back out, or simply refused to fall through the bottom of the net.

Thankfully for CHS, its defense was on point, and the deficit was a modest one at 6-2 when the first break came roaring up on the teams.

Unfortunately for the Wolves, while their own shooting woes continued into the second quarter, South Whidbey found a bit of a groove, dropping in a pair of three-balls during a 19-9 surge.

The second quarter added physical pain to mental pain, as sparkplug sophomore Adeline Maynes, who hit three free throws in her varsity hoops debut, got crunched and spent the remainder of the game with an ice bag on her forehead.

Coupeville pulled off a pair of highlight reel buckets, with Tenley Stuurmans scoring off a ball saved by a major hustle play from Capri Anter, and Kennedy O’Neill converting a bucket set up by a zippy pass from Armstrong.

But the Falcons were scoring in gobs and stretched the lead out to 25-11 at the half and 34-11 late in the third.

Showing a scrappiness reminiscent of the playing style of their acting coach, the Wolves did rally, closing the third on a 7-1 run before battling to a 10-10 stalemate across the final frame.

Coupeville’s leading returning scorer, senior Teagan Calkins, who was held down in the first half, popped in a pair of second half buckets off of stellar set-up passes from Ari Cunningham and Stuurmans.

That allowed “The Red Dragon” to move into the top 50 on the CHS girls’ career scoring chart.

Calkins, who finished with five points in the opener, now has 247 for her varsity career, putting her in a temporary tie with CHS grads Mia Farris and Marlys West at #49 on a chart which began back in 1974.

Stuurmans paced the Wolves with eight points, while Armstrong pumped in six to crack the 100-point club — she has 104 and counting heading into Coupeville’s next game Saturday at home against Eastside Prep.

Maynes (3), O’Neill (2), Sydney Van Dyke (2), and Anter (2) also scored for CHS, with Danica Strong, Cunningham, and Lexis Drake all seeing floor time as well.

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Robotics squad back in action

Posted in robotics, tagged , , , , on November 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Ready to win the day. (Photos courtesy Alison Perera)

They’re powered up.

After competing in tandem with Oak Harbor for a while, Coupeville High School has launched its own robotics team once again.

The squad is officially FTC Team 32666, but they’re better known as the “32-Bit Devils” and they’re ready to shake up the robotics world.

School Board Director Alison Perera and physics/math teacher Logan Inces are the advisors, with 11 middle and high school students on the roster.

That group includes juniors Lina Shelly, Haylee Armstrong, and Lindy Sylvester, as well as sophomores Ryan Beaston and Noah Stribrny, and freshman Frank Morrell.

Eighth graders Ross Allred, Farrin Workman, Ash Prats, Hayli Marley, and Jade Peabody complete the team.

The 32-Bit Devils have competed in two league events in the FIRST Tech Challenge so far and currently sit sixth out of 12 teams.

Coupeville will step into the big time Dec. 7, when it attends a 26-team tourney off-Island featuring numerous squads from Seattle and Edmonds.

The FIRST Tech Challenge is “a robotics competition where teams of students design, build, and program small robots to score points in a series of fast-paced matches.”

Each match is played on a small court with two alliances (red and blue), and the alliances switch up with every match, meaning your partner in one round can be your rival later in the tourney.

This year’s game requires building a robot which shoots a wiffle ball into a standing goal.

L to r, it’s Alison Perera, Lindy Sylvester, Lina Shelly, Haylee Armstrong, Frank Morrell, Hayli Marley, Jade Peabody, Ross Allred, Farrin Workman, and Logan Ince.

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Banner night for Booster Club

Posted in Booster Club, tagged , , , , on November 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Michelle Armstrong (left), Kassie O’Neil (center) and Haylee Armstrong celebrate the Coupeville Booster Club. (Photos courtesy Michelle Armstrong)

They hit the bonanza.

With a big boost from the community, the Coupeville High School Booster Club set a record at this year’s fundraiser dinner, bringing in $42,000 to support Wolf athletics.

Fine dining for a fine cause.

CHS student athletes spoke to the crowd at the benefit Saturday, detailing what the club has provided them, with Wolf boys’ hardwood guru Brad Sherman adding a coach’s perspective.

All in all, the event was a huge hit, said Booster Club bigwig (and Coupeville alumni) Danette Beckley.

“The energy was high, and folks were so generous,” she said.

Wolf athletes handled kitchen duties.

Along with a catered dinner, the night included live and silent auctions, with vacations in places as diverse as Maui and Lake Chelan being offered, in addition to the always popular “Pork Palooza for Eight” and a “Wheelbarrow of Booze.”

Plus, a ton of delectable desserts were up for grabs.

Just a small portion of the tasty treats.

 

The Booster Club would like to thank a wide variety of people and businesses who helped make the night a hit:

Anaia Trucking and Excavating
Capri Anter
Applebee’s
Haylee and Michelle Armstrong
Garrett Arnold
Ashley’s Design
“Granny” Chris Baker
Bayleaf
Bayside Armory
Danette Beckley and friends
Courtney Boyd

CHS alums Courtnie Deckwa (left) and Courtney Boyd give back.

Branch Business Services
Teagan Calkins
Glenda Campbell
CHS Yearbook Class (Jackie Saia)
Coupeville Coffee Roasters
Cynthia Woerner Photography
Lexis Drake
Ebey Academy
Edward Jones – Coupeville
5 Sisters Design
Front Street Grill
Front Street Realty
Frontier Lumber NW and SW
Gig Harbor Realty
Camden Glover
Greenbank Cidery and Tap Room
Lark Gustafson
Kari Habeck
Home Depot
Island Contracting
Ivar’s
Julie Natalie Imagery
Kapaw’s Iskreme
Bella Karr
Riley Lawless
Shannon and Roger Leatherwood
Leann Leavitt and family
Little Caesar’s Pizza
Aaron, Jess, and Ava Lucero
Bob Martin

Adeline Maynes (left) and Capri Anter keep the room under control.

Scott, Lara, and Adeline Maynes
Michele McEuen
Gordon McMillan and Nancy Conard
Messner family
Moch Construction and Excavation
Oak Bowl and Mario’s Pizza
Aiden O’Neill
People’s Bank
Pilgrimage Pottery
Planet Fitness
Polished Studio
Prairie Center Market
Pyle on the Sweets
Rain Shadow Nursery
RayLynn Ratcliff
Jon Roberts

Riley Lawless (right) delivers a plate of vittles to Jon Roberts.

Sandy and Susan Roberts
Rhodena Design
Rocky Point Plumbing
Rummel Relacing
Seaside Salon & Spa
Serendipity Caterings and Events, LLC
Brad Sherman
Dale and Liz Sherman
Sherman Beef
Bettie Sifuentes and Family
Flo Simon
Malachi Somes
Danica Strong
Von and Barbara Summers
Swinomish Casino
Terra Firma Wealth Management
Toby’s Tavern
Ana Valencia
Brogan Walling
Mariah Warren-Madsen
Whidbey Coffee
Whidbey Electric Company
Whidbey Island Pies
Whidbey Tides and Taps
Windermere Coupeville
Derek Wolfe
Wright Construction
Ron Wright and family

Malachi Somes (back) and Camden Glover keep the water flowing.

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Wolf spikers denied playoff berth

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , , , on November 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Haylee Armstrong pounds a winner. (Danica Strong photo)

A rebuilding season ended a few days too early.

One year after a veteran-dominated squad went undefeated to the final day of the campaign and brought home a program-best 4th place state trophy, the Coupeville High School volleyball team was denied a playoff berth.

The young Wolves, who had only one senior this time around, fell 25-17, 25-18 to Friday Harbor in a tiebreaker played on a neutral court in La Conner Wednesday night.

With the victory, the Wolverines earn the #4 seed for 2B schools from District 1 to the six-team District 1/2 tourney, which runs Thursday through Saturday.

Coupeville finishes its first season under new head coach Scout Smith at 5-10-1.

The tiebreaker was required because CHS and Friday Harbor finished in a stalemate, both going 2-8 in league play.

La Conner (8-2), Mount Vernon Christian (8-2), and Orcas Island (5-5) are the other playoff-bound 2B schools, while NWL champ Darrington (8-0) and last-place finisher Concrete (0-8), both 1B schools, have already begun postseason play.

Wednesday’s tiebreaker marked the end of the road for Wolf senior Teagan Calkins. A key contributor to last year’s trophy winners, she led Coupeville in kills and digs as a senior.

Teagan Calkins was a rock for the Wolves all season. (Jackie Saia photo)

“We are extremely grateful to our lone senior,” said CHS coach Scout Smith. “Her unwavering dedication and commitment to our program is unmatched and she will be dearly missed.

“However, she has undoubtedly left her mark on this program and has left it better than she found it.”

While she was hoping for a different outcome Wednesday, and a chance to take her squad to the postseason, Smith liked the continued growth she witnessed as a new group of varsity players began to make an impact.

“Obviously not the ending we hoped for, but still a lot of positives to take from this season,” she said. “We will continue to build to come back as an even stronger team next year.

“Hats off to Friday Harbor. They too were against the ropes fighting for a spot in districts and showed great composure in the moment.

“We are excited to have so many players returning for next year,” Smith added. “We will focus on and build off of all the positives from this year.”

 

Wednesday stats:

Haylee Armstrong — 3 kills, 2 digs, 1 assist, 1 ace
Teagan Calkins — 4 kills, 2 assists
Ari Cunningham — 2 digs
Lexis Drake — 1 block assist
Adeline Maynes — 4 digs, 2 aces
Dakota Strong — 1 dig, 1 assist, 1 block assist
Tenley Stuurmans — 4 kills, 3 digs, 7 assists

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