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Wolf soccer guru resigns

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 29, 2026| Leave a Comment »

CHS soccer coach Jasmine Ader discusses strategy with her team. (Jacob Lujan photo)

She’s off to Japan.

New military duty for her husband will take Coupeville High School girls’ soccer coach Jasmine Ader out of the country.

The pitch guru, who has led the Wolves the past two seasons, has tendered her resignation.

She leaves the program in a good place, having taken the lead on bringing girls soccer back from exile in her time at the school.

When Ader arrived, the CHS girls pitch program had been shut down for two seasons due to a lack of players, with a handful of players joining the Wolf boy’s roster.

In her first season as head coach, Coupeville relaunched with just one senior, Frankie Tenore, and a strong pack of 8th and 9th graders.

The Wolves went 4-7-1 with eight players scoring, then doubled that this season, getting goals from all 16 players on the roster during a 7-5-3 season in which they were in the fight for a playoff spot until the final week.

All 16 of those players can return next season, as this year’s squad has no 12th graders.

Ader rides the soccer team’s float during this year’s Homecoming parade. (Jackie Saia photo)

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Wolf grad earns big honor

Posted in Alumni, tagged , , , , , on January 22, 2021| 1 Comment »

Tacoma’s Venajah Woods (left) and Coupeville grad Raechel Kundert have earned internships with the Japanese Cultural Community Center of Washington in Seattle. (Photo property of JCCCW)

Raechel Kundert is a bright, shining star.

The Coupeville High School grad is a senior at the University of Washington, where she carries a triple major.

You read that right, as Kundert is studying Linguistics, Japanese, and Asian Languages and Cultures.

Which shouldn’t leave the former Wolf much free time.

But Kundert will carve out a chunk of her schedule to accept a new honor, having been tabbed for a winter Ganbaru internship with the Japanese Cultural Community Center of Washington.

She’ll join Venajah Woods, a Psychology major from Tacoma, in working as a Social Media and Marketing intern for the JCCCW.

Ganbaru translates to “give one’s best effort,” and interns work on cultural and historical programs, annual events, and office operations.

Kundert, who was a talented musician and football player during her time in Coupeville, grew up on Whidbey Island and became interested in Japanese culture at a young age.

A big fan of the country’s pop culture, she also studied karate in elementary school.

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Grapplers from two continents unite!!

Posted in Wrestling, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   A visiting wrestler is hailed as the winner at a recent exhibition in Everett between American and Japanese grapplers. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

“And where do you think you’re going????”

Wrestling officials lay down the rules.

   Oak Harbor’s Michael Fisken (in red), who doesn’t normally wrestle freestyle, gamely tries to hold his own on the mat.

Three Oak Harbor High School wrestlers got a chance Friday to find out what it was like to fight for their life.

Facing off with grapplers from another continent, while using a different wrestling style than normal, the Wildcat trio were part of a USA vs. Japan exhibition match in Everett.

OHHS juniors Caleb Fitzgerald, Blake McBride and Michael Fisken and their coach, Larry Falcon, were part of the American team, which was drawn from Wesco schools.

Once on the mat, the ‘Cats had to wrestle freestyle, which is favored internationally, instead of folkstyle, which is what American high schools and colleges favor.

If you’re wondering what the difference is, hey, that’s why Wikipedia exists.

Fresh off the experience, McBride and Fisken reverted back to their normal style of wrestling Saturday, winning titles at 145 and 220, respectively, at the Panther Classic at Snohomish High School.

Having been informed Coupeville Sports has a decent following in Japan (seriously, it does), proud dad and ever-busy photographer John Fisken sent me a couple of the pics he shot at the international event.

For that, we (my Japanese fans and myself) thank him.

To see everything Fisken shot at the exhibition, pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Wrestling-2017-2018/2018-01-05-USA-vs-Japan/

And PS, if you think Coupeville should join the rest of the civilized world and have a wrestling team (like virtually every other freakin’ high school in the state), I agree.

Now, someone go do something about it.

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