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Wolf aces explode at Firecracker!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on June 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Whidbey warriors (l to r) celebrate their tourney title. (Dawn Hesselgrave photos)

Whidbey warriors (l to r) Malia Hansen, Mia Littlejohn, Kalia Littlejohn and Jenna Cooley celebrate their tourney title. (Dawn Hesselgrave photos)

The best girls under 16 team in all the land.

The best girls under 16 team in all the land.

The will to win is strong in these two.

Powered by its one-two combo of Wolf sharpshooters in sisters Mia and Kalia Littlejohn, the NWU GU16 select soccer squad romped to its third straight win Sunday afternoon, claiming a title at the 21st annual Skagit Firecracker tourney in Burlington.

NWU bounced Snohomish United GU16 2-0 in its final game to cap a 3-0 run through the tournament.

The squad, which boasts four players total from Whidbey, had opened play with a 4-0 drilling of Gala FC Friday.

It then pulled out a heart-stopping 2-1 win over Snohomish Saturday when Kalia Littlejohn slipped a penalty kick past the goalie with less than 30 seconds to play.

Snohomish rebounded to beat Gala FC 3-0 late Saturday to give itself a shot at the title.

Then reality hit like a Littlejohn bomb smacking into the back of the net.

The CHS duo were joined by longtime traveling companion Malia Hansen and newcomer Jenna Cooley to rep Whidbey on the tourney title-winning squad, which is otherwise made up of off-Island players.

Mia Littlejohn was one of Coupeville High School’s top scoring threats last year, winning the award for the team’s top new player.

Kalia, who starred for the CMS volleyball and basketball squads, is expected to join her sister on the pitch in the fall, when she’ll be a freshman and Mia will be a grizzled vet as a sophomore.

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Kalia Littlejohn’s foot is deadly!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on June 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Kalia (left) and Mia Littlejohn. (Dawn Hesselgrave photo)

Kalia (left) and Mia Littlejohn. (Dawn Hesselgrave photo)

On the video, you can smell the goalie’s fear.

Coupeville High School freshman-to-be Kalia Littlejohn, playing for her select soccer squad, lines up the penalty kick with under 30 seconds to play in a tie game.

She circles the ball like a lioness, then her hand goes up and time starts to move in slow motion.

A slight dip of the head, the goalie visibly flinches, and then a sudden flick of Littlejohn’s left foot and the ball slices left to right and vanishes into the corner of the net.

Cue the celebration for Littlejohn and her NWU U16 teammates, including big sis Mia and fellow Whidbey booter Malia Hansen, as they claim a 2-1 win over Snohomish United GU16 Saturday.

That win, with the first goal coming from Hansen, lifted NWU to 2-0 in the on-going Skagit Firecracker tournament in Burlington.

NWU opened with a 4-0 romp over Gala FC Friday, and the two wins propel the team into the championship game in their division.

That game is 4:30 Sunday on Field 8 at Skagit River Park.

If the Littlejohns win, it’ll be the second straight summer their team has triumphed at the tourney.

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All hail the Champs!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , on May 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Mia (left) and Kalia Littlejohn pose with their coaches and the State Cup trophy. (Dawn Hesselgrave photo)

   Mia (left) and Kalia Littlejohn pose with their coaches and the State Cup trophy. (Dawn Hesselgrave photos)

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Malia Hansen (left) joins the Littlejohns to represent Whidbey.

A little sisterly love to cap the awards ceremony.

A little sisterly love to cap the awards ceremony.

All the ferry rides and long trips and getting up to leave the Island at 3:30 AM paid off.

Coupeville’s Mia and Kalia Littlejohn are coming back home as champions.

The duo and their teammates on the NWU U15 Premier girls soccer squad captured a State Cup title Sunday, bouncing FC Spokane 3-0 to claim the Silver division.

The Littlejohns and Oak Harbor’s Malia Hansen comprise the Whidbey contingent on the select squad.

NWU romped through the State Cup, outscoring four foes by a score of 14-1.

It opened with a 6-0 win, then ran up scores of 3-0, 2-1 and 3-0 en route to the title.

The celebration was a brief one however, as the Littlejohn sisters took off after the soccer game to go play select basketball.

Mia, a freshman at Coupeville High School, and Kalia, an 8th grader, are guest players with Washington Elite Blue Ice, who are playing in a weekend hoops tourney.

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Ready to run!!

Posted in Middle School, Track, tagged , , , , , , on April 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Maya Toomey-Stout is heading into her third sport, having already played volleyballa nd basketball for CMS. (John Fisken photos)

   Maya Toomey-Stout is heading into her third sport, having already played volleyball and basketball for CMS. (John Fisken photos)

No matter the sport, Kalia Littlejohn has a winning attitude.

No matter the sport, Kalia Littlejohn has a winning attitude.

They have the numbers.

New Coupeville Middle School track coaches Elizabeth Bitting and Bob Martin kicked off the 2015 season Monday by welcoming almost 40 athletes to the start of practice.

The coaching duo replaced Janie Rosenkrance and Alex Heilig and they and their teams will make their competition debut April 29 at a meet hosted by King’s.

The current CMS roster:

Ashley Battaglia
Chris Battaglia
Jakobi Baumann
Alonzo Boyles
Kyle Burnett
Gabe Carlson
James Conlisk
Seth David
Anna Dion
Gabe Eck
Ty Eck
Tucker Hall
Ja’Tarya Hoskins
Dawson Houston
Uriah Kastner
Teo Keilwitz
Mallory Kortuem
Nichole Laxton
Kalia Littlejohn
Jillion Mayne
Jean Lund Olsen
Trent Montoya
Cassidy Moody
Jasmine Nastali
Jaylen Nitta
Thane Peterson
Moira Reed
Avalon Renninger
Lindsey Roberts
Robert Roper
Ashley Shank
Emma Smith
Dawson Sorrows
Oliana Stange
Mason Testroet
Megan Thorn
Maya Toomey-Stout
Sean Toomey-Stout
Tia Wurzrainer

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“These girls were an absolute joy to coach!!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on March 31, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Scout Smith, seen here during the middle school season, helped drive Coupeville's offense. (John Fisken photo)

Scout Smith, seen here during the middle school season, helped drive Coupeville’s offense. (John Fisken photo)

The future for Wolf girls’ basketball is a bright one.

Both high school squads went undefeated in Olympic League play this year, while the next generation of CHS stars continue to fine-tune their already impressive skills a rung below.

A nine-player squad made up of Coupeville Middle School girls played strongly at the Tulip Tournament in Skagit Valley this past weekend, claiming fifth place out of 12 teams.

The young Wolves opened with hard-fought losses to Anacortes and North Sound Elite, before rebounding to drill Stanwood and Olympia.

Along the way, every team member got the ball in the bucket, and Coupeville coach Scott Hay was impressed with the heart and hustle he saw on display.

“Everyone contributed in many ways,” he said. “Kalia (Littlejohn) and Scout (Smith) did a good job with the point guard duties, Lindsey (Roberts) and Ema (Smith) did great work handling the ball and got better as the weekend went on with the press.

“Tia (Wurzrainer), Avalon (Renninger) and Emma (Martin) all played tough defense and after some jitters started putting up quality shots,” Hay added. “Hannah (Davidson) and Sarah (Wright) fought on the boards all weekend long and were a big part of us controlling the glass in just about every game.”

Despite having a roster split between 7th and 8th graders, who played on different teams during the middle school season, the Wolves quickly jelled.

“These girls were an absolute joy to coach. You would have thought they were all the same grade because there was no separation between them,” Hay said. “They were a tight group who played tough team basketball all weekend long.”

While the first two games were close, Coupeville was stung by flatness against Anacortes and an inability to break North Sound Elite’s press.

Taking what they had learned, the Wolves jumped on Stanwood, beating its 2-3 zone by pounding the ball inside to the posts, then nailing long-range jumpers from the outside.

“I think that was our best game of the tourney,” Hay said. “We had seven girls score and everyone contributed in one way or another.”

Heading into the finale against Olympia, Emma Martin was the lone Wolf not to have scored, so her teammates made it their goal to get her name on the stat sheet.

“All weekend she had come close, only to have the ball roll off the rim,” Hay said. “All the girls made it their mission to make sure she had every opportunity to score.

“She finally had to just swish a high mid-range shot to take the rim out of the picture all together,” he added. “Big moment for her and all the parents and teammates gave a healthy cheer for her.”

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