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Gridiron stars yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on August 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Former Wolves Dawson Houston (left) and Kwamane Bowens are part of a semi-pro football team which has won six straight games. (Alia Houston photo)

Once were Wolves, always are winners.

Dawson Houston and Kwamane Bowens don’t rep the black and red anymore, but they’re doing just fine wearing purple and gold for the Everett Royals semi-pro football team.

While the duo is a bit dinged up at the moment, they’re holding out hope of seeing playoff action as their team basks in the glow of a 7-1 record and a conference title.

The Royals closed the regular season Saturday, July 29, holding off the South Lane Buzzards 20-13.

Having clinched the Impact East Division crown, now they’re one of 14 teams advancing to the Gridiron Developmental Football League playoffs.

Everett is slated to play the Spokane Wolfpack (4-4) in the postseason opener, though a date and time are still to be determined.

Win that game and the Royals advance to the quarterfinals to square off with the winner of a game featuring the Inglewood Blackhawks (7-0) and the Arizona Road Runners (4-3).

Houston, a two-year starter at quarterback during his time at Coupeville High School, has completed 16 of 29 passes in his rookie campaign, throwing for 153 yards and two touchdowns.

Bowens, who attended Coupeville Middle School, departed Whidbey for a few years, then came back around.

He was a high school gridiron supernova, played NCAA D-I football on scholarship, and returned to join Marcus Carr’s staff at CHS.

These days, the recently married music star is an assistant coach at Anacortes High School.

While on the field for the Royals, Bowens has racked up 42 tackles, two interceptions, and a fumble recovery.

Overall, Everett has outscored its foes 207-75 on the season.

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Let Dawson cook!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Dawson Houston (left) and Kwamane Bowens pose with super fan Davin Houston after the Everett Royals won for the fourth time in five games. (Alia Houston photo)

Now, if the stat keepers could just move as fast as Dawson Houston.

The former Coupeville High School quarterback lit up the sky Saturday, throwing for a pair of touchdowns to help spark the Everett Royals to a 50-22 thumping of the Seattle Seminoles.

While it took four days for the semi-pro football franchise to post complete stats — not that any Whidbey-based bloggers were counting the hours (close to 100…) — Houston was impeccable in the moment.

The victory, coming in Everett’s home finale, lifts the squad to 4-1.

The Royals, who also feature former CHS gridiron coach Kwamane Bowens on defense, sit atop the Impact Conference East standings in the Gridiron Developmental Football League.

Houston, getting his most playing time of the season, sliced up the Seminole defense, completing 9-15 passes for 94 yards.

Bowens was his usual explosive self on defense, as well, adding five tackles and an interception.

The former D-I player, who now coaches at Anacortes High School, has 33 tackles, two interceptions, and a fumble recovery on the season.

The Royals get back at it Saturday, hitting the road to face the Spokane Wolfpack.

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Former Wolf coach rips up gridiron

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on June 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Kwamane Bowens, a fashion icon who can also de-cleat you on the gridiron. (Photo courtesy Bowens)

Don’t hurt ’em, Kwamane!

Whoops, too late.

Former Coupeville High School football coach Kwamane Bowens is pulling double duty these days, working with a new generation of gridiron stars in Anacortes, while still bringing the thunder on the field.

Bowens, who is also finding time to get married, achieve academic excellence, and drop fresh music at a dizzying rate as Groovie Mane, pulls on the pads for the Everett Royals semi-pro squad.

The former NCAA D-I scholarship player leads his current team in tackles, having rung up 20 through the first three games of the season.

The Royals, who also have former Coupeville QB Dawson Houston on their roster, sit in first place in the Impact Eastern Conference of the Gridiron Developmental Football League.

Everett (2-1) returns to the field this coming Saturday, June 24 to host the Wenatchee Valley Storm, who are 0-3.

The Royals have found a great deal of success on the defensive side of the field, with Bowens and Co. holding their foes to a combined 28 points.

The other three squads in their division have all surrendered 60 or more points.

Bowens has played strongly in all three games, recording a season-high nine tackles against the Seattle Seminoles.

A Coupeville student in his younger days, the multi-threat talent returned to Cow Town after his college playing days, working as an assistant to head coach Marcus Carr.

Among the players Bowens helped train is Wolf grad Sean Toomey-Stout, currently playing for the University of Washington.

The football lifer was an assistant coach at Anacortes High School this past fall, helping guide a Seahawk team which went 9-2, falling 10-7 in a state quarterfinal nailbiter to eventual 2A runner-up North Kitsap.

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Former Wolves keep gridiron dreams alive

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on March 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Former Coupeville High School quarterback Dawson Houston (right) is back on the football field. (Photo property Everett Royals)

The journey continues.

Two players with Coupeville connections are slated to join the Everett Royals semi-pro football team for the 2023 gridiron season.

Dawson Houston, a 2020 CHS grad who started two seasons at quarterback for the Wolves, will join former Wolf coach Kwamane Bowens, listed as a defensive back by his new team.

The Royals, who were founded in 2019, play in the Gridiron Developmental Football League.

The team is set to kick things off with a preseason game Apr. 8 in Spokane, while the regular season schedule is being tinkered with as you read this.

Home games are played at Everett Memorial Stadium, with reasonably priced tickets.

General admission for fans ages 14-54 is $7.00, while senior citizens (55+) are $5 and military with ID is $3.

Kids from 0-13 get in for free.

The GDFL gives players a chance to stay on the field, while also striving to set them up with jobs in local communities.

Houston, zinging passes to teammates like Sean Toomey-Stout and Andrew Martin, led CHS football to a 5-4 season in 2019, the program’s first winning record since 2005.

Closing out his prep gridiron career playing alongside younger brother Daylon, the elder Houston then flipped the script by joining the Wolf cheer squad.

That team advanced to nationals in Florida.

Former Wolf coach Kwamane Bowens (left), killin’ it in multiple fields. (Photo courtesy Bowens)

Bowens was a fast-rising star at Coupeville Middle School before a family move took him away from Whidbey. After playing NCAA D-I football, he returned to The Rock, however, coaching at CHS.

He was an assistant coach at Anacortes this past fall, helping guide a Seahawk team which went 9-2, falling 10-7 in a state quarterfinal nailbiter to eventual 2A runner-up North Kitsap.

When he’s not on the gridiron as a player or coach, Bowens works as a rapper, recording as Groovie Mane.

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Kwamane Bowens killin’ the game

Posted in Football, music, tagged , , , , on September 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Kwamane Bowens snags a photo with Coupeville grad turned U-Dub football star Sean Toomey-Stout, who he coached in high school. (Photo courtesy Bowens)

Life is good.

Kwamane Bowens, who was a Coupeville student as a young man, then came back around to help coach Wolf football players, is a multi-threat.

The former NCAA D-I scholarship athlete is currently on the gridiron coaching staff at Anacortes High School, where the Seahawks are a flawless 3-0 after smacking formerly-big-and-bad Archbishop Thomas Murphy last Friday.

Bowens also continues to pursue his musical career as Groovie Mane, having dropped his debut album, Key to Me.

To listen to his music, pop over to https://music.apple.com/us/album/key-to-me/1603659980.

And take a gander at the video for his song Can’t Change (which does have some explicit lyrics) below:

 

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