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They’re young, feisty, and full of potential

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Back on the pitch and ready to rock. (Coupeville High School Yearbook staff photos)

“There’s so much to learn.”

As she leads the revival of the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer program, first-year Wolf coach Jasmine Ader continues to impart pitch wisdom to her young players.

The Wolves, who sit at 1-4 on the season after a rough 9-0 loss Friday to powerhouse Mount Vernon Christian, will spend the first part of this week working hard in practice.

The payoff? A Thursday home tilt with Friday Harbor (1-3-1), which gets its own crack at MVC two days earlier.

Coupeville, which is back on the field after a two-year shutdown due to a lack of players, has a roster jam-packed with 8th graders and freshmen, and the growth is evident.

The clash against Mount Vernon featured several Wolves playing new positions, such as fab frosh Emma Cushman moving into goal.

“Cushman had amazing tracking saves that she credits towards her softball abilities,” Ader said.

New CHS coach Jasmine Ader plots out strategy.

Other young stars caught their coaches eye, as well.

“Sophia Greene had another solid game on Friday,” Ader said. “She is getting strong and she’s really finding her flow in the game with the other defenders.

“I really like what Hailey Goldman and Paige Hill have to do in the game. I know when they take the field they will do what it takes to support their team.”

While they’re still fairly young themselves, sophomore Lillian Ketterling and freshman Tamsin Ward, who has already netted seven goals, provide key leadership for a still-maturing squad.

“We continue to have chances especially when Lillian and Tamsin are on the ball,” Ader said.

“We have our longest stretch of days without a game coming up. I look forward to seeing the team train this week and prepare for our game on Thursday at home.”

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Booters are back!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on September 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Tamsin Ward, who played co-ed soccer as an 8th grader, will help lead the CHS girls’ program in its revival. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022 was a busy day in the world.

Rishi Sunak became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a position he would hold for two years.

Dietrich Mateschitz, one of the co-founders of the Red Bull empire, passed away at age 78. No word on whether he drank his own beverage, or whether it gave him wings.

There was also a partial eclipse, disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was in court, and, oh yes, the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer team beat visiting La Conner 4-0 in the season finale.

Sophomore Ayden Wyman punched in two goals for the Wolves, giving her 13 for her career at that point, and it was the last game for retiring coach Kyle Nelson, who ambled away after one last postgame interview with me.

After debuting in 2004, the CHS booters left the field that day in 2022 already thinking ahead to the program’s landmark 20th season.

Who knew it would take more than 1,000 days to get there, however?

The CHS girls played through a pandemic, but a crash in roster size sidelined the program the past two seasons.

Kimberly Kisch, a former Wolf player hired to lead her alma mater’s squad, ended up working with boys coach Robert Wood in 2023 and 2024, with a scrappy band of female pitch warriors joining up with Coupeville’s boys to form a co-ed team.

That squad was very competitive in an expanded-for-soccer nine-team Northwest 2B/1B League which has collected the majority of the state tourney trophies handed out in recent years.

Wyman, while denied a chance to chase the CHS girls scoring record, held her own against the boys, and was joined by other scrappers such as Lillian Ketterling, Taylor Marrs, and Frankie Tenore.

But this Monday, Sept. 8, that 20th season finally gets its moment.

Kisch, who decided to move back to coaching youth soccer, kept the flame alive, and new CHS pitch guru Jasmine Ader has capitalized, pulling together enough girls to have a full roster.

That means the Wolves will defend their turf at Mickey Clark Field against visiting East Jefferson this Monday (kickoff is 4:00 PM), a mere 1,050 days after the 2022 squad celebrated KO’ing La Conner.

If you can’t be there for the opener (I myself am 2,800 miles away in West Virginia these days…), Coupeville’s girls are slated to play seven of their first eight at home.

There’s no charge to watch soccer, so cram the stands in support of the Wolf girls being back in (red) and black.

 

CHS girls soccer schedule:

Mon-Sept. 8 — East Jefferson (4:00)
Wed-Sept. 10 — Lopez Island (4:00)
Fri-Sept. 12 — @ La Conner (4:00)
Tue-Sept. 16 — Orcas Island (4:00)
Fri-Sept. 19 — Mount Vernon Christian (4:00)
Thur-Sept. 25 — Friday Harbor (4:00)
Thur-Oct. 2 — Granite Falls (6:00)
Mon-Oct. 6 — Providence Classical Christian (6:00)
Thur-Oct. 9 — @ Lopez Island (4:00)
Sat-Oct. 11 — Sultan (6:00)
Tue-Oct. 21 — @ Orcas Island (4:00)
Fri-Oct. 24 — @ Providence Classical Christian (3:30)

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Sunny skies, snazzy snaps

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on April 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Lillian Ketterling ponders the mysteries of the universe while running endless laps. (Parker Hammons photos)

Track and field are back in focus.

With the Wolves soaring in the sunshine and zipping around the oval under spring skies, a host of photographers have been busy at work.

The pics above and below, snapped at a recent home Coupeville High School meet, come to us courtesy CHS Yearbook photo ace Parker Hammons.

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Track goes on the attack

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on April 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Khanor Jump unleashes his full fury. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

“Way to show up and show out!”

The trek out to Forks is a fairly long one, but a worthwhile one, especially in the eyes of Coupeville High School track and field coaches.

The Wolves were up at the crack of dawn Saturday, primed for a long day, but the choice to take part in the Forks Lion Club Invitational was the right one.

“No rain, some sun, and a whole lot of speed!” said CHS coach Elizabeth Bitting.

“Great racing and jumping all around, with tons of PRs and some impressive placings.”

The trip was a change from the original schedule, which had the Wolves slated to go to Cashmere today.

Joining the fracas in Forks allowed Coupeville to take more athletes than the other option, and it paid off with the CHS girls claiming a team title at the seven-team meet.

The Wolf boys finished with a solid second-place performance in the team standings, trailing only 2A powerhouse Olympic.

Along the way, Coupeville racked up nine wins and 29 PRs, with Lyla Stuurmans pulling off the double delight with victories in the 800 and 1600.

She was joined by Matthew Ward (triple jump), Aleksia Jump (3200), Carson Field (800), Olivia Hall (400), Cael Wilson (high jump), Katie Marti (discus), and the boys 4 x 100 relay unit.

After bouncing across the backroads of America, the Wolves will get to stay closer to home for their next meet, as they host the Coupeville Classic Invite next Saturday, April 26.

That will be the final regular-season event before the postseason run begins.

Emma McFadden sends the discus off on a trip.

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Laken Simpson (8th) 14.59; Willow Leedy-Bonifas (14th) 15.48

200 — Isa Mc Fetridge (6th) 31.14

400 — Olivia Hall (1st) 1:10.26 *PR*; Lillian Ketterling (3rd) 1:14.72 *PR*; Marin Winger (6th) 1:18.90

800 — Lyla Stuurmans (1st) 2:44.41; Mikayla Wagner (2nd) 3:01.44 *PR*; Ketterling (3rd) 3:04.14 *PR*; Lexis Drake (7th) 3:22.84

1600 — Stuurmans (1st) 6:05.53; Wagner (3rd) 6:31.39; Aleksia Jump (4th) 6:44.47 *PR*; Devon Wyman (9th) 7:39.45

3200 — A. Jump (1st) 14:40.24 *PR*; D. Wyman (2nd) 16:11.00

100 Hurdles — Myra McDonald (3rd) 20.72; Frankie Tenore (5th) 24.98

300 Hurdles — Tenore (3rd) 1:09.08

4 x 100 Relay — Hall, Mc Fetridge, Ayden Wyman, Leedy-Bonifas (3rd) 58.66

4 x 200 Relay — Simpson, Leedy-Bonifas, Drake, Mc Fetridge (3rd) 2:04.80

Shot Put — Katie Marti (2nd) 30-11; Emma McFadden (8th) 21-04 *PR*

Discus — Marti (1st) 101-10 *PR*; Ketterling (6th) 75-02; McFadden (13th) 49-07

Javelin — Marti (5th) 87-02

High Jump — A. Wyman (2nd) 4-06; Tenore (3rd) 4-04

Myra McDonald keeps her eyes on the prize.

 

BOYS:

100 — Chase Anderson (4th) 11.92; Matthew Ward (8th) 12.06 *PR*; Marquette Cunningham (11th) 12.24; Marcelo Gebhard (16th) 12.50; Beckett Green (24th) 12.82 *PR*; Axel Marshall (27th) 12.98 *PR*; Dane Hadsall (33rd) 13.23 *PR*; Richmond Bandong (38th) 13.67; Diego Gonzalez (43rd) 14.10 *PR*; William Hamm (55th) 16.61 *PR*

200 — Anderson (3rd) 24.08 *PR*; Liam Blas (11th) 26.12 *PR*; Green (13th) 26.22; Marshall (17th) 26.95 *PR*; Edmund Wilson (21st) 27.42 *PR*; Bandong (25th) 28.53; Hamm (38th) 34.40 *PR*

400 — Preston Epp (3rd) 53.82; Blake Burrows (7th) 57.59; Hadsall (11th) 1:00.29; Jonah Weyl (17th) 1:03.64

800 — Carson Field (1st) 2:05.43; Joshua Stockdale (4th) 2:18.66 *PR*; Kenneth Jacobsen (5th) 2:23.44; Ethan Walling (6th) 2:35.30; Johnathan Jacobsen (9th) 2:43.63; Isaiah Allen (14th) 2:58.34

1600 — Field (3rd) 4:55.40; George Spear (4th) 5:03.96 *PR*; Malachi Somes (6th) 5:11.10; Stockdale (7th) 5:16.60; K. Jacobsen (8th) 5:25.04; Walling (9th) 5:46.33 *PR*; Edmund Kunz (10th) 6:00.53; Allen (14th) 6:28.34; Nicholas Wasik (16th) 6:37.81

3200 — Spear (2nd) 10:43.66 *PR*; Kunz (6th) 13:11.96

110 Hurdles — Axel Marshall (4th) 19.01 *PR*; Blas (5th) 21.02

300 Hurdles — Blas (3rd) 48.17

4 x 100 Relay — M. Cunningham, Cael Wilson, Epp, Anderson (1st) 46.77; Gebhard, Burrows, Green, Ward (4th) 48.02

Shot Put — Khanor Jump (10th) 30-10.25; K. Jacobsen (29th) 24-05.25; Zach Blitch (31st) 22-09.50 *PR*

Discus — K. Jump (7th) 88-11; Wasik (21st) 75-05 *PR*; Blas (23rd) 73-05; J. Jacobsen (33rd) 59-09; Marshall (35th) 56-09 *PR*; Blitch (38th) 52-09

Javelin — Gebhard (4th) 114-09; Ward (28th) 73-09; J. Jacobsen (33rd) 65-10 *PR*; Finn Price (34th) 65-09 *PR*

High Jump — C. Wilson (1st) 5-08; J. Jacobsen (11th) 5-00

Long Jump — C. Wilson (2nd) 18-04; E. Wilson (11th) 14-11

Triple Jump — Ward (1st) 37-07

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Wet field, slick pics

Posted in soccer, tagged , , , , on November 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Lillian Ketterling splashes her way to success. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The field was drenched, but the cameras stayed dry.

Or dry enough to keep on clickin’, as John Fisken wandered off to La Conner Friday to capture the Coupeville High School co-ed soccer squad in action.

To see everything he snapped, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-Soccer-2024-2025/Soccer-2024-11-01-at-LaConner

 

“The gum … that’s in your mouth. I see it, you see it, we all see it. In my hand now, mister.”

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