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   Want to honor Maya Toomey-Stout for playing while blind, or one of her teammates for their own achievement? You’ll have the chance Tuesday. (John Fisken photo)

Have something positive to say? I have an outlet for you.

The Coupeville High School girls basketball squads are playing at home Tuesday, which marks only the third time in 14 games this season we’ve been able to say that.

During the games (varsity tips at 3:30, JV at 5:00), Wolf coaches will be looking for input from you.

Yes, you.

There will be a notepad available at both games, so consider firing off a quick note and dropping your message into the red box offered.

“Our hope is that family, friends and fans are encouraged by the play of the girls,” said CHS coach David King. “If they see something they like, or just want to write a quick note to a player or players during or right after the games, it would be great for the players.

“It can be as simple as telling them great hustle. Or things like I like how you played defense or rebounded today,” he added. “Maybe there was a specific play that really impressed you; if it did, write it down for the player(s).”

The note pad is a way for the team to connect with its fan base, while providing support for the girls hoops stars, who are flying high right now.

The varsity is 10-3 overall, 5-0 in Olympic League play and will clinch its third-straight conference championship with a win, while the JV is 7-3, 3-0.

“We want to get the fans more involved,” King said. “To show the players that there is support and encouragement in the stands.”

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Maddy Hilkey (John Fisken photos)

   Maddy Hilkey lines up a free throw during basketball practice. (John Fisken photo)

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   Hilkey hangs out with volleyball buddies (l to r) Emma Smith, Kailey Kellner and Ashley Menges. (Konni Smith photo)

Lindsey and Maddy (John Fisken photos)

Huggin’ it out with Lindsey Roberts. (Fisken photo)

You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat their friends.

In my time covering her middle school and high school sports events, Maddy Hilkey’s actions have spoken loudly.

She has a tight-knit bunch of super-close friends, another couple of layers of really good friends, and a bunch of other people she interacts with while playing volleyball and basketball for the Wolves.

To those of us in the stands, Maddy has always come across as a genuinely warm, likable young woman, and that is evident every day in how she treats those friends.

I have rarely seen a photo (and she pops up in a lot of sports photos) where she is not smiling, especially when she is interacting with her teammates.

Hilkey is a talented athlete, a very strong volleyball player who will be a key for CHS the next two years, and a scrappy ball-hawk on the hard court who delights her coaches with every new bruise she proudly wears.

But it is Maddy the person, the strong, smart, confident young woman who treats her friends with kindness and love, that is ultimately more important than Maddy the athlete.

We pull for her more, cheer for her accomplishments more, feel greater happiness for her successes because she is a wonderful young woman in every aspect of her life.

Her parents, Emrie and Travis, should be very proud of who she is, and who she is becoming.

A great older sister, a strong student, and someone who brightens the day of those both in her inner circle and those out on the edge.

Maddy is celebrating her 16th birthday tonight by playing in a basketball game.

It would be nice to say it was a home game, but the Coupeville girls are enduring the schedule from Hell, and she will, instead, be at North Mason as the Wolves play their eighth straight road game.

While that’s not ideal, knowing her coaches, they will do something for Maddy.

And that will be kind of fitting, celebrating her arrival in the world with her teammates and friends.

As she does so, we all want to say happy birthday, Miss Hilkey.

May your special day be as amazing as you are.

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Lindsey and Maddy (John Fisken photos)

   Basketball season has reunited CHS soccer star Lindsey Roberts (left) and volleyball sensation Maddy Hilkey. (John Fisken photos)

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The Wolf boys varsity squad, ready to rip up the court.

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The JV girls are old pros when it comes to photo shoots.

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Ariah Bepler (20) is ready for his close-up, while everyone else needs a moment.

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Back to state! That’s the mission for the varsity girls.

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The future of the boys hoops program.

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   Seniors (l to r) Tiffany Briscoe, Lauren Grove, Kailey Kellner and Skyler Lawrence.

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   Their male counterparts are (l to r) Gabe Wynn, Steven Cope, Brian Shank and Taylor Consford.

Three days away.

The high school basketball season officially kicks off Saturday, when the Coupeville High School girls’ squad heads to Sedro-Woolley for a jamboree.

Real games tip-off Tuesday, Nov. 29, with the Wolf boys hosting Blaine, and the girls making the trip to the border to face the same school.

As you count down the hours, take a gander at a fresh batch of pix courtesy wanderin’ paparazzi John Fisken.

While we can’t claim every single Wolf player is shown (a few were AWOL at the moment the camera was clicking), you can see at least 98.4% of them.

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Nicole Lester (John Fisken photo)

   Nicole Lester and her Wolf JV volleyball teammates rolled to their 10th straight win Saturday afternoon. (John Fisken photo)

Perfection. Nothing short of perfection.

For the fourth time in history, and the first time by a non-basketball team, a Coupeville High School squad has finished a flawless 9-0 in 1A Olympic League play.

This time around, it’s the Wolf JV spikers, who tied a bow on their season Saturday by drilling Port Townsend for their tenth consecutive victory.

Coupeville’s young guns knocked off the host RedHawks 25-13, 25-18, 20-25 to finish 12-2 overall for first-year coach Kristin Bridges.

The spikers join the 2014-2015 Coupeville varsity and JV girls’ basketball teams and the 2015-2016 varsity girls hoops squad in completing the run to perfection.

The only time the JV squad fell was in non-conference bouts to 2A Sequim and Bellevue Christian back in Sept.

During their 10-match winning streak, which covered a five-week span, Coupeville avenged that early season loss to Sequim, and did so while playing on the road.

“I’m so proud of how much work these young women have put into this team,” Bridges said. “They’ve made so much progress and get better every day.

“I think we definitely ended this season as a united Wolfpack.”

In their final match, the Wolves continued a season-long habit of delivering scorching serves, zipping 26 aces past the flailing RedHawks.

Scout Smith paced CHS with eight of the winners, while Hannah Davidson (5), Raven Vick (4), Peytin Vondrak (3), Lucy Sandahl (3), Zoe Trujillo (2) and Maddy Hilkey (1) also had the magic touch.

Trujillo and Maya Toomey-Stout crunched the ball with abandon, each recording five kills, while Smith doled out six assists and Hilkey recorded a team-high 10 digs.

Teammates Nicole Lester (a kill and a dig), Melia Welling (a dig) and Willow Vick (a kill) also scribbled their name onto the stat sheet, as Coupeville continued to get key contributions from everyone on the roster.

“The team came out swinging this game,” Bridges said. “We had 18 digs, 10 of those from Maddy, who played great defense today.

“Overall we played really well.”

The JV squad will stay together for another week of practice, then unite to cheer on their varsity counterparts at the district tourney, which Coupeville hosts Nov. 5.

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Tiffany Briscoe (John Fisken photos)

  Wolf senior Tiffany Briscoe is super-excited to be back in the gym. (John Fisken photos)

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   Maddy Hilkey, moments before she zapped the ball out of the air with laser bursts from her eyes.

Ashley Menges

Ashley Menges, why so serious?

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A great turnout for a Tuesday, crutches and all.

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   Katrina McGranahan preps the net supports to withstand the beating her laser spikes will soon be giving them.

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Briscoe and new teammate Mikayla Elfrank bond.

Nicole Lester

Nicole Lester, a happy warrior.

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   Lauren Rose (left) and Hilkey break up the monotony of stretching with a little high-five time.

The schedule lies.

I lit a fire under wanderin’ paparazzi John Fisken by promising him three separate practices/open gyms were listed on the Coupeville schools web site for Tuesday.

Turns out only 33% of that schedule actually came true, as Wolf cheerleaders and boys basketball players were nowhere to be seen, despite what the schedule might have indicated.

But, the CHS spikers were back at it, putting in off-season work, just like they promised.

So, they get all the camera time.

All of it, I said!

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