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Mad Dog is quite fashionable

Posted in Alumni, tagged , , , , on December 9, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Former Wolf track star Madison Tisa McPhee flaunts some fashion. (Photos property of Level Up Apparel Company)

Hangin’ out with her co-star.

She’s kind of a big deal.

Former Coupeville track supernova Madison Tisa McPhee has moved into the world of fashion, it appears.

The fleet-footed Cow Town alumni can be seen in recent advertising for the Level Up Apparel Company.

Founded by Maddi Kempf-Stoltman, a barrel racer and YouTube creator, the company is taking off, driven by an admirable philosophy.

“Cool clothes are great, but products with a strong meaning are even better,” is the motto which fuels the company.

“Level Up was my reminder that in those moments, you can stay down, and let life take its toll,” Kempf-Stoltman says on her website. “Or you can Level Up, be better, and be stronger because of the cards you were dealt.”

Tisa McPhee, one of the most naturally-gifted athletes to cruise the hallways at CHS, was a volleyball and soccer player, but made her biggest statement as a track athlete.

A strong hurdler and relay runner, she brought home three state meet medals, and still holds the school record in the 300 hurdles.

Away from school, Tisa McPhee has also been an active horsewoman, racking up an impressive collections of awards while astride one of her equine pals.

She works as an Emergency Medical Technician for Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth.

 

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It starts with a click

Posted in 2012: Looking Back, tagged , , , , , on April 23, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville cheerleaders Emily Clay (left) and Katie Kiel share some love after a 2012 cheer camp. (Pam Headridge photo)

In the beginning, Coupeville Sports had no photos.

I’m a writer, not a photographer, and when I started the blog in mid-August of 2012, several of the early stories ran without a single pic.

I also didn’t put people’s names in bold type yet, and there were a LOT of exclamation points … so, total freakin’ anarchy.

Things changed for the better after I latched on to Shelli Trumbull, the first photographer willing to toss me glossy pics with no money coming back.

In other words, she was a saint.

As we wander through a pandemic-ravaged land in 2020, let’s hop in the time machine and go back to 2012, where it all began.

Jerry Helm is the king of the (hoops) world. (Sherry Roberts photo)

Madison Tisa McPhee shares soccer Senior Night with dad Jack. (Robert Pelant photo)

An orange a day fueled the stars of the future. (Wendy McCormick photo)

Sebastian Davis, man of mystery and intrigue. (Photo courtesy Davis)

Homecoming fever sweeps the town. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Landon Roberts supports his team. (Sherry Roberts photo)

Cheerleaders Julia Felici (left) and Mekare Bowen hang out with their biggest lil’ fan. (Rosa Felici photo)

Nick Streubel and much-cleaner sister Amanda marinate in the Port Townsend mud. (Nanette Streubel photo)

Wiley Hesselgrave brings the gun show to town, while Dalton Martin plays it cool and calm. (Melissa Losey photo)

Kole Kellison knows a good breakfast is the key to a great day. (Robert Pelant photo)

The LeVine family grab a group pic after a mud race. From left to right, Sean, a suspiciously clean Izzy, Joline, Jae, and Micky. (Photo courtesy Joline LeVine)

“What’s that? A bear going after pic-a-nic baskets in my park?!? No sir!!!” (Photo courtesy Jodi Crimmins)

Volleyball legends, the early days. (Amy King photo)

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All the medals, all the glory

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , , on March 25, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Wolf thrower Dalton Martin (right) wins three medals in our “Coupeville High School Virtual Olympics.” (Abbie Martin photo)

This group claims 19 medals, including six golds. L to r: Lindsey Roberts, Emma Smith, Ashlie Shank, Lauren Bayne. In back: Ariah Bepler. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Real life or digital life, Lauren Grove piles up the medals. (Dawnelle Conlisk photo)

Maya and Cameron Toomey-Stout combine with brother Sean to claim 20 medals, including nine golds. (Beth Stout photo)

Round two.

Yesterday we used numbers off of athletic.net to look back at the best track and field performances compiled from 2009-2019 by Coupeville Middle School athletes.

Today we slide up a rung and celebrate what’s been achieved at the high school level.

And we’re actually drawing from a bigger data base on this one, as the stats for CHS go back to 2000.

Now, are their results flawless? Probably not.

I caught two school-record performances — the 2006 boys 4 x 400 relay team and Rich Wilson’s work in the high jump — which weren’t reflected in the athletic.net results.

While the absence of those marks immediately jumped out at me because they’re ingrained in my conscious, there may be other non-record marks missing as well, which could more easily slide by.

The marks for the last decade seem pretty solid, but if there’s anything missing, it probably comes from the early 2000’s, which seems a bit spottier.

That being said, take it for what it is, and enjoy what we can.

In our “Coupeville High School Virtual Olympics,” we hand out gold, silver, and bronze medals in 22 events for the girls, and 22 for the boys.

There are a couple of places where there aren’t a complete top three, such as the boys 2K steeplechase, and again, this is probably not a definitive list of everything Wolf athletes competed in across the past two decades.

But taken in context, we can see the impact different CHS stars had in their sport.

Lindsey Roberts, who has the most real state meet medals of any Wolf girl ever, leads our digital throw-down, finishing with 11 medals, including four golds.

Two-time state champ Danny Conlisk tops our gold medalists, claiming six, with Maya Toomey-Stout and Mallory Kortuem notching five apiece.

Special props to the Hoskins and Toomey-Stout families, as well.

The Hoskins put four siblings on our list, with Jai’Lysa, Will, Ja’Tarya, and Ja’Kenya all winning medals in our Olympics.

But no family has been as dominant as the one raised by Beth Stout and Lisa Toomey.

Maya, twin brother Sean, and big bro Cameron account for 20 medals, nine of them gold.

And a final side note about the girls high jump, where Yashmeen Knox and Cassidy Moody tie for the gold, both jumping an even five feet.

Yes, I am very aware Knox (now Yashmeen Wilson) holds the school record at 5-02, but … that mark was set in 1999, and our virtual Olympics only covers 2000-2019.

So, with that, down to the arena we go:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Maya Toomey-Stout (1st) 12.74 – 2019; Makana Stone (2nd) 13.11 – 2013; Jai’Lysa Hoskins (3rd) 13.20 – 2011

200 — Stone (1st) 26.60 – 2014; M. Toomey-Stout (2nd) 26.76 – 2017; Lauren Grove (3rd) 26.88 – 2016

400 — Mallory Kortuem (1st) 58.02 – 2019; Stone (2nd) 58.13 – 2014; Amy Mouw (3rd) 1:00.93 – 2003

800 — Mouw (1st) 2:21.54 – 2003; Stone (2nd) 2:21.89 – 2016; Rachel Weinstein (3rd) 2:30.70 – 2008

1500 — Catherine Lhamon (1st) 5:40.25 – 2018; Lucy Sandahl (2nd) 5:41.87 – 2018; Lauren Bayne (3rd) 5:49.69 – 2015

1600 — Adrianna Royal (1st) 5:28.19 – 2008; Weinstein (2nd) 5:42.00 – 2008; Sandahl (3rd) 5:46.30 – 2018

3000 — Lhamon (1st) 11:37.33 – 2018; Abby Parker (2nd) 13:41.99 – 2015

3200 — Royal (1st) 11:50.28 – 2008; Lhamon (2nd) 12:41.10 – 2018; Erin Rosenkranz (3rd) 12:53.61 – 2013

100 Hurdles — Lindsey Roberts (1st) 15.21 – 2019; Madison Tisa McPhee (2nd) 16.13 – 2013; Chelsea Rosenkrance (3rd) 17.16 – 2007

300 Hurdles — Tisa McPhee (1st) 48.01 – 2013; Rosenkrance (2nd) 51.30 – 2007; Kortuem (3rd) 51.37 – 2017

4 x 100 Relay — M. Toomey-Stout, Ja’Tarya Hoskins, Kortuem, Roberts (1st) 50.54 – 2019; Grove, Roberts, Kortuem, Sylvia Hurlburt (2nd) 50.66 – 2016; Grove, Kortuem, M. Toomey-Stout, Roberts (3rd) 51.04 – 2017

4 x 200 Relay — Roberts, Ja’Kenya Hoskins, Kortuem, M. Toomey-Stout (1st) 1:46.13 – 2019; Grove, Roberts, Hurlburt, Stone (2nd) 1:46.41 – 2016; Grove, Kortuem, M. Toomey-Stout, Roberts (3rd) 1:46.58 – 2017

4 x 400 Relay — Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Kirsten Pelroy, Stone (1st) 4:14.98 – 2013; Relay Team (no names listed) (2nd) 4:23.17 – 2007; Roberts, M. Toomey-Stout, Sandahl, Kortuem (3rd) 4:25.98 – 2019

100-100-200-400 Relay — M. Toomey-Stout, Roberts, Ashlie Shank, Kortuem (1st) 1:58.00 – 2018

1200-400-800-1600 Relay — Alana Mihill, Ja’Tarya Hoskins, Sandahl, Lhamon (1st) 15:10.85 – 2019; Bayne, Madison Rixe, Parker, Sandahl (2nd) 15:40.74 – 2017

Shot Put — Emma Smith (1st) 34-05 – 2019; Kyra Ilyankoff (2nd) 33-03 – 2011; Skyler Lawrence (3rd) 32-06 (3rd) – 2016

Discus — Allison Wenzel (1st) 106-04 – 2018; Erin Hickey (2nd) 103-08 – 2008; E. Smith (3rd) 92-08 – 2019

Javelin — Ilyankoff (1st) 129-00 – 2009; Bayne (2nd) 109-02 – 2018; Grace LaPoint (3rd) 103-06 – 2012

High Jump — Yashmeen Knox (1st-tie) 5-00 – 2001; Cassidy Moody (1st-tie) 5-00 – 2017; Roberts (3rd) 4-11 – 2019

Pole Vault — Kortuem (1st) 8-10 – 2019; McKenzie Meyer (2nd) 6-6 – 2017

Long Jump — M. Toomey-Stout (1st) 17-0.25 – 2019; Moody (2nd) 16-2.75 – 2018; Roberts (3rd) 15-10.25 – 2017

Triple Jump — Grove (1st) 31-04.75 – 2017; Bayne (2nd) 30-11.50 – 2018; Aurora Zanardi (3rd) 30-10.50 – 2017

 

BOYS:

100 — Danny Conlisk (1st) 11.04 – 2019; Jean Lund-Olsen (2nd) 11.05 – 2019; Jacob Smith (3rd) 11.12 – 2018

200 — Conlisk (1st) 21.99 – 2019; J. Smith (2nd) 22.41 – 2017; Lund-Olsen (3rd) 22.57 – 2019

400 — Conlisk (1st) 49.14 – 2019; Jon Chittim (2nd) 50.67 – 2006; Steven McDonald (3rd) 51.00 – 2008

800 — Tyler King (1st) 1:55.34 – 2010; Kyle King (2nd) 1:58.62 – 2008; Conlisk (3rd) 2:05.57 – 2017

1500 — Conlisk (1st) 4:45.09 – 2016; Matthew Hampton (2nd) 4:50.03 – 2012; Henry Wynn (3rd) 4:51.64 – 2016

1600 — T. King (1st) 4:12.97 – 2011; K. King (2nd) 4:20.06 – 2008; Joe Donnellon (3rd) 4:31.22 – 2000

3000 — Jakobi Baumann (1st) 11:46.14 – 2016

3200 — K. King (1st) 9:13.67 – 2008; T. King (2nd) 9:20.52 – 2010; Donnellon (3rd) 10:01.24 – 2000

110 Hurdles — Jacob Weaver (1st) 16.85 – 2007; Gary Manker (2nd) 17.44 – 2006; Lathom Kelley (3rd) 17.66 – 2015

300 Hurdles — Mitch Pelroy (1st) 41.26 – 2012; L. Kelley (2nd) 41:48 – 2016; Brandon Kelley (3rd) 44.57 – 2013

2K Steeplechase — Sam Landau (1st) 8:40.52 – 2011

4 x 100 Relay — Conlisk, Tiger Johnson, Sean Toomey-Stout, Lund-Olsen (1st) 44.16 – 2019; Cameron Toomey-Stout, J. Smith, S. Toomey-Stout, Lund-Olsen (2nd) 44.42 – 2018; J. Smith, Mitchell Carroll, C. Toomey-Stout, Kyle Burnett (3rd) 45.28 – 2017

4 x 200 Relay — B. Kelley, L. Kelley, Jared Helmstadter, Matt Shank (1st) 1:38.09 – 2014; Helmstadter, L. Kelley, Connor Thompson, J. Smith (2nd) 1:38.31 – 2015; Burnett, J. Smith, Conlisk, Wynn (3rd) 1:41.32 – 2017

4 x 400 Relay — Chris Hutchinson, McDonald, K. King, Chittim (1st) 3:28.11 — 2006; J. Smith, Wynn, S. Toomey-Stout, Conlisk (2nd) 3:31.00 – 2018; T. King, Chase Bates, Will Hoskins, M. Pelroy (3rd) 3:32.20 – 2010

100-100-200-400 Relay — C. Toomey-Stout, S. Toomey-Stout, J. Smith, Conlisk (1st) 1:41.74 – 2018; Burnett, C. Toomey-Stout, Lund-Olsen, Grey Rische (2nd) 1:53.15 – 2017

Shot Put — Hunter Hammer (1st) 51-03.75 – 2011; Dalton Martin (2nd) 47-07.75 – 2016; Nick Streubel (3rd) 45-09.50 – 2014

Discus — D. Martin (1st) 161-07 – 2016; Hammer (2nd) 150-02 – 2011; Streubel (3rd) 131-15 – 2013

Javelin — Brian Miller (1st) 172-11 – 2007; D. Martin (2nd) 149-03 – 2016; Jacob Martin (3rd) 141-08 – 2017

High Jump — Rich Wilson (1st) 6-04 – 2000; Ariah Bepler (2nd) 6-02 – 2018; Miller (3rd) 6-01 – 2008

Pole Vault — Jordan Ford (1st) 12-0 – 2016; Burnett (2nd-tie) 9-00 – 2019; Thane Peterson (2nd-tie) 2018

Long Jump — S. Toomey-Stout (1st) 20-09.50 – 2019; J. Martin (2nd) 20-07 – 2017; Carroll (3rd) 20-05.25 – 2017

Triple Jump — Carroll (1st) 43-11.75 – 2017; S. Toomey-Stout (2nd) 40-05.25 – 2019; C. Toomey-Stout (3rd) 39-08 – 2018

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And that’s the sound of your butt bein’ beat!!

Posted in Hall o' Fame, tagged , , , , , , on August 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Madison Tisa McPhee and Jake Tumblin (top) are joined by fellow inductees (l to r) Megan Smith, Ashley (Ellsworth-Bagby) He

   Madison Tisa McPhee and Jake Tumblin (top) are joined by fellow inductees (l to r) Megan Smith, Ashley Heilig and Brianne King.

As dominant as you can imagine, and then some.

The 9th class inducted into the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame features four female athletes who define athletic success in this town, and one guy who was pretty darn good, too.

Making the move to the top of the blog, where they’ll take up residence under the Legends tab, are Megan Smith, Madison Tisa McPhee, Brianne King, Ashley (Ellsworth-Bagby) Heilig and Jake Tumblin.

What connects these five?

Success, success and more success. Oh yeah, and raw talent, too. That’s always nice.

Tisa McPhee is the rare Wolf to have shined brightly as an athlete both in and out of school.

While wearing a CHS uniform, she was a dazzling volleyball and soccer player, one who was willing to sacrifice her nose if necessary to stop the other team from scoring.

Her biggest impact, though, came on the track oval, where she was a fleet-footed sprinter and hurdler, helping to set school relay records and hauling home multiple medals from the state meet.

Put her on a horse and Mad Dawg was just as likely to kick your rear, thundering through obstacles and becoming one with her trusty steed.

Before she exits the stage, we’ll let her deliver a speech for Tumblin, a standout football and baseball star who is now a two-time inductee (he was a key member of the 2010 Central Whidbey state championship little league squad).

Hi Mr. Svien! I just read about your new HOF deal and I have an extremely amazing athlete (I may be biased but I don’t care) for you to consider … Jake Tumblin!

Jake, for some reason I still can’t get my head around, was looked over as Athlete of the Year his senior year, when he was the starting catcher for about three years on the baseball team and starting in whatever position his football coach ever asked of him all through high school as well.

And, as you know he is going to play at Simon Fraser in the fall.

He is not only one of the best athletes Coupeville has and will ever see, they will not get a greater captain on any team or all around student.

Jake is one of the most modest, strong and considerate players/teammates etc. there has ever been on a field.

Why he was not Athlete of the Year when he was all of this and more I couldn’t flipping tell you.

He is the person that the school should idolize and hold a standard of for all the rest of student athletes to come.

And knowing him as well as I do he would make it seem like he could care less about what CHS staff and administration picks him for or not, but he is also deserving of recognition for the time/effort and sportsmanship he put forth during his four years.

JT is most definitely a worthy choice.

And with that, Rumblin’ Tumblin, Jake the Snake, zips into the Hall o’ Fame the same way he used to hurtle into the end zone — like a bat out of Hell.

Hot on his heels is the holy trinity, the three women who were the absolute pinnacle of sports excellence in Coupeville over the past 20 years.

Smith was a three-time Athlete of the Year winner who lettered 12 times (four each in volleyball, basketball and softball), the best athlete in a family that has already seen coach/dad Willie inducted into the Hall o’ Fame and brothers Ian and James dangerously close to joining them.

Megan is that rarity, a highly-accomplished athlete who led by example while rarely displaying any ego.

Her quiet confidence and her will to win were astonishing and if you have one game to win to save the world, in any sport, I want her front and center.

She was/is that good.

King and Heilig also had very successful siblings, a chunk of whom are currently in the Hall as we speak, but you can make a very strong argument Brianne and Ashley, like Megan, are the standard bearers for their families.

When it comes to CHS girls’ hoops, no player has ever scored as much as King did, and it’s not even close.

As far as we’ve been able to figure out, she owns the top three single-season efforts in program history and scored 1,549 points during her splendid career.

Her totals:

(1999-2000) — 275
(2000-2001) — 446
(2001-2002) — 386
(2002-2003) — 442

Without even taking into account her exploits as a track and cross country runner into consideration, Brianne is a slam dunk for the Hall.

Our final inductee is the one who I have the biggest personal connection to.

These days, Ashley is grown up and married, a mom to an adorable little girl who may one day be the next great Wolf superstar, but, to me, she’ll always be the girl with the pigtails and the extra-baggy shorts who also worked behind the counter with me at Videoville.

Off the court, one of those rare people who you just adore. She is as sweet and kind and smart and wonderful a human being as has ever existed.

On the court, be it volleyball or basketball, or on the softball field, Ashley was just as adored by her coaches.

A leader, a feisty lil’ warrior who would slice her foes off at the knees and leave them to bleed out, she was the linchpin of the most successful run of female sports teams CHS has ever known.

The biggest banner in the school’s gym is for a 3rd place finish at state by the 2002 Wolf softball squad, a team that, led by Heilig, won four of five games at the tourney.

Outscoring opponents 28-13, they lost only to eventual champ Adna, beating Cle Elum-Rosalyn, Royal, Okanogan and Napavine.

At some point, if I can track down a complete roster for that team, I will induct them all into the Hall.

For now, their leader goes in, for that moment and the ten million other times she would stride out to play whatever sport was in season, get mistaken for the ball girl, then kick unholy amounts of booty.

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Whidbey duo ride to college glory!!

Posted in Horse sports, tagged , , , , on May 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Madison Tisa McPhee (Jack Tisa photos)

No one gets away from Madison Tisa McPhee. (Jack Tisa photos)

Brendan Coleman (right) gets ready for his roping competition.

Brendan Coleman (right) gets ready for his roping competition.

Coleman (right) operates in tandem with his teammate.

Coleman (right) operates in tandem with his teammate.

There is a road on Whidbey, a bad-ass road on which rodeo champions are produced.

Coupeville High School grads Madison Tisa McPhee and Brendan Coleman, who both hail from the same Greenbank cul-de-sac, have been tearing it up as rodeo stars for Central Washington University.

The duo and their teammates have hit the road for events in Walla Walla, Spokane and Ellensburg and just wrapped the season in Hermiston, Oregon.

Tisa McPhee, an accomplished barrel racer, added break-away roping and goat-tying  to her bag of tricks this year.

She placed seventh in overall women’s events at a big two-day Ellensburg event in late April and her CWU squad claimed second as a team at regionals and now advances to nationals.

Coleman operates as a heeler in team roping and claimed second place in Ontario and fifth at Spokane this season.

He was ranked ninth overall in the region in the event.

With the college season done, he’ll be back at it training and competing with fellow CHS grad Cody West this summer.

Tisa McPhee will be busy as well, with nationals in Wyoming in July and summer events for the Whidbey Western Gaming Association.

Both former Wolves had success early on away from the horse arena.

Coleman played for the 2010 Central Whidbey Little League baseball squad that won a state title, while Tisa McPhee snagged a ton ‘o medals as a hurdler and sprinter for the CHS track team.

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