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Let’s get intense!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , , on April 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Jillian Mayne is not putting up with any of your shenanigans. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Kameryn St Onge rips winners, every dang day.

   A South Whidbey player on Coupeville Sports???? In this case, it’s the brilliant Oliana Stange, so we’ll make an exception.

Fab frosh Genna Wright lashes a scorching winner.

   Zara Bradley goes low to destroy the heart, soul and psyche of her foes with a wicked, unexpected shot.

You want intensity, hit the tennis courts.

While the young women who swing the rackets are generally some of the most easy-going, polite people you will find, put them between the lines and they become cold-blooded assassins.

That’s shown in the pics above, which were shot Wednesday by local paparazzi John Fisken.

To see everything he snapped, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-2018-Coupeville-Tennis/2018-04-25-girls-vs-South-Whidbey/

And, when you head that way, remember, purchases help fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes (plus they make grandma happy).

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Don’t stop til you drop!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , , on April 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Elaira Nicolle teamed with Genna Wright Wednesday to win a match against South Whidbey. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Play until the sun goes down.

That seemed to be the objective Wednesday for the final two varsity doubles teams on the court as Coupeville and South Whidbey clashed.

By the time Wolves Kameryn St Onge and Maggie Crimmins finished their epic battle with Falcons Oliana Stange and Ally Lynch, every other court was empty.

And, even though the result of their bout wouldn’t change the outcome of the team match (South Whidbey eventually won 4-1), the duos raged on against the dying sun.

One second-set game went to 24,507 deuces (give or take a few) as all four players took turns whacking crowd-pleasing winners.

Then, at the end, as Crimmins and St Onge tried to pull out a second-set tiebreaker (and force another, match-deciding tie breaker) things got downright bloody.

St Onge, who had been cranking wicked left-handed winners that skidded through the alleys, ripped open a finger and had to make a bee-line for a first-aid kit.

“We’re never going home, are we?”, said Jon Crimmins, Maggie’s proud papa, chuckling as he gazed at a marsh occupying the space where the CHS baseball diamond of his youth once sat.

And, while Stange and Lynch pulled out the win a few points later thanks to a couple of sweet winners, it was a fairly-perfect cap for all involved.

While the final team score was the same as the first time these teams met back in mid-March, the scrappy underdog Wolves (4-8 on the season) showed marked improvement against the Falcons (7-1).

Sophomore sluggers Tia Wurzrainer and Avalon Renninger battled back from a set down to win Wednesday, while freshman Genna Wright won six more games in her second go-around with battle-hardened Ashley Ricketts.

The strong play continued to the JV matches, where Coupeville won twice and Emily Fiedler and Jaimee Masters, in particular, laid down some brilliant shots.

If nothing else, the non-conference match was a good tune-up for Thursday’s ultra-important match-and-a-half at Silverdale.

The Wolves (2-1 in Olympic League play) will wrap a rain-delayed match (it’s sitting at 2-2 with three bouts still undecided), then play their regularly-scheduled tilt with Klahowya (0-3).

Win both and CHS vaults a half game ahead of Chimacum (3-1) and guarantees it will play for a fourth-straight league title.

Complete Wednesday results:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Claire Mietus lost to Robynn Maciel 6-0, 6-2

2nd Singles — Genna Wright lost to Ashley Ricketts 6-3, 6-3

1st Doubles — Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger lost to Mary Zisette/Alison Papritz 6-2, 6-2

2nd Doubles — Avalon Renninger/Tia Wurzrainer beat Farriss Jokinen/Ainsley Nelson 2-6, 6-3, 10-6

3rd Doubles — Kameryn St Onge/Maggie Crimmins lost to Ally Lynch/Oliana Stange 7-5, 7-6(7-5)

JV:

4th Doubles — Jillian Mayne/Zara Bradley lost to Erin Brewer/McKenna Kelley 8-5

5th Doubles — Megan Behan/Nanci Melendrez lost to Elizabeth Simmons/Lynda Moran 6-4

6th Doubles — Jaimee Masters/Emily Fiedler beat Jenna Pfeiffer/Capri Pierce 8-4

7th Doubles — Bradley/Mayne played Sadie Wilson/Joanie Welever No score recorded

8th Doubles — Elaira Nicolle/Wright beat Mira Harvey/Denise Breton 6-2

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Happy birthday, you little traitor!!

Posted in Band, Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , , , on June 29, 2016| 1 Comment »

Oliana

   Oliana Stange, back when she was still wearing the right colors. (John Fisken photos)

Playing with the Coupeville band.

Playing with the Coupeville band.

Oliana Stange has a great sense of humor.

That’s important, because I know she’ll know I’m joking (mostly) with that headline.

Miss Stange, who celebrates a birthday today, is one of the kindest, most talented, most gonna-change-the-freakin-world young women I know.

Course, since she’ll be a freshman this fall at South Whidbey High School and not Coupeville, as we once all assumed, she’s also a dirty, dirty traitor!

I kid, I kid.

A family move pulled Oliana and younger brother Fletcher down to the far end of the Island, but just because she’ll be wearing the wrong colors when she makes her high school tennis debut, I can’t forsake her.

She may be a Falcon now and not a Wolf, as she once was, but she will always, forever and ever, be extremely well-liked on the prairie.

There is whip-smart and then there is Oliana, who goes about a billion miles past that.

She’s the kind of intelligent that makes Stephen Hawking sit up and say “Dang!”

But Stange is much more than book smart.

She is a strong writer (her work has run here on Coupeville Sports) who deeply cares about the world around her, and wants to be one of the ones who makes things better.

She’s also a hard-working athlete, and, back in the day, popped up on CMS basketball and track squads.

Now she’ll follow dad Ken (the longtime CHS tennis coach) into the family business, just on fancier South-end courts.

I wish her the best, always, because Oliana is pure sunshine and brilliance.

Happy birthday, you traitor, you!

He said with a smile.

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Student Journalist: Band life rocks!!

Posted in Band, Student Journalism, tagged , , , , , on March 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Oliana Stange (John Fisken photo)

Oliana Stange plays with the CMS band last year. (John Fisken photo)

Oliana Stange, daughter of CHS tennis coach Ken Stange and college professor Ericka Cooley, is currently an 8th grader in Langley.

In this first-person account she looks back fondly on her time as a member of the Coupeville Middle School band.

When I was in seventh grade, I played with the band at football and basketball games.

I wasn’t required to, only the high schoolers were.

I loved playing the saxophone, so I decided I would go to get some extra time in.

But as it turned out, pep band was so much more than just playing your instrument.

Last year, Coupeville’s football team did so well.

I remember how excited I would get when they would score a touchdown. That meant we could play “On Wisconsin.”

Once, we played the school song eight times in one game!

That was such an exciting day.

Once it had rained before the game started. The bleachers were freezing cold and soaked in rain.

Jacob Zettle brought rain pants, a rain jacket, and gloves. It made me laugh so much.

Even though I was cold that game, it was still a lot of fun.

Basketball season was just as much fun.

Watching the girls’ basketball team shred their opponents paired well with the songs we played, because we were even more hopped up on adrenaline.

I remember Mr. Jenkins would shout out the song we were going to play. He would shout “Get ready!”

I always said “Get ready for what?”

I didn’t mean to make a joke, I just didn’t recognize the song title.

Sorry Mr. Jenkins. That probably made you mad.

Because playing with the band was so much more to me than playing in between the actual game and the cheerleaders.

It was eating my body weight in popcorn, using a hair dryer to dry my music after it got soaked in rain, and screaming when your team scored.

It was fun times spent with your friends and giving people candy.

And most of all, it was learning not to eat too much concession stand food.

Too much will give you a stomachache. Trust me, I know from experience.

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Different uniform, same superstar!!

Posted in Cross Country, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Oliana Stange, back in her Coupeville days. (John Fisken photo)

  Oliana Stange, back in her Coupeville days, keepin’ the beat goin’. (John Fisken photo)

OK, don’t get all flustered, but we need to take a moment to celebrate something done by a Langley athlete.

Wait, what?!?!?!?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the name on the blog is Coupeville Sports, but, over time, I have mellowed … a bit.

And, regardless of what uniform she currently wears, Oliana Stange is one of Whidbey’s best, brightest, kindest and most-worthy-of-praise athletes, so deal with it.

Miss Stange, daughter of Coupeville High School tennis guru Ken Stange (and super mom Ericka Cooley), used to run for Coupeville Middle School until a family move took her down South this year.

The former Wolf track star is now running cross country as an eighth grader at Langley Middle School, where she and her teammates capped their season by sweeping both titles at the Cascade Conference Championships Thursday.

Langley trumped Lakewood, King’s, Sultan, Granite Falls and Northshore Christian to top the overall scoring in both the girls and boys races.

Stange finished 25th in her race, covering 1.74 miles in 14 minutes, 5.54 seconds.

Of the five races she ran in this season, it was the longest course she has had to deal with.

So, while she may be a Cougar these days, we’re going to ignore that fact for the moment.

Way to go, Oliana!

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