Current senior Payton Aparicio leads off a look at what this year’s volleyball team was up to in 2004, the last time Wolf spikers made it to the state tourney.
Senior Kyla Briscoe
Senior Mikayla Elfrank
Assistant coach Ashley Herndon, then a high school senior.
Senior Hope Lodell
Sophomore Emma Mathusek
Senior Katrina McGranahan
Junior Ashley Menges
Freshman Chelsea Prescott
Senior Lauren Rose
Assistant coach Chris Smith
Junior Emma Smith
Sophomore Scout Smith
Sophomore Maya Toomey-Stout
Senior Allison Wenzel (left) and big sis Rachel.
And head coach Cory Whitmore, back when he was tearing up the court as a 14-year-old.
A lot has changed in 13 years.
When Coupeville High School’s volleyball squad heads to Yakima Thursday, it’ll be the first time the Wolf spikers have made it to the state tourney since 2004.
Back then, Toni Crebbin was calling the shots on the sideline for CHS and all-timers like Taniel Lamb, Mindy Horr and Kirsty Croghan were roaming the floor, mixing thunderous spikes with silky sets and sizzlin’ service aces.
As the 2004 Wolves romped through a season in which they were ranked #1 in the state at one point, the next generation was quietly going about its own business.
Spread across Coupeville and several other towns (and states), the 13 girls and three coaches who comprise this year’s state team had no idea they would one day unite in the spotlight.
While they wait for the bus to gas up for the long trip East, let’s take a ramble down memory lane and see just what they were all up to back in those lazy, hazy days of 2004.
You know, when OutKast was singing “Hey Ya!” and I was busy at Videoville, trying to make people rent the criminally-underrated “13 Going on 30.”
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