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Speak your mind!!

Posted in Polls, tagged CHS Wolves, history, polls, record boards on July 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Who do you have?

I need a new project.

Last summer was the biggie, as we raised the Wall of Fame in the Coupeville High School gym, honoring titles across every sport from 1900-2017.

A couple of weeks ago, the football record board in the entrance way to the gym was updated, filled in and brought to full reality, and now it can stand with pride next to the volleyball and track boards.

But now I have some empty hours to fill, so my brain wanders and wonders — which sport deserves to be next as we try and get every sport at CHS its own glossy record board?

There are five active sports (baseball, softball, basketball, tennis and soccer, with the last three having both girls and boys programs) which do not have record boards.

You could make solid arguments for all of them, so I’m turning that part of the process over to you, the readers.

There’s a poll below and you have 48 hours to make your feelings felt.

Voting is open now (no restrictions, vote as many times as your heart desires) and closes 9 AM Friday.

This is the people’s project, so you choose — which sport do I research, obsess over and agitate for, next?

I await your decision.

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He’s the King of the polls!!

Posted in Polls, tagged CHS Wolves, Coach Supreme, Kristin Bridges, polls, Ryan King on May 17, 2017| 1 Comment »

Our first-ever Coupeville Sports Coach Supreme winner, Ryan King, passes on some of the wisdom he picked up playing in the trenches. (John Fisken photo)

Well, it’s a nice (imaginary) parting gift.

Ryan King, who recently stepped down after stints as a football and basketball coach at CHS and CMS, is the first-ever recipient of the title of Coupeville Sports Coach Supreme.

He held off Wolf JV volleyball coach Kristin Bridges and jack-of-all-trades Bob Martin to win our 48-hour poll, pulling in 4,883 votes.

Bridges (3,797), Martin (1,429) and CHS softball gurus Kevin (1,090) and Justine McGranahan (919) round out the top five.

The contest pitted 35 coaches against each other in an internet battle royale created mainly to give me tons of extra page hits (it worked) and is a companion to our annual Coupeville Sports Athlete Supreme.

That contest has run for five years now, with Nick Streubel, Amanda Fabrizi, CJ Smith, Hunter Smith and Joey Lippo taking home top honors from 2013-2017.

Like those five, King wins nothing concrete, as I’m too cheap to have an actual trophy.

But he does get a brief moment of fame, maybe a few glares from those he vanquished, and a warm feeling in his chest from knowing the internet is on his side … today.

So, he’s good.

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Coach, my coach!!

Posted in Polls, tagged battle royal, CHS Wolves, CMS Wolves, imaginary awards, polls, Sally Field on May 15, 2017| Leave a Comment »

L to r, Aparicio, Atkins, Bridges, Lucero, Manker, B. Martin, Cowan, Eck, Etzell, J. Martin, K. McGranahan, J. McGranahan, Felgar, J. Ford, L. Ford, Nelson, Rixe, Sherman, Henning, Herndon, Hilborn, Shulock, A. Smith, C. Smith, Kelley, A. King, Stange, Van Velkinburgh, D. King, Ra. King, Ry. King, Welshans, Whitmore, Wright.

There can only be one.

Many coaches enter the arena, and, 48 hours from now, one will exit with the title of 2016-2017 CHS Coach Supreme.

We’ve been running the CHS Athlete Supreme award for five years now — an annual slug-fest at the polls to determine which Wolf sports star wants to be crowned winner of an imaginary (yet strangely prestigious) honor.

This year it was Joey Lippo, following on the heels of Nick Streubel, Amanda Fabrizi, CJ Smith and Hunter Smith.

Now, after getting several recent requests to expand the battle royal to include coaches, we’re doing just that.

The rules for year one? No rules.

You can vote as many times as you like, with no restrictions.

Voting starts at 3:15 PM Monday, May 15, and closes 3:15 PM Wednesday, May 17, at which point we’ll crown a mythical champion, who can then quote Sally Field, “You like me. You really like me!”

Let the battle begin.

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Vote big! Win big!!

Posted in Running, tagged Elizabeth Bitting, polls, Ragnar, running, Sherry Roberts, t-shirts on June 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Elizabeth Bitting, coach, runner and now, t-shirt designer. (John Fisken photo)

Bitting’s shirt design.

You, yes you, can win Sherry Roberts and friends new t-shirts.

It’s simple.

A pack of local runners (others include CMS track coach Elizabeth Bitting and Wolf mom Deb Smith) who compete in the Ragnar Trail Relay series are also taking part in the SweatVac t-shirt designing competition.

Whichever team gets the most votes nabs eight shirts featuring their design, which is a cool $256 worth of merchandise.

Bitting’s design for the Sasquatchettes is currently sitting in first place in a seven-way race that ends July 15, but by a razor-thin margin.

Time for Wolf Nation to step up and put our runners over the top. Waaaaay over the top.

Facebook only allows one vote per person, but if we all vote and spread the word, there is no poll we can not utterly destroy.

History bears that out.

To vote, pop over to:

http://offerpop.com/FacebookContestEntry.psp?c=805631&u=1227974&a=448952861833126&p=260080947451642&rest=0&id=6542191&rest2=0

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Let’s irritate the Everett Herald (just like the old days)!!

Posted in Poking the Herald, Polls, tagged AnnaBelle Whitefoot, Dyllan Harris, Everett Herald, OHHS Wildcats, polls on June 7, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Dyllan Harris flies up-field, ripping off chunks of yardage for Oak Harbor. (John Fisken photos)

AnnaBelle Whitefoot gets ready to tattoo the tennis ball.

Not our fight.

That was my first thought when the Everett Herald posted their polls for voters to help pick their prep athletes of the year.

They don’t care about us, why should we care about them?

From the moment Coupeville High School left the 1A/2A Cascade Conference and joined the all-new 1A Olympic League two years ago, Cow Town has been dead to the Herald.

They still report on two-thirds of Whidbey Island, running scores and such for Oak Harbor and South Whidbey.

But, in their minds, you might as well set the middle of the Island, the county seat, the heart of government and farming, on fire, and let it burn to the ground.

Course, if that happened, they still wouldn’t write about it, cause we’re dead to them.

So, when they posted their nominee list — with one girl and boy from each of the schools they choose to cover — no Makana Stone, no Wiley Hesselgrave.

Cause Coupeville is dead to the Herald.

Except, we can still be a royal pain in their ass. Just like we were a couple years back when we torpedoed one or two of their other polls.

There’s that.

And we can do it in two ways.

One, by rallying support behind Oak Harbor’s nominated athletes — AnnaBelle Whitefoot and Dyllan Harris — and maybe helping one Whidbey Island school shaft the Herald’s beloved ATM and King’s.

And, secondly, by dropping a hail-storm of emails on Herald prep sports bigwig David Krueger, just to remind him Wolf Nation is still here, no matter how much he tries to pretend we’re not.

So, let’s do this thing.

To vote for Whitefoot, jump over to:

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160606/BLOG18/160609418/1007/Nominees-for-the-Class-of-2016-Kristi-Bartz-Memorial-Girls-Athlete-of-the-Year

To vote for Harris, jump over to:

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160606/BLOG18/160609419/1007/Nominees-for-the-Class-of-2016-Boys-Athlete-of-the-Year

To harass the Herald and ask why they refuse to cover Coupeville, send emails (by the millions) to:

dkrueger@heraldnet.com

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