Scout Smith (left) will coach the CHS varsity girls’ basketball team this winter. (Julie Wheat photo)
They’re changing up roles, for a season.
Coupeville High School girls’ basketball head coach Megan Richter is slated to deliver baby #2 shortly after the season tips off, so she’s handing off a chunk of her duties to JV coach Scout Smith.
Smith will slide into the main chair, with Lark Gustafson and Alita Blouin running the second squad during the 2025-2026 campaign.
While she won’t be front and center for a bit, Richter will be available as a resource and intends to be back on the sideline fulltime next season.
For now, though, “I’ll be around for the first couple of weeks as long as my body allows, but Scout is in charge from the beginning to the end this season.”
Smith, who scored 290 points during her time as a player with the Wolf hoops program, just wrapped her first season as varsity head coach with CHS volleyball.
A former CHS Female Athlete of the Year winner, she played volleyball, basketball, and softball for the school, helping lead both the spikers and diamond dandies to state as a team captain.
After graduating with degrees from the University of Washington and Gonzaga, she returned to her alma mater as a teacher and coach.
For her part, Smith is ready and raring to get going.
“I am super excited to lead this team this year,” she said.
“We have a great group of girls. A lot of really talented athletes and they are a blast to work with.
“I’m really glad I get to continue working with so many of the same players I just had in volleyball.”
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