CHS tennis coach Ken Stange does his best Sasquatch dance to no avail. (Wendy McCormick photo)
Well, I’m kind of disappointed.
With Coupeville moving out of the 1A/2A Cascade Conference and into the 1A Olympic League in the fall, they’ll bid adieu to King’s and ATM and find new rivals in Port Townsend, Chimacum and Klahowya.
While Chimacum will remain the Cowboys and Klahowya reps the Eagles, Port Townsend ended an 88-year run as the Redskins recently and set about finding a new nickname and mascot.
Personally, I (and CHS tennis coach Ken Stange) were pulling for Sasquatch to win out when the PTHS students voted.
So was the Port Townsend football coach, who lobbied for the name on Facebook.
But it wasn’t to be, as the more mainstream Red Hawks easily won the vote, beating Sasquatch 256-106. Riptide was a distant third, with 41 votes.
So, Wolves, meet your new foes, same as the old foes, just with a new nickname.
It could have been cooler, but we’ll have to deal with the sense of loss for something we never had to enjoy in the first place.
Maybe Coupeville can step in and take over the cool factor from the Sasquatch-deniers by bouncing the Wolf name — since there hasn’t been a Wolf sighting on Whidbey since probably 1803 — and go with something like … the Chupacabras.
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller … Bueller?
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