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No more basketball for Smedley!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , on December 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville High School head football coach Brett Smedley. (John Fisken photos)

  Coupeville High School head football coach Brett Smedley. (John Fisken photos)

Smedley works with last year's 8th grade hoops stars.

   Smedley works last year with Nicole Lester (51), Sarah Wright (33) and Ashlie Shank (right), who have all made the jump to high school ball this season.

Brett Smedley is paring down his many jobs.

The very-popular physical education teacher, who just completed his first season as head varsity football coach for Coupeville High School, is giving up his other coaching assignment.

Smedley, who has coached the CMS 8th grade girls’ basketball squad for several seasons, submitted a resignation letter this week.

Approval of the move was just added to the agenda for Monday’s school board meeting.

In his farewell note, which is available on-line as part of the agenda, Smedley hailed the middle school position for offering a strong start to his coaching career in Coupeville.

“It has been a very enjoyable process and something I have learned a lot from,” he wrote.

A new middle school girls’ basketball season starts Feb. 1 with the first day of practices.

CMS 7th grade coach Bob Martin is expected to return, though whether he will stay in that role or slide up to coach the 8th grade squad is unknown at this time.

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EXCLUSIVE: Wolf VB coach one and done!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , on April 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Kirsty Croghan

Kirsty Croghan

Coupeville High School will have its third varsity volleyball coach in as many seasons next year.

Kirsty Croghan, a former standout Wolf player who returned to the school last season to replace Toni Crebbin, who retired after 20 seasons, has resigned after just one season at the helm.

Croghan lives and works in La Conner and the commute got to be too much, said CHS Athletic Director Lori Stolee.

Croghan had been an assistant volleyball coach for the Braves  — a perennial state title contender — before her return to Coupeville and continues to work in the La Conner schools system.

There had been hope a similar job might come available in Coupeville, but none had opened during her first year of coaching.

The Wolves went 3-12 under Croghan, and were at their best in the second half of the season, coming extremely close to upsetting several top teams, including Archbishop Thomas Murphy.

CHS beat Cascade Conference rivals Sultan and Granite Falls and non-conference foe Port Townsend, which will join Coupeville in the newly-structured 1A Olympic League in 2014-2015.

Wolf JV coach Amy King confirmed that she will be among those tossing their name into the hunt for a new head coach.

“I plan to apply for it,” she said. “I will have to go through the same process as everyone else who wants the position. I need to fill out an application and go through the interview process.”

Whomever the new coach is, they should have four returning letter winners next season — Hailey Hammer, Kacie Kiel and Madeline Strasburg, who would be seniors, and Sydney Autio, who would be a junior.

The JV team that King coached was also successful, with younger players such as Valen Trujillo, Tiffany Briscoe, Miranda Engle and McKenzie Bailey ready to compete for varsity slots.

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