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Wolf baseball flips coaches!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on March 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville High School baseball coach Marc Aparicio resigned effective Thursday. (John Fisken photo)

Coaching changes continue at Coupeville High School.

Wolf varsity baseball coach Marc Aparicio has resigned his post, effective immediately, after accepting a new Department of Defense job.

The position requires travel and enough time away from home, especially during baseball season, that it presented substantial scheduling problems.

Aparicio, who also runs the Penn Cove Taproom with brother Mitch, said he greatly enjoyed his time as a coach, but needed to make the decision that was best for his family.

Baseball joins boys basketball, cheer and girls soccer as the fourth CHS program to have a coaching change this school year.

JV coach Chris Smith has been promoted to head coach and will debut in the post Friday against Port Townsend.

He’ll be aided by longtime Wolf assistant coach Mike Etzell, as well as volunteers Aaron Lucero, Josh Welshans and Steve Hilborn.

Aparicio finished 14-15 in a little under a season-and-a-half of helming his alma mater’s hardball program.

The Wolves went 10-12 last season, going 7-2 in Olympic League play to capture the program’s first league title in 25 years.

CHS is 4-3 overall, 0-1 in league play, this year.

Coupeville High School issued the following press release:

Effective on Thursday, Mar. 30th, Marc Aparicio will be stepping down as Head Baseball Coach due to job re-location.

It is difficult being a head coach and not employed by the school district and as Marc’s job situation became such that it would require him to miss time with the baseball program, he made the difficult decision to resign and have his assistants continue coaching, making the transition as seamless and least impactful as possible.

I completely understand and support Marc in his decision as he needs to take care of himself and his family and fully appreciate the difficulty in the decision he had to make.

I’d like to thank Marc and appreciate his time and effort that he made while Head Coach here in Coupeville and wish him nothing but the best.

Willie Smith
Athletic Director

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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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