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Power, pop, and a big win

Posted in Volleyball, tagged Arianna Cunningham, CHS Wolves, Forks, Rhylee Inman, volleyball on October 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Arianna Cunningham rises up to destroy the volleyball. (Jacob Lujan photos)

They brought a bunch of knives to a Forks fight.

With their big hitters delivering plenty of daggers Friday night, the Coupeville High School varsity volleyball squad swept the visiting Spartans off the floor.

It was a well-played match, with plenty of long rallies, but ultimately the Wolves had the answer for anything and everything Forks hit their way, scoring a 25-22, 25-20, 25-22 straight-sets victory.

With the non-conference win, Scout Smith’s spikers get to 7-7 on the season and have won six of their last nine.

Up next is the regular season finale (and Senior Night) this coming Tuesday, October 27, with Friday Harbor visiting Cow Town.

After that, the district playoffs, which may include a home match.

But, if the Wolves were thinking of the postseason, they didn’t get ahead of themselves, staying committed and focused against a well-balanced foe.

The opening set was a battle of surges, with Coupeville jumping in front 6-3 with Tenley Stuurmans slicing winners from the service line, followed by Forks flipping things and surging ahead at 19-13.

But things ended positively for the Wolves, as they closed the frame on a 12-3 tear, with Arianna Cunningham madly mashing at the net while Capri Anter and Rhylee Inman peppered the Spartans with fiery aces.

Forks, proving plucky to the end, held off two set points but then helped out by sailing a serve long to hand CHS the magical 25th point.

Set #2 opened with freshman Zariyah Allen roaring in from the side to slice winners on back-to-back plays, before Inman and Kennedy O’Neill showed off their muscles by brutalizing the innocent volleyball to end intense rallies.

Kennedy O’Neill (3) and Rhylee Inman (4), ready to start flexing.

Haylee Armstrong was feeling it at the service line, winning five straight points, with Cunningham drilling a ball off the backline to push Coupeville way out in front at 12-4.

The visitors found their own mini hot streak, cutting the margin back down to 14-12, but couldn’t get any closer.

More highlight reel worthy plays from Inman and Cunningham, plus a dazzling flip winner off of Stuurmans fingertips, put CHS ahead 24-16, though Forks once again proved to be hard to knock out, avoiding four set points before #5 proved to be fatal.

The third, and final frame, was Coupeville’s all the way, as the Wolves led from start to (almost) finish, with one brief burp when Forks turned a 14-8 deficit into a very brief 16-15 lead.

Once again, however, CHS had the answer, with Anter and Armstrong making a deadly duo on their serve, and fellow Wolf senior Lexis Drake delivering several tasty kills.

Forks, the masters of never saying die apparently, played one ball off both the gym lights and a raised basketball backboard, then fought off three match points.

Answer needed?

Answer given, as Drake swooped in, walking on air to deliver a tip winner for the night’s final point, before dancing off to embrace her celebrating teammates.

Friday stats:

Zariyah Allen –4 kills, 2 digs
Capri Anter — 4 digs, 3 aces
Haylee Armstrong — 5 digs, 8 assists, 3 aces
Arianna Cunningham — 9 kills, 13 digs, 2 block assists
Lexis Drake — 3 kills, 1 block assist
Rhylee Inman — 2 kills, 5 digs, 1 assist, 1 solo block, 1 block assist, 2 aces
Willow Leedy-Bonifas — 27 digs, 1 assist
Kennedy O’Neill — 3 kills, 2 digs
Tenley Stuurmans — 3 kills, 8 digs, 14 assists, 2 block assists, 5 aces

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Wolf heavy hitters rattle Rivals

Posted in Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, East Jefferson, Rhylee Inman, Tenley Stuurmans, volleyball on October 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Zariyah Allen brings the big hit show to center court. (Julie Wheat photo)

Their bounce-back game is impressive.

Returning to the floor less than 24 hours after absorbing a narrow loss to high-flying Mount Vernon Christian, the Coupeville High School varsity volleyball squad unleashed holy terror on East Jefferson.

Rattling the visiting Rivals with an assortment of brutal kills and precision tips Saturday, the Wolves stormed to a 25-11, 25-23, 25-18 non-conference win to even their record at 6-6 on the season.

Scout Smith’s spikers have three regular-season bouts left to play, with a trip October 20 to La Conner next up on the schedule.

Saturday the Wolves hit the floor with one mission — destroy, then destroy some more.

Consider it mission accomplished.

CHS junior Tenley Stuurmans, who stuffed the stat sheet, kick-started the good times by peppering the Rivals with a variety of unhittable serves.

Meanwhile fab frosh Zariyah Allen mashed one of the few returns for a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am kill to keep the visitors on their toes.

With Kennedy O’Neill and Arianna Cunningham joining the never-ending hit parade, followed by Stuurmans unleashing a brutal kill which hit like a nuclear bomb going off somewhere in the desert, the Wolves shoved the lead out to 13-3 and never relented.

Tenley Stuurmans unleashes her fury. (Jacob Lujan photo)

Wolf freshman Rhylee Inman, a rodeo star who can also knock the stuffing out of a volleyball in her spare time, socked another applause-worthy kill, with Stuurmans sealing the opening set win with another long, impressive run on her serve.

While sets #2 and #3 were a bit closer, at least in terms of points scored, Coupeville remained in control all afternoon.

Stuurmans (who else?), Willow Leedy-Bonifas, and Haylee Armstrong operated with precision at the service line in the second frame, while Inman collected back-to-back kills, using her long reach to dominate play at the net.

East Jefferson did briefly seize the lead at 17-15, but an Inman kill tied things at 18-18, then a series of tip winners from O’Neill and Stuurmans pushed the Wolves ahead for good.

The Rivals stayed close in the third set until Allen unleashed a spike winner off the back corner to bust a 6-6 tie, with Coupeville’s power advantage eventually becoming impossible for the visitors to overcome.

Down the stretch the Wolves got key plays from Lexis Drake and Capri Anter, while Stuurmans, who notched numbers in all six primary stat categories Saturday, seemingly got stronger as the match played out, delivering some of her most thunderous winners in the waning moments.

In short, Coupeville’s team-wide performance?

Brutal and beautiful all in one, exactly the way their coach drew it up.

Saturday stats:

Zariyah Allen — 4 kills, 7 digs, 2 block assists
Capri Anter — 1 kill, 5 digs, 1 assist
Haylee Armstrong — 4 digs, 16 assists
Arianna Cunningham — 5 kills, 8 digs
Lexis Drake — 2 kills, 2 digs, 1 block assist
Rhylee Inman — 6 kills, 2 digs, 1 block assist
Willow Leedy-Bonifas — 14 digs, 1 assist, 3 aces
Kennedy O’Neill — 5 kills, 3 digs
Tenley Stuurmans — 10 kills, 13 digs, 13 assists, 2 solo blocks, 2 block assists, 9 aces

Shania Kenney (red shoes) hangs out with Wolf spikers (left to right) Capri Anter, Lexis Drake, and Haylee Armstrong. (Jackie Saia photo)

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Wild rumble, narrow loss

Posted in Volleyball, tagged Arianna Cunningham, Cedar Park Christian, CHS Wolves, Rhylee Inman, volleyball on September 28, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Freshman Rhylee Inman is making an impact for Coupeville’s varsity. (Carissa Peters photo)

It was a brawl, with one bad bump in the road.

Toss out a miserable second set, when the Coupeville High School varsity volleyball squad got stung badly by a red-hot server, and Monday’s non-conference rumble with visiting Cedar Park Christian-Bothell was almost a dead heat.

In the end, however, the Eagles, repping a 1A private school, proved to be just a bit better (on this night), making off with a 23-25, 25-7, 25-23, 26-24 victory over their 2B hosts.

The loss drops Coupeville to 1-4 on the season, but Scout Smith’s spikers get right back at it with back-to-back contests later this week.

The Wolves travel to Friday Harbor Wednesday, before hosting Concrete Thursday, with both matches conference bouts.

If CHS can bring the heat, as it did for much of Monday’s match, things will likely end positively.

Squaring off with an athletic, often big-hitting Eagles squad, the Wolves opened strongly.

Capri Anter and Willow Leedy-Bonifas sparked Coupeville with strong runs at the service line, while Arianna Cunningham was feeling it, crashing in from the left side to deliver monumentous kills.

Once the Wolves snatched the lead at 2-1 in the opening frame, they never fell behind.

Cedar Park did briefly tie things up at 12-12, but an ace from Anter immediately pushed CHS back in front, and several winners flying off the fingers of Cunningham and Tenley Stuurmans pushed the hometown team to victory.

The best combo play came courtesy Haylee Armstrong, who flicked a note-perfect set to her younger teammate, then watched in joy as Stuurmans pasted the ball off the backline.

Not to be outdone, Cunningham delivered a screaming winner which tore a piece of the floor off as it skidded away to seal the deal on a win in set #1.

Ready to rumble. (Bettie Sifuentes-Hart photo)

Set #2 wasn’t nearly as fun.

Early winners from Zariyah Allen, Rhylee Inman, and Kennedy O’Neill kept Coupeville close, but things disintegrated when a madly hopping Eagle went off on a 16-point run at the service stripe.

Down 22-3, Coupeville refused to take the easy way out, though, putting together a brief run of success after finally getting the CPC ace off the line.

While they couldn’t turn the momentary comeback into an epic turnaround, the momentum carried over into the third set for the Wolves.

Cunningham, playing one of her best matches ever, was a lethal force both on her serve and at the net, while a tip winner from Allen staked CHS to a 13-10 lead at the midpoint of the set.

From there the teams battled through six ties, with the last one coming at 23-23 after the fab frosh teamed up on a sparkling play.

Inman pulled off a miracle recovery, poking a ball back out of the net and skyward after the play seemed done, followed almost immediately by Allen slicing a winner that caught the Eagle defense flat-footed.

Cedar Park quieted the hometown fans, however, pulling off back-to-back tip winners to steal the set away and claim a 2-1 lead.

Which brought us to set #4, where another server got scorching, but this time one in red and black.

Leedy-Bonifas, with some help from a booming spike winner to the back corner from best bud Cunningham, delivered seven consecutive points at the line, pushing Coupeville out to a 12-3 lead and the promise of a fifth and deciding set lingered in the air.

The Eagles, a much-better team than their won/loss record might indicate, never backed off, but could never quite push past the Wolves, who held the set lead from the start to the (almost) finish.

Inman and Allen played like seasoned pros at the net, while Cunningham was bounding around, swinging like a mighty masher.

Not too long after an innocent ball cart was blown up by a spiker sprinting after a runaway ball, CHS found itself on the verge of knotting things up at two sets apiece.

Up 24-21, the Wolves needed just a single point … but couldn’t find it.

Cedar Park, holding off three set points, closed the match abruptly on a 5-0 run, denying the Wolves and guaranteeing itself a happy drive back to Bothell.

Monday stats:

Zariyah Allen — 5 kills, 2 digs, 1 block assist
Capri Anter — 8 digs, 3 aces
Haylee Armstrong — 1 kill, 8 digs, 5 assists, 2 aces
Arianna Cunningham — 10 kills, 13 digs, 1 assist, 1 solo block, 3 aces
Lexis Drake — 1 solo block
Rhylee Inman — 3 kills, 1 solo block
Willow Leedy-Bonifas — 15 digs, 1 assist, 4 aces
Isa Mc Fetridge — 1 dig
Kennedy O’Neill — 2 kills
Tenley Stuurmans — 3 kills, 4 digs, 16 assists, 1 block assist, 2 aces

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Big spikes, fast rides

Posted in Rodeo, Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, freshman, Rhylee Inman, rodeo, volleyball on June 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Rhylee Inman, chasing dreams every day. (Photos courtesy Carissa Peters)

“Rodeo is my home!”

Rhylee Inman, who will be a freshman at Coupeville High School this fall, is fairly unique among her peers in Wolf Nation.

She’s a very talented volleyball player who showed great promise at the net during her middle school days, while also playing little league softball and participating in 4-H.

But it’s rodeo, the high-energy sport made famous by country music legends like George Strait and Garth Brooks, which truly sets Inman apart.

There just aren’t a ton of teenage athletes on Whidbey Island who can work magic from the back of a horse, but she’s that rarity.

Inman has been chasing the dream since she was old enough to first sit astride her trusty steed, and she is fully committed to pursuing the sport for years to come.

“My goals for my high school career are to get a scholarship to Nebraska in volleyball and join a college rodeo team,” she said.

Rodeo has taken her across the state, with competitions in goat tie, barrels, poles, and breakaway roping.

Inman and her partner fly into action.

“This is not just a sport to me,” Inman said. “This is a community and my best friend.

“I grew up on my family’s farm on the back of a horse doing simple speed events, but I later got introduced into rodeo. Rodeo is a completely different world compared to anything I have ever done.

“The community is your competition but also your family.

“You fail and fail but they bring you up and help you. We all are going through something, but we help each other.”

While chasing her volleyball and rodeo dreams, Inman also hopes to play high school softball. She was ready to make the jump as an 8th grader, but a shoulder injury sidelined her this spring.

Regardless of which sport she’s playing at the moment, the young Wolf approaches each of them with an open heart.

“Enjoying being an athlete for me isn’t just the sport,” Inman said. “It is the team/community that surrounds you.

“If I didn’t have my people around me, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy the pressure under the performance. And the intensity that I thrive in.”

Controlling the action on the volleyball court. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Inman, who enjoys “ripping the ATVs around, spending time with my horses, and going into the mountains,” credits her mom for her support and guidance.

“I owe my mom for my entire athlete career,” she said.

“If my mom wasn’t here for me, I wouldn’t have continued to play sports after I got in my head, I wouldn’t have been able to attend to any sports, and she pushes me to keep going when the game gets intense.”

When in action Inman seeks to find inner balance, something she is still working on.

“My best strength as an athlete is ignoring my emotions on the court no matter how many mistakes I make,” she said.

“If you dwell and show how sad or mad you are, you bring your team down with you. So, I learned how to control this.

“But I do have a lot of areas to each of the sports I play that need to be improved and tuned up,” Inman added. “One thing I would like to improve is the way I hold myself AFTER a loss.

“There has been countless nights after a bad race that I talk down on myself because I know I could have done better or when I let a ball drop on the court.

“I know if I feed good things into my brain after a loss and think of ways to not let it happen again, I will be a better leader to my team or horse.”

Ready to take on the world.

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Spikers praised for leadership skills

Posted in Volleyball, tagged Arianna Cunningham, CHS Wolves, leadership, Rhylee Inman, volleyball on June 4, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Arianna Cunningham (left) and Milly Somes

They’re the leaders of the pack.

Eight Wolf spikers were honored by Coupeville High School volleyball coaches this week as the program held a development camp.

The players, a mix of veterans and relative newbies, were hailed by Scout Smith and her staff for modeling the program’s core strengths of “leadership, excellence, accountability, and discipline.”