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Gridiron giants hit road, build bond

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Wolf QB Logan Downes strides into his senior year. (Nikki Breaux photos)

It’s the work before the work.

Official practices for a new Coupeville High School football season don’t get underway until mid-August, but the Wolves are still getting ready.

A three-day trip to Shelton for a camp, seen in the pics above and below, is a vital part of building team unity and focus.

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Summer work fuels fall success

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Wolf senior lineman William Davidson rumbles at summer football camp. (Courtney Sollars photos)

Best way to prepare for breezy fall football Fridays?

Put in the work on hot Thursday afternoons during the summer like Coupeville High School players did recently.

The Wolves, coming off their first league title and trip to state since 1990, traveled to Shelton for a multi-day camp this week.

While in the land of the Highclimbers, Coupeville players participated in a wide array of drills, strong man competitions, and team bonding moments.

Now they’re back home, with less than six weeks until the first game of the 2023 campaign.

That’ll be a home affair Friday, Sept. 1, with non-league rival Klahowya slated to travel to Cow Town for a 6:00 PM kickoff.

Until then, marinate in a batch of camp pics.

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A campin’ they will (still) go

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on July 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The Wolves are headed to football camp, but in Shelton, not Tenino. (Davin Houston photo)

The road trip is back on, just with a slightly different destination.

When most of the Tenino High School football staff resigned last week, it looked like an annual late June gridiron camp run by the Beavers would fall by the wayside.

The team most affected by that — at least for readers of this blog — was Coupeville, which was primed to jam everyone into vehicles and head down to terrorize people on the black turf.

When news broke, Wolf coaches immediately begin to look for other team-building options.

But now, with the camp moving from Tenino to Shelton, CHS caravan drivers are once more ready to fuel up (at inflated gas prices), cram as many meat sticks as possible into glove compartments, and crank AC/DC up to 11.

“Sounds like (Tenino) Coach (Cary) Nagel has communicated and worked with the Shelton program and will head up the camp there instead,” said Coupeville pigskin guru Bennett Richter.

“This year there will be 10 teams, but with Nagel running things the transition should go quite smoothly!”

Being able to keep the camp alive, even with Tenino coaches in limbo, was huge for everyone involved.

“I’m really just happy our kids will get an opportunity to go to camp this year,” Richter said.

“There is nothing better for a team than when you can get away and have nothing but one goal and each other to focus on.”

In a move which would be very popular with your local blogger — who ain’t taking the Xterra all the way down to Tenino, or Shelton for June football — Richter and Co. are also looking into the possibility of Coupeville hosting its own camp in the future.

Camp Casey, maybe get ready for some pigskin action.

“I have looked into what would need to be done for a camp here next season,” said the Wolf headman. “If I get the word out soon enough, I feel there is a real potential for that.”

With the recent scramble, Richter got a feel for the work involved, but it also fired him up.

“These last couple days have been a rat race to figure out what’s going on,” he said.

“I have basically planned a whole camp in the hopes to get teams here and also planned a whole week for just us to get away and practice, if need be, and now I will not end up using either this year,” Richter added with a laugh.

“But … coaching life … nothing I’d rather be doing!”

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CHS grad wows bodybuilding world

Posted in Bodybuilding, tagged , , , , on October 6, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Zoe Trujillo shows off her first of many bodybuilding medals. (Photo courtesy Amy Trujillo)

New sport, still killin’ it.

Coupeville grad Zoe Trujillo, a volleyball, tennis, and track star during her days as a Wolf, is now a bodybuilder.

To no one’s surprise, the uber-talented Trujillo has had an immediate impact, taking home two medals at her first event.

Competing in the NPC Washington Ironman Natural Bodybuilding Championships Oct. 2 in Shelton, she claimed first in “Figure-True Novice” and third in “Bikini-True Novice.”

The event was held at the Little Creek Casino Resort.

Trujillo, a 2020 CHS grad and member of the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame, had her biggest impact at the high school level as a volleyball spiker.

Trujillo (front) and Maddie Vondrak get down with their bad selves. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

She was a big hitter and a big part of the success of a CHS program which never finished lower than second-place in league during her four years on campus.

During Trujillo’s senior year, her team went 14-5, tying the Wolf volleyball single-season record for wins.

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Lost season, not lost honor

Posted in awards, tagged , , , , , on April 21, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Shelton High School honored senior spring athletes in a unique way.

How do you honor a lost season?

The COVID-19 pandemic erased spring sports for high school and middle school athletes in Washington state, bringing a halt to things before a game was played.

Now, some schools are choosing to go ahead and still hand out athletic letters, even in the absence of competition.

A recent Skagit Valley Herald story by Vince Richardson found Burlington-Edison is awarding letters to all senior spring athletes.

Meanwhile, La Conner will letter athletes in grades 9-12 if they fully complete a six-week training program set up by their coaches.

Go further down the road and you’ll end up in Shelton.

Back in the late ’80s, when I was a shaggy-haired Tumwater tennis player, the Highclimbers were one of our biggest rivals in the old-school Black Hills League.

These days, Shelton’s Athletic Department is bidding for all the internet fame after posting a video in which senior athletes who would have been four-year lettermen get their moment in the quarantine spotlight.

 

 

No word yet on whether Coupeville AD Willie Smith will accept my challenge – liberate a golf cart, get a pair of long, retractable grabbers, then go door-to-door doing something similar, while never actually leaving the cart. 

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