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Young track stars ready for the spotlight

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on March 28, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville track star Taylor Marrs had a busy Saturday, competing in four events in Stanwood. (Photo courtesy Emili Marrs)

No old farts allowed.

Saturday was all about the young guns, with the Coupeville High School track and field team competing at the 12-team Stanwood Frosh/Soph Invitational.

As the title of the event indicates, the meet was restricted to 9th and 10th graders, with athletes vying against rivals from their own graduating classes.

Though, in a couple of cases, Wolf freshmen moved up a rung and ran in relays with the sophomores.

Despite repping one of the smallest schools in attendance, the 2B Wolves held up well against their larger rivals.

The CHS girls earned a 6th place showing in the team standings, while their male counterparts finished 10th.

The 3A Stanwood girls and 4A Redmond boys, both featuring very deep rosters, finished atop the mountain.

Overall, the Wolves posted 30 PRs, with two athletes winning individual titles.

Freshman Tamsin Ward was tops in the shot put, while sophomore Wyatt Fitch-Marron scraped the sky in the high jump.

That duo has combined to snag five victories across the season’s first three meets.

Coupeville’s entire team gets back into action this coming Wednesday, Apr. 1, when the Wolves travel to the mainland for a Northwest 2B/1B League meet hosted by Mount Vernon Christian.

Kennedy O’Neill and Nathan Coxsey ran strongly for Wolf relay teams. (Marquette Cunningham photo)

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

 

FRESHMEN:

100 — Tamsin Ward (3rd) 13.67 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (5th) 20.65 *PR*

300 Hurdles — O’Neill (7th) 1:02.41 *PR*

Shot Put — Ward (1st) 30-10 *PR*

Discus — Ward (4th) 68-03 *PR*

High Jump — Ward (3rd) 4-06

Long Jump — O’Neill (6th) 12-04 *PR*

 

SOPHOMORES:

100 — Willow Leedy-Bonifas (9th) 15.02 *PR*

200 — Isa Mc Fetridge (6th) 29.77 *PR*

400 — Olivia Hall (4th) 1:08.67; Taylor Marrs (6th) 1:17.11

4 x 100 Relay — Arianna Cunningham, Leedy-Bonifas, Mc Fetridge, O’Neill (4th) 58.69

4 x 200 Relay — Laken Simpson, Cunningham, Marrs, Mc Fetridge (2nd) 2:04.06

4 x 400 Relay — Lillian Ketterling, Hall, Simpson, Marrs (5th) 4:52.41

Shot Put — Inara Maund (11th) 16-07 *PR*

Discus — Ketterling (6th) 72-03; Marrs (12th) 55-04 *PR*

Javelin — Cunningham (3rd) 73-00 *PR*; Maund (13th) 32-01 *PR*

Pole Vault — Ketterling (3rd) 7-00

Triple Jump — Cunningham (6th) 26-08.75; Leedy-Bonifas (7th) 26-00

 

BOYS:

 

FRESHMEN:

800 — Ossian Merkel (9th) 2:36.40 *PR*; Nolan Hunt (14th) 3:23.30 *PR*

1600 — Cyrus Sparacio (4th) 4:46.29 *PR*; Merkel (15th) 5:35.65 *PR*

3200 — Hunt (9th) 16:08.90 *PR*

Javelin — Hunt (14th) 31-02 *PR*

Long Jump — Brian Thompson (6th) 15-10

 

SOPHOMORES:

100 — Liam Blas (12th) 12.61; Beckett Green (13th) 12.67

200 — Edmund Wilson (12th) 25.82 *PR*; Richmond Bandong (17th) 26.85 *PR*

800 — Russell Miller (15th) 3:04.93 *PR*

1600 — Will Tierney (16th) 5:59.39 *PR*

300 Hurdles — Wilson (8th) 49.70 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — Green, Blas, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, Nathan Coxsey (2nd) 47.25

4 x 200 Relay — Green, Bandong, Coxsey, Fitch-Marron (4th) 1:43.10

4 x 400 Relay — Brian Thompson, Wilson, Cyrus Sparacio, Green (3rd) 3:59.15

Shot Put — Khanor Jump (6th) 33-07.50 *PR*

Discus — Jump (6th) 98-06; Blas (7th) 98-02 *PR*; Shilo Sandlin (19th) 43-04

Javelin — Bandong (7th) 99-02; Johnathan Jacobsen (11th) 90-02 *PR*; Jump (12th) 87-02 *PR*; Sandlin (18rth) 73-05 *PR*

High Jump — Fitch-Marron (1st) 5-08; Jacobsen (5th) 5-06 *PR*

Long Jump — Wilson (2nd) 16-05 *PR*

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Young guns emerge as wet winners

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on March 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Axel Marshall celebrates a title in the pole vault. (Elizabeth Bitting photo)

Saturday was time for the young guns to shine, even if the weather didn’t cooperate.

Coupeville High School track and field sent its freshmen and sophomores on the road, where they endured “nonstop rain all day” at the Stanwood Invitational.

Regardless of the weather, the Wolves held their own against much-bigger schools, claiming a win and 13 PR’s.

The victory came from CHS frosh Axel Marshall, who sailed above the crowd to claim top honors in the pole vault.

The Wolves also got 2nd place finishes from Lydia Price (3200), Carly Burt (Pole Vault) and a girls 4 x 100 relay team of Aleksia Jump, Lexis Drake, Burt, and Jasmine Castellanos.

Jasmine Castellanos is ready to rock. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Overall, Coupeville’s girls, repping a 2B school, earned 5th in the team standings, while the Wolf boys finished 6th.

Arlington, a 4A school, claimed both team titles.

As she tried to dry off on the trip home, CHS coach Elizabeth Bitting couldn’t contain her enthusiasm.

“These athletes did great, drenched and all,” she said. “We wanted to see what they could do without their junior and senior counterparts and boy did we learn a lot!

“They can run, jump and throw, fast, high and far!”

The meet did give Bitting and her fellow coaches a chance to ponder the future, as well.

“We realized we need to fill in a few areas,” she said. “Maybe some athletes might be courageous and try a new event?

“Regardless of what they compete in, we know they will give it their all and continue to improve, but hopefully Mother Nature will be more cooperative.”

The Wolves get to test out that theory next Thursday, Mar. 28, when the entire team is slated to travel to Mount Vernon for a Northwest 2B/1B League meet.

Aleksia Jump climbs high into the skies. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS — Freshmen:

200 — Jasmine Castellanos (5th) 31.74; Ivy Rudat (9th) 33.84

400 — I. Rudat (3rd) 1:18.24

1600 — Lydia Price (4th) 7:31.16; Kayla Crane (5th) 7:33.74

3200 — Price (2nd) 16:01.12

100 Hurdles — Myra McDonald (6th) 22.62; Lexis Drake (8th) 22.98

300 Hurdles — Drake (4th) 1:02.68; McDonald (5th) 1:03.63

Long Jump — I. Rudat (9th) 9-08.75

 

GIRLS — Sophomores:

400 — Reagan Callahan (9th) 1:22.22 *PR*; Frankie Tenore (10th) 1:24.90

1600 — Aleksia Jump (6th) 7:12.26 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Tenore (7th) 23.39 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — Jump, Drake, Burt, Castellanos (2nd) 1:00.65

4 x 200 Relay — Burt, Drake, Castellanos, McDonald (3rd) 2:08.97

4 x 400 Relay — Jump, Callahan, Price, Crane (3rd) 5:24.49

Pole Vault — Burt (2nd) 7-00; Jump (3rd) 6-00

 

BOYS — Freshmen:

100 — Davin Houston (10th) 13.20

400 — Solomon Rudat (9th) 1:07.56

800 — S. Rudat (3rd) 2:33.07 *PR*; Sam Richards (8th) 2:043.39 *PR*

1600 — Kenneth Jacobsen (4th) 5:38.55; Richards (8th) 6:59.42 *PR*

3200 — Axel Marshall (4th) 13:04.10 *PR*

Shot Put — Jacobsen (12th) 24-03 *PR*

High Jump — Houston (3rd) 5-02

Pole Vault — Marshall (1st) 8-06 *PR*

Long Jump — Houston (7th) 15-02; Marshall (10th) 13-04.75

 

BOYS — Sophomores:

100 — Matthew Kuzma (16th) 14.83

200 — Marquette Cunningham (7th) 26.00; Kuzma (14th) 28.44 *PR*

400 — Blake Burrows (8th) 1:01.51 *PR*

800 — Ezekiel Allen (8th) 2:32.90; George Spear (11th) 2:43.31

1600 — Allen (4th) 5:35.05 *PR*; Spear (6th) 5:42.28

3200 — Spear (8th) 11:53.05

4 x 100 Relay — Cunningham, Burrows, Kuzma, Houston (5th) 50.16

4 x 400 Relay — Jacobsen, Burrows, S. Rudat, Cunningham (4th) 4:08.39

Shot Put — Zachary Saho (10th) 26-08.25 *PR*

Discus — Jacob Schooley (5th) 79-00; Saho (11th) 58-09

Javelin — Saho (12th) 80-09

Long Jump — Burrows (5th) 15-03.50; Kuzma (8th) 13-11

Triple Jump — Cunningham (5th) 32-11.50

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Katie Marti is inevitable

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , , on March 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Katie Marti, the most entertaining athlete in high school sports. (Delanie Lewis photo)

She’s a one-person wrecking crew, just like grandpa.

Go back through the history of Coupeville High School sports, and Paul Messner’s name looms large, whether the sport under discussion is football or track and field.

Now, jump forward to 2023 and Wolf sophomore Katie Marti, having made the transition from softball to track, is pounding folks just like gramps did back in the day.

Saturday the scene of destruction was Bob Larson Stadium, host of the Stanwood Frosh/Soph Invitational.

Or, as they shall refer to it after this, the Katie Marti Just Kicked Your Fanny Invitational.

Winning the shot put, discus, and javelin, Christi Messner’s favorite daughter pulled off the trifecta, and accounted for three of Coupeville’s five wins on the day.

Fellow sophomores Monroe Myles (200) and Zac Tackett (discus) joined Marti atop the podium, while CHS athletes combined to rack up 18 PR’s.

Coupeville’s young guns bring back a trophy haul. (Bob Martin photo)

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 (Freshman) — Frankie Tenore (12th) 18.17

100 (Sophomore) — Monroe Myles (3rd) 14.67; Alysia Burdge (10th) 16.29

200 (Freshman) — Carly Burt (5th) 31.29 *PR*; Noelle Western (9th) 33.40 *PR*

200 (Sophomore) — Myles (1st) 29.25 *PR*; Lyla Stuurmans (3rd) 30.00

400 (Freshman) — Aleera Kent (2nd) 1:15.34; Tenore (8th) 1:27.93 *PR*

400 (Sophomore) — Stuurmans (2nd) 1:06.18; Ayden Wyman (5th) 1:12.34 *PR*

800 (Freshman) — Kent (4th) 2:50.79; Western (5th) 3:04.72

100 Hurdles (Freshman) — Tenore (3rd) 27.02

4 x 100 Relay (Freshman) — Burt, Tenore, Western, Kent (4th) 1:06.59

4 x 100 Relay (Sophomore) — Myles, Burdge, Wyman, Stuurmans (3rd) 57.71

Shot Put (Freshman) — Grier Mooney (2nd) 21-09.25

Shot Put (Sophomore) — Katie Marti (1st) 26-07.50

Discus (Freshman) — Mooney (5th) 57-01

Discus (Sophomore) — Marti (1st) 79-07 *PR*

Javelin (Sophomore) — Marti (1st) 93-02 *PR*; Burdge (7th) 62-05 *PR*

High Jump (Sophomore) — Stuurmans (4th) 4-02

Long Jump (Freshman) — Burt (3rd) 13-03

 

BOYS:

100 (Freshman) — Kris Sturtevant (12th) 14.02

100 (Sophomore) — Preston Epp (10th) 12.98

200 (Freshman) — Adrian Cunningham (9th) 27.05; Easton Green (14th) 28.58 *PR*; Sturtevant (15th) 28.85 *PR*

200 (Sophomore) — Epp (2nd) 25.30 *PR*; Cael Wilson (10th) 26.95 *PR*

800 (Freshman) — Ezra Boilek (8th) 2:28.00; Ezekiel Allen (10th) 2:38.18

1600 (Freshman) — Malachi Somes (4th) 5:18.29; George Spear (8th) 6:04.78; Allen (9th) 6:07.49

3200 (Freshman) — Somes (2nd) 11:04.49 *PR*; Spear (4th) 11:58.52 *PR*

110 Hurdles (Sophomore) — Wilson (5th) 20.04

300 Hurdles (Sophomore) — Wilson (4th) 49.32 *PR*

4 x 400 Relay (Freshman) — Green, Allen, Boilek, Cunningham (5th) 4:17.19

Shot Put (sophomore) — Zac Tackett (6th) 30-04; Nick Shelly (10th) 18-11

Discus (Sophomore) — Tackett (1st) 119-00; Shelly (15th) 68-02 *PR*

Javelin (Freshman) — Somes (5th) 94-00 *PR*; Boilek (6th) 91-04

High Jump (Sophomore) — Wilson (4th) 5-02

Long Jump (Freshman) — Green (5th) 13-03 *PR*; Sturtevant (6th) 12-09.50; Allen (7th) 12-05

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