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Let the spikes hit the floor!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged Cascade Christian, CHS Wolves, district playoffs, state, volleyball on November 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose and the Wolves host, and play in, the district tourney Saturday. (John Fisken photos)

“Our gym, our time!”

Welcome to volleyball’s version of Thunderdome.

Four teams enter, two emerge happy.

The stakes are high Saturday, as Coupeville High School hosts, and plays in, the 1A West Central District tourney.

Win two matches, while not losing more than one, and the Wolves are off to state for the first time since 2004.

Here’s some basic info as we sit a day away from the madness.

What: district volleyball playoffs.

When: Saturday, Nov. 5

Where: Coupeville High School and Middle School gyms.

There are two matches at 1:30 (one in each gym, which are part of the same complex, separated by a hallway), two more at 3:30 and one at 5:30 in the big gym.

CHS opens in the HS gym against Charles Wright Academy, while Cascade Christian and Klahowya play in the MS gym.

The two winners clash in the HS gym at 3:30, with the district title and a berth to state at stake.

Meanwhile, match #1 losers move to the MS gym for a loser-out battle.

The survivor of that bout returns to the HS gym at 5:30 to play the loser of the title tilt for the second, and final, berth to state.

Admission (good for all day):

$8 Adults/Non-ASB
$5 Students with ASB
$5 Sr. Citizens (62+)
$4 Elementary

Team capsules:

Coupeville:

Season record: 11-4

Vs. district foes: 2-1

Sets W/L: 36-18

Coach: Cory Whitmore

Mascot: Wolves

MaxPreps ranking: #25 in 1A

Cascade Christian:

Season record: 12-1

Vs. district foes: 2-1

Sets W/L: 37-10

Coach: Matt Cruzan

Mascot: Cougars

MaxPreps ranking: #9 in 1A

Charles Wright Academy:

Season record: 13-4

Vs. district foes: 1-1

Sets W/L: 44-18

Coach: Mindy McGrath

Mascot: Tarriers

MaxPreps ranking: #8 in 1A

Klahowya:

Season record: 8-7

Vs. district foes: 1-3

Sets W/L: 28-27

Coach: Kim Renken

Mascot: Eagles

MaxPreps ranking: #38 in 1A

To see the bracket, pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=2069&sport=10

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Once were giants!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Marc Aparicio, Ron Bagby, state, Timm Orsborn on August 27, 2016| 1 Comment »

Marc Aparicio, now the baseball coach at CHS, played on the ’87-’88 Wolf boys’ basketball team, the last one to make it to state. (John Fisken photo)

It has been 10,404 days since a Coupeville High School boys’ basketball team last played in the state tourney.

When the Wolf hoops squad exited the floor Thursday, Mar. 3, 1988, after taking a 77-46 loss to Bridgeport, it brought an end to one of the best seasons in program history.

And yet, now, 28 years, five months and 24 days later, it’s a team largely forgotten.

Which is a shame.

Even with the brand spanking new Wall of Fame which went up in the CHS gym this week, the ’87-’88 boys’ basketball players remain largely out of the spotlight, as they came a game short of sharing a league title.

Still, this was a team which went 17-2 in the regular season under coaches Ron Bagby, Sandy Roberts and Cec Stuurmans, undefeated in non-league play and 10-2 in Northwest B League action.

They split with La Conner, winning the second match-up in overtime, giving the eventual league champs (11-1), who finished 5th at state, their only league loss.

What killed Coupeville was an eight-point loss at mid-season to Friday Harbor, the third-best team in a seven-team league.

A very balanced squad — four Wolves (Timm Orsborn, Dan Nieder, Brad Brown and Joe Tessaro) averaged double figures — CHS split four games at Tri-Districts (which it hosted), then went 0-2 at state.

A 55-35 loss to NW Christian (Colbert), followed by their defeat at the hands of Bridgeport, sent the Wolves to the showers at 19-6.

Which stands with pretty much any boys basketball squad in school history.

The program has seven league titles, spread out from 1970 to 2002, one district title (1970), and is 2-10 in five trips to state.

While ’87-’88 can’t claim any of those eight titles, its win total is among the best single-season performances by a Wolf boys squad.

And, until a modern-day crew gets its act together, the players on that roster — Orsborn, Nieder, Brown, Tessaro, Chad Gale, Marc Aparicio, Morgan Roehl, Andrew Bird, Tom Conard, Tony Ford and Brandy Ambrose — stand as the last CHS boys hoops stars to punch a ticket to the Big Dance.

Going through boxes crammed full of random paperwork that were rescued from a back room in the CHS gym complex, I stumbled over a complete stats breakdown for ’87-’88.

In honor of their achievements back then, and their enduring legacy, let’s take a look, shall we?

The stats:

Player	GM	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	AST	TO	STL	PF	PTS	PPG

Gale	25	95		35	42	59	42	45	49	57	225	9.0
Brown	24	71	26	33	14	32	61	91	47	49	253	10.5
Nieder	24	102	14	65	35	72	91	84	58	70	311	13.0
Orsborn	25	138		71	91	142	28	44	39	65	347	13.9
Tessaro	25	114		32	103	127	14	54	24	79	260	10.4
Ford	15	35		10	38	31	8	21	10	26	80	5.3
Conard	23	30		4	15	32	21	36	18	18	64	2.8
Aparicio	25	22		4	16	30	18	47	22	30	48	1.9
Ambrose	13	2			2	9	5	15	6	12	4	0.3
Bird	12	2			3	4	2	7	1		4	0.3
Roehl	11	2			6	7	1	6	1		4	0.4
TOTALS	25	613	40	254	365	545	291	450	275	406	1600	64.0

And PS, Marc Aparicio, if you’re wondering where your letter certificate is for that year, it was buried in the back of a file cabinet.

You want it back, you know where I am.

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Prove me wrong (I dare you)!!

Posted in history, tagged CHS Wolves, history, Jeff Fielding, Natasha Bamberger, state, title boards on July 20, 2016| 1 Comment »

CHS state track champs (clockwise from top left) Jeff Fielding, Kyle King, Steven McDonald, Chris Hutchinson, Jon Chittim, Amy (Mouw) Fasolo, Tyler King, Natasha Bamberger.

This is actually going to happen.

After a lot of work, by a lot of people, the effort to install 116 years of Coupeville High School athletic history on the school’s gym walls is heading down the backstretch.

The research has been done (though, in a second I’m going to ask for your proofreading on that), the proper authorities have signed off on the idea, most of the fundraising is accomplished, and we meet with the sign guy Friday.

The plan has always been to have this installed prior to the start of the new school year in Sept., and it seems 99.2% likely at this point.

After years of having just a handful of banners hanging in the gym, the new installation aims to honor every league and district title won by Wolf teams, as well as individual state championships (there are 17) and top 10 team finishes at state.

That entails, as far as I have been able to determine, 112 title boards.

Originally, it was 109, but supporters of CHS cheer have made a solid argument that the program’s three top-four finishes at state (including a title in 2006) deserve to be on the wall as well.

And, before you say it, this is a SPORTS installation going up.

I am well aware the school has a strong run of accomplishments in History Day, band, Science Olympiad and the like.

Some of those are honored in other places at the school, and, to those who would like to see a more complete version, go get ’em.

I’m behind you, I support you, I would certainly write about your efforts and help drive your cause, but Indiana Jonesing 116 years of CHS sports history, on my own time, with no pay, has wiped me out.

The sports history was my crusade.

Someone else better suited to the task will have to take up the academic side of things, if that’s something you’re burning to get accomplished.

It can be done.

We’re proving that with this project, which has brought together the Whidbey newspapers (primarily Jim Waller and Keven R. Graves) with the pain in the ass blogger who you’re currently reading.

The Booster Club, bigwigs like Coupeville Schools Superintendent Dr. Jim Shank and CHS Principal Duane Baumann, and all the people who have donated money or offered research tips, are a huge part of this.

Of course, without the athletes who accomplished these feats, and the coaches who guided them, none of this would be possible in the first place.

When the display goes up, it’s all for us, Wolf Nation, near and far.

But now, as we head towards that meeting with the sign guy Friday, scan my list and see if you notice anything off. Did I miss a title somewhere in my bleary-eyed final days?

If so, let me know. You can reach me at davidsvien@hotmail.com.

And also, you can still chip in and help the fundraising efforts. Every buck counts, especially as we add cheer.

https://www.gofundme.com/2bzt6x76

Titles being honored:

BASEBALL:

1960 — Northwest League

1965 — Northwest League

1969 — Northwest League

1973 — Northwest League

1973 — District

1974 — Northwest League

1975 — Northwest League

1976 — Northwest League

1976 — District

1977 — Northwest League

1977 — District

1978 — District

1980 — Cascade League

1987 — District

1987 — 3rd at State

1991 — Northwest League

2008 — District

2016 — Olympic League

BOYS BASKETBALL:

1970 — Northwest League

1970 — District

1971 — Northwest League

1972 — Cascade League

1975 — Northwest League

1979 — Cascade League

1998 — Northwest League

2002 — Northwest League

BOYS TENNIS:

1961 — Northwest League

1967 — Northwest League

1968 — Northwest League

2002 — Northwest League

2009 — Northwest League

2009 — District

2010 — Northwest League

2011 — Northwest League

2015 — Olympic League

CHEER:

2006 — 1st at State

2007 — 2nd at State

2011 — 4th at State

CROSS COUNTRY:

1975 — Boys 9th at State

1976 — Boys 5th at State

1977 — Boys – Cascade League

1977 — Boys – District

1977 — Boys 5th at State

1981 — Girls 8th at State

1982 — Girls – Cascade League

1982 — Girls 4th at State

1985 — Natasha Bamberger – State Champ

2010 — Tyler King – State Champ

FOOTBALL:

1974 — Northwest League

1990 — Northwest League

GIRLS BASKETBALL:

1998 — Northwest League

2002 — Northwest League

2002 — 6th at State

2003 — 8th at State

2005 — Northwest League

2005 — 8th at State

2006 — Northwest League

2015 — Olympic League

2016 — Olympic League

GIRLS TENNIS:

1981 — Cascade League

1982 — Cascade League

1983 — Cascade League

1998 — Northwest League

1999 — Northwest League

2000 — Northwest League

2001 — Northwest League

2002 — Northwest League

2003 — Northwest League

2004 — Northwest League

2005 — Northwest League

2005 — 3rd at State

2008 — Northwest League

2009 — Northwest League

2010 — Northwest League

2011 — Northwest League

2012 — Northwest League

2015 — Olympic League

2016 — Olympic League

SOFTBALL:

2002 — Northwest League

2002 — 3rd at State

TRACK:

1979 — Jeff Fielding – State Champ (3200)

1979 — Boys 8th at State

1984 — Boys – Northwest League

1984 — Natasha Bamberger – State Champ (1600, 3200)

1984 — Girls 5th at State

1985 — Boys – District

1985 — Natasha Bamberger – State Champ (3200)

1986 — Natasha Bamberger – State Champ (3200)

1986 — Boys – 6th at State

1986 — Girls – 8th at State

1987 — Boys – Northwest League

1987 — Boys – District

1989 — Girls – Northwest League

1989 — Girls – District

2003 — Amy Mouw – State Champ (800)

2005 — Boys – Bi-District

2005 — Boys – 8th at State

2006 — Boys – Bi-District

2006 — Jon Chittim – State Champ (200, 400)

2006 — Kyle King – State Champ (3200)

2006 — Boys 4 x 400 – State Champ (Chris Hutchinson, Jon Chittim, Kyle King, Steven McDonald)

2006 — Boys – 4th at State

2007 — Kyle King – State Champ (1600, 3200)

2008 — Kyle King – State Champ (3200)

2008 — Boys – 4th at State

2010 — Tyler King – State Champ (1600, 3200)

2010 — Boys — 6th at State

2011 — Boys – 7th at State

VOLLEYBALL:

1997 — Northwest League

2001 — Northwest League

2002 — Tri-District

2002 — District

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Top of the mountain!!

Posted in Hall o' Fame, tagged 2002, Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby, CHS Wolves, Hall of Fame, Sarah Mouw, Softball, state on July 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »

The 2002 Coupeville HS softball squad, which won four of five at state. For a list of who’s who, head to the bottom of this article. (Photo courtesy Jim Wheat)

They were trailblazers who shocked the world.

Today, as we celebrate our 54th induction ceremony for the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame, we honor a team which reached peaks never seen before, or since, at Coupeville High School.

So, let’s open these hallowed digital walls and welcome, finally (I needed a roster and a pic and it took some digging), the 2002 CHS softball squad.

After this, you’ll find them enshrined together, as a team, at the top of the blog, under the Legends tab.

And frankly, that’s what they are — legends.

Coupeville High School has 17 individual state titles thanks to cross country and track, but has yet to reach the top of the mountain in a team sport.

No team came closer than the 2002 softball sluggers.

They are one of three Wolf teams to have brought home a 3rd place state trophy, but their feat tops, at least a bit, what those other two teams accomplished.

The 2005 Wolf girls’ tennis team rode one hot doubles team to their trophy in a sport with extremely quirky scoring, while the 1987 CHS baseball team played through an easier format than the softball sluggers.

When Coupeville took the field at state in 2002, having reached the big dance in the school’s very first year of playing fast-pitch softball, the Wolves had to win four straight to win a title.

And they almost did, falling only to eventual champ Adna in their third game.

Rebounding with back-to-back wins to close the tourney, CHS exited with four wins in five games, the most victories achieved in a single state tourney by any Wolf team, in any sport.

Coupeville outscored their foes 28-13, beating Cle Elum-Rosalyn (8-0), Royal (3-2), Okanogan (6-1) and Napavine (11-6) behind the leadership of Sarah Mouw and Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby.

The lone loss, a 4-0 defeat to Adna, a school which has won nine state titles on the softball diamond, was even closer than the score might indicate.

While they may not have gotten the big trophy, those Wolves loom large in CHS history, even now as most of those players break through into their early 30s.

“Without a doubt the best group of coachable athletes I’ve ever worked with,” said Jim Wheat, an assistant coach on that squad who now trains umpires when he’s not calling games himself.

They could hit, for power and precision. They were slick-fielding. They ran the base-paths with authority. They were beasts in the pitcher’s circle.

Mouw was the league co-MVP, going 22-2 as a pitcher on a team which finished 24-3.

She also led the Wolves in hitting, doubles, triples, home runs and RBI.

Backing her up were fellow First-Team All-League players Erica Lamb and Ellsworth-Bagby (a four-time pick) and Second-Team selections Lindsey Tucker and Tracy Taylor.

Along with their teammates they are, arguably, the most successful sports team in the 116-year history of the school, and 99% of that argument is set in stone.

This much we know for 100% — today, 14 years after they made their run, we bring them back together again (at least on the internet.)

Instead of listing them alphabetically, we’re going to put them in the order they appear in the team photo above.

The guy with the #1 is a random WIAA official, but the ones who go in the Hall together, as a team:

2 — Kim Meche
3 — Kristin Gwartney
4 — Erica Lamb
5 — Randy Dickson (head coach)
6 — Sarah Mouw
7 — Tracy Taylor
8 — Jim Wheat
9 — Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby
10 — Laura Crandall
11 — Heather Davis
12 — Angel Black
13 — Andrea Larson
14 — Tara Guillory
15 — Ashley Ginnetti
16 — Samantha Roehl
17 — Caitlin Harada
18 — Carly Guillory
19 — Brooke Croghan
20 — Christine Larson
21 — Lindsey Tucker

Plus, they’re not in the photo, but Bruce Berg and Dale Folkestad.

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Cheney, prepare for a Wolf invasion!!

Posted in Track, tagged 1A, CHS Wolves, Lauren Grove, state, track and field on May 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf junior Lauren Grove is Cheney-bound in three events.

Wolf moms (l to r) Dawnelle Conlisk, Deb Smith, Mindy Grove and Barbi Ford bask in the glow of a freshly spray-painted rock.

Cheney, the Wolves are inbound.

They have to take a bus.

After several years of getting away with sending a van to the state track and field meet, Coupeville High School qualified so many athletes this year it had to upgrade.

The season finale, which brings the best in 1A, 2B and 1B to “Heatstroke City,” AKA Cheney, Washington, kicks off Thursday afternoon, then continues in full-force through Friday and Saturday.

The pictures above, which come to us from a number of Wolf moms, help build the anticipation.

Now, let the butt-whuppin’ commence.

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