JV players listen intently to Wolf coach David King during a timeout. (Amy King photos)
Each group of players have marked their room this week.
Still standing (even if some of them are sitting).
Senior Kailey Kellner (left) leads her group as they work on a basketball crossword during a team competition.
The Big, Bad Wolves get extra credit for their animal-drawing skills.
King takes his pep talk outside, proving the sun still shines outside the gym.
The team’s extremely snazzy camp t-shirt.
Pray for David King.
The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball coach is down in Ocean Shores for four days, one lone man adrift in a sea of 20 women.
Wife/assistant coach/team photographer Amy King and 19 Wolf hoops stars are his companions, as Coupeville takes part in their annual summer hoops camp.
Long hours are the norm, with Coupeville playing between 16-18 games this year.
Having an unusually large number of players making the commitment this time, the surging Wolves, two-time defending 1A Olympic League champs, are fielding both a varsity and JV squad.
Each team opened with two games Monday, another three Tuesday, play twice Wednesday (with some time set aside to hit the beach) and then close Thursday with at least one and possibly two more games.
With tons of teams in play, the earliest start time has been 7 AM, and the latest midnight, though (so far) the Wolves have not gone earlier than 8 AM or later than 10 PM.
Toss in injuries — two CHS players have gone down, one after having her head landed on, another with a tweaked finger, though both were able to return later — and the coaches are busy bees.
“It’s long days,” said David King,who plans to sleep for a month upon returning home. “Other than that, we are all surviving.”
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