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Lone Wolf swimmer preps for busy postseason

Posted in Swim, tagged backstroke, CHS Wolves, district meet, Finn Price, swim on January 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Finn Price is enjoying a stellar swim season. (Katie Marti photo)

He’s on a tear.

Coupeville High School junior Finn Price, the school’s lone swimmer once again this winter, continues to tap the wall at a torrid pace.

So far, he’s qualified for districts in every event he’s swam this season.

After hitting the necessary mark in the 100 backstroke recently, Price added that to his previous qualifications in the 50, 100, 200, and 500 free, as well as the 200 medley and 100 breaststroke.

He has also swum a state meet-qualifying time in the medley relay, where he teamed up with athletes from South Whidbey High School.

Since neither CHS or SWHS has a swim program, Price and the Falcons train, travel, and compete with Kamiak during the regular season, before going their own way for the postseason.

The Lone Wolf prepares to enter the water. (Rachel Price-Rayner photo)

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Lone Wolf rules the pool

Posted in Swim, tagged CHS Wolves, Finn Price, Kentridge Invitational, King County Aquatic Center, swim on January 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Finn Price, seen here last winter, continues to churn through the water as a one-man Wolf wrecking crew. (Jackie Saia photo)

The lone Wolf sliced through the water in the big city.

Visiting the King County Aquatic Center Saturday, with a sturdy support crew on hand to root for him, Coupeville High School junior Finn Price competed at the Kentridge Invitational.

The only CHS male swimmer to brave the pool once again, he trains and travels with South Whidbey competitors, and the group jumps to the mainland on a regular basis to work with Kamiak High School, which sits in Mukilteo.

Saturday Price earned points for Coupeville with his performance in the 200 free, where he tapped the wall in one minute, 54.46 seconds.

He also churned through the underwater world to claim a 52.19 performance in the 100 free.

Kamiak’s swim schedule is chock full of meets through Jan. 30, and then the Knights and their Falcon and Wolf companions head to the postseason.

While Coupeville is a 2B school, Price’s playoff path goes through the 2A classification, and he’ll be looking to return to the state meet, where he won the consolation finals in the 200 free as a sophomore.

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New challenges, new triumphs

Posted in Wrestling, tagged OHHS Wildcats, Riley White, ROTC, swim, wrestling on December 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Riley White (top) won by pin in her first high school wrestling match. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

A former Wolf has found her groove as a Wildcat.

Riley White, an eternal ball of energy, transferred from Coupeville High School to my alma mater – Oak Harbor – for the last trimester last year.

This time around, now that her body has accepted purple and gold being used on uniforms, she’s picked up several sports not offered at her former school.

White, previously a standout ballet dancer, swam in the fall — making it to state as an alternate for a relay team — and is now wrestling as winter kicks off.

She also has earned a slot on the Wildcat ROTC marksmanship team.

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Wolf swimmer rules the pool

Posted in Swim, tagged Alexadra Lo, Amber Craven, CHS Wolves, OHHS Wildcats, swim on October 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

CHS freshman Alexandra Lo zips through the water. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

There’s a second Wolf in the water.

Coupeville High School swim ace Finn Price has spent the past two seasons training and traveling with South Whidbey and Kamiak, as CHS doesn’t have its own pool program.

Now, Wolf freshman Alexandra Lo is making the journey up to Oak Harbor, where she competes as a Wolf while sharing the water at the John Vanderzicht Pool with the Wildcats.

A veteran of the chlorine world from a three-year run with the North Whidbey Aquatic Club, Lo has been swimming in events such as freestyle, medley, and breaststroke.

After the high school seasons wraps, she’ll hop right back in the pool and rejoin her NWAC teammates.

Alexandra Lo, whose older sister Elizabeth is the CHS cheer manager this fall, previously ran cross country in middle school, where she earned the Cascade League’s first-ever sportsmanship award as a 7th grader.