Tim Ursu is ready for the challenge. (Photo courtesy Ashleigh Casey)
As one Wolf leaves Cheney, another appears.
Coupeville grad Mica Shipley is about to wrap her run as an NCAA D-I cheerleader at Eastern Washington University, but fellow CHS alum Tim Ursu is joining Eagle Nation.
The former Wolf Male Athlete of the Year, a two-sport standout during his time in Cow Town, has made the first cut for the EWU football team as a walk-on.
Ursu confirmed Wednesday he will be part of the Eagle squad for spring ball, and his performance there will determine if he advances to summer and fall camps.
“I still have to perform well, which I will,” he said with his normal quiet, understated confidence.
Can’t catch him, can’t stop him. (Helen Strelow photo)
One of the hardest-working athletes to wear Coupeville’s red and black, Ursu is very much cut from the same cloth as the man he follows into D-I football.
That’s fellow safety Sean Toomey-Stout, who played several seasons at the University of Washington before taking a medical retirement this past season.
Ursu was a star football and track and field athlete during his time in Coupeville.
He played both ways on the gridiron, scoring 12 touchdowns as a senior while helping lead the Wolves to their first league title and trip to the state playoffs in three-decades plus.
While doing so, Ursu led the Wolves in receiving, was a solid third option on running plays, was the team’s primary kick returner, and was lights out on defense.
Playing in the backfield, he covered the entire gridiron, picking off passes, while also finishing the season as Coupeville’s #2 tackler.
Across two seasons of track, Ursu competed in eight different events, vying as a sprinter, a relay ace, a jumper, and a thrower.
His best work came in the 4 x 100, where he was part of a quartet which finished second at state while competing in stormy weather at the same EWU complex he’ll once again call home.
Ursu rocks the striped shorts in his time as an award-worthy relay runner. (Elizabeth Bitting photo)
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