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They shoot! You pay! Everyone scores!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, David King, free throws, fundraiser, Wynter Thorne on December 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wynter Thorne knocked down 26 straight shots two seasons ago, winning Coupeville’s last free throw shooting contest. (John Fisken photo)

Who’s the new Wynter Thorne?

The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball squad is reviving its free throw shoot-a-thon fundraiser, and all the current Wolves are chasing her legacy.

In the event, which runs the week starting Dec. 26, each Wolf player, varsity and JV, will shoot 100 free throws.

Players are busy hitting up family, friends, fans and strangers alike, seeking either a flat donation or a pledge to pay a certain amount per made shot.

The money raised helps replenish team funds, allowing for purchase of new equipment and travel to events like the Friday Harbor Tip-Off Classic.

With its focus on improving free throw shooting, always a key component to a successful hoops squad, it’s also a teaching tool hidden inside a fun team-wide competition.

The last time the Wolves held this fundraiser was two seasons back.

Thorne, then a senior, torched the nets, hitting 26 consecutive shots at one point.

She finished at 78-100, edging Kacie Kiel (76) and Makana Stone (75) for the title.

If you’re interested in donating or pledging and don’t have access to a current player, you can do so by reaching out to CHS coach David King at dking@coupeville.k12.wa.us.

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Best season for Wolf fans? Wynter!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Girls Tennis, Happy birthday, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Happy birthday, tennis, Wynter Thorne on August 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wynter Thorne: Many photos, one star.

Wynter is going.

The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball and tennis teams (and photographers everywhere) will have a huge hole to fill with the departure of Wynter Thorne.

The camera-friendly whiz kid, who celebrates a birthday today, is off to Western Washington University and new adventures.

She’ll leave an enduring legacy behind her, though.

Along with McKenzie Bailey, Wynter was one of just two Wolves to play for both the CHS varsity netters and hoops squad in 2014-2015, the year those programs shattered a 13-year school-wide cold streak by winning 1A Olympic League titles.

Miss Thorne was at the heart of both teams, a gritty, hard-charging whirlwind who never backed down in the middle of a brawl.

Not that she didn’t enjoy her down time, however, as she was one of the most reliable go-to Wolves when it came to pre-game and post-game photo shoots.

Smile beaming, generally in the direction of a teammate like Kacie Kiel or Julia Myers, Wynter was a young woman who seemed to enjoy every moment she had as a high school athlete.

Her fans, and they are a far larger crowd than she might realize, appreciated her, as a scrappy, can-do fighter and as a serene off-court presence.

But, you have to let them all go at some point, so from all of us out there, Happy birthday Wynter, thank you and may your journey just get better and better the farther you go.

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Speak to me, people!!

Posted in Hall o' Fame, tagged CHS Wolves, Hall of Fame, nominations, opinions, self promotion, Wynter Thorne on July 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Be like Wynter Thorne and focus on the best of Coupeville sports. (John Fisken photo)

There has never been a better time to harass me.

Seriously.

I want your emails. Your chiding, cajoling and impassioned smacks (metaphorically at least) on the back of my head.

Each Sunday for the past four weeks I have inducted a class into the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame (take a gander at the Legends tab at the top of the blog to see who’s in so far), and only one vote counts when I make my weekly decision.

That would be mine. It’s a dictatorship.

But, and it’s a big but, I do want and need your input.

I’ve covered sports on Whidbey Island for 25 years and have a fairly decent handle on Coupeville-related sporting activities.

Doesn’t mean I know everything (or even anything), though.

I need you, my readers, to put some thought into who and what you would like to see immortalized in these hallowed digital walls.

There are six categories — Female Athlete, Male Athlete, Coach, Contributor, Team and Moment.

There has to be some connection to Coupeville — I’m not covering Renton here — but, other than that small rule, I am fully willing to listen to wherever your brain goes.

You can nominate anyone and anything. Go back to the 1920s or just yesterday.

Be shameless if you want. Nominate yourself.

If you’re proud of what you’ve accomplished and make a compelling argument, I’ll consider it. And I won’t even tell anyone you nominated yourself.

The Hall o’ Fame, like all of Coupeville Sports, lives and dies as a community thing.

I’m the guy who is pulling it all together, but I can’t do what I do without a lot of help.

I have a general idea of where I’m going with the Hall o’ Fame, a list of potential honorees, but I am super-flexible and waiting to be guided by the wisdom of Wolf Nation.

So, let’s see some action, folks.

Email me at davidsvien@hotmail.com. Message me on Facebook.

Corner me at the grocery store or, once a new school year starts, at one of the many high school or middle school games.

The ball is in your court. Talk to me.

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Buy another banner!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, McKenzie Bailey, tennis, Valen Trujillo, Wynter Thorne on May 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »

McKenzie Bailey, a force on the tennis and basketball courts. (John Fisken photos)

Wynter Thorne: The smile of a two-time league champ.

Precious few were in attendance for history.

With a busy day of sports (softball and boys’ soccer were playing at home as well) Monday, only a handful of fans were around to witness the Coupeville High School girls’ tennis team storm to a league title.

Crushing visiting Chimacum 6-1, the Wolves won their ninth straight match, improved to 10-3 overall, 5-0 in Olympic League play and won the inaugural championship banner in the first-year 1A league.

Sparking them to the victory were the duo of Wynter Thorne and McKenzie Bailey, who are the only Wolves to play on both of Coupeville’s league champs this school year.

Thorne, a senior who won at #3 singles, and Bailey, a junior who teamed with Sydney Autio to win at #2 doubles, also played for the school’s girls’ basketball team, which went 9-0 in league play.

Complete results from Senior Day:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Jacki Ginnings beat Laura De Michelli 6-3, 4-6, 10-6

“It was classic Jacki,” said Wolf coach Ken Stange. “It took forever, but she outlasted her opponent. The win pushed her individual record to 11-5.”

2nd Singles — Valen Trujillo beat Sophia Thurston 6-0, 6-0

“Double bagel. Enough said.”

3rd Singles — Wynter Thorne beat Amelia Breithaupt 6-3, 6-3

“Wynter had to work for it, but she used her deep shots and experience to put her foe in uncomfortable positions.”

1st Doubles — Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger lost to Sarah Allen/Ray Maki 6-1, 6-3

“Going against the best team in the league, our ninth graders put up a solid fight, making the second set interesting.

“The score doesn’t show how exciting the match was. There were many hotly contested points.”

2nd Doubles — McKenzie Bailey/Sydney Autio beat Amy Plastow/Rachel Smith 6-1, 6-1

“Sydney and McKenzie are a couple of powerful players. They flat-out overwhelmed their opponents.”

3rd Doubles — Micky LeVine/Ana Luvera beat Tessa Rasmussen/Jordyn Johnson 6-0, 6-1

“Watching them warm up, I thought this match could be on and off the court in half an hour. It took 35 minutes.”

4th Doubles — Haleigh Deasy/Ivy Luvera beat Chloe Patterson/Juliet Alban Vallett 6-1, 6-1

“This was another quick match, lasting about 40 minutes.”

JV:

Bree Daigneault/Mckenzie Meyer beat Emily Calkins/Christina Bell 8-3

Hanna Seiffert/Kenzi LaRue beat Marley Music/Brianne Williamson 8-2

Maggie Crimmins/Kameryn St. Onge trailed Breithaupt/Maki 4-1 (rain)

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Cardiac kids win a stunner!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged cardiac kids, CHS Wolves, Comeback, Jacki Ginnings, tennis, Wynter Thorne on April 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wonder Twins win! Both Ana and Ivy Luvera came out victors Wednesday. (John Fisken photo)

Call ’em the comeback kids.

Storming back all day long Wednesday, the Coupeville High School girls’ tennis team pulled off a 5-2 stunner over visiting Granite Falls to avenge an earlier season loss.

The victory, the team’s fourth straight, lifted the Wolves to 5-3 and, coming on the heels of a win over South Whidbey, was the second time CHS got payback after taking a defeat this season.

Not that it came easily, despite what the score might sound like.

Granite Falls actually took the first two matches completed and had the edge in numerous other contests as Wolf coach Ken Stange chewed his fingernails down to the quick.

Four of the five wins came from Wolves who trailed in their matches, and the team-wide comeback sparked Stange to go against conventional wisdom and give Player of the Match honors to his entire roster.

“One of the wildest tennis matches I’ve ever witnessed,” Stange said. “The victory was not secured until we pulled wins three and four off, within seconds of each other.

“It seemed that the odds were stacked against us today,” he added. “The seven matches unfolded in an exciting way, creating a tense atmosphere for anyone who was aware of the team score!”

After losses at #1 and #2 doubles, Coupeville rebounded with wins at #1 and #2 singles.

Wynter Thorne, filling in for Valen Trujillo at #2, dropped the first set in her match, then threw down a beat-down in the second and escaped with yet another tiebreaker win in the third.

“Her opponent was pesky and kept getting to everything. She didn’t hit too hard, but she was painting the lines,” Stange said. “Wynter steeled her focus and footwork and had just enough to edge past her foe.”

Playing alongside Thorne, top singles ace Jacki Ginnings gutted out an equally hard-fought win to give the Wolves new life, and her teammates responded with victories of their own.

The match was only decided when the final two doubles duos (Sydney Autio/Micky LeVine and Ivy Luvera/Mckenzie Meyer) pulled out third-set triumphs almost at the very same moment in time.

“Wow. I felt a whole array of feelings during today’s match,” Stange said.

Complete results:

Varsity:

#1 Singles — Jacki Ginnings beat Laura Gilbertson 6-4, 7-6(7-5)

#2 Singles — Wynter Thorne beat Emma Loney 5-7, 6-2, 10-8

#3 Singles — Ana Luvera beat Laura Rachal 6-2, 6-4

#1 Doubles — Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger lost to Haley Arndt/Katelyn Gresli 6-3, 6-4

#2 Doubles — McKenzie Bailey/Jazmine Franklin lost to Annie Hart/Mckenzie Meyer 6-3, 6-1

#3 Doubles — Sydney Autio/Micky LeVine beat Holly Curry/Brynne Mota-Soriano 6-3, 7-5

#4 Doubles — Ivy Luvera/Mckenzie Meyer beat Shelby Beehler/Danielle Coleman 6-3, 3-6, 10-8

JV:

#5 Doubles — Bree Daigneault/Haleigh Deasy beat Allison Middleton/Feliciana Montes de Oca 9-7