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Stuurmans sparkles on big stage

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , , on May 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf ace Tenley Stuurmans has been to state twice in three years. (Shannon Leatherwood photo)

Another step on the path to the big prize.

As a precocious 8th grader, Coupeville netter Tenley Stuurmans stormed all the way to the 2B/1B girls’ tennis state tournament, putting up a strong fight while losing both of her matches to hardened veterans.

Now, as a sophomore, the Wolf ace returned to the Yakima Tennis Club and made it to day #2 of the championships before being eliminated.

After splitting a pair of matches Friday — being narrowly edged in a three-hour three-set rumble before thrashing a rival from Okanogan — Stuurmans was one win away from medaling entering play Saturday.

That would have put her in rarified company with Cousin Payton Aparicio, who teamed with fellow senior Sage Renninger to place 4th in doubles at the 2018 state tourney.

But, despite roaring out to a 3-0 lead in the opening set, Stuurmans was eventually nipped 6-4, 6-3 by old pro Natalie Richardson of La Salle, who placed 3rd in 2025.

Richardson will play Avery Boswell of Freeman, who beat Kayden Koth of Manson 6-0, 6-4, in the 3rd/4th place match, while Gursmir Sahota of Jenkins (Chewelah) and Anika Love of Forest Ridge will vie for the title.

Stuurmans, a three-sport star for the Wolves, has two years left to make more memories on the volleyball court, basketball hardwood, and tennis court.

The journey continues. (Sarah Stuurmans photo)

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Net aces battle at big dance

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , , on May 22, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Dahlia Miller blasts a shot during early-season play. (Jackie Saia photo)

The medal hunt continues.

Coupeville High School sophomore Tenley Stuurmans split a pair of matches Friday at the 2B/1B state girls’ tennis championships and will return to the Yakima Tennis Club Saturday with a chance to finish in the top four in singles.

Meanwhile, her teammates, seniors Dahlia Miller and Aleksia Jump, waged a strong fight in the doubles competition but were eliminated after losing twice.

Stuurmans, who also made it to Yakima as an 8th grader, opened play Friday with a full-tilt, three-hour war against state tourney vet Kayden Koth of Manson.

While the other three first-round singles matches were decided in straight sets, their rumble went to the limit, before the Eastern Washington senior pulled out a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 victory.

Koth fell 6-0, 6-0 in the semifinals to two-time state runner-up Gursmir Sahota of Jenkins (Chewelah), but Stuurmans bounced back in her own match, thrashing Logan Bordner of Okanogan 6-2, 6-1 to claim her first state win.

Tenley Stuurmans advances to day #2. (Photo courtesy Sarah Stuurmans)

Gursmir Sahota, who lost to big sis Avi in the championship match in both 2024 and 2025, will play freshman Anika Love of Forest Ridge for the title Saturday.

Love beat Stuurmans earlier this month to claim the District 1/2 title.

Coupeville’s ace faces Natalie Richardson of La Salle, last year’s 3rd place finisher, in another loser-out bout to open Saturday, while Koth will square off against Avery Boswell of Freeman.

The winners of those matches advance to the 3rd/4th place match.

Aleksia Jump moves in for the kill. (Jackie Saia photo)

Miller and Jump, who are in their first year as a doubles team, opened their state tourney experience with a spirited 6-3, 6-1 loss to Jacqueline Benitez and Sarai Romero of Granger.

The Wolf duo then wrapped their hardcourt run against Cora Grooms and Emily Howder of Jenkins (Chewelah), falling 6-0, 6-1.

The other doubles tandem from District 1/2 was comprised of Friday Harbor siblings Hazel and Norah Leighton.

The siblings lost 6-0, 6-0 to Kara McMillan and Zephyr Woras of Liberty Bell and 6-3, 6-3 to Emmalee Doughty and Marisa Dahl of Newport.

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More medals, more memories

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 31, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Katie Marti celebrates the newest addition to her trophy case. (Christi Messner photo)

They picked up some more mementos.

Capping three days in warm, windy Yakima, the Coupeville High School track and field team earned medals in four more events Saturday at the 2B state championships.

Both Wolf boys relay teams ran in finals, while shot putter Katie Marti and 800-meter runner Carson Field also medaled.

Marquette Cunningham focuses inward in the moments before everything gets really loud. (Elizabeth Bitting photo)

Overall, nine different CHS athletes are bringing at least one medal home with them this season, with senior Cael Wilson topping things with three, including a 2nd place finish Friday in the high jump.

He finishes his run in the red and black with five state medals, tying him with older brother Aidan.

The siblings account for two of the 13 Wolves to collect five or more medals in the modern era of state meets, which kicked off back in 1963.

The other eight Coupeville medalists in 2025 all collected their first one — or first and second in the case of relay aces Preston Epp and Chase Anderson.

That puts CHS track and field on the edge of cracking triple digits next spring, with 99 Wolves having earned at least one medal over the last 62 years.

The Wolves bask under the blue skies of Yakima. (Photo courtesy Bob Martin)

This season, eight of the nine medalists were boys, with that squad finishing 10th in the team standings.

The Wolves tallied 24.50 points, with Freeman edging Saint George’s 75-60 to take the crown.

Coupeville’s fellow Northwest 2B/1B League mates, Mount Vernon Christian (9) and Orcas Island (6.50) claimed 21st and 25th, respectively.

On the girls’ side, Marti picked up two points for her work in the shot put, placing CHS in a tie for 35th with NWL rival Orcas Island.

Saint George’s cruised to a team title, crushing runner-up Freeman 103-66.50.

NWL squad La Conner claimed 4th with 43 points, while Mount Vernon Christian (18) and Friday Harbor (17) were 14th and 15th.

Sophomore Kenneth Jacobsen has run in state meets for both track and cross country. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

Shot Put (Finals) — Katie Marti (7th) 34-09 *PR*

Javelin (Finals) — Marti (15th) 95-00

 

BOYS:

800 (Finals) — Carson Field (8th) 2:08.73

3200 (Finals) — Kenneth Jacobsen (15th) 14:53.61; Field (16th) 15:11.96

4 x 100 Relay (Finals) — Marquette Cunningham, Davin Houston, Preston Epp, Chase Anderson (6th) 44.75

4 x 400 Relay (Finals) — Anderson, Blake Burrows, Cael Wilson, Epp (5th) 3:35.60

 

After moving over from baseball, Chase Anderson had a strong first season in track. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

Coupeville’s 2025 state meet medalists:

 

Chase Anderson:

4 x 100 Relay — 6th
4 x 400 Relay — 5th

 

Blake Burrows:

4 x 400 Relay — 5th

 

Marquette Cunningham:

4 x 100 Relay — 6th

 

Preston Epp:

4 x 100 Relay — 6th
4 x 400 Relay — 5th

 

Wyatt Fitch-Marron:

High Jump — 7th

 

Davin Houston:

4 x 100 Relay — 6th

 

Katie Marti:

Shot Put – 7th

 

Matthew Ward:

Triple Jump — 5th

 

Cael Wilson:

High Jump – 2nd
Pole Vault – 6th
4 x 400 Relay – 5th

On to next season for Wolf coach Elizabeth Bitting! (Jackie Saia photo)

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Record tied, medals collected

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Cael Wilson tied the CHS record in the high jump Friday at the state meet. (Photo courtesy Bob Martin)

It took them a quarter-century, but they finally caught him.

Coupeville High School senior Cael Wilson soared through the Yakima heat Friday at the 2B state track and field championships, tying a school record in the high jump which has lasted 25 years.

The mark of six feet, four inches was set in 2000 by Rich Wilson (no relation), and it’s remained on the Wolf record board untouched since that point.

Until Friday.

Now, after Cael Wilson earned second place in the event, edged out by Trenton Sandburn of Freeman, there will be two Wilsons sharing the CHS record.

It was a dynamic performance by the current Wolf ace, who was joined by Coupeville freshman Wyatt Fitch-Marron, who also medaled, placing 7th in the event.

Ultimately though, no one was catching Sandburn, who hit 6-07 but couldn’t get over the bar in his attempt to break the 2B state record of 6-09, set by Bob Swannack of St. John-Endicott in 1989.

After strong work in the prelims, Chase Anderson (left) and Preston Epp will run in two relay finals. (Jackie Saia photo)

It was a two-medal day for Cael Wilson and will be a three-medal meet by the time he’s done.

He followed up the high jump performance by claiming 6th in the pole vault and also ran a leg on a 4 x 400 relay squad which clinched a medal by advancing to Saturday’s eight-team final.

Barring a plot twist which keeps him from participating in the relay, Cael Wilson will finish his CHS career with five state meet medals, tying older brother Aidan.

He will be the ninth Wolf boy, and 13th Coupeville track star overall since 1963 to collect five or more medals.

Saturday’s finale will feature Coupeville athletes competing in six events, with medals guaranteed in three.

The Wolves have top-eight slots locked down in the boys 800, as well as both boys relay races.

Katie Marti is also slated to vie in the shot put and javelin, while Carson Field and Kenneth Jacobsen will run in the 3200, with all three of those events featuring full 16-athlete fields.

Coupeville’s boys, with four medals in the bag through two days, sit in third place in the 2B team standings with six of 17 events scored.

Onalaska leads the way with 28 points, followed by Saint George’s (19), the Wolves (16.50), Reardan (16), and Northwest Christian (Colbert) rounding out the top five with 15 points.

 

Friday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

800 (Prelims) — Lyla Stuurmans (14th) 2:34.03

Discus (Finals) — Katie Marti (13th) 93-09

Katie Marti (left) and Lyla Stuurmans flank Matthew Ward, who earned a medal in the triple jump Thursday. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

BOYS:

400 (Prelims) — Preston Epp (11th) 52.15 *PR*

800 (Prelims) — Carson Field (5th) 2:02.46

4 x 100 Relay (Prelims) — Marquette Cunningham, Davin Houston, Epp, Chase Anderson (7th) 44.43

4 x 400 Relay (Prelims) — Anderson, Blake Burrows, Cael Wilson, Epp (5th) 3:31.53

High Jump (Finals) — Wilson (2nd) 6-04 *PR* *SCHOOL RECORD*; Wyatt Fitch-Marron (7th) 5-10

Pole Vault (Finals) — Wilson (6th) 11-06

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Ward soars in state meet debut

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , , on May 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Lyla Stuurmans hits her stride in an earlier race. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Welcome to the big time, Matthew Ward.

The Coupeville High School senior made his debut Thursday at the 2B state track and field championships in Yakima and had an immediate impact.

Shattering his PR in the triple jump by a foot-and-a-half, Ward earned 5th place in his final run in the red and black.

He becomes the 91st CHS athlete to bring a medal home in the modern era of state track meets, which runs from 1963-2025.

Ward was a solid jumper all year, with his previous best being 40 feet, two inches at the district meet, but he saved his best (41-07.50) for the final weekend of the season.

The four points he earned for his performance has Coupeville sitting in 8th place in the 2B boys team standings after day one.

Toledo leads with 13 points with two of 17 events complete.

Matthew Ward is bringing home a state meet medal. (Photo courtesy Jandellyn Ward)

Ward was one of five Wolves to compete Thursday as the three-day meet kicked off with a handful of events.

Lyla Stuurmans, Malachi Somes, and Carson Field ran in the 1600 finals, while Chase Anderson vied in the prelims for the 100, but failed to advance to Saturday’s eight-man finale.

Coupeville has a busy schedule Friday as the state meet runs all day.

The Wolves are slated to compete in nine events, including finals in the girl’s discus, as well as the boys high jump, pole vault, and long jump.

 

Thursday results:

 

GIRLS:

1600 (Finals) — Lyla Stuurmans (14th) 5:48.66 *PR*

 

BOYS:

100 (Prelims) — Chase Anderson (21st) 11.59

1600 (Finals) — Carson Field (11th) 4:43.15; Malachi Somes (17th) 4:55.76

Triple Jump — Matthew Ward (5th) 41-07.50 *PR*

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