First, the Coupeville High School girls basketball team dominated the Olympic League, then it dominated the selections for all-conference honors.
The Coupeville High School gymnasium is filled with the sweat and intense competition of prep basketball on Friday nights. On Saturday mornings, that effort and emotion change to the fun-loving play and the smiles of youth basketball.
The Coupeville High School girls basketball team’s season ran out of steam when it ran out of players in a 50-44 overtime loss to 10th-ranked Seattle Christian in the District 3 1A tournament Wednesday, Feb. 18.
For the Coupeville High School boys basketball team, its 59-36 district tournament loss at Cascade Christian in Puyallup Saturday, Feb. 14, was the end of the season. The game, however, marked a beginning as well.
Bellevue Christian used a physical defense to slow the Coupeville High School girls basketball team and hand the Wolves a 50-33 loss in the district tournament at Sumner High School Monday, Feb. 16.
The visiting Klahowya boys basketball team put a damper on Coupeville’s Senior Night, nipping the Wolves 44-43 in the regular-season finale Monday, Feb. 9.
Putting the finishing touches on its first conference title in 13 years, the Coupeville High School girls basketball team won 53-36 at Klahowya Monday, Feb. 9.
Chimacum put up more of a fight this time, but the Coupeville High School girls basketball team clipped the visiting Cowboys 53-38 on Senior Night Friday, Feb. 6.
The Coupeville High School boys basketball team is playing its best at the right time.
The host Wolves defeated first-place Chimacum 72-68 in overtime Friday, Feb. 6; and the win, coupled with Port Townsend’s one-point loss to Klahowya, clinched a berth in the district tournament.
With its season hanging by a thread, the Coupeville High School boys basketball team stitched it back together with a miraculous 60-57 win at Port Townsend Tuesday, Feb. 3.
The Coupeville High School girls basketball continued its winning ways Tuesday, Feb. 3, defeating visiting Port Townsend 53-35.
Coupeville High School junior Makana Stone was named the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association 1A female Athlete of the Week for Jan. 26-31.
Thirteen is an unlucky number for some. For the Coupeville High School girls basketball team, it is a turning point.