Coupeville Middle School track team shatters records across grades
Three seventh graders topped 10 wins, and Les Queen set a boys' single-season mark as Coupeville rewrote its middle school track book.
Coupeville Middle School track and field did more than collect a few late-spring highlights. In a six-meet season that opened April 14 and closed June 5 at the Cascade League Championships at Lakewood High School, Wolf athletes from grades 6 through 8 reset the program's record book with new standards in races, jumps and throws. The biggest change this spring was depth: top marks came from both the girls and boys, and from every middle school grade.
At home on May 13 against South Whidbey, Coupeville's boys edged the visitors 94-87 while the girls fell 140-54, a meet that still showed how much firepower the Wolves had built across the roster. Eighth graders delivered eight wins that afternoon, a sign that the oldest middle school athletes were setting the pace for the rest of the program rather than waiting their turn.
A week later in Langley, the Wolves turned in their busiest performance of the season. Facing host South Whidbey and league power King’s, Coupeville collected 54 personal records and 14 wins, a burst of improvement that fit the larger pattern of the spring. Coach Kelly Powers and coach Jon Gabelein watched the team finish the year with results that were spread across events and grade levels, not concentrated in just one or two athletes.
The standout numbers told the story best. Coupeville Sports reported that three seventh graders reached 10 or more wins in a single middle school season, only the seventh time that has happened in more than two decades of program history. Les Queen finished with 18 career wins, including 14 during the 2026 spring season, the most by a Wolf boy in the program's statistical era since 2008. Laurel Crowder added 12 wins and Jesse Kehoe finished with 11, adding more proof that the middle school roster produced more than one front-line performer.
Tamsin Ward's progression captured the season's momentum in a different way. The eighth grader went from a lone high-jump win as a sixth grader to a perfect 10-for-10 spring, a rise that showed how quickly the standards in Coupeville can move when athletes keep building on their own marks. By the time the season ended in Lakewood, the message was clear in Island County: this was not a routine spring, but a program-wide surge that changed what Coupeville Middle School track and field expects from itself.
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