The Coupeville volleyball team will send only two seniors out on the court, but the Wolves won’t lack for veterans.

Eight letter winners return and many logged significant playing time in 2014.

Back are seniors Sydney Autio (S) and McKenzie Bailey (MB); juniors Tiffany Briscoe (OH), Valen Trujillo (L) and Ally Roberts (OPP); and sophomores Kyla Briscoe (OH/OPP), Katrina McGranahan (MB) and Lauren Rose (S).

Trujillo earned first-team, all-Olympic League honors last fall.

Key newcomers, according to second-year coach Breanne Smedley, are sophomores Hope Lodell (OH) and Payton Aparicio (OH) and freshman Emma Smith (MB).

The Wolves, who finished 2014 with a 1-11 record and 1-5 in the Olympic League, are aiming for much more success this time around.

“My expectation is that our team competes every day, gives maximum effort for the sake of their team and challenges each other to become better,” Smedley said. “Our goals are to improve with each week, earn a league title and compete into the postseason.”

Smedley added that it will be a successful season if “we play united and continue to challenge our limitations.”

The strengths of the team, according to Smedley, are the ownership the players have taken in the program, their competitiveness and their continual improvement.

The Wolves will play in a jamboree in Oak Harbor at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, and then host island rival South Whidbey at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8.