SPORTS
McGann takes reigns of Nocona girls’ basketball
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@sbcglobal.net
For new Nocona High School girls’ basketball coach Brad McGann, this was just the opportunity he was looking for.
“I’ve wanted to be a head coach for a while now,” McGann said. “That’s what attracted me to the Nocona job. This gives me the chance to do something new, and different.”
McGann has also been tabbed as the head girls’ cross country coach. He will also be the head boys’ and girls’ golf coach and help with girls’ track and field.
In the classroom, McGann will serve as a technology teacher, which includes a computer applications course. McGann’s wife, Connie, is a new ninth-grade English teacher in the Gainesville Independent School District.
McGann replaces former coach Steven Grigsby, who accepted a similar position in Paradise down in Wise County.
For the past seven seasons, McGann was an assistant boys’ basketball coach at Hale Center in west Texas. The school has been successful in hoops, reaching the regional quarterfinals twice.
McGann discussed what to expect from Nocona’s girls’ basketball teams with him in charge.
“I have some set plays, but I like to coach up-tempo,” McGann said. If I’ve got the girls, I’d like to run up and down the floor.” Read the weekend edition of The Bowie News for more.
A positive culture can be tough to install but will reap dividends if done correctly.
Trinadee Imotichey is trying to do just that with her Forestburg Lady Longhorns.
Imotichey, an assistant coach on the 2025 Forestburg volleyball team, was moved into the head coaching position. Last year’s coach, Cori Hayes, took over as football head coach.
Imotichey, in her 2nd year in Forestburg, said she learned a lot from Hayes and is ready to take over.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie’s summer softball league team overcame a 6-1 deficit with a six-run third inning for a 7-6 win over Bridgeport in its season opener July 6.
The league consists of teams from Bowie, Nocona, Lindsay, Bridgeport, and Alvord and will last three weeks. Bowie will host games each week.
Bowie pitcher Hazel Trahern gave up two singles and a groundout to put the Sissies on the board in the first. It would be the only hits she gave up in the game. Two groundouts and a strikeout got the Lady Rabbits out of the jam.
Bowie got the run back in the bottom of the first with Andee Jo Miller opening the frame with a walk and a stolen base. She then scored on Kynlee Baker’s groundout to tie the game at one.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Rest. Run. Repeat.
Sage Keck, an 8th grader at Montague, lives by this mantra. No ifs, ands and buts about it.
She’s been running since fourth grade PE classes where she would run a mile every week. After discovering she could outrun the other students, she began to enjoy it and continued doing it.
Her success continued, as she finished 2nd overall against more than 200 runners at the Old Saint Jo 5K July 4. In last weekend’s Texas Junior Olympics, she reached the pinnacle of her career so far by qualifying for the United States of America Track and Field (USATF) National Junior Olympics in Norwalk, Calif. in three events.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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