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Bowie 2018 graduate Kamryn Cantwell’s basketball career ended abruptly 10 months ago after four seasons at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. (Photo by Southeastern Oklahoma State Athletics)

Kamryn Cantwell still gets people coming up to her and asking what she’s up to despite her living back in Bowie since last September.
That was when the 23-year-old was going back for her fifth year at Southeastern Oklahoma State University to play basketball. However, her plans soon changed.
“I was two weeks into practice and we had a 6 a.m. workout. We were probably two plays into pick-up and I tore my ACL,” Cantwell said. “I knew immediately that’s what I did because I already had suffered the injury. So immediately I was like, I already know what I just did.”
It was not the first time Cantwell had suffered an injury while in college. She dealt with a stress fracture in her hip that led to her missing the second half of her freshman season in college. Two years later a nagging hamstring injury kept her out of about half her junior season though she made it back for the big games in the conference tournament.
But this was a familiar injury she had back as a sophomore in high school, where she tore the same ACL that caused her to miss a year. Having previously suffered from the same injury, she knew what was ahead of her.
Theoretically, Cantwell could have used a medical redshirt to get another year of eligibility and would be getting ready to suit up for the Savage Storm one last time if she had been working towards that after getting surgery.
She was already working on borrowed time anyway.
COVID-19 had given her and all college athletes an extra year of eligibility and she was planning to use that time to work on a minor in psychology after already earning her four-year degree in health and human performance.
But she decided against it after thinking about it in the months that followed as she tried to figure out how she wanted to enter the next phase of her life.
“I had just turned 23 right when that happened, so I was like, you know what, I really don’t want to go back for a sixth year and be 24,” Cantwell said. “I’m good. I had a good four years. That’s what helped me decide because I had the best four years.”
Cantwell leaves Southeastern as one of only 14 players who scored more than 1,000 career points.
She started all 87 games she played for the Savage Storm at the demanding point guard position and averaged 15.6 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game while shooting 46.8% from the field and 39.6% from 3-point range.
She was named first team all-conference her sophomore and junior year and was honorable mention her senior year.
In her sophomore year, she helped lead Southeastern to the Great American Conference tournament championship where she was named the tournament’s most valuable player.
The Savage Storm was invited to play in the NCAA DII tournament that year, but unfortunately COVID-19 shut it down before it could get started.
“That’s one of my proudest years because no one outside sees all the work we put in,” Cantwell said. “When you go to college, that’s what you want. You want to experience that. The awesome group I got to experience that with made it 10 times better. There’s nothing more fun than winning with people you truly enjoy.”

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Oil Bowl Pictures

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(L-R) Braden Rhyne, Justin Clark, Mo Azouak, Preacher Chambers, Hunter Fluitt and Jorge De Leon.

Bowie had six players play in the Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl football all-star game. For pictures from not just the football game, but the basketball and volleyball games as well that feature athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6875584&T=1

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Langford coming back home

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Sandy Langford is returning to Nocona after 11 years at Glen Rose to lead the Lady Indian volleyball and track teams. Her sons are Camden and Keltyn and her husband is Matt. (Courtesy photo)

Nocona is welcoming back Coach Sandy Langford, former coach and alumnus for the Lady Indians, as its new volleyball head coach.
Langford comes back to Nocona after spending the past 11 years leading the Glen Rose volleyball program.
Her circumstances with her family allowed her to jump at the opportunity once she became aware the position at Nocona was available.
“My youngest graduated and is playing football at Midwestern (State University),” Langford said. “All of our family is here and I knew that Coach Kara (Lucherk) was leaving. We were eventually going to retire here. Our oldest son plays college football at West Texas A&M and we’ll be two hours closer to him as well.”
She again will lead the Lady Indians volleyball program, one that she led all the way to the state title game in 2011, which is the farthest the volleyball program has ever gone in its prestigious history.
Langford kept up that level of success during her 11 years at the bigger 4A Glen Rose. She won less than 20 games only twice during her time, winning her 500th career game back in 2023. Her teams were ranked among the top 10 in the state five times and Langford led Glen Rose to the state tournament in 2017, the best finish in program history.
With the Lady Indians also having its own string of success, appearing in back-to-back regional finals while finishing atop the district standings both years, Langford is excited to not just keep the success going, but shoot for the stars.
“We are not expecting anything less than a state championship,” Langford said.
She has stacked the non-district schedule with strong, state-ranked 3A and 4A teams as well as big tournaments that will test Nocona’s mettle early next season in the hopes it will prepare them for a long playoff run.

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Two teams compete at state tourney

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Colt Henry, Lane Smith, Cooper Johnson and Corbyn Patton competed at the state high school bass tournament at Lake Conroe. (Courtesy photo)

The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.

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