SPORTS
Team mottos are revealed
Practice for fall sports started this week across Montague County.
Now is the time players and coaches are coming together to try and figure out what type of team they are going to be this season.
Some coaches and programs do this by trying to set the tone with a message or motto that gets repeated and drilled into players until they believe it.
For Bowie, they released a graphic online featuring both boy’s and girl’s athletics with the motto “raise the bar.”
With a lot of new coaches coming into the program along with athletic director Tyler Price taking it over for his first full school year, the message seems clear. Whatever success Bowie has had in athletics across the board, the expectations for success will be to aim higher.
At Gold-Burg, new football coach Christian Healer says the team’s motto is “Six men one heartbeat.”
The volleyball team motto is a similar sentiment as Coach Cheryl Cromleigh said her team’s motto is “In union, there is strength.”
At Nocona, both the football and volleyball coaches separately and coincidently selected Hawaiian words for their mottos.
Football Coach Blake Crutsinger chose the word “Laulima” which means many hands working together for a common goal.
Volleyball Coach Kara Lucherk chose the work “Lokhani” which means the value of teamwork through collaboration, cooperation and unity. The thought that people who work together can achieve more and is inherent with oneness.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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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