Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.

New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.

Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.

The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.

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New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.

“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20^th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”

Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.

Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.

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4-D Open Barrel Racing was one of the events that started Jim Bowie Days off on the right foot June 20.

Barrel racing officials said there were more than 200 competitors in the event, which broke up into two events: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The winner in each division received cash and a buckle.

Having the fastest time in the 1D division was Maggie Wright on Tres Leche, with a time of 17.115. Finishing 2^nd was Ella Gordillo aboard Famous Noble in 17.251. In 3^rd place was Jimmie Smith riding Brickk with a time of 17.268.

Lexi Doud aboard Ain’t He Dazzling was 4^th with a time of 17.29. In 5^th place was Torrie Edge on Francy N Famous with a time of 17.364. Janna Brown riding I’m a Billionaire was 6^th in 17.428. Tara Carr was 7^th aboard with a time of 17.454 while Brylee Wall rounded out the top 8 on TKW Hawkins Fame with a time of 17.536.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.