SPORTS
Teams select a motto for the year
Bowie Volleyball
Coach Breanna Jones went above and beyond with the word “Mindset” as her team’s motto as it goes three layers deep.
Not only does it have a volleyball term within the word, but the word itself clearly addresses the mental aspect of the game.
Jones was not done as she made the word an acronym as well. The letter “M” stands for make the change. The letter “I” stands for Intensity. “N” means never let it show. “D” is don’t quit. “S” is sacrifice. “E” is no excuses. The final letter “T” stands for teammate.
Nocona Volleyball
Coach Tiffany Clay has made the theme for this year’s team “What If.”
Instead of using the term in a reference of looking back on things, she is using the term as wishful positive thinking for her team this season.
Saint Jo Football
The Panthers are not coming in with any motto or saying, but new Coach Mark Stevens is talking about trying to take the program to the next level. Stevens hopes this year’s team is ready to make it to the next level for the first time since 2013.
Saint Jo Volleyball
The theme for this year’s Lady Panthers is “Grit and Grace.” Coach Charlie Hamilton interprets it to mean having motivation in any challenge and always being thankful in life.
Gold-Burg Volleyball
With last year’s win in the bi-district round, the Lady Bears feel like they have “Unfinished Business.”
Gold-Burg wants to challenge county foe and last year’s district champion Prairie Valley better than they did last year.
The Lady Bears want to expect winning in the bi-district round so they can be ready to challenge in the area round and beyond.
Forestburg Volleyball
After a tough season last year, Coach Cori Hayes wants his young team to embrace the opportunities for small improvements throughout the new season. This is echoed in the motto, “failure is success if you learn from it.”
Forestburg Football
While there is no big phrase or wording for the Longhorns this season, Coach Trey Cumby says he is preaching to his guys the value of accountability.
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
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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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.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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