Each year, the Boy’s Baseball Booster Club hosts a Gary Fowler Golf Tournament to honor late baseball coach, Gary Fowler. Gary Fowler was a Bowie baseball coach who loved to play golf, but unfortunately, in 2002 he passed away due to brain cancer. Anybody is welcome to participate in the tournament, but most of the varsity baseball players play. 

“We like to have something in his memory, in his honor, that we like to do every year,” Bowie’s Varsity Baseball Coach, Sam Degelia said.

 Sam Delia has been coaching the team for seven years and coached with Gary Fowler for four years. 

For the past sixteen years, the Bowie Baseball players play in the tournament to help raise money for their team.

 “It’s good [for baseball players] to get out and learn him, learn about our community, get outdoors and do something for our program,” Degelia said.

 The money that the tournament raises helps the Bowie Baseball team. 

Senior Cristian Villanueva, a varsity Baseball player, has been participating and helping out at the tournament for the past three years. 

“My favorite part of the golf tournament would have to be the prizes they give out”, Villanueva said, “and stories of Coach Fowler [that are told] at the end of the night.” 

Every year the baseball coaches choose one person from the baseball team to wear Coach Fowler’s jersey throughout the season in order to honor Gary Fowler. 

“[The person wearing the jersey] represents Gary’s character; some of his traits as an honest dependable and overall a good person,” Coach Degelia said.

The Gary Fowler Golf Tournament has been a fun, good way to honor late Coach Gary Fowler.  

“The tournament is important for Bowie because it helps raise money to support our program through entry fees, donations as well as remember Coach Fowler and carry on his legacy,” Villanueva said.