After their loss against The Woodlands, Bowie Softball 2014 season came to an end.  Varsity softball coach, Catherine Johnson Landers, is proud of the team despite the loss.

 
“I wouldn’t change anything about that game, they played well and hard. We could’ve beat them if the ball bounced different ways, but they gave it their all,” Johnson said.

 
Coach Johnson thought that the bond the team formed this season was a very special one.
“It was a great season because the kids have done well and came together as a team, they’re like family,” Johnson said.
The team ended the season with a record of 21-11. Athletes say that the team is closer this season than they were in previous seasons.
“Compared to all the other years, we’re a lot closer,” senior Sam Flores said. “It would’ve been nice to go longer, but it was still a very nice season.”
Flores has achieved many things she did not expect when she first began playing softball as a freshman.

 
“I just tried out, I didn’t even know I was going to make it,” Flores said. “My main goal freshman year was just to make the team, but then I made varsity my sophomore year, which was very great.”

 
Flores will not be playing softball in college; instead she will be focusing on her future. She is attending Midwestern State University next year and is planning on majoring in physical therapy.

 
“I’m going to miss the team because we’re all so close and we meet new people each year,” Flores said.
Senior Brittany Patton will be attending Navarrow College in Corsicana, Texas where she will study to be a coach, though she will not be playing softball.

 
“What I’m going to miss the most is my teammates. At the end of the last playoff game, we were all so emotional and it touched me because I saw we were family,” Patton said, “I feel like I contributed to the team in every way possible. I felt like a little mentor.”
Torres not only played softball for Bowie, but was also active in the theatre and in choir department.
“It was very stressful.,” Torres said. “My mornings consisted of choir then sprinting to softball morning practices, then after school softball practice, then to theatre.”

 
Torres is attending the University of Texas at Austin, but isn’t going to continue playing softball.
“I’m not going to continue for college, but for club sports because I enjoy playing it so much,” Torres said.
Junior McKenzie Kane is already looking forward to the season next year.
“I’m going to miss the seniors’ leadership and influence, but I’m also excited for next year. We’re going to have a lot of seniors and a very good team,” Kane said.

 
The coaches have a prediction saying that 2015 is going to be the year they win the state championship.
“I think it could happen,” Johnson said, “They’re a great group of girls that work very hard. We just got to have harder practices to meet that goal,” Johnson said.