{"id":1124,"date":"2024-10-08T16:43:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2024-10-08T19:41:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:41:38","slug":"bowles-enjoys-challenges-of-officiating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Bowles enjoys challenges of officiating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2000 Lower Lake High School graduate doesn&#8217;t miss coaching current generation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAKE COUNTY &gt;&gt; A 2000 Lower Lake graduate and former three-sport athlete during her high school days, you can still catch Billie Bowles on the playing field nearly a quarter of a century later, but now she\u2019s wearing a striped shirt and blowing a whistle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowles, 42, is officiating youth football games in the Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League, a member of the Coastal Mountain Officials Association (CMOA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Bowles turned to coaching after she was done competing in volleyball, basketball and softball for the Trojans, she said she decided to make a late career change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI coached youth and adult sports for many years,\u201d Bowles said. \u201cWhen this generation of teens and preteens got extra difficult to coach and basically made it way less fun, I moved to officiating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Bowles, \u201cI have always done youth basketball and baseball\/softball games as a volunteer, but last year I joined the CMOA for junior high volleyball, then baseball\/softball and adult softball, and now football. It has been amazing to still get this level of exciting exposure to sports I love without having to deal with the athletes and parents on the coaching level, which has become quite joy sucking, I\u2019m sad to say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowles also plays and manages a women\u2019s team in the Lake County Adult Softball Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd we just won a championship,\u201d Bowles said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking to the future, Bowles she would like to move up the line as an official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to become a college official, preferably Division 1. I would shoot for higher, but unfortunately, I started this path a bit too late. It\u2019s a dream come true I didn\u2019t even know I had. I constantly joke with the guys and tell them I will miss them when the NFL calls me next week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowles said she doesn\u2019t mind coaching youngsters just getting involved with sports, but that older athletes are much different now compared to her playing days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf this generation wasn\u2019t so difficult, I would have been shooting to become a coach at a higher level, but coaching requires too much of one\u2019s soul and this generation will kill a soul quick, and if they don\u2019t their parents will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Bowles, \u201cI have discovered a passion for officiating sports and plan to take it to the highest level achievable for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2000 Lower Lake High School graduate doesn&#8217;t miss coaching current generation Lake County Sports on Facebook LAKE COUNTY &gt;&gt; A 2000 Lower Lake graduate and former three-sport athlete during her high school days, you can still catch Billie Bowles on the playing field nearly a quarter of a century later, but now she\u2019s wearing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}