“When we won the state championship this year, my message to the team was that the standard had been set, and we are not going to lower the standard…It’s y’all’s job to rise up and continue what we’ve started. Let’s get ready to do this again.’”

“At the time, we didn’t realize what extremes they went to for us,” Mandi says. “Mom would constantly rearrange her work schedule and Dad even drove overnight to South Carolina while battling the flu, just to be at one of our travel ball games. “

“I know where these young men are at because I’ve been there,” Bowen says. “I know what they want. I show them where their game needs for them to get to the next level.”

““My mother has always said that we don’t look at this as work because we get to witness a miracle each wedding. Two people becoming one is a miracle and we get to play a small role in that. “

“My dream was to be a famous foreign correspondent… but as the saying goes, man plans and God laughs.”

“When we stepped between those white lines, it was like, ‘we don’t really care about the problems going on outside because we have a job to do. And we are going to come out here and work every day to do what we need to do to be successful. “

“Every day, we pray for God to send us a customer that can help us sustain our business and that we can help…”

“We worked hard, and we took care of students. It was a happy time. We had pep rallies. We celebrated when it was time to go to basketball games…”

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