Rolling Along: Digest chats with sixth year Bowling coach Rose Fogg

Coach Rose Fogg has been calling shots on the bowling team ever since she first took over as interim head coach on October 1, 2013. While serving as a coach since the late 90s, Coach Fogg’s latest coaching endeavor has, according to Fogg, been one of her favorites.
“I love this job. I really enjoy trying to help these girls be the best that they can be as bowlers,” said Coach Fogg when asked what she loved most her position as bowling coach at Southern University.
Taking over as head bowling coach officially in May of 2014, Coach Fogg admits that there was much adversity faced by herself and her team throughout her tenure, although she notes that these “setbacks” only served to strengthen her resolve as a coach. .
“When we started out, I didn’t even have five full players that knew how to play. I picked up two girls that I had to teach how to bowl.” said Coach Fogg on her first team in 2014.
Coach continued on to say, “ This year, we have a competitive team. It takes years to bring in new players, and even then, that first year they don’t always do really well. Well now I have sophomores that do very well.”
Fogg’s praise comes unto a team that Fogg herself admits that she herself, “had high hopes” for when it came to SWAC play, which simply hasn’t been great this season up to this point.
“We had a tough first roundup [leading up to the tournament] because the girls only had one day of practice. But the second round is coming up in mid-February, and if we can pick up those spares, we have a real good chance of doing well in the SWAC,” said Coach Fogg when asked about the recent play of the team and the direction she believed they could take for the rest of the season.
Besides the aforementioned SWAC tournament in Mississippi on February 15, the Jaguar bowling team will also be participating in the Mardi Gras Challenge at All-Star Lanes on Airline Highway.
“We generally bowl from nine-o’clock in the morning to three-thirty on Friday and Saturday, and Sunday we finish early with only three matches.” said Coach Fogg.
The Classic will take place on Mardi Gras weekend, Coach Fogg and the bowling team are asking for fan support to help them bring back a tournament win in the SWAC.