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Carrie Bowling Memorial Scholarship
By DFL
Oct 5, 2004, 13:51

The family of Carrie Bowling thanks all those who have provided food and other items in this time of sadness. The family has plenty of food now and requests that donations be made to the:

Carrie Bowling Memorial Scholarship Fund

Care of:
OHHS/CHS Alumni Association
PO Box 462
Oak Hill, WV 25901

To: All WVSA Member Clubs and Leagues.
All WV HS Soccer Coaches
Fr: Dave Laraba, Len Rogers

Carrie Bowling of Oak Hill and a WVSA member from the Fayette Co SA was killed in a single car accident late Sunday evening. Carrie graduated from OHHS in 2004 and was the leading scorer on the WV Tech Women's soccer team.
Carrie's dad Eddie is a long time coach in the Oak Hill area and has taken many teams to WVSA tournaments. Brother Ben is a WVSA, HS and college referee and an employee of the Beckley-Raleigh Co YMCA.
Below are directions to the funeral home and church and the story from the Beckley paper.
Anyone who is planning on attending the funeral may meet at the WVSA office at noon Wednesday to car pool.
All our thoughts and prayers go out to the Bowling family, the Oak Hill and WVU Tech soccer communities.


WVU Tech soccer player dies in W.Va. 61 crash
By Steve Keenan/For The Register-Herald

MONTGOMERY -- Carrie Beth Bowling and Daphne Riggleman, freshman teammates on WVU Tech's women's soccer team, were on their way back to campus late Sunday night after spending the weekend at Riggleman's Petersburg home.

They never made it.

Bowling, an 18-year-old Oak Hill High School graduate, was killed and Riggleman injured after their car went off W.Va. 61 and crashed into a fence, said Trooper R.R. Cervera of the Quincy detachment of the State Police.

After exiting the West Virginia Turnpike at Chelyan, the pair were traveling east when Riggleman lost control of the vehicle in a curve at 10:45 p.m., Cervera said. The accident occurred at Crown Hill in eastern Kanawha County.

Bowling was pronounced dead at the scene.

Riggleman was released from a Charleston hospital Monday. She suffered a concussion and a possible fracture of one of her hands, according to Mark Gladwell, Tech's sports information director.

Counselors met with friends, soccer team members and their coach, Reggie Smith, Monday afternoon.

"Everyone here is in a state of shock," said Tech Athletic Director Dr. Sandra Elmore. "We're an extended family here, and we need to pull together and be there to support the student-athletes, coaches and families.

"It's a very tragic situation."

The school has canceled its next two contests, which were to be played during this Homecoming Week. The next scheduled outing is Sunday against the University of Charleston at Coonskin Park, but Smith's not sure if the match will be played.

"It's devastating to my soccer girls," he said. "It's just not fair.

"I'm not sure if we'll play again. I know I don't want to go up there (Martin Field for practice) if she's not going to be there."

Tech has won just one match in two years and is 0-8 this season. The team has about a half-dozen games left this season.

"We're a young team. We've been struggling the last four years," Smith said. "This group that came in this year was THE group. Carrie was an integral part of it. She was a rock on the field. She's probably scored all our goals, which is very few.

"We were trying to build this program. Of course, soccer is not important right now."

Born May 28, 1986 at Beckley, Bowling was the daughter of Eddie Ray Bowling, Jr. and Mary Jane Reed Bowling of Oak Hill.

She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, Oak Hill, and was an honor graduate with the OHHS Class of 2004.

Besides her parents, survivors include a sister, Andrea Nelson, and husband, Chris; brother, Benjamin Bowling; maternal grandmother, Dreama "Vonnie" Gunoe Wykle of Oak Hill, and paternal grandmother, Ethel Mae Callahan Bowling of Oak Hill.

Thank You for all your love and support




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