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From Diamonds to Deer Stands Camille Anding 88 • October/November 2016
“I’m just a deer hunter,” Brian Owens says about himself as he tries to keep in perspective the potential of his new venture and company, Owens Outdoors. It’s definitely far removed from life just a few years ago. Owens played high school baseball at Northwest Rankin and went on to play for Mississippi State for two years. He stayed on another year after graduation as an assistant to Coach Ron Polk, an opportunity that he will always prize. Marriage to Anna Werne came next–along with a coaching job at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville. The following year, he was offered an assistant baseball position at Mississippi College. After one year on the job, the head baseball coach resigned, leaving Owens interim baseball coach at age twenty-five. One year later, he was offered the head coaching job, and baseball life at Mississippi College was his family’s life for the next nine years. During that ninth year, Owens used his backyard as an experimental station for designing a hunting blind that would accommodate bow hunting. In the midst of that, he sensed God’s direction to do something else. “Go be with your kids (Ella, 8 and Parker, 5) more,” were the directions that Owens recalls. It was easy for Brian and Anna to understand due to the long hours away from home that all coaches invest. It was definitely a step of faith and obedience when Owens resigned his head coaching position, especially since Mississippi College had become a special part of their lives. “I loved my players and the college,” Owens says. Then the idea that came by accident soon launched Brian and Anna, along with the help of his brother, Daniel and sister-in-law, Laura, into production of the Double Dare Blind, manufactured by Owens Outdoors early this year. Hometown Rankin • 89
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