The resolve! The focus! That lip! That hair! For years we'd been meaning to give this face an award. On the day we had enough time to pull over and really check her out, construction barricades were up and demolition crews were mowing down her residence, the UT Tennis Center on Trinity. So yes, this award is posthumous – well, to the mural, not to the person. Just the teeniest bit of digging yielded details about the identity of this awesome Eighties UT tennis wiz. She's Beverly Bowes, 1987 Southwest Conference Player of the Year. After spending most of the Nineties in Florida (Palm Beach County re-pruh-zent!) Bowes returned to Austin a pro (Lost Creek Country Club), then in the 2000s, returned to college sports as coach, first at Southern Methodist, then back to her alma mater UT. Now she offers private coaching, consultation, and public speaking on all things tennis. We're going to miss her on our Trinity drive-bys, but we'll never forget that face.
