ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- It is an assignment almost four decades in the making, the kind Beth Mowins has worked, trained and prepared for from the time she was the public address announcer at a high school in upstate New York, years before she was old enough to be a student at the school.
“I was in middle school, getting behind the mike, but for better or worse, I knew at a very early age what I wanted to do," Mowins said with a laugh. “My dad was a basketball coach and worked as a teacher at the high school.