{"id":18155,"date":"2021-12-01T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/?p=18155"},"modified":"2021-12-16T18:28:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:28:59","slug":"greenzones-grand-final-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/professional-pest-manager-magazine\/greenzones-grand-final-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"GREENZONE&#8217;S GRAND FINAL CONNECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The team at Greenzone are proud of rising AFL star Jake Bowey, the most recent Bowey family member to carve out a career in professional sports.<\/em><!--more--><br \/>\n<div class=\"hr-thick\"><\/div><br \/>\nFor <strong>Brett Bowey<\/strong>, general manager of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenzonebarrier.com\/\">Greenzone<\/a>, Saturday September 25th marked a big moment for his family. After only a handful of appearances for his new club the Melbourne Demons, Mr Bowey\u2019s son <strong>Jake Bowey<\/strong> played in the AFL Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old kept his composure under pressure, helping take his team to victory with a 140-66 win over the Western Bulldogs. It was a remarkable finish to the season for Jake who finished the 2021 season as a premiership player after just 12 months in the AFL league.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18157\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18157\" src=\"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4733-copy-low-res-236x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4733-copy-low-res-236x300.jpeg 236w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4733-copy-low-res-157x200.jpeg 157w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4733-copy-low-res-149x190.jpeg 149w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4733-copy-low-res-83x105.jpeg 83w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4733-copy-low-res.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Bowey playing in the AFL 2021 Round 20, Gold Coast v Melbourne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along with his precise kicking skills, football knowledge and on-field composure, proud father Mr Bowey believes Jake\u2019s \u201csuper competitive\u201d nature is what has helped catapult him to the big time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was always tiny,\u201d his mother <strong>Dee Bowey<\/strong> added. \u201cBut he was good. He knew no fear and always played up [an age group] and could always find space once he had the football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brett Bowey is no stranger to the field himself, having played for St Kilda throughout the late 80s and early 90s. The Boweys are very much a footie family, with daughter <strong>Hannah Bowey<\/strong> also being a skilled footballer, playing for Collingwood in the VFLW this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad was a pretty big factor for me playing AFL,\u201d said Jake. \u201cI always wanted to follow in his footsteps.\u201d For now, Jake is stationed in the Melbourne Demons\u2019 backline, cementing his position as a rising star in the AFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team at Greenzone are proud of rising AFL star Jake Bowey, the most recent Bowey family member to carve out a career in professional sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":18307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"The team at Greenzone are proud of rising AFL star Jake Bowey, the most recent Bowey family member to carve out a career in professional sports.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"jake bowey afl","_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"company":[],"pest":[],"pesticide":[],"product-service":[],"class_list":["post-18155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-pest-manager-magazine","wpbf-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18155"},{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=18155"},{"taxonomy":"pest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pest?post=18155"},{"taxonomy":"pesticide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pesticide?post=18155"},{"taxonomy":"product-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-service?post=18155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}