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Mary Bowman is in her seventh year as the Utah athletic department's first-ever director of student-athlete support services. Bowman oversees the areas of academic advising, career planning and placement, sports medicine, strength training and conditioning, and the NCAA CHAMPS/Lifeskills Program. She is also the sport supervisor for skiing and softball. Bowman and her staff operate from the 11,500 square foot Kenneth P. Burbidge Jr. Family Athletics-Academics Center, which opened in March of 2001.
Before coming to the U., the Iowa native was a school counselor involved in ACT and AP testing, peer leadership programs and career counseling. Bowman has prior athletic experience, as well. She was a teacher and volleyball coach at Eagle Valley High School (Colo.), where she was named coach of the year in 1977. Later, she held a similar position at East High School in Salt Lake.
Bowman received her bachelor's degree from Northern Colorado in 1970 and a master's degree in educational psychology from the U. in 1988. Mary and her husband, John, have two sons: J.J. (27), who is a University of Utah graduate and is currently attending Portland State University, and Chris (20), who attends the U.
