Terry Bowe is in his third year as SMWC head women's basketball coach during the 2024-25 season.
In 2023-24, Brooklynn Jones was named to the All-River States Conference First Team. The Loogootee, Ind., native averaged 14.8 points per game and hit 52.2 percent of her shots from the field in leading the team to a third-place finish in the league as well as an 18-11 record.
Madison Fueger was named to the All-River States Conference Second Team while
Destiny Thomas &
Irye Gomez were third team selections. The women's basketball selection to the RSC Champions of Character Team was
Madison White while
Abby Worley,
Abigail Parker,
Allyson Hardiek, Jones, Thomas, Haley Polson,
Hope McGuire,
Kylee Stepp, White and
Talyssa Moody were all named to the All-RSC Scholar-Athlete Team.
Bowe became the fifth head women's basketball coach at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College prior to the 2022-23 season and led the Pomeroys to a 16-11 overall mark and an 8-10 mark in the River States Conference. The Pomeroys qualified for the RSC Tournament for the first time in program history.
Bowe has served as the Associate VP of Human Resources at SMWC since finishing a 21-year tenure as head men's basketball coach in 2019 at Lakeland Community College. Bowe holds the school record at Lakeland with 314 career wins and a .609 winning percentage during his time in addition to four conference championships, five NJCAA Region XII Championships and five trips to the NJCAA National Tournament and one Final Four in 2012. In last two years with Lakeland the team won back-to-back region titles and received bid to the national tournament only to have the season cut short due to COVID.
"Coach Bowe's familiarity with the program and the institution will allow for a seamless change in leadership for our program," Associate Vice President of Athletics
Ron Prettyman said. "I anticipate we will be able to move forward with the positive things that have developed in the program to this point, and with new leadership, bring creative ways to impact that program that will take us to new heights."
Bowe, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who played NCAA Division III basketball at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, is excited to return to the sideline after three years away from the game.
"We want to be a transition-based team that can get up and down the floor and be a perimeter threat. We also want to be able to defend at a high level and be able to defend full-court. Our ability to defend 90 feet means we need to be well conditioned and poised to play multiple people and multiple positions," Bowe said.
