Bob Bowlsby

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Bowlsby BobBob Bowlsby - USOC Board Member

Bob Bowlsby was named The Jaquish & Kenninger Director of Athletics at Stanford University in April 2006. At Stanford, he directs a department that includes 35 intercollegiate varsity teams - 15 men's, 19 women's and one coed - plus the physical education department, intramurals, club sports, open recreation and the Stanford Golf Course. The department has an annual budget of approximately $80 million and boasts the most individual NCAA Championships in the country.

Prior to becoming the Stanford Athletic Director, Bowlsby spent nearly 15 years at the helm of the University of Iowa's athletic program from 1991-2006. He piloted a program that excelled in football, men's and women's basketball, wrestling and many other sports while providing oversight for a department that included 24 sports. In addition to his work with the athletic department, he served as chair of the NCAA Wrestling Committee and was on NCAA committees on Financial Aid and Amateurism. He also served a five-year term on the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament Committee, including two years as committee chairman.

Bowlsby has served as an Executive Committee member with both the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and the Division I-A Athletic Directors Association and was President of the I-A Directors group in 2002-03. He was elected chair of the NCAA Olympic Sports Liaison Committee and represented the NCAA as one of two voting members on the United States Olympic Committee, and he has been a member of the Board of Governors for the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He was a member of the President's Commission on Opportunities in Athletics appointed by former U.S. Secretary of Education, Rod Paige.

A native of Waterloo, Iowa, Bowlsby earned his bachelor's degree from Moorhead State University (Minnesota) in 1975, where he was a member of the wrestling team, and his master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1978. The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) named Bowlsby as Central Region Athletic Director of the Year for 2001-02, and, in 2002, he was selected as the Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal National Athletic Director of the Year.