Matt Bowman -- Stepping up in the Department

I would like to take this opportunity to recognize Matt Bowman. He was hired this fall by our athletic department to assist with Game Management and Sports Information, putting him on campus full time. In addition, he will be serving as our pitching coach for the second year. Last year, he was on a volunteer basis for baseball, and an intern for the department. As an undergrad, he interned for our department and did such a great job, a position was created for him.

Coach Bowman as a Blue Devil, circa 2009.

Matt played for us back in '09 after two seasons at Corning Community College. With Huggy (Zack Hugg) in the office as our intern this year, the two often chat about the '607' and Corning C.C.

Matt serves as Koz's (the equipment manager) right hand man, taking over for 'Ace' Everett who retired. Matt is responsible for setting up and tearing down for our home events, as well as supervising workers.

He also assists Jerry Reilly in the Sports Information Office. There, Matt does a little of everything from Live Stats, to writing stories and updating the website to compiling career stats.

Matt has a great foundation of fitness knowledge. He has done a great job with the conditioning aspect of our pitchers. He revamped our Pitcher's Handbook and linked up a bunch of solid workout videos on our website. In addition, he initiated our Academic Review Cards to better communicate with professors and has gotten out team involved with Habitat for Humanity.