Coach Sowers is in her third season as an assistant coach with the Ottawa University women’s flag football program. She is OU's Flag Football Operations and is the Defensive Coordinator for the Braves.
Sowers joined her sister in the spring of 2021, helping build OU’s first women’s flag football program and capture the 2021 NAIA National Championship. She continues to break down barriers, while now encouraging, supporting and helping to create more opportunities for women to pursue their passion and competitive goals in the sport of football.
Sower was part of the coaching staff of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs through the Bill Walsh Diversity Fellowship. It is a program that aims “to use NFL clubs’ training camps, offseason workout programs and minicamps” to give coaches more experience and help them gain full-time employment.
Before coming to Ottawa, Sowers was an offensive assistant coach with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League from 2017 to 2021. She made history becoming the first female coach on an NFL staff to coach in a Super Bowl. Prior to her time with the 49ers, Sowers was a wide receivers coaching intern with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons.
Sowers played football in the Women’s Football Alliance for the West Michigan Mayhem and her hometown team, the Kansas City Titans. Sowers and her sister, head women’s flag football coach Liz Sowers, played together in 2009 for the West Michigan Mayhem. Sowers led the team with four interceptions, one INT returned for a touchdown, and was fourth on the team in tackles with 30.
She played again with her sister in 2013 for the Kansas City Titans, helping them to the playoffs with a record of 6-2. Sowers had 19 receptions for 314 yards and seven touchdowns. She was the second leading rusher on the team with 424 yards on 25 carries and two touchdowns. Sowers led the team in sacks and interceptions.
Sowers was also selected to play on the USA Women’s National Football team in 2013. That team won the IFAF World Championship defeating Team Canada, 64-0.
Sowers spent two years at Hesston College where she was a two year letterman on the women’s basketball team. She transferred to Goshen College graduating with a degree in physical education. Sowers was a member of the GC basketball, soccer, and track teams. She holds the school record in the javelin and competed in that event twice at the NAIA Track and Field National Championships
Sowers earned her masters degree from the University of Central Missouri in Kinesiology in 2012.
