Chris Bowers Position: Director of Player Personnel Alma Mater: Wittenberg, 1999

Chris Bowers returns to Evanston after spending the last four years building his college football resume at Defiance College, Concord University and most recently at Valparaiso where he served as the special teams coordinator and secondary coach.

Bowers spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons at Concord University, a Division II school in Athens, W. Va., serving as as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach.

Prior to Concord, Bowers spent two seasons at Defiance College as the defensive coordinator as well as the recruiting coordinator. Bowers returns to Northwestern after serving as NU's recruiting assistant (2003-04) and assistant director of football operations (2004-05) before becoming a defensive graduate assistant in 2005 and 2006. He left in January of 2007 to become defensive coordinator at Defiance College.

Off the field, Bowers recently was published in the Manual of Football Drills and Skills, a resource for coaches at all levels which benefits Lauren's First and Goal Foundation. The organization was established in 2004 by John and Marianne Loose in honor of their daughter Lauren, a pediatric brain tumor survivor, and has raised more than $1 million in financial support for brain tumor research and cancer services.

Bowers earned a B.A. in history from Wittenberg University in 1999 and his master's degree from the University of Findlay.

Bowers, a native of Lima, Ohio, and his wife, Christina, have a newborn daughter, Davalyn.

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