Tavares Bowens
| Tavares Bowens | |
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 Bowens 2006 | |
| Height | 1.8288 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Tavares Bowens is a former professional Arena Football Coach with the Orlando Predators. Bowens previously worked as an offensive assistant coach to the now Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden with the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League in 2006. Bowens help lead the predators to a conference championship and an appeared in Arena Bowl XX vs the Chicago Rush. In 2007, Bowens joined the Lakeland Thunderbolts of the American Indoor Football Association under Head Coach Teddy Keaton as a Fullback/linebacker Coach and helped the Thunderbolts defeat the Reading Express in AIFA BOWL in route to an American Indoor Football Championship. In 2008, Bowens was named the Head Coach/defensive Coordinator of the Florence Phantoms. Bowens led the Phantoms to a 14-2 record and AIFA championship in dominating fashion over the Wyoming Cavalry 48-12. Bowens was named the American Indoor Football Association's Coach of the Year and his #1 ranked defense set muItiple AIFA league records behind a vaunted pass rush that garnered a league best 44 sacks. Under Bowens leadership, the 2008 Florence Phantoms championship win was the state of South Carolinas first ever professional Football Championship. Following the 2008 season, Bowens resigned and moved to Denver, Colorado. He is now the CEO of Phase 3 Athletes, LLC, A Sports Performance and Adult Fitness Company located in Colorado, Maryland and Georgia.[1]