Lindsay Bowen enters her ninth year on staff at Campbell under head coach Ronny Fisher ahead of the 2024-25 season. She was elevated from assistant coach to assistant head coach in January 2024. Bowen assists with all aspects of the program with an emphasis on perimeter players.
Bowen has helped coach the Camels in becoming one of the best defensive teams in the country during the Ronny Fisher era, consistently ranking at the top in several national defensive statistical categories each season.
The Camels led the nation in scoring defense in 2016-17, holding foes to 49.6 points per game. Campbell is the only program in the nation to rank in the top-25 in scoring defense in each of the past eight seasons.
Campbell has also ranked in the top-30 nationally in field goal percentage defense in six of the past eight seasons as well as in the top-30 in 3-point field goal percentage defense in six of the past seven seasons.
Over the past eight seasons, the Camels have held 41 foes to 40 points or less and 103 opponents to 50 points or less.
In 2023-24, Campbell made the jump from the Big South Conference to the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA). Campbell finished the season at 17-14 overall and 9-9 in CAA play, earning a first round bye for the conference tournament. Christabel Ezumah received all-conference nods for the season straight season, earning spots on the All-CAA Third Team and All-Defensive Team after averaging 12.4 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.8 blocks. Brittany Staves received the Dean Ehlers Leadership Award while Shy Tuelle was named the CAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Campbell once again anchored a tough defense ranking No. 8 nationally and leading the CAA in scoring defense, holding foes to 55.1 points per game, along with ranking No. 31 in the nation limiting teams to shoot 37.1 percent from the field and No. 10 in the country holding teams to shoot 26.5 percent from three. CU remained disciplined while playing excellent on the defensive end, ranking No. 23 in the country and leading the CAA with 13.8 fouls per game called against the team.
Campbell finished the 2022-23 season with a 16-15 overall record including a 10-8 mark in Big South play. The Camels reached the semifinals of the Big South tournament for the fourth straight season. Christabel Ezumah was named to the All-Big South first team after averaging 10.6 points, 9.2 boards and 1.9 blocks per game. Brittany Staves averaged 9.3 points and 4.7 boards, earning an All-Big South honorable mention selection. Staves was also named as the conference's Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The Camels ranked No. 8 nationally in scoring defense, holding foes to 52.5 points per game as well as No. 8 in field goal percentage defense, limiting teams to shoot 35.1 percent from the floor.
In 2021-22, Bowen helped the Camels to a program-tying 23 wins en route to their second Big South regular season crown in three seasons. Campbell also earned the program's first-ever WNIT berth after finishing as runners-up in the conference tournament.
In 2020-21, Bowen coached Campbell to a 16-7 overall record including an 11-4 in Big South play. The Camels finished as runners-up in the Big South tournament. Bolden was named to the All-Big South second team after averaging 12.4 points and 9.8 rebounds.
The 2019-20 season saw Bowen and the Camels win the Big South regular season title behind an overall record of 21-8 and a conference mark of 16-4. Campbell claimed the top-seed for the conference tournament before it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bowen helped the Camels to the program’s first and second ever postseason victories in the WBI as a part of tying a program best 23 win total in 2018-19. The Camels’ appearance in the semifinals of the WBI also marked the first time a Big South team has ever appeared in the semifinal round of the tournament. Campbell went tied the program record with 23 wins and finished as runners-up in the Big South Championship game.
Campbell earned a first-round bye in the Big South tournament in 2017-18, finishing the year with an overall record 15-15 record. The squad, again fielded an elite defense, allowing 51.9 ppg, which ranked third in all of NCAA Division I.
Bowen assisted head coach Ronny Fisher in making an immediate impact in his first season at Campbell in 2016-17 when the Camels claimed their eighth 20-win campaign in program history. The eight-win improvement from the 2015-16 season was enough to propel Campbell to a berth in the Big South Tournament and the opportunity to host a first-round game in the Women’s Basketball Invitational.
Bowen came to Campbell after spending the 2015-16 season on Fisher’s staff at Presbyterian College. Bowen helped lead the Blue Hose to new heights not seen in their Division I tenure. She helped mentor a program-best four all-conference selections, including the Big South Freshman of the Year for the second-straight season. PC finished with a 13-7 Big South record and advanced to semifinals of the conference tournament for the first time in program history as the third seed.
Prior to her time at Presbyterian, Bowen served as assistant coach at Florida International for two years. In her first season with the Panthers, she helped lead the team to an 18-15 record, while winning three games in three days to advance to the semifinals of the conference tournament. Bowen also mentored the Conference USA freshman of the year in her final campaign at FIU.
Described in the Lansing State Journal as “one of the best basketball players ever in the Lansing area,” Bowen was a 2,500-point scorer at Dansville High School before matriculating to Michigan State in 2002. She kept the pace in a Spartans uniform, racking up 1,739 points, which ranks fifth all-time in the MSU record books.
Bowen was a four-time all-Big Ten academic honoree, collected Big Ten freshman of the year honors in 2003 and earned All-American recognition as a senior.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology, Bowen played professionally in the WNBA with the New York Liberty in 2007-08 then in Europe from 2006-10.
She was inducted into the Greater Lansing (Mich.) Area Sports Hall of Fame on July 26, 2018.
