Scott Bowen joins NSW Rugby as High Performance Manager
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Thursday, 18 December 2008
NSWRU Media Unit
Former Waratah and Wallaby Scott Bowen will join NSW Rugby in January as the Union's new High Performance Manager.
Scott Bowen will join NSWRU as High Performance Manager in January.
Scott Bowen will join NSWRU as High Performance Manager in January.
In a professional playing career between 1996 and 1998 Bowen played 49 matches for the Waratahs, just three off the record for the most caps for a flyhalf. In this period he also played nine Tests for the Wallabies.
After hanging up the boots, Bowen moved into coaching as an assistant at Eastern Suburbs between 2002 and 2005, including the 2005 Shute Shield premiership-winning side.
In 2006 he took over the head coaching role, with Easts finishing no worse than third over the last three campaigns.
"Scott is a fantastic acquisition for NSW Rugby," said Jim L'Estrange, NSWRU Chief Executive Officer. "His coaching credentials are extremely strong and he has a great eye for talent coming through the ranks which is so important in the professional game.
"He is a Waratah through and through and we're really looking forward to him coming on board early in the new year.
"Securing Scott's services completes the off-field team for what should be an exciting season ahead in 2009."
Bowen has maintained a close association with sport through his professional career, having worked with Hutchison on 3 Mobile's sponsorship of cricket, managing Hudson's sponsorship portfolios with the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and the Rugby Union Players' Association, leveraging Telstra's major Rugby and sport initiatives during Rugby World Cup 2003 and the rebranding of major sporting stadia in Melbourne and Sydney.
His position will also include a hands-on role working alongside Joe Barakat with the HSBC Junior Waratahs.
"It's really exciting to be returning to the Waratahs in a professional capacity," said Bowen. "It's a really exciting role.
"There's such a pool of talent out there and it's such a competitive marketplace that being able to secure good young players as well attracting other elite professionals to the organisation is proving tougher and tougher.
"NSW Rugby and the Waratahs have some really good structures in place already and I'm really looking forward to hitting the ground running in 2009."