Deborah Yow
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Athletic director |
| Team | NC State |
| Annual salary | $450,000 (including supplemental income) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 1, 1950 Gibsonville, North Carolina |
| Playing career | |
| 1970–1974 | Elon |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1976–1980 | Kentucky |
| 1980–1983 | Oral Roberts |
| 1983–1985 | Florida |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1990–1994 | Saint Louis |
| 1994–2010 | Maryland |
| 2010–present | NC State |
Deborah Ann Yow (born September 1, 1950) is an American college sports administrator and former college basketball coach. She is currently the director of athletics at North Carolina State University, and formerly held the same position at the University of Maryland and Saint Louis University. She previously served as the head coach of the women's basketball teams of the University of Kentucky, Oral Roberts University, and the University of Florida.
A native of Gibsonville, North Carolina, Yow attended East Carolina University. She then attended Elon University, where she played basketball and studied English. Yow married and later divorced Lynn Nance, a collegiate men's basketball coach. In 1983, Yow maried Dr. William Bowden, a university administrator, while she was coaching at Oral Roberts University.
Yow coached women's basketball at the University of Kentucky and Oral Roberts University, and also served as the women's basketball coach at the University of Florida where she took these three previously unranked teams into the top 20 national rankings. On January 10, 1985, she and the Gators won Yow's 150th career victory. After that season, Yow accepted a promotion in Gator athletics as an administrator and fundraiser. She averaged 20 wins per season over eight years as a head coach.
After coaching, Yow also served as an associate athletic director at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.Saint Louis University hired Yow as its athletic director in August 1990. The media reported a strained relationship between her and the men's basketball coach Rich Grawer, which Yow denied. She fired Grawer after a 5–23 season and hired Charlie Spoonhour as his replacement. Spoonhour won the Henry Iba Coach of the Year Award for leading Saint Louis to the NCAA Tournament in the 1993–94 season and received a pay raise and contract extension through 2000. Yow remained at Saint Louis University for four years, until hired to the same position at the University of Maryland in August 1994.
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