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Tim Bowens

Tim Bowens has completed his 3rd season as Head Football Coach at Brooks High School. He made history by being hired as the first African American Head Football Coach in Lauderdale County in 2022.  Two of his three years he has made it to the AHSAA 4A Quater-Finals and first time in Brooks history making it back to back.  In the 2023 season, he had two second team All-State Players in Offensive Lineman Carson Wheeler and QB Garrett Burrough and one 1st Team All-State player Wide Receiver Noah Gregg.  UNA signee Carson Wheeler also started in the Alabama - Mississippi All-Star Game at center.  

Prior to arriving at Brooks, Coach Bowens led Clark Atlanta University Panthers as the Head Football Coach for 3 years including a COVID year and not playing a season during the second year. His first season was in 2019 when CAU had the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference leading passer and Second Team All SIAC Charles Stafford.  CAU had the conference's second-best passing offense and was in the top five in nine offensive, defensive and special teams categories.  In Bowen's last season his team boasted 65 of his 105 players had over a 3.0 Cumulative GPA and 12 Football student-athletes earned 4.0 GPA during his last semester, which made school history by having the highest GPA recorded in CAU Football history during his tenure while competing with 23 of 36 DII Scholarship. Bowens impacted the athletic program with Associate Athletics Director Dr. Jhun Cook by securing a $350,000.00 donation to build a Sports Performance Center for CAU Athletics during the COVID year.  

As the Head Football Coach at Clark Atlanta University Bowens was selected as a participant in the NFL's 2019 Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship.  The program exposes talented minority college and high school coaches, along with former NFL players, to the methods and philosophies of NFL coaching staffs. He worked with wide receivers like Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley and under current Atlanta Falcons Head Football Coach Raheem Morris who was the wide receivers coach. He was also identified and selected in 2020 and 2021 NFL Quarterback Coaching Summit which is a process that is highly selective and deliberate. The QB Coaching Summit is part of the fabric of the NFL coaching pipeline for identifying up and coming leaders that have potential to coach and operate at the highest level in the NFL.  

Before coming to CAU he coached at Georgia State University where he was an assistant coach and in charge of running backs. He led the Panthers’ offense to a school-record 2,057 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns on the ground in 2018, as his squad improved their rushing average by nearly 60 yards per game over the previous season with  4 of the 6 running backs being freshman.

Before coming to Georgia State in February 2018, Coach Bowens spent four years as an assistant coach at the University of South Alabama with Head Coach Joey Jones and spent the last three seasons as running backs coach.  During his time at USA, Coach Bowens coached the two-time All-Sun Belt Conference running back Xavier Johnson who finished as the career rushing leader who played his professional career Internationally in France, Poland, Germany, Spain and Mexico.  Bowens was also part of a staff that earned the program’s first-ever bowl berth going to the Arizona Bowl.

Bowens has also been an assistant coach at Samford University, where he coached for Heisman Trophy Winner Pat Sullivan.  He coached on a Samford Football team that won the SoCon Championship and was part of the team that made it to the FCS playoffs for the first time in school history.  He coached three-time All SoCon selection and former Arizona Cardinal Kelsey Pope who was the all-time leader in career receptions and single game catch leader and currently serves as the University Tennessee Volunteers Wide Receiver Coach.  

Before Samford University Bowens coached at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He coached two wide receivers that are still top 3 in the UAB record books behind former Atlanta Falcon Roddy White.  Frantrell Forrest who ranks number #3 in reception yards and JJ Nelson who is the #2 in all-time reception yards. JJ recorded 4.28 40 at the NFL combine and spent time with the Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers, Buffalo Bills and Indianapolis Colts and when Bowens signed him; he was 5 '10 144 lbs.  

Before UAB, Bowens coached on the staff in multiple positions on and off the field at the University of Alabama for four seasons where they reached the Music City Bowl, Independence Bowl and Cotton Bowl and finished in the top 10 in the Nation during his 3rd season back at his alma mater.

Coach Bowens was the head coach at Tanner (Ala.) High School where his father-in-law, former MLB player and professional and college baseball coach Gary Redus went to school.  In 2002, Bowens was the first African American Head Football coach in Limestone County since segregation and was the Athens Courier Coach of the Year and the Decatur Daily Coach of the Year. He served as both the Offensive and Defensive Coordinator.  

Before Bowens was hired as the head football coach at Tanner high school he took an offensive coordinator position at Coffee  High School in Florence Alabama.

Before getting in the high school ranks, Bowens was a student assistant football coach working with Offensive Coordinator Charlie Stubbs and the Quarterbacks in his last semester of college.

Bowens was selected to the 2012 Lauderdale County Hall of Fame Class.  As a young coach he published an article in the Gridiron as a college football assistant on “Perfecting and Measuring Route Running”.  He has served on the Board for Grace Tabernacle Daycare in Courtland Alabama, the Board of Directors for CBF Ministries International in Birmingham, Alabama and on the Board for Right Way Christian Center in Mobile Alabama. He is also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated.  

Bowens was a wide receiver at the University Alabama from 1996-99 and helped the Crimson Tide to win the Southeastern Conference title, two SEC West Division titles, and three bowl games.  In 1997, he won the Ozzie Newsome Spring award.  He was All-Academic SEC in 1999. In 1998 and 1999 for the seasons, he was awarded by his position coach Dabo Swinney the Mr Effort, Mr Key-Block and Mr De-Cleater award in the Wide Receivers group.  

He earned his degree in human environmental sciences from Alabama in 2000.

He graduated from Brooks High School in 1996 where he was a three sport-athlete.  He was a All-State football and basketball player multiple years.  In Basketball, he helped his team make it to the Final Four his senior year.  As a Freshman, he was the Timesdaily Slam Dunk Champion and his senior year in basketball he was the Timesdaily Basketball Player of the Year. He was selected as one one the state's Dandy Dozen top twelve football players in Alabama.  He was a state qualifier in 4 events in track. Bowens three brothers also followed in his footsteps and signed a football scholarship at the University of Alabama. (Quentin Bowens, Will Roach and Freddie Roach who is the Associate Head Coach and Defensive Line Coach at The University of Alabama.).

Tim Bowens and his wife, Kesha who serves as an assistant principal at Brooks Elementary School, have four sons (Timothy, Taylor, Tanner, Christian and a daughter (Kallie).