Giani Bowles

Height:
5-5
Class:
Senior
High School:
M.L. King
Hometown:
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit native Giani Bowles will work with the BGSU program in a number of areas in 2002-03, including in coaching and managerial capacities. Bowles has seen her playing career come to an end due to a series of knee injuries.

Bowles came to BGSU in the 2001-02 academic year, and sat out the season after transferring from St. John's University.

Bowles played in a total of 70 games, making 31 starts, in her three years with SJU. She averaged 7.6 points over her career with the Red Storm.

In 2000-01, Bowles was limited to just 13 games due to injury. She scored a season-high 14 points, including a career high-tying four three-pointers, vs. West Virginia.

Bowles paced SJU in three-point field goals (42), free throw pct. (.791) and assists (56) during the 1999-2000 campaign, and was second on the team in scoring (12.1) and steals (46). She led the Storm in scoring in 11 games that winter.

She went down with an ACL injury, however, vs. Pittsburgh in the first round of the Big East Tournament that year. Bowles had led the team in scoring in the final three regular-season games before suffering the injury.

Bowle's career-best 12.1 ppg average that year included a career-high 27 points in a victory over Appalachian State, and a 21-point effort in a game vs. Buffalo.

Bowles scored 19 points in games vs. both Pitt and Providence, and had games of 18 points vs. Syracuse and 17 points against both Seton Hall and WVU, with a career-high five steals in the latter contest.

Bowles played in 30 games, making 20 starts, for SJU during her freshman season of 1998-99. That year, she averaged 6.1 points and was second on the team with 65 assists. Bowles had a 23-point effort in her collegiate debut. She had a career-high seven assists vs. Connecticut, and recorded five steals vs. Manhattan. Bowles led the team in assists on 10 occasions that winter.

Bowles was a four-year letterwinner at Martin Luther King H.S., averaging 15.2 points and 11.1 assists as a senior en route to all-city first-team honors and all-state honorable mention. She was a USA Today Honorable Mention All-American and Nike All-American.

Bowles, born Jan. 13, 1980, is the daughter of Norman (stepfather) and Athlen Cunningham. A liberal studies major, she has a younger brother, Demare.