Coach Profile: Angel McGowan
Madison Giles, Staff Writer
Angel McGowan is the women’s basketball coach at North Greenville University and is involved in her first season coaching at NGU.
Coach McGowan wanted to come to NGU because her AU coach growing up was the head coach last year and wanted her to join on as staff and she was able to move to her home of Greenville for the position.
McGowan said the most rewarding part of being the basketball coach is the relationships she has developed over the past year. She said her plans for working with the women’s basketball team is to help the players progress and help them to grow as women.
Angel McGowan began playing basketball when she was 12 years old. She has now played for 11 years continuing into college. She graduated from Georgia Southern University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics.
McGowan played basketball at Georgia Southern University from 2013-2017. She was named by the Sun Belt Conference as an All-Conference second team player right after the season her junior year. McGowan was the first Georgia Southern women’s basketball player in history to earn this. She averaged 14.7 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.1 steals per game. During the last game of her junior year she scored her 1,000 career point for the Eagles’ women’s basketball team.
During McGowan’s senior year, she was added to the 2017 Sun Belt All-Conference Team. College Sports Madness named her the Sun Belt Student-Athlete of the Week. McGowan led the team to second in the Sun Belt Conference scoring 15.7 points during each game. She also scored more than 20 points in 8 games during her senior year.
During all of McGowan’s years of playing basketball at Georgia Southern University she finished sixth in the program scoring almost 1500 points. She was third in 3-Pointers and fourth in program history for steals. She led her team in scoring 3 years in a row and in steals during her 4 years there. McGowan made it into many top five records during her career at Georgia Southern. She earned the All-Sunbelt honors twice and was named player of the week on multiple times during her basketball career.
Coach McGowan is also a published author of two children’s books. “STOMP Out the Bullying” and “We All Matter” are the books she has written in which the first was recognized by Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina.
