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Tuesday, May 23, 2000

Punahou track coach
moving on

By Pat Bigold
Star-Bulletin

Dacre Bowen, who coached Punahou's boys' track and field teams to seven state titles in 10 years, said he is stepping down to devote more time to his bride, his design business and private training.

Bowen, 45, said his longtime assistant, Louis Johnson, would take over the boys' team.

"It was just time," said Bowen, who was a member of Canada's 4x400-meter Olympic relay team in Montreal in 1976.

Bowen owns and operates a commercial design company, Dacre J. Bowen Consultants, in town.

Bowen said he is now working with Rainbows wide receiver Craig Stutzmann. But he also has worked with linemen at Michigan State and would be willing to help football players at any position.

"I will be working with athletes in any land-based sport short of ice hockey," said Bowen, who worked with Canadian rugby players last summer.