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Bowers Named ADT Defensive Player of the Week

May 18, 2005 - arenafootball2 (af2)
Green Bay Blizzard News Release


First-year Green Bay Blizzard DS Ryan Bowers is a good-looking football player.

As the arenafootball2 (af2) leader in interceptions with 7, he is one of the most exciting playmakers in the league. He is also one of the most complete, as he ranks 6th in the league in tackles with 40. When he hits he hits hard, and when he makes plays he makes then big: several of his INTs have come on opponents' first or final drives. Plus, at 6-1, 210 he cuts an imposing and intimidating figure in the defensive backfield.

Bowers is also a good-looking football player. As in model good-looking. As in Giorgio Armani, Polo Ralph Lauren and D-Squared runway model in New York City good-looking. During the af2 off-season, Bowers appears in numerous fashion shows, print ads and magazines as a model for The Lyons Group, Inc. of New York. He has appeared in numerous fashion catalogs and menswear ads, and was even the subject of a feature article in a recent issue of Men's Fitness Magazine. A sampling of Bowers' portfolio photos is available for viewing on his page on The Lyons Group New York website: http://www.lyonsgroupny.com/mf306.htm

Off the field, Bowers is low-key and decorous, but on the field he is as vocal and intense as many of his much more gregarious teammates. He has quietly become one of the most outstanding players on one of the af2's strongest defenses: the Blizzard are at or near the top of several defensive statistical categories, including:

Ø Missed Field Goal Attempt Return Yardage (1st, 26.3 yards)

Ø Turnover ratio (2nd, +9)

Ø Interceptions (2nd, 14)

Ø Pass Defense Rating (3rd)

Ø Missed Field Goal Attempt Returns (3rd, 6)

Ø Fumble Return TDs (T-1st, 2)

Ø Fumble Return Yardage (4th, 20.2)

Ø Fumble Recoveries (5th, 7)

Ø Scoring Defense (5th, 40.3 ppg)

Bowers' 7 INTs are tops in the league, and this week he was honored as the ADT Defensive Player of the Week by the af2 league office for his 2 INT, 8.5 tackle performance in Green Bay's 65-49 defeat of the former first-place Louisville Fire last Saturday night. He is currently the only player in the league to average more than one INT per game. This is the first weekly award of his Arena Football career.

A graduate of Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, Bowers has lived all over the country, including such diverse locales as Southern California, Georgia and The Big Apple. In addition to his time with the Blizzard, Bowers has also played with the af2's Cincinnati Swarm and the AFL's Indiana Firebirds and Grand Rapids Rampage.

Bowers and the rest of the Blizzard squad look to continue their franchise best-ever 5-game winning streak this Saturday against the Quad City Steamwheelers, a team that holds a 4-0 all-time record against the Blizzard in the regular season. The ‘Wheelers come into Green Bay with a record of 3-3, and have lost their last 2 games. Saturday night will be St. Mary's Hospital/A Woman's Place Ladies Night at the Resch Center, and the first 1,000 ladies will receive a green & white Blizzard feather boa. Doors open at 6:00pm and kickoff is at 7:00pm.

For more information, or to get your Blizzard tickets, contact the Blizzard office at (920) 405-1264.

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