Bowen Holden Position: Head Coach Experience: Fifth Season Alma Mater: Georgetown ('01)

Bowen Holden enters her fifth year as the Eagles' head coach. The 2009 season marked one of the best in school history, especially since entering the ACC in 2005. Completing its first winning season with a 9-8 record (9-9 overall), the Eagles made great strides. Five of the team's opponents were ranked in the top 10-15 in the country throughout the entire season. Four individuals were honored as IWLCA Regional All-Americans, two made the All-ACC team (the most ever), four were named to the All-ACC Academic Team, two were honored as IWLCA Academic Honor Roll members, and the entire team was an IWLCA Academic Honor Squad for maintaining a GPA above 3.0.

In Holden's third year, the Eagles captured their first top-10 win in program history by beating then #7-ranked North Carolina in double-overtime. This launched BC into the #4 spot in the ACC at the end of the regular season and earned BC its first-ever 4th seed in the ACC tournament. Overall, the 2008 team ended the season with a 7-10 record with several individual accolades earned along the way.

In 2007, BC compiled a 6-11 record, 1-4 in the competitive ACC. Four of the team's five ACC opponents were ranked in the top six of the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. The Eagles made the IWLCA Honor Roll for the second year in a row, placing third on the Division I Honor Squads list with a 3.028 cumulative GPA. Three players received IWLCA Academic Honor Roll accolades and were named to the All-ACC Academic team.

The Eagles ended their 2006 inaugural season in the ACC 8-9 overall and 1-4 in conference play. Six of BC's opponents were ranked in the top 13 in the country. Holden's team was honored in 2006 as one of 42 teams on the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll. Two of Holden's student-athletes received individual IWLCA academic honors, and one earned IWLCA Regional All-American status for accomplishments on the field.

Prior to arriving at BC, Holden was the associate head coach at Georgetown University in 2004 and an assistant for the previous three years. Holden helped the Hoyas to a 56-16 record over a four-year span. She also played a key role in leading the Hoyas to two NCAA Final Fours, including the 2002 NCAA National Championship game. The Hoyas won four consecutive undefeated Big East Championships and made four straight appearances in the NCAA tournament. During her tenure, Georgetown had one Tewaaraton Trophy winner, eight All-Americans, a National Attacker of the Year, a National Defender of the Year and six Big East Players of the Year.

Holden is a 2001 graduate of Georgetown University, earning her Bachelor of Arts in physics. She also completed a Masters degree from Georgetown's Public Policy Institute. Holden played lacrosse for one year at Bowdoin College in 1998 where she earned second-team regional All-American honors and team MVP as a freshman.

Holden then transferred to Georgetown, where she started in goal for the next three years. She was a three-time All-American and two-time co-MVP. In her final season, she was named a captain, was an NCAA National Champion finalist, was named to the IWLCA All-Academic squad, and was a first-team national and regional All-American. She was voted NCAA Goalkeeper of the Year as well. Also recognized for her efforts in the classroom, Holden earned the annual Robert A. Duffey Scholar-Athlete Award and the NCAA District of Columbia Woman of the Year Award for outstanding academic and athletic achievement and service to the community. She still ranks second on Georgetown's all-time career leaders list with 747 saves.

Active in the lacrosse community off the field, Holden serves on the NCAA North Region All-America Committee and was previously a member of the NCAA Northeast Regional Committee.

Holden is a native of Lincoln, Mass. and graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in 1997. She currently resides in Newton, Mass. with her husband, Charlie Martin, and their two daughters, Cannon Elizabeth Martin, age two, and McClaine Ellen Martin, born in January of 2009.