Jon Lowery enters his second season as assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts after a stellar playing career at Ohio State. A goalkeeper, Lowery started his collegiate career at Wisconsin-Green Bay after earning 1994 Gatorade Minnesota Player of the Year honors. During his freshman year, Lowery was the team MVP after starting 20 games in goal. Following his freshman year, he transferred to Ohio State, where during his final two years he was a two-time captain, two-time team MVP, two-time first team All-Big Ten and a two-time NSCAA All-Mideast selection. He was the first Buckeye to ever be named first team All-Big Ten following his junior year. He graduated from OSU with a B.A. in communications in 1999. Following his playing days at OSU, Lowery played four years of professional soccer spending three seasons with the A-League's Minnesota Thunder and another with both the United Soccer League's Carolina Dynamo and MLS' Tampa Bay Mutiny. Lowery currently holds the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Advanced National Diploma and will graduate in May, 2005, from UMass with his master's in Sport Management. Lowery resides in Northampton with his wife, Gretchen. They were married on May 28, 2004. |
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