Geoffrey Gowan

Geoffrey Gowan, CM, PhD [1] (November 2, 1929 – May 16, 2013) was Canadian sports broadcaster for the CBC and a sport executive at Coaching Association of Canada. He died at the age of 83 after battling with Parkinson's disease since 1996.[2]

Biography

Gowan was born in Ravenglass, Cumbria, England.[3] Leaving Loughborough Colleges, where he was a lecturer for the United States in 1965 to obtain an M.Sc. from Purdue University, a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Whilst at Loughborough he brought the fundamentals of track and field to all students with his lively instruction and the use of key phrases.He coached the track and field team of the mid-sixties working alongside Basil Stamatakis. [4]His North American coaching career began as a professor and athletics coach at McMaster University in 1968. He became the technical director and president of CAC from 1972 to 1996.[5]

Cultural impact

The Geoff Gowan Award recognizes the lifetime achievements of Canadian coaches by the Coaching Association of Canada.

gollark: Δy/Δx, if you prefer.
gollark: The slope of the line.
gollark: Ah, so if two adjacent things are the same and both extrema it wants the midpoint?
gollark: If they mean approximately the same things as in the calculus I did, then if the gradient was positive/negative on one side and the same sign on the other it would not be a maximum/minimum but just an inflection point. But if the gradient changes sign, then it can be, and this probably requires a different value to on either side. But I don't really get what they're saying either.
gollark: I think to be a valid maximum/minimum it has to be >/< but *not* equal?

References
  1. "Geoff Gowan Award | Coaching Association of Canada". Coach.ca. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  2. "Coach, broadcaster Gowan dies at 83 | The Chronicle Herald". Thechronicleherald.ca. 2013-05-17. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  3. Canada (1929-11-02). "globeandmail.com: Geoffrey Gowan C.M." Webcache.googleusercontent.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  4. Student athlete under Geoff Gowan at Loughborough 1964/5
  5. Lori Ewing. "Canadian track and field coach, broadcaster Geoff Gowan dies". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
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