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2001 Hula Bowl Maui Player Rosters
North Roster - South Roster
2001 Player Profiles
R.J. Bowers RB - Grove City College
2000: Rushed for 1,733 yards...named to the AFCA's Division III All-America Team for the second straight year...voted Presidents' Athletic Conference MVP for the third year in a row...finalist for the Melberger Award (Division III Heisman Trophy equivalent)...Gagliardi Trophy Finalist. Career: College football's all-time leading rusher in all divisions with 7,353 career yards... broke seven other NCAA all-divi-sions records: career points (562), career touchdowns (92), career rushing touchdowns (91), consecutive 100-yard games (32), career 200-yard games (16), career 100-yard games (35), career points per game (14.1)...in 1999, led Division III with 2,098 rushing yards...AFCA All-America Team...Hewlett Packard All-American First Team...Football Gazette All-American First Team...AP Little All-American First Team...in 1998, ran for nation-high 2,283 yards and NCAA D-III record 34 touchdowns...Burger King Coaches' All-America Team...Hewlett Packard All-American First Team...Football Gazette Running Back of the Year...Football Gazette All-American First Team...Division III record 206 points...ran for 1,239 yards in 1997. Personal: Played six years of professional baseball, including five in the Houston Astros organization...selected by the Astros in the 11th round of the 1992 draft and released by the Astros in April of 1997...business management major...born 2/10/74.
"When Coach (Chris) Smith told me I was headed to Hawaii I was shocked," said Bowers, who was born in Honolulu on February 10, 1974. His dad, a former U.S. Marine, was stationed there in 1973 and '74. "I knew I had a shot at a couple of all-star games, but I wasn't thinking Hula Bowl. It will be awesome to play side-by-side with college football's elite and also return to my birthplace for some fun in one of the most beautiful places in the world. It's going to be a thrill," added Bowers. "I look at it as a reward for four years of hard work." - Grove City College Sports News
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