Clint Bowen

Clint Bowen
Current position
TitleDefensive coordinator
TeamNorth Alabama
ConferenceUAC
Biographical details
Born (1972-06-27) June 27, 1972
Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Playing career
1990Butler County
1991–1994Kansas
PositionDefensive back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1996Kansas (GA)
1997Minnesota (GA)
1998–1999Kansas (GA)
2001Kansas (ST/TE)
2002Kansas (ST/RB)
2003–2005Kansas (ST/S)
2006–2007Kansas (co-DC/S)
2008–2009Kansas (DC/S)
2010Western Kentucky (DC)
2011North Texas (DC/S)
2012Kansas (ST/S)
2013Kansas (LB)
2014Kansas (DC/LB)
2014Kansas (interim HC)
2015–2018Kansas (AHC/DC/S)
2019Kansas (S)
2020North Texas (DC/S)
2021–2024Lawrence HS (KS)
2025Oklahoma State (OQC)
2025Oklahoma State (Interim DC)
2026–presentNorth Alabama (DC)
Head coaching record
Overall1–7 (college)

Clint Bowen (born June 27, 1972) is an American football coach. He is the defensive coordinator at North Alabama University, a position he has held since 2026. He previously served the head football coach at Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas from 2021 to 2024. He served as the defensive coordinator and safeties coach at the University of North Texas in 2020. Bowen has spent the large majority of his career as an assistant in some capacity, though he was named the interim head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks on September 28, 2014 after Charlie Weis was fired. Bowen continue his tenure at Kansas with David Beaty as the defensive coordinator of the Jayhawks and was retained on staff as the safeties coach following the hiring of Les Miles. Bowen, a former Kansas Jayhawks football player, and a Lawrence native, was on staff at Kansas for all but three years from 1996 to 2019.