| Birth name | Kevin Bowring | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Neath, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Kevin Bowring is a Welsh former rugby union player and coach. Bowring attended Neath Grammar School for Boys. A flanker, he played for London Welsh and captained the team. He also represented the Barbarians and Middlesex County .
He progressed into coaching with Wales Under-20, Under-21 and Wales A before being appointed as the first full-time professional coach of the Wales national rugby union team.[1] He was later employed by the Rugby Football Union as an Elite Coach for the England rugby union team.
Bowring is a board member of UK Coaching (former Sports Coach UK) and a member of the Coaching Committee which sets the overall strategy for sports coaching in the UK.