Bo Flowers joined the Lawrence University football coaching staff as the defensive coordinator in July 2018. In addition to serving as the defensive coordinator, Flowers also coaches the defensive backs.
Flowers came to Lawrence from the University of Chicago, where he spent four seasons coaching the defensive backs. Flowers was part of the 2014 staff that won University Athletic Association Coaching Staff of the Year honors. The 2014 team finished with a sparkling 8-1 record, and the Maroons posted a 24-15 mark over the past four seasons. Flowers also coached Vincent Beltrano, who earned first-team All-America honors in 2015 while setting school records with 15 interceptions and 40 passes defensed.
Prior to his time at Chicago, Flowers was the defensive graduate assistant coach at Eastern Michigan University for two years. Flowers played college football at the University of Illinois from 2007 through 2009 and at Illinois State University in 2010. He was named to the Missouri Valley Football Conference All-Newcomer Team in 2010.
Also a baseball standout, Flowers was selected in the fifth round of the 2002 June Amateur Draft by the Detroit Tigers. Flowers played four seasons (2002-05) in the minor league systems of the Tigers and Chicago Cubs and also played the 2006 season in the independent Frontier League.
A native of Maywood, Ill., Flowers was an all-state selection in both football and baseball while starring at Walther Lutheran High School. Flowers was named the Chicago Sun-Times Male Athlete of the Year in 2002.
