Bowie State College shall be on the inexperienced this fall with the introduction of its inaugural males’s golf program.
They’re now certainly one of 9 golf packages inside the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation (CIAA), which implies they’ve a program for each sport the convention formally sponsors.
“It’s with nice pleasure that we formally transfer ahead in sponsoring a co-ed NCAA golf program that may compete within the resilient CIAA,” stated Bowie State Athletic Director Clyde Doughty. “This initiative has been in growth for a number of years, and I wish to thank our devoted golf committee for his or her exhausting work in bringing this imaginative and prescient to life. With Coach Edric Poitier on the helm, I’m actually excited to see Bowie State College represented on the hyperlinks this upcoming 12 months.”
𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚! ⛳️
Bowie State Athletics is proud to announce the addition of males’s golf, teeing off Fall 2025! 🐶🏌🏾#BulldogNation | #BiteDown pic.twitter.com/OrZjyW4SZY
— Bowie State Athletics (@BSU_Sports_Info) July 2, 2025
Edric Poitier, who has coached Bowie State’s girls’s volleyball crew since 2022, has been introduced as the boys’s golf program coach.
A former championship volleyball participant who competed for the Bahamian males’s nationwide crew, Poitier has coached quite a few HBCU volleyball packages off-and-on for over twenty years.
Earlier stints embrace St. Augustine’s, Winston-Salem, Bluefield, and Savannah State.
“I’m extremely excited to be a part of this history-making alternative. Having competed within the convention myself years in the past, I perceive the thrill and, extra importantly, the alternatives this supplies for our student-athletes,” stated Poitier. “It’s not nearly enjoying the sport; it’s about studying the various aspects of the golf trade. The chances are limitless, and I’m hopeful our college students will take full benefit of what this chance actually represents. Not everybody will go on to play on the PGA Tour, however they will construct a profitable profession inside the golf trade.”
