Becky Bower joined the athletic training staff in the fall of 1998. She serves as the Education Coordinator for WSU's accredited athletic training education program, advising students and teaching athletic training classes. After working and traveling with the women's soccer team for eight years, she is in her third season with the men's and women's swimming and diving teams.

Before coming to WSU, Becky was the Outreach Coordinator for Miami Valley Hospital Sports Medicine Center and contracted out to Archbishop Alter High School as the head athletic trainer (1990-1998). Previously she taught Health, Physical Education, and Sports Medicine classes and served as head athletic trainer at Walter E. Stebbins High School (1986-1990).

Becky graduated from the College of Wooster in 1983 with a special major (Athletic Training) and from Illinois State University in 1986 with double masters degrees in Athletic Training and Health Education.

Becky has been involved professionally, serving as Vice President and later President of the Greater Dayton Athletic Trainers' Association (GDATA); Southwest District Representative, District Board Chair, and then Internal Vice President for the Ohio Athletic Trainers' Association (OATA). This fall she was appointed by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to serve on the AT Section of the OTPTAT Board for the state of Ohio.

Becky was recognized by OATA as the Clinical/Professional Athletic Trainer of the year in 1995, as the Outstanding Educator of the Year in 2000 by the Ohio Jaycees, received the Athletic Trainer Service Award in 2001 from the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA), and in the spring of 2008 was inducted into the OATA Hall of Fame.