Matt Bowers

The head and torso of Matt Bowers, a white man with a brown mustache and beard, smiling in a teal button up shirt.

Associate Professor of Instruction

Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design

Dr. Matt Bowers is an Associate Professor of Instruction in Sport Management at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies youth development in and through sports and has published research studies related to the impact of sport participation on creativity and the value of sandlot/unstructured sports for children. His work has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Wired, The Atlantic, and Wall Street Journal, SXSW, and the Aspen Institute’s Sport for All, Play For Life: A Playbook to Get Every Kid in the Game. He has been an advisory board member and one of the co-lead researchers for the Aspen Institute’s Healthy Sport Index project, an advisory board member for the Aspen Institute’s Reimagining School Sports project, and a member of the Science Board for the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. He also currently serves as an advisor for SXSW.