Meredith Knight Rowsey's roots are entrenched in Marshall University golf. Entering her sixth season with the Herd, Knight Rowsey came to Marshall in 2001 to serve as a Joe Feaganes assistant with the men's team, becoming the first full-time assistant coach in school history. The women's program, after a 20-year absence, was then re-launched the next season. After two years of overseeing the establishment of the program, Feaganes handed the reins to the Lady Herd to Knight Rowsey in 2004. As she enters her third season as head coach, Knight Rowsey is keen that the 2006-07 season - featuring a five-senior nucleus - will be Marshall's finest in its new era.

"It has been my goal from the beginning that, when the time was right, we would elevate (Meredith) to head coach," Feaganes said. "I feel the women's golf program is on solid ground, and a lot of that has to do with Meredith. She has developed a good relationship with the student-athletes and the Huntington golf community. There has been tremendous improvement in the last few years and I can only see a bright future for our women's golf program with Meredith at the helm."

As it enters its fifth year since its re-birth, the women's golf program has undergone numerous improvements under Knight Rowsey, including integration into a challenging new field of competition in Conference USA. The Herd won its first ever team title and medalist honor, since 2002, in last year's season-opening Lady Herd Fall Invitational. Marshall scored a 27-stroke victory in the event while Allyson Hatcher registered a two-stroke win over teammate Amber Churchill, with two other MU golfers placing in the top-five. In fact, in the past two seasons Marshall recorded five top-five team finishes, two more than the previous two years combined.

Knight Rowsey, a native of Jacksboro, Texas, was MVP of her high school team from 1990-94 and competed in the state championships as a senior. She later pioneered the women's program at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas, as team MVP while twice being named the team's most inspirational player. After transferring to New Mexico State University, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing and a degree from the school's professional golf management program. She was a Clubs for Kids volunteer during her time at NMSU and was named Outstanding Female PGM Student in 1999. She also played for the Roadrunner golf team in 1998-99.

During college, Knight Rowsey served as an assistant manager at Golf USA which sparked her interest to work in the golf industry. She landed a job at River Crest Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, before transferring to NMSU to `major in golf.' Later, two summer seasons were spent at Legend Lake GC in Chardon, Ohio. At both clubs Knight Rowsey launched and taught junior golf programs that featured ladies' academies. In Fort Worth she was active in teaching golf at an inner city youth program. In 2000, Knight Rowsey accepted an Assistant Golf Professional position at Dallas Country Club where her main priorities were merchandising, individual lessons, junior golf and women's golf promotion. "Everything in the PGM program geared you to work at a golf course. DCC was just what I wanted in a golf course job but I knew it was not right for my future," Knight said.

Aside from her responsibilities with Marshall golf, Knight Rowsey was an instructor for the Joe Feaganes Junior Golf Camp in 2002 and the sole instructor in 2003. She was a golf instructor at the Maine Golf Academy in the summer of 2002 and a golf instructor at the River Crest CC day camp in the summer of 2003. She also taught golf classes for Marshall in the fall of 2004 and 2005. She is currently enrolled in the Graduate College at Marshall pursuing a M.S. in Health and Physical Education with an emphasis on Athletic Administration.

The former Meredith Knight was married to volunteer assistant coach Scott Rowsey in Jamaica in November of 2005.