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- ↑ "Bowen Joins Lady Raiders Staff". Texas Tech University official athletics site. 20 August 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ↑ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
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