Bill Cowher was married to a former basketball player Kaye Cowher. The pair tied the knot in 1993 and were together until 2012 when Kaye tragically passed away of skin cancer at the age of 54.
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Bill and Kaye initially met at North Carolina State, where Kaye and her twin sister Faye were members of the Wolfpack’s basketball team. Bill was a star linebacker for the football team. Kaye and Faye also played in the Women’s Professional Basketball League for the New Jersey Gems.
The football coach and Kaye had three daughters together: Meagan, Lauren and Lindsay, all of whom were excellent athletes.
The Cowher clan lived in Raleigh, North Carolina, and his oldest daughter, Meagan, is married to NHL forward Kevin Westgarth, who played for the LA Kings. Lindsay played college basketball at Wofford University. She’s married to former Duke and NBA player Ryan Kelly.
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William Laird Cowher is an American sports analyst and former football player and coach. Following a six-year playing career as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL), he served as a head coach in the NFL for 15 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He began his coaching career as an assistant under Marty Schottenheimer for the Cleveland Browns and Kansas City Chiefs, serving as the latter’s defensive coordinator from 1989 to 1991.
Cowher was named head coach of the Steelers in 1992, whom he led until his retirement following the 2006 season. After retiring, he joined The NFL Today as a studio analyst.
Under Cowher, Pittsburgh won eight division titles, two AFC Championship Games, and Super Bowl XL. Cowher’s Super Bowl victory marked the first championship title for the franchise in over two decades and the first not to be won by Chuck Noll, his predecessor.
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