Jan BowmanJanice Faye Bowman is a retired Australian women's basketball player.BiographyBowman played for the Australia women's national [basketball team] during the 1970s and competed for Australia at the 1975 [FIBA World Championship for Women|1975 World Championship] held in Colombia. At the Championship, Bowman contracted German measles the day of the first game and was put into isolation for the rest of the tournament. At tall, Bowman played Centre. Bowman played in an era before the creation of the Women's National [Basketball League] in 1981. Although Bowman was born in Brisbane, she played for Victoria at the national basketball championships.