For Immediate Release
Thursday, June 16, 2016
NSIC Media Relations

BURNSVILLE, Minn. -  Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Commissioner Erin Lind is excited to announce the hiring of Jennifer Flowers as NSIC Assistant Commissioner for Membership Services.  Flowers will officially begin her duties on August 1.

“Jen will be a great addition to our staff and to our entire conference as she has an extensive knowledge of the NSIC and the NCAA,” stated Lind.  “She will bring great leadership having worked with athletic administrators, coaches and faculty athletic representatives.  Jen has spent valuable time on campus as an administrator, which will provide tremendous value to her role as Assistant Commissioner for Membership Services.”

Flowers will focus on the internal service of the membership and NSIC stakeholders. She will serve as the liaison from the NSIC Office in support of the senior woman administrators, faculty athletic representatives, and other conference administrative groups. Flowers will be responsible for assisting with strategic plan implementation with a commitment to academics and life skills, athletics operations and compliance, diversity and inclusion, game day, championships, membership and positioning.  Additionally, she will have direct championship sport oversight.

“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to join the NSIC staff and am very much looking forward to getting started” said Flowers. "I am excited to work with all of the outstanding people associated with the NSIC and hope to help the conference achieve new successes."
Flowers previously worked at Winona State University as the associate athletic director and senior woman administrator from 2012 to December of 2015.  She also had a stint at WSU from 2006-09.  Flowers oversaw the internal aspects of the department, including compliance and budget coordination while also overseeing athletic department scheduling. She was the department’s liaison to the Winona State Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) as well.

Prior to working at Winona State, Flowers was an assistant women’s basketball and volleyball coach at Simpson College during the 2005-06 season. She helped guide Simpson’s women’s basketball team to the Iowa Conference regular season and tournament championships while equaling the program’s record for wins in a season. Flowers helped coach three players to all-conference honors. She also helped guide the volleyball program to a 21-14 record and a second-place finish at the conference tournament.

Flowers spent the 2004-05 academic year at the University of Minnesota where she was the assistant to the associate athletic director. At Minnesota she was the assistant championship manager for four NCAA Championships and one WCHA Championship. She also was the assistant game director for Minnesota’s Music City Bowl appearance in 2004.

Flowers is a 2003 graduate of Winona State with a degree in Education. Flowers (then Jennifer Jepson) was a four-year letter winner on the Warrior volleyball team, earning All-NSIC honors at the setter position her senior year. She holds a master’s degree in sports management from the University of Minnesota.

Flowers and her husband, Jonté, a former All-American on Winona State’s national championship basketball teams, have a daughter, Ayanna, and a son, Kellen.