She attended Kihei Elementary School, Lokelani Intermediate School and then graduated in 1995 as a valedictorian at Baldwin High School. After high school graduation, she enrolled at the University of Utah for two years until the paragliding accident that broke her spine and changed her life. Following the accident, Fowler attended Maui Community College for one semester, transferred to the University of Arizona for one year until finally finishing her studies at UC-Santa Barbara. The Thomas More Storke Medal Award, named for the former editor and publisher of the Santa Barbara News Press, is a bronze medal one of 100 cast in 1968 by the late Santa Ynez, Calif., sculptor Francis M. Sedgwick. She said she's grateful to just complete her requirements for graduation.
Fowler also is an avid kayaker and recently took up sailing.
Aside from her parents, Brian and Martha, Fowler expects some of her Maui friends now in California to attend the graduation. In the fall, she plans to pursue a doctorate in psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego. I think anyone who knows her would be.