Guess who’s back with Caernarfon Town ladies?

One of Caernarfon Town’s finest ever women players is returning to the club where she has created so many great memories.

Katie Louise Bowe, 34, will add her experience to the Canaries’ young squad in their 2025-26 Tier 3 campaign.

The attacking midfielder has spent the past four seasons with Pwllheli, where she won back-to-back North East Wales Women’s League titles.

Katie told Grassroots North Wales she has thoroughly enjoyed her time with the Llŷn Peninsula club, but is rejoining Caernarfon as it is nearer to her place of work and home which she shares with her young daughter.

Two other past Caernarfon Town stars are believed to be joining the club, but this is still to be confirmed.

Katie specialises in long-distance goals and is predominantly left-footed.

She first started playing football at the age of six and soon joined the Bangor area Maes-y-Bryn boys under-7 team.

An outstanding player throughout her school years, Katie represented North Wales sides all through her youth and featured in the Wales Under-17 national squads for matches against Switzerland and England.

With long-time highly respected women’s football coach Keith Fearns a major influence, in her late teens Katie became a key player in the successful Caernarfon Town ladies teams of the late first millennium decade.

She was a stand-out performer when the Canaries competed in the Welsh Premier Women’s League Northern Conference and won the title in 2009-10.

Town made it back-to-back Northern championships in 2010-11, Katie scoring twice in a title-clinching 2-0 win over Wrexham.

She also grabbed a hat-trick as Town beat Llandudno Junction 4-1 to lift the Maurice Naylor Cup.

During this spell, Caernarfon met Swansea City twice in the all-Wales WPWL final and also in the Welsh Cup Final, losing to the Swans on each occasion.

Katie remained with the Cofis when the WPWL went fully national in 2012-13, but later joined Llandudno Junction (who were to become Llandudno).

Her time at Maesdu Park was often a magical one, filled with remarkable long-range goals from free kicks and open play.

She regularly displayed sublime passing ability and a penchant for scoring direct from corners.

In the 2015/16 season, Katie scored 21 goals and inspired Llandudno to their first-ever Welsh Cup final.

Taking on Cardiff City FC Women at Latham Park, Newtown, Katie scored a stunning opening goal from over 20 yards just minutes into the match.

Although Tudno eventually lost 5-2, Katie became the first woman ever to be nominated for S4C Sgorio’s Goal of the Month award.

Injuries held her back for the next couple of seasons before she rejoined Caernarfon Town, whose ill-fated Welsh Premier return ended just five games into the 2018-19 season when the club resigned.

The 2019-20 season saw Katie sign for Mountain Rangers. She scored seven goals on debut and netted 11 times in six games, but the season was cut short by Covid-19.

On the return of football in 2021-22, Katie had by then joined Pwllheli.

Much of her time with Pwll was disrupted by injuries, but she still enjoyed plenty of success, including playing 120 minutes in the North East Wales League play-off final victory against Flint Town United in 2023-24.