Rowan, an anglicization of the Irish O Ruadhain, isn't a name widely found in sport.

Indeed, apart from a South African cricketer active from the 1930s to 1950s, you'd be hard pressed to find any noteworthy athletes with the name.

A few journeymen soccer and baseball players and someone who started a single game for the Philadelphia Eagles back in the 1930s is about the extent of it.