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Career Notes: Of the 19 single-season or career records she could have reasonable broken in her three-year career, she owned 15 of them… Among those are scoring average at 20.00 pins per frame… Averaged 199.93 in traditional play and topped 200 77 times in her 146 career games.
2021-22 (Senior): Named the 2021-22 Joseph F. Malmisur YSU Female Athlete of the Year… Voted to the All-Southland Bowling League Second Team, which was the highest honor at the league level ever by a Penguin… Earned All-Academic Team accolades from the NTCA and the Southland… Named to the All-Tournament Team at the Southland Bowling League Championship… Set nine of the 12 single-season records in the program’s record book… Averaged a career-best 203.75 in traditional matches, which was the second highest average in school history… Bowled in 53 games and totaled 10,799 pins, both of which were school records… Also set single-season school records for 200 games (29), Baker fames (824), Baker frame average (20.37), total frames (1,354), frame average (20.37), spare conversion percentage (75.54) and fill frame percentage (87.44)… Placed in the top 25 at six tournaments and was in the top 16 in four of YSU’s first five tournaments… Her best finish came when she placed seventh at the MOTIV Penguin Classic with a five-game total of 1,033… Bowled a season-high 256 game against Morgan State at the tournament (10/16)… Her highest-scoring event came at the Northeast Classic when she averaged 215.2 over her five traditional games for a 1,076 set… Her 22.70 average in Baker play at the Northeast Classic was the second-best tournament average in program history… Averaged 22.50 pins per frame in the traditional format and 21.19 in Baker at the Southland Championship to earn all-tournament team honors… Ranked in the top 10 nationally during the regular season in spare percentage, and she ranked ninth among all anchor bowlers in 10th frame scoring average.
2020-21 (Junior): Earned All-Central Region Honorable Mention and All-Southland Third Team accolades... Named to the Southland Bowling League All-Academic Team and an NTCA All-Academic scholar-athlete... Earned All-Tournament Team honors at the NCAA Championship and the Columbia 300 Saints Invite... Bowled in 43 team games and totaled 8,529 pins for a 198.35 average... That was the second-best mark in school history for a single season... Set a new school record with 28 games over 200, eclipsing the old mark by six despite bowling a condensed schedule due to the pandemic... Bowled in the 200s in 28 of her 43 games, or 65.1 percent of her opportunities... Surpassed 200 in nine straight games over the first two tournaments of the spring, and she had eight consecutive 200 games at the Big Red Invitational... Finished 16th or better at four of YSU's six tournaments during the regular season... Her best finish came when she was the runner-up at the Columbia 300 Saints Invite to start the spring semester with a 1,292 total pinfall and 215.33 average... That broke the school record for highest total for a six-game tournament and ranked second at the end of the season... Also finished 12th at the Big Red Invitational and 16th at both the Bearcat Hammer Open and the PVAMU Invitational... Her 217.00 average at the Big Red Invite was the fourth-best at a tournament in program history and the best of her career... Led the Penguins in Baker format with a 19.74-pin frame average and 561 Baker frames... Was in the fourth spot in the Baker lineup when YSU bowled a school record 279 against Maryville at the Big Red Invitational (2/26), and she was in the anchor position when the team bowled a 267 and 265, the third and fourth-best games in school history... Overall, bowled in a team-high 991 frames and recorded 474 strikes and 356 spares... Struck on 47.83 percent of her attempts and led the Penguins with a 68.86 spare percentage and an 83.75 fill frame percentage.
2019-20 (Sophomore): Named to the Southland Bowling League All-Academic Team and was one of three SBL bowlers to achieve a 4.0 during the year... Also earned All-Academic Scholar-Athlete honors from the NTCA... Set school single-season records for highest pinfall (9,862), Baker frame average (19.82) and strike percentage (47.99)... Competed at all 10 tournaments and bowled in all 50 team games on the season... Totaled 9,862 pins in her 50 games for an average of 197.24, which ranked second on the team and as the second-best average in program history... Posted 20 games of at least 200, and had a high game of 257 on Nov. 2, 2019, against Prairie View A&M at the Track Kat Klash... Earned four top-10 finishes at tournaments, including becoming YSU’s first-ever tournament champion when she topped the field at the Mount Shootout... Bowled between 195 and 233 in all five games for a total of 1,081 at the tournament, which was 21 pins better than any other participant and the third-best tournament pinfall in program history... That performance helped her earn the Southland Bowling League’s Bowler-Of-The-Month Award for October... Also placed in the top 10 at the Columbia 300 Penguin Classic (992), the Red Flash Invitational (990) and the Big Red Invitational (1,059)... Bowled in 767 Baker frames on her way to setting YSU’s single-season record with 19.82 pins per frame... Routinely occupied the fourth or anchor spots in the lineup... For the year, bowled in 1,267 frames and registered 608 strikes and 450 spares... Posted a strike percentage of47.99, a spare percentage of 68.29 and a fill frame percentage of 83.50.
Before YSU: Bowled at Saint Francis U in 2017-18 and attended Harper College in Illinois in 2018-19... At SFU, was named to the NEC All-Rookie Team and MVP of the NEC Tournament... Led all bowlers at the conference championship in frame average and traditional game average and filled 86.4 percent of her matches en route to becoming the first freshman to be selected as the MVP... Went on to be named the Freshman Female Athlete of the Year at SFU.
High School: Qualified for the state tournament four times, was a two-time conference individual champion and a two-time team MVP at John Hersey High School... Qualified in the top 16 at the Junior Gold Championships in both 2016 and 2017.
Personal: Parents are Bill and Patti... Has a sister, Hannah, who bowled at Robert Morris of Illinois... Major is business administration... Placed 42nd overall and posted a high game of 258 at the 2019 Junior Gold Championships... Recipient of the 2021-22 Lester F. Donnell Scholarship.
