Emma Wrenn | 2021-22 Female Athlete of the Year
Career Notes: The bowling program’s transformation into a nationally-competitive program coincides with her joining the team. With her as the team’s primary anchor over three seasons, YSU has been ranked in the top 11 of 12 straight National Tenpin Coaches Association polls...Of the 19 single-season or career records she could have reasonably broken in her three years, she owns 15 of them. Among those are overall scoring average at 20.00 pins per frame, which is an impressive 0.87 pins better than any other Penguin who has exhausted her eligibility...in traditional play, she averaged 199.93 per game and topped 200 77 times in 146 career games...a two-time All-Southland Bowling League honoree...named to the All-Tournament Team at the Final Four in 2020-21 as the Penguins finished fourth as a team in the NCAA Tournament...earned six top-10 individual finishes, the most in a career by a Penguin, in 30 career events. She is the only player in school history to be a tournament MVP as she finished first at the Mount Shootout in 2019.
2021-22: Voted to the All-Southland Second Team, which is the highest team a Penguin has ever made at the conference level...was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Southland Bowling League Championship where she averaged 22.50 pins per frame in traditional and 21.19 in Baker at the tournament leading the Penguins to a runners-up finish...surpassed 200 in 29 of her individual games and finished the season with a 203.75 average in traditional play...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...of the 12 single-season school records YSU tracks, set nine of them her senior year. Most notably, she averaged a school-best 20.37 pins per frame over both the Baker and traditional formats. She also broke records for total pinfall, matches bowled, 200 games, Baker frames, Baker frame average, total frames, spare percentage, and fill frame percentage.
2020-21: 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...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...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: Named to the Southland Bowling League All-Academic Team and was one of three SBL bowlers to achieve a 4.0 during the year...earned All-Academic Scholar-Athlete honors from the NTCA...set then-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...posted 20 games of at least 200, and had a high game of 257 on Nov. 2, 2019, against Prairie View A&M...earned four top-10 finishes at tournaments, including becoming YSU’s first-ever tournament champion when she topped the field at the Mount Shootout.
