NATIONAL BOWLING WEEK
Free Bowling Saturday Aug. 7.
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN! National Bowling Week is just around the corner. The weeklong festivities run from July 31 through Aug. 7, and culminate with “World
Record Day” Saturday, Aug. 7. Look for special promotions and events from your local Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America (BPAA) center. “National Bowling Week is a great opportunity to invite the public into bowling cen-
ters across the nation and get people to remember how much fun bowling is,” said Henry Lewczyk, vice president of marketing and research for the BPAA. Last year on World Record Day (Sept. 5, 2009), more than 1,000 bowling centers across
the nation joined forces to record 741,821 games — surpassing the existing record of 548,721 games, an increase of over 35 percent. To help continue that trend and set a new world record this year, the BPAA is offering a free game coupon, which can be downloaded and printed from
gobowling.com.
CELEBRITIES WHO BOWL
NASCAR, Meet Bowling
Racer Matt Kenseth takes on Norm Duke on the fast lanes.
TAKING A BREAK from life in the fast lane, NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth stopped by the International Bowling Campus and tried his luck on the lanes against USBC and PBA Hall of Famer Norm Duke on April 7. Duke was at the International
Training and Research Center to compete in the PBA Experience Showdown while Kenseth was in town to promote the Samsung Mobile 500 race at Texas Motor Speedway on April 18. Kenseth squared off against
Duke, a two-time PBA Player of the Year, in a one-game match. Kenseth opened with a strike and, thanks to some helpful coaching tips and the fact Duke gave him a very generous 117 pins, Kenseth rolled to victory. “That was really cool,” Kenseth,
the 2009 Daytona 500 winner, said of the experience of bowling against Duke. “It’s neat to do any- thing in competition against other people who are professionals in what they do. It was great to see the place, some of the training that
“That was neat,” Kenseth said.
“My dad and his two brothers were in there. I forgot about them hitting their 300s so that was neat.” Following the Kenseth-Duke
match, Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage jumped on the lanes to take on Kenseth. Gossage received coaching tips from ITRC and Team USA assistant head coach Kim Terrell-Kearney, and used that coaching to pick up a spare in the final frame to edge the NASCAR driver. “I was just blown away by the
goes on and how they approach their business.” Before he took on Duke,
Kenseth made a quick stop by the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame, where he used the interactive kiosk to see his father listed among league bowlers with a 300 game.
International Training and Research Center,” Gossage said. “Like everybody, I have casually bowled through the years, but I learned more in 10 frames with a Hall of Fame instructor than I would ever learn in my lifetime. “It’s just exciting to know that
this is here. The Hall of Fame ... the whole place is just first class. It’s really, really neat to know that another sport has its home in Dallas/Fort Worth.”
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