NEWS, NOTES AND HAPPENINGS FROM THE WORLD OF BOWLING
BRIEFS Coaches to
TOP TIP: Click on the play button (above left) to watch special video coverage of Amateur of the Year Brenda Edwards discussing how to effectively line up on a new pattern.
Team USA Members Named Amateurs of the Year
BRENDA EDWARDS, Mansfield, Texas, and John Janawicz, Winter Haven, Florida were named the winners of the Bowling Writers Association of America (BWAA) Amateur Bowlers of the Year for 2009. Both bowlers leveraged their 2010 USBC Team USA Trials titles held in Las Vegas last December to garner the honors. Edwards, 35, captured the 2009 USBC Open
Championships Doubles title with a record 1,566 performance with fiance Stephen Padilla. She followed that with a 300 game in Singles
and set a women’s USBC Open Championships record with a 2,132 All-Events for a fifth place finish. The three-time Team USA member fin- ished fifth in the 2009 USBC Queens. Janawicz, 37, repeated his 2004 BWAA and
Bowlers Journal International Amateur Bowler of the Year performance. His record-setting 858 in Singles and All-Events title in the USBC Open Championships that year were his step- ping stones to the honors. This also is his third appearance with Team USA.
Hall of Famer
Re-Certify USBC Coaching will launch a new program early next year to re-cer- tify coaches and also will begin a requisite continu- ing education program to keep bowling coaches up to date on the latest technology and coaching techniques. The program will require USBC Gold, Silver and Bronze coaches who were certified prior to Jan. 1, 2006 to take an online certification test by Aug. 1, 2011 to main- tain their status. Level I coaches do not have to be re-certified. Go to the Coaching page of BOWL. com for further infor- mation about the new programs.
Mark Roth
Dick Evans Passes Away Longtime Miami Herald writer and USBC Hall of Famer Dick Evans passed away July 4 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 78. One of the most decorated bowling writers in history, Evans was inducted into the Professional Bowlers Association Hall of Fame in 1986 and the USBC Hall of Fame in 1992. He was the first daily newspaper writer to be honored by both halls. A prolific bowling writer, Evans collected more than 60 writing contest awards from various bowling publications over a span of more than 50 years. His weekly bowling stories for the Miami Herald were distributed by the Knight-Ridder chain to 144 daily newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more than 10 million papers.
Bowls Again Since PBA legend Mark Roth, 59, suffered a mas- sive stroke in late May 2009 that left the left side of his body para- lyzed, he has refused to give up the fight to regain his life. His first public appearance following his stroke was at the GEICO Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship in late March in West Babylon, N.Y., which motivated him to continue his rehabilitation. In August, with the assistance of a recently-developed device called a “WalkAide” that provides electronic stimulation to eliminate a common stroke condition called “drop foot,” the 34-time PBA Tour cham- pion was able to stand and walk on his own — and even bowl. The hall of famer started with a 6-pound ball before mov- ing to a 12-pounder.
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