Update
Team USA Wants You
IN RECENT YEARS the doors to Team USA were opened to pro bowlers from the PBA, but the dream of competing on Team USA continues to be well within reach of any talented bowler. The roster for
the 2011 team began to take shape in early November when the national selection committee chose seven women and six men for the initial roster. Gearing up for the 2011
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Those initial selections
represent only a portion of the final roster of 2011 Team USA players. All USBC members will have the opportu- nity to join the team by competing in the 2011 USBC Team USA Trials, Jan. 3-7 at Sunset Station Hotel and Casino’s Strike Zone
Bowling Center in Tommy Jones
World Tenpin Bowling Association World Women’s Championships in Hong Kong, the committee chose Kelly Kulick, Liz Johnson, Shannon Pluhowsky, Tennelle Milligan, Shannon O’Keefe, Stefanie Nation and Carolyn Dorin- Ballard. On the men’s side, Walter
Ray Williams Jr., Chris Barnes, Wes Malott, Bill O’Neill, Patrick Allen and Tommy Jones were the selections. All 13 of those bowlers are cur- rently on the 2010 team. “All the players selected
have proven themselves not only on the lanes but off the lanes as being worthy of being selected for Team USA,” said Rod Ross, Team USA head coach. “Next year is a big year for Team USA with the Pan American Games and World Women’s Championships, and these selections build a foundation as we work toward those events.”
suburban Las Vegas. The top three
men and top three
women finishers at the Team USA Trials will earn automatic spots on Team USA, while the National Selection Committee will pick two additional men and two additional women from the field to join the team.
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CANADA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TAKE WORLD CUP TITLES The Americans were nar- rowly shut out of finals competition at this year’s QubicaAMF World Cup held in Toulon, France, in late October. Team USA’s Carolyn
Dorin-Ballard finished fourth on the women’s side, missing the stepladder finals by just 60 pins. Her team- mate, John Szczerbinski, took fifth on the men’s side. Instead, Canadian
Michael Schmidt won his sec- ond career World Cup title, while Aumi Guerra gave the Dominican Republic its first title in the event Oct. 23. Schmidt, who won the
World Cup in 2005 and fin- ished second last year, defeat- ed England’s Matt Miller, 2-1, in the best-of-three games championship match. Guerra took down
top seed Gye Min-Young of Korea, 2-1, to win the women’s title at Bowling de Provence. In the championship
match, Schmidt lost the opener 246-205 but rebound- ed to take the next two games, 212-207 and 224-188. The World Cup is the
largest international bowling tournament in the world in terms of the number of coun- tries competing. This year, 93 countries competed with 92 players in the men’s field and 76 in the women’s division.
ELITE MEET: Click on the play button (above left) to watch special video coverage of Team USA star Shannon O’Keefe discussing the Team USA Trials.
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