Kendra Cameron-Curry, a four-time USBC Women’s Championships titlist and member of the USBC Hall of Fame, has been named Regional Director of Bowling for the three-center Aloma Bowling Centers chain in central Florida. As the company focuses on its core bowling business, Cameron-Curry will be responsible for fostering relationships among current league and tournament bowlers, […]

Retired bowling center operator Bill Strike, who had suffered from the complications of Alzheimer’s in recent years, died on May 12. He was 81.  Strike, the father of pro bowler Dale Strike, managed several centers over the course of his career, and was best known for hosting big events, including PBA Tour stops. He was […]

Don Lutz, part of the team that developed and sold the Guardian lane surface and, later, Glow-in-the-Dark Guardian, has died. The 30-year veteran of the bowling business spent most of his career with Perry-Austen International, the company that developed the Guardian product to help extend the life of old wood lanes that were down to […]

The United States Bowling Congress Board of Directors has approved a series of governance policy amendments for next season. They include an increase in the number of Team USA athletes on the USBC Board of Directors to meet new requirements from the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. USBC received approval from USOPC to expand its definition […]

The Lanes at Sea Gurt, which opened in 1960 as Hyway 35 Lanes and since 1995 has been owned by Nationwide Bowling Corporation, has closed. Developers purchased the property on which the center sits in Wall, N.J., last year, and plan to demolish or redevelop the facility to better complement the adjacent Sea Girt Square […]

Jamie Brooks waited a long time for his chance to become a member of the 100,000-Pin Club at the United States Bowling Congress Open Championships. When the May 1 start date for the 2021 event was finalized, he was among the first in line to lock in his dates and times, which he hoped would […]

If you needed an indication that kids want to return to school and get back on the lanes, look no further than the Iowa Bowling Federation, which recently conducted bowling programs spanning six to eight weeks for fifth- through eighth-grade students. After the federation canceled competition in 2020 because of the pandemic, its return in […]

The pilot based on pro bowler Tom Smallwood’s journey from laid-off autoworker to pro bowling champion has been ordered to series by CBS. Developed by comedian Pete Holmes, the series will have Mark Gross (“Mike & Molly”) as its executive producer, and Chi McBride (Hawaii Five-0) and Katie Lowes (“Scandal”) as co-stars. At least for […]

The International Bowling Campus in Arlington, Texas, hosted its first class of students since September 2019 when 23 center owners and managers attended BPAA’s School of Bowling Center Management. Topics presented by the Bowling University instruction team included marketing, organized play, food and beverage, talent acquisition and sales. Since the class took place prior to […]