Has anyone ever been treated rudely (even on a minuscule level) by a female professional bowler during a Pro-Am event? If so, give a name and describe the encounter in as much detail as necessary. Generally, most female professionals are polite with fans but I heard from one Pro-Am participant that one particular female bowler was "snooty" toward him (I will reveal the name if one is curious enough to ask).

In the 25+ years I've been to a LPBT/PWBA Pro-Am event, I have never encountered a lady pro bowler who has been rude. Never. They all have not only been extremely nice, self-effacing, and entirely grateful for the experience and simply being out on tour for us, but they go out of their way to come down off of the idolizing pedestal we put them on and come to meet us.

I never expected to meet someone like Dana Miller-Mackie in my life, and when I was so frozen in my tracks to even say hi to her, she stopped what she was doing, introduced herself to me, and asked how I was doing. And she was my idol. From there, she introduced me to others like Aleta Sill, Anne Marie Duggan, Lisa Wagner, Carol Norman, Dede Davidson, etc. We've been friends ever since.

fast forward to today and wondering if the girls today are just as genial and nice as they were back then? Emphatically yes. KK, Liz (both of them), Zavy, Verity, Josie, Danielle, Shannon (both of them), StefJo, hell, even the girls from Singapore (Jazreel, Cherie, Hui, etc.) are all nice and go out of their way to meet and greet you.

The friendliness and humbleness are huge characteristics that haven't disappeared from the PWBA, both then and now.

BL.

I saw a post on FB were a professional bowler claims a PWBA star was a bit petty. I don't know the situation first hand though, so no telling what actually happened.

I saw a post on FB were a professional bowler claims a PWBA star was a bit petty. I don't know the situation first hand though, so no telling what actually happened.

IT DOESNT MATTER.

 So somebody had a bad day.  Or maybe somebody just doesn’t care for someone else.

 That’s life, deal with it.

 All just a bunch of petty bullshit. Ain’t nobody around here trying to hear that crap.

Quote from: billdozer on September 10, 2018, 08:10:52 AM

Wow, I'm pretty sure all 13 of us fellow BR members are very curious.

U sure your buddy wasn't a drunken jerk?

He is a "nice guy" who happened to be drunk.

Hearsay from a drunk friend is the best kind of eyewitness account.  Its official enter it in the record.

I have been to number of PWBA since the relaunch, 2 stops this year.  All the ladies have been very polite and professional!!  Attended several pro-am s and  all the ladies were so gracious!! No problems what so ever!!!

OP must have just wanted to start a new topic.  Initially it sounded like he/she had zero knowledge of any specifics regarding the encounter.  Then comes back and spills are the pertinent details of said encounter.  Slow days on the old ballreviews.com

Even with going to a few stops the past 2 years, I never ran into a situation where any of the women were rude.  Even though I've already met Liz Johnson several times, she's always nice.  Also met Missy Parkin, Danielle McEwan, Tannya Roumimper, Katelyn Simpson, Bryanna Cote, Shannon O'Keefe, Rocio Restrepo, Shannon Pluhowsky, Kristina Szczerbinski, CDB, Zavy, Clara Guerrero, Josie Barnes, Erin McCarthy, Anggie Ramirez-Perea, Maria Rodriguez, and Nicole Trudell.  Every single one of them was great to talk to. 

Then in Rochester, NY back in 2016, also got to chat with Del Ballard and Dan MacLelland.  Both were awesome to chat with.