Just informed something new about sanctioning (I heard something about this before but didn't know it was passed)

All sanctions will run August 1st thru July 31st.  Now that makes sense to me as a year round bowler.

Here's my problem:  We had about 60 brand new sanctioned bowlers that made their inaugural donation to USBC (none of which have received a sanction card yet) join a summer league in our center (starting in mid May).  So they all paid their sanction of $18 for what we thought was Summer, Fall, Summer like it has been for years and years. 

Now if these bowlers are going to bowl again this fall (which I think 90% of them will)  they will have to pay the full sanction fee again.


*Discuss*

This is true. Approved by delegates last spring. Everyone must certify at start of fall season. My daughter actually paid sport fee in May and I upgraded to sport. She will have to pay again if she chose to bowl next year. I dont agree with this either or summer fees should be less since only good for such a short time.

This could hurt summer leagues as well or encourage centers to run summer un-certified.

I totally understand that you want people on the same cycle (Aug-July) but here we have 60 brand new bowlers getting double charged basically.  And like i said they still haven't even received their cards in the mail.  Not to mention that these people because they are brand new, probably never received an award this summer, never received their cards, and see no real benefit to being sanctioned.

A person at national said, well they can always go online and print their card and then browse all the benefits available to them.  Being a brand new bowler do you think they are even aware that bowl.com exists?  And really does anyone else find that website to be nearly impossible to find information quickly.  I mean damn i searched for 15 minutes to find a way to print extra sanction cards for a league that I run.

I mean really it's only $18 for our state, but if i were a brand new bowler, i'd think twice about bowling in a sanctioned league when there are unsanctioned leagues popping up at an alarming rate.

I have no problem with the USBC increasing the price of the sanctioning fee for the year.  I think that for the summer leagues it should not be the same price, it should be lower since we are bowling far fewer weeks and in some locations, the summer leagues are a way to get new bowlers into organized bowling.  Maybe the USBC needs to offer some incentives for new league bowlers like a discount for their first season or if you bring in a new bowler, you get a discount on your fee.

Before the merger, they mentioned that some of the reasons were to save money on operating expenses and to get bowling recognised as an Olympic sport.  I have not read anything lately about getting bowling in the Olympics.  Did they get any money for the building in WI (now a WalMart I think) when they moved to TX to be closer to the BPAA?  The building was vacant for a long while so hopefully they got enough to cover that loss (paying for two sites).  I think the bowlers also lost their input to who sits on the USBC board in that merger. 

Fact, the USBC is poorly run, I believe we can all agree on that fact.
Come on Kegal and BPAA, your on deck.

What was wrong with the way it has always been done..??

Indeed, the rule has been changed. Gone are the days when a bowler could purchase a summer league membership, with the card good for the following winter league season AND the subsequent summer league, too.

Well, the card being good for a summer, then winter and another summer was not right either.  It should be good for one summer and one winter session in either order.