Sean Rash is a former Wichita State bowler, he is originally from Alaska, and has an awesome game. He is very versital, and, well, he had to beat out WRW. He has done very well in Nationals every year he has gone, winning atleast $5,000 each trip. Former Team USA and a runner up-colligete bowler of the year to Bill O'Neill, here is the artice on PBATOUR.com
Rash on Fire
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. - February 10, 2006
Sean Rash is one of the brightest young bowlers in the PBA, and he’s finally showing why.
After struggling through some early set-backs in this season’s Denny’s PBA Tour Qualifying Rounds (TQR), Rash is treating this week's 2006 West Virginia Championship as his personal coming out party.
A week after advancing to his first standard round of 64 in the 2006 Bayer Atlanta Classic, Rash will now face PBA Hall of Famer Walter Ray Williams Jr. in the round of 8 for a berth in Sunday's championship round.
Making his first career standard match play appearance, Rash swept through each of his first two career matches, defeating Tim Criss, 4-0, in the round of 32 and Michael Fagan, 4-0, in the round of 16.
The 23-year-old Rash was a Team USA member in 2002, ’04 and ’05 and was a Junior Team USA member in 1998, 2002 and ’03. The Wichita, Kan., native bowled at the collegiate level at Wichita State University where he was a two-time All-American, won the 2003 IBC National Championship and was the runner-up for 2003 IBC Bowler of the Year.
Rash had to endure some frustrating weeks in the TQRs before finally getting over the hump, finishing one spot out of the cut on three occasions.
After finishing in the top 20 in each of the first three TQRs, Rash endured his first close call in the 2005 Chicago Classic, when he finished 7th, missing out by one spot after shooting a 169 in the seventh and final game. After finishing 11th in the 2005 BowlersParadise.com Classic TQR, Rash again struggled in game seven, firing a 158 in the final game of the 2005 Keystone State Championship TQR to force a one-game roll-off with Chris Hayden for the final spot, which he lost, 190-171.
Rash’s biggest heartbreak came in the 2006 Motel 6 Phoenix Classic TQR, where he finished 7th again, missing for the third time by one spot. This time, however, it wasn’t Rash’s game seven-performance to blame. Needing a big game to go around Rash, David Leverage shot 300 in the seventh game to outlast Rash – who shot 228 – by five pins.
While it looked like the youngster might have been burned out by the close calls, finishing 37th in the 2006 Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Classic TQR, Rash bounced back by qualifying for the first time last week in Norcross.
