Are involved in High School Bowling?  Coaches, Players, Sponsors, and where?  I'd like to find out about their experiences and what it is like across the country.

Smash49
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I bowl for my High School Team. I go to Benjamin N. Cardozo highschool in Bayside NY. Im captain of the team. This past season we were #1 in our division (queens IV) and went all the way to the city Quater FInals where we were defeated by Tottenville, who went on to win City Championship.
Here is a link to the PSAL (public school athletic league) website for my team.
http://psal.org/psalsports/team/psal_teamprofile.asp?cschool=26505&csport=007
Im Ryan Hochrad (click my name for stats, look at both my freshman and sophomore years stats by switching the years on the top right of the screen)
Also, here is a link to to a chart that shows the Competition that we had in the City.
http://psal.org/psalsports/bowling/psal_bowstats.asp?sportid=007
Im #46 out of over 1000 city bowlers for average with a 183.64, #109 out of more than 1000 city bowlers for total pins (2571 pins in 14 games).
For all bowlers in New York, the real competition is all from Staten island. They win the City Championships almost every year. But my team is up there ranked #10 in in the entire city and we are moving up.

Ryan
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Thanks everyone so far.  I'll put up some information about The Irving High School Bowling Club and myself.  The team website is www.slsmdesigns.com/irvinghighbowling  This is our team information website.  We are located in Irving Texas just outside of Dallas. We belong to the Dallas West District and the Central Texas Region. I have been coaching the team for a little over 2 years.  What I am finding is a wide variety of high school programs, coaching levels, and athletes opinions.  There is also big differences in equipment, money sponsorships, support, skill levels and experience.  Ryan, I looked at the PSAL site and there is a ton of information on it.  A very good site and tells alot about the sport in your area as far as stats.  How are things in your area?  What do you like and dislike about high school bowling?  What kind of coaching do you get if any?  

Dan what differences did you find?



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Robert Maxfield
Irving High School Bowling Team
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Edited on 6/9/2005 1:47 PM

I'm working towards getting a team at my High School, if that counts?
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I am the head coach for a team in western Nebraska (Scottsbluff). The program is going into it's fourth year as a club sport in the state of Nebraska. The Nebraska High School Bowling Federation website is www.nhsbf.com . The popularity of high school bowling across the entire state is absolutely mind shattering. I would not trade it for the world. Also, this past season at the state finals, the NHSBF conducted the nations first (and only) "arena" finals. It was quite a show indeed. Check out the website for all of that info. If anyone has any questions on this subject (high school bowling that is) feel free to speak up and I will try to answer as much as I can.

The program at my high school, and those in most of Minnesota are club sports.  There is very little support given by the schools and many don't recognize the programs at all.  Until my senior year in high school, the only affiliation my school had with the bowling team was the use of the school's name and logo on our shirts.  In my senior year, we actually got the city to recognize bowling as a club sport for the 3 high schools in Rochester where the students could earn the school "letter" for participation.  The biggest support we get is from the manager of the house we practice at as he does not charge the team for lineage when they practice twice a week.  All matches in this state are baker format.  The conference my high school bowls in bowls best of 5 matches with 2 matches each week.  There are 8 weeks of matches and then a conference tournament.  The winnoer of the conference tournament moves onto the state tournament and the 2nd place team goes to the Minnesota Invitational Tournament in which the top 3 teams I believe can earn a spot into the state tournament.  I believe at state you bowled 10 or so baker games for seeding, then it was a double elimination bracket.  In my days bowling, we made it to state twice, finishing third in my junior year.
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Dan Chambers
Winona State University Bowling
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We have been fairly lucky.  The Irving School District has 4 high schools.  Irving High School's team the first few years was supported by a grant.  When the grant ran out another form of support was found.  Last year there was only 3 high schools in the city and all of them had teams.  Only one of the schools gave any kind of backing to their teams.  Most of the time the schools let the teams exist on their own as long as there were no problems.  We made it to regionals which were about three hours away by bus and the school did provide that. Bowling is growing at Irving High SChool and now people are getting behind it. Most of our support comes from fund raising and corporate sponsorships.  We model many things in the program from other high schools such as Westerville South in Ohio and Allen in the Dallas area.  We are finding there is a large difference economically amongst programs districts and regions.  An example would be that local school showed up in three mercedes tour buses for the state tournament.  Some of our kids carpooled.  Some kids had 3 or 4 Lane #1 balls they brought.  We had kids in house shoes.  Last year we looked for ways to level the playing field and in some ways we succeeded.  We've been to state the last three years.  Last year one of our boys placed forth.  This year he won the state boys singles championship.  Our girls went undefeated in the district winning that title 6-0 83-7.  At regionals they beat the defending state runnerups and advanced to state again.  The boys shocked the regionals tying for second.  They beat the regional winners and were the only team to do that up until that point.  They advanced to state.  Things can be done without a lot of money.  It's harder but possible.

Smash49

Tracy get Karen Miller to give you some help.  I had heard about the Dallas West Denton times.  It was just before I got to Irving.  It could be worse.  You could be in Odessa where football is a religion.  I would much rather come to San Antonio! than go to Houston.  Pile the kids on the Amtrak train and go!

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robert@bowlersslidesock.com
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