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Tournament News
Four Bowlers Earn 2014 Team Usa Spots At
Summer Team USA Trials
ARLINGTON, Texas - Geoffrey Young of Denton, Texas, Nathan Bohr of Wichita, Kan., Carolyn Dorin-Ballard of Keller,
Texas, and Kayla Johnson of Washington, Ill., earned automatic spots on Team USA 2014 on Sunday as the United States
Bowling Congress Summer Team USA Trials came to a close.
Young led the men's field with a 15-game total of 3,418 (227.87 average), while Bohr was second with 3,415 at the Inter-
national Training and Research Center. Dorin-Ballard dominated the women's division with 3,407, while Johnson was sec-
ond with 3,193.
The top two players in each division after 15 games earned the automatic spots on Team USA in 2014. The remainder of
the Team USA roster will be determined and announced at the 2014 USBC Team USA Trials in January.
In the final frame, Young got just enough to stay ahead of Bohr to earn the victory to earn his first spot on Team USA.
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Team USA's World
Championships
Rosters Set
ARLINGTON, Texas - The Team USA men's and
women's rosters for the 2013 World Tenpin Bowling
Association World Championships are set as both
teams look to defend their titles.
The WTBA World Championships will be held Aug.
16-30 at Strike Zone Bowling Center in Henderson,
Nev.
The Team USA men's roster includes Chris Barnes
of Double Oak, Texas, Mike Fagan of Dallas, John
Janawicz of Winter Haven, Fla., Tommy Jones of
Simpsonville, S.C., Bill O'Neill of Langhorne, Pa., and
John Szczerbinski of North Tonawanda, N.Y.
The Team USA women's squad consists of Liz John-
son of Cheektowaga, N.Y., Kelly Kulick of Union, N.J.,
Stefanie Nation of Grand Prairie, Texas, Shannon
O'Keefe of Arlington, Texas, Missy Parkin of Fullerton,
Calif., and Shannon Pluhowsky of Kettering, Ohio.
"We have a very talented group of athletes on Team
USA, as we saw at training camp last week," Team
USA head coach Rod Ross said. "We had some very
difficult decisions during the selection process but we
will have two very strong, experienced teams to defend
our titles at the World Championships."
The rosters were determined by the Team USA
coaching staff.
Five of the six members on the women's squad were
on the 2011 team that won the five-player team title in
2011 in Hong Kong, Team USA's first team gold in the
event since 1987. Parkin, who is on Team USA for the
first time since 2008, is the new addition and will be
competing in the World Championships for the first
time.
"I'm extremely excited to be selected," Parkin said.
"We have a great team and will do our best to defend
the title. As the only one that's new to the team, I'm not
putting pressure on myself. I've bowled international
competitions and I believe that will help me. Because it
is a team event and because all the girls have been
there before, I'm sure they will help me out and show
the way."
On the men's side, Barnes, Jones and O'Neill were
on the squad that won the team gold medal at the 2010
championships in Munich, Germany, the third consecu-
tive world team title for Team USA. In 2010, the United
States became the first country to win five gold medals
at a WTBA World Men's Championships and brought
home a total of 11 medals (five gold, two silver, four
bronze) from the event.
Szczerbinski, a three-time Team USA member and
two-time Junior Team USA member, will make his first
World Championships appearance. He won three team
titles at Wichita State and said sharing the journey
during team competition supersedes any event.
"There's nothing like it in the sport of bowling, espe-
cially with the excitement level and anxiety level," said
Szczerbinski, who won a team bronze medal at the
2008 WTBA World Youth Championships as a Junior
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TAT Summer Classic
Recap
Another fun and exciting TAT
Summer Classic is in the
books! The Champion of this year‘s
event is Dave Guindon from Niag-
ara Falls, NY for $20,000. Coming
in a close second was 20 year old
Alex Hoskins from Pocatella, ID
cashing for $10,000. The final
match also included Don Quitan-
gon, a 170 average bowler that cashed for $7,500, Ed Roberts who is 70 years old but managed to make our
Top 5 for the second time and come in 4
th
for $6,000, and Jay Gneiting, a 195 average bowler came in 5
th
earn-
ing $5,000.
TAT finalists earned over $114,000 in just a few hours in the Main Finals. 1 out of 3 TAT bowlers qualified for the finals and were guar-
anteed $500 with each Daily Division leader making $750. Bowlers then earned a minimum of $150 for every round they advanced in the
finals until reaching the Top 5. The Top bowler from every division was guaranteed $5,000 with a shot at $20,000 decided in just one
single game.
TAT entry packages came with a minimum of 7 games of bowling with 3 chances to cash. Almost 80% of bowlers chose packages that
came with 2 Storm bowling balls with their tournament entry. TAT entrants received the Storm Sync and Ice Storm just for entering the
event. The very knowledgeable Storm staff was on hand all week helping TAT bowlers layout their new equipment for the tournament
shot. Early entrants into the TAT also received a Storm tote bag, a free chance squad, and a TAT logo large towel.
The 2013 TAT Summer Classic was broadcast live on insidebowling.com. For the first time your family and friends could watch you
compete in the TAT from any pc, laptop, or smartphone complete with expert commentary from Mike Flanagan and the Storm staff. In-
sidebowling.com caught all of TAT‘s Qualifying action as well as the Storm Challenge and the Main TAT Finals. You can view a lot of the
action at insidebowling.com by clicking on the YouTube icon up top on their website.
We would like to thank Brad Edelman from High Roller, Storm Bowling Products, The Orleans Hotel, Casino & Bowling Center, Inside-
bowling.com and Stability Strikes Socks for helping make another great TAT event in Las Vegas. We would also like to thank all of our
bowlers for coming out and supporting another successful TAT Event. Our bowlers are eager to learn and are truly dedicated to improv-
ing their game. I hope to see everyone back at The Orleans February 2
nd
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th
, 2014 for The 2014 TAT Amateur Nationals.
Best regards,
Jamie McWilliams, Tournament Director
Corbet & Jamie with TAT Champ Dave Guindon
L to R, Storm's Corbet Austin, Storm Challenge winner Kevin
Gagnon and TAT Tournament Director Jamie McWilliams
