SENIOR BOWLING: TRAVEL LEAGUE NEEDS PLAYER
CANTON — The Stark County Senior Traveling League is in need of one player to fill a team for its 2023-24 season.
The league bowls for 30 weeks, using Park Centre Lanes, AMF Hall of Fame, Spins Bowl Akron, Eastbury Bowling Center and Strike Zone Lanes during the season. The team has 12 five-man teams and begins at noon, bowling on either Tuesday or Thursday of each week.
Bowlers must be age 55 or older to participate. For information, contact Jose Rante.
YOUTH BOWLING: PETRAGLIA SCHOLARSHP APPLICATIONS
Applications are now available for the Johnny Petraglia PBA Bowl4Life Scholarship, which will award $10,000 in total scholarships.
Bowl4Life’s mission is to promote the sport of bowling through quality coaching for all levels, and to provide scholarship assistance to youth bowlers.
The Bowl4Life foundation, founded in 2013, has awarded over $512,000 in scholarships to youth bowlers through Sept. 20, 2023.
Johnny Petraglia, a PBA Hall of Famer who won titles in six consecutive decades, has been an exemplary advocate for charity work throughout his life.
Petraglia won the Dick Weber Bowling Ambassador Award in 2010 as “a bowling athlete who has consistently shown grace on and off the bowling lanes by promoting the game and sport of bowling in a positive manner.”
A veteran of the Vietnam war, Petraglia is the spokesperson for Bowlers to Veterans Link, bowling’s oldest charity.
“It’s my honor to have my name on a Bowl4Life scholarship,” Petraglia said. “To all participants, thank you so much for writing your essay. Just writing it shows your love of country. God Bless.”
Youth bowlers who are interested in the scholarship must complete the application. Applicants must be USBC Smart Account eligible and should demonstrate outstanding character, integrity, leadership and self-motivation.
Download the Johnny Petraglia PBA Bowl4Life Scholarship application here.
The application window is open through Nov. 10. Completed applications must be emailed to Deborah Gardner (deborah@bowl4life.com) by midnight on Nov. 10.
After a selection committee of industry leaders and one PBA staff member review all applications, four winners will be announced on Nov. 20.
The four winners will each receive a $2,500 scholarship.
For more information on the Chuck Gardner Bowl4Life Scholarship Foundation, visit www.Bowl4Life.com.
USBC: DATES ADDED FOR 2024 OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
ARLINGTON, Texas – The demand continues to grow for the 2024 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships in Las Vegas, and the event now will feature 154 days of competition at the South Point Bowling Plaza with an extension to the beginning and end of the tournament.
The 2024 event now will run from Feb. 23 through July 29, with a break in the action scheduled from Feb. 27 to March 1 to welcome the Special Olympics National Unified Tournament to the 60-lane venue.
The new dates will become available in the tournament’s online registration system starting at 10 a.m. Sept. 29.
The 2024 USBC Open Championships originally was scheduled to run from March 2-July 15, and the tournament initially was extended to July 22.
With the new dates, the 120th edition of the event now can accommodate more than 11,500 teams. The tournament’s capacity was at 92 percent prior to this extension.
The tournament’s opening ceremony still will take place March 2, giving teams that originally registered for the first squad the chance to take part in the celebration.
Team competition will be scheduled daily at 2 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., while doubles and singles squads at the 2024 Open Championships will take place at 7 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
The dates for the 2024 Bowlers Journal Championships and team practice sessions at the South Point Bowling Center also have been extended and will run from Feb. 22 through July 28. More information on the daily squad schedule for both will be announced at a later date.