Bowled Over

 This has been a busy week in the bowling world. From the PBA Kokomo Classic, the PWBA Greater Detroit Regional, the PBA Junior National Championships, and the Lumberton USBC City Tournament on the home front, bowlers of all skill levels have been busy fighting their way to the top. In this blog, I will be highlighting each of these events individually. The PBA Kokomo Classic  ran from Tuesday, March 21, 2023, to Friday, March 24, 2023. As it is with any Professional Bowler's Association tournament, during the Kokomo Classic, some of the best bowlers in the world battled it out to bring home a National Tour Title and the prize money. For this particular tournament, the first place winner earned $25,000. For this season, this is an average payout for a National Tour Title, while winning a major title earns you $100,000. The tournament started out with a field of 64 bowlers who bowled three six game rounds of qualifying. After these rounds of qualifying, the field was cut to 24 who

 Hey, y'all! My name is Kayley Johnson. I am a Sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and I love to bowl. I have bowled competitively since I was 10 years old, and it is something that runs in my family.  Both of my great grandmothers, my great great aunt, and my grandfather all have a history of bowling, and they were really good at it too. My great uncle, who has bowled in professional tournaments, owns the bowling alley in Lumberton, NC, where I am from, and my mom and her sisters grew up bowling kind of like I have. Throughout my almost 10 years bowling, I have had the chance to bowl in several tournaments throughout North and South Carolina and meet and even bowl alongside some of my favorite professional bowlers.  My hope with this blog is that I can share some of the love and joy I get from the sport through sharing all that is happening in the bowling world. I will be highlighting some of my own bowling endeavors, along with what is happening in the Prof