Up­date: Bowl­ing Team’s First Sea­son

MISHAWAKA—Bowl­ing is a sport like no other. There are many tech­niques and strate­gies in­volved, that make it more com­plex than one might imag­ine. This is Bethel’s bowl­ing team’s first sea­son, and so far, it has gone well. 

Chris Adams, Head Coach said, “The sea­son has gone well. The team is do­ing as ex­pected for the first year. I could­n’t have asked for a bet­ter group to re­ally em­brace col­lege and em­brace the en­vi­ron­ment and be suc­cess­ful along the way.” 

The sea­son is still go­ing, and the team has a tour­na­ment in Feb­ru­ary 2020, and af­ter that, their sea­son will or will not con­tinue de­pend­ing on points.  

For the sport of Bowl­ing, the sea­son is not about wins and losses, but about points. Though the bowlers do make up a team, the sport is also in­di­vid­u­al­ized based on points an in­di­vid­ual bowler is able to score. A bowler gets points based on where they fin­ish in the tour­na­ment. In gen­eral, how­ever, the sport is team ori­ented.  

The team prac­tices at Park­way Lanes on Chest­nut Street (near Jef­fer­son Blvd), in Mishawaka. Lane con­di­tions are dif­fer­ent every­where, so the team makes ad­just­ments to the lanes they prac­tice on. Their ap­proach to prac­tice pre­pares them for any and every lane they may bowl on. 

Though the Bowl­ing team is co-ed, men’s and wom­en’s bowl­ing are in dif­fer­ent di­vi­sions, and their tour­na­ments usu­ally take place at dif­fer­ent lo­ca­tions on the same day. There are cur­rently 11 bowlers on the team with six on the men’s and five on the wom­en’s, most of whom are fresh­men.