Bowling season has officially started and all of the players all do things a little differently to prepare for the season. Senior Harley Mader, who has been doing the sport for all his four years of high school, said “I train my arms and wrists, as well as practice my throw. I am really going to miss the sport, and not going to practices as often, I enjoy doing it with the friends I have made on the team. I am really looking forward to this season, I am quite confident I am going to the states.” Senior Alexis Hitsman, who has also been a part of the bowling team all four years of high school, says, “I am in the bowling alley like every week preparing for the season to start. I am going to miss all of my friends from lower grades and I am going to miss the family bond we have on the team.”
They are all off to a great start. They have all set different goals for themselves and they are all hoping to beat their records from last year Senior Gracie Lombard set her record last year 212, and she is hoping that this year she can get her Personal Record (PR). Lombard says, “I am hoping to achieve that goal by practicing more, I can already feel myself getting better and I am hoping to read the lanes better, and just follow through. I practice in the off season, and have a good mind-set, because if you don’t have a good attitude it can throw off the way you play, bowling is 60% mental and 40% physical.”
Third year Junior Merick Barlett says “To prepare for the bowling season I go to tournaments year round and I travel a lot of places. I look forward to going to States. This season we have confidence that we are good and what we can achieve because of last season. My goal is to make the cut at states and put up some clean games in matchplays.” Their first meet is December 6, 2025, at Northern Lanes in Sanford, and they are all beyond prepared in their own ways to help them put on the best performance.
