Congratulations to this years recipients of the London and District Youth Scholarship Award…
Each recipient received $900 in scholarship!
Since 1994 London and District has awarded $35,450 in scholarship.
The YBC 4 Steps to Stardom Tenpin 2015 Nationals will be held in Toronto, May 1 – 4th, 2015. 48 of Canada’s best youth tenpin bowlers from eight provinces will compete at this year’s National Championship.
Each bowler has 4 steps through the season to compete to try out for the National Top Spot in their division.
STEP 1: Each bowling centre qualifies their top bowlers to send to the zone round. STEP 2: The zone round qualifies 4 bowlers in each division to send to the provincial round.
STEP 3: The Provincial round sends the 1st place Boy and Girl from each of 3 divisions to the National Championship filling 6 spots on the team.
STEP 4: The National Round which will be held this year in Toronto, May 1 – 4th, 2015.
The Southern Ontario provincial qualifier (STEP 3) was held in Burlington February 21st where 4 out of 6 spots were secured by local bowlers Ryan Locker (Senior Boy) of St. Thomas and from London, Mykaela Mitchell (Senior Girl), Cole Sitzes (Bantam Boy) and Sydney Fargnoli (Bantam Girl). All are very proud 1st time team members with the exception of Mykaela who was a team member in 2010, 2012 and 2013.
London also grabbed up a Silver medal by Dawson Sears who was a previous Southern Ontario Team member in 2012 while St. Thomas scooped a Bronze medal by Brayden Vaughan who is a current 2015 member of the CTF Southern Ontario Team.
The additional 2 Southern Ontario team members are Junior Boy Joshua Bautista from Brampton and Junior Girl Sarah Klassen from St. Catharines. This year’s coaches will be Fred Harris of London and Maureen Cooper.
London and St. Thomas will be well represented at this year’s 4 Steps to Stardom National Championships! They have one more step to try and earn top spot at the National Level!
Results will be posted during the tournament on London & District Facebook Group!
We are so proud of you! Bring home some medals! LET’S GO S.O.!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!!!!
Three of our London and area youth 10 pin bowlers will represent Southern Ontario at CTF Nationals in Winnipeg, MB in May! The Ivan Nelson Memorial Youth Championship is an annual tournament in Mississauga which attracts approximately 250 youth from all over Southern Ontario. These youth all compete for 8 spots (4 girls and 4 boys) on the Southern Ontario Team along with $200 in scholarship. This year London and district took 3 of those 8 spots which says a lot about the caliber of our youth 10 pin bowlers. Rebekah Loker (left) and Mykaela Mitchell (middle) bowl out of Bowlerama Royale in London and Brayden Vaughan (right) bowls out of Heritage Lanes in St. Thomas.
Left to right…Rebekah Loker, Mykaela Mitchell, Brayden Vaughan
Ivan Nelson Memorial Youth Championship Tournament Director and Southern Ontario Coach, Chris Woolcock is quoted as saying “I start out with 250 smiling faces and end up with only 8!.” This tournament is one of the most prestigious for our Southern Ontario youth bowlers and the pressure is on to fight for the only 8 spots. Day 1 is comprised of 6 games total. Day 1 was bowled on a medium sport pattern (Montreal). Each division qualifies only 8 to move on the Day 2.
After the 1st day London and District had the following bowlers qualify:
The goal the first day is to make top 8 and move on to the next day. From there the competition starts all over and the bowlers bowl each of the other 7 bowlers in their division once. A win will get them 2 points and based on how they score in their division per game they will get 8 points (for high score) and 1 point (for low score (possible 10 points per match). The lane condition was a short sport pattern (Los Angeles).
We are so very proud of all of our London and District bowlers. After a very tense and exciting final day we ended up with 3 of 8 Southern Ontario teammates from London and St. Thomas, Rebekah, Mykaela and Brayden:
2015 Southern Ontario Team
Seniors, Kenny Ho, Toronto & Miranda Panas, St. Catharines
Intermediates, Riley Pellerito, Windsor & Mykaela Mitchell, London
Juniors, Brayden Vaughan, St. Thomas & Rebekah Loker, Woodstock
Bantams, Wyatt Scott, Burlington & Sierra Baltzer, Windsor.
Coaches are Gus Badali & Chris Woolcock
Team Manager, Laurie Gatto.
Cole Sitzes Bronze Medalist Bantam Division
As well, London and District boasts a silver medal in Senior Girls, Victoria Molto (Bowlerama Royale) and a bronze medal in Bantam Boys, Cole Sitzes, (Bowlerama Royale).
Victoria Molto Silver Medalist Senior Division
This is Brayden’s first National Competition as a Bantam Boy. Rebekah has experience competing at the National level as the Bantam Girl member of the Southern Ontario team at YBC Nationals in 2012. Mykaela has bowled for Youth Team Canada in 2013 winning an International bronze medal in trios in Puerto Rico, she is on the 2015 Canadian Youth Team, was the 2012 and 2010 National CTF Junior and Bantam Girl Champion for CTF as well as the 2012 YBC National Junior Girl Champion.
Great bowling to all of our competitors!
LET’S GO S.O.!!!
ATTENTION London and District Youth.
It’s that time of year again to apply for the Annual Youth Scholarship. London and District Ten Pin Bowling Association established this annual scholarship fund for the awarding of one or more scholarships per year to sanctioned CTF bowlers in the London District. This is the 20th year that this scholarship award has been offered. Since the inception of this fund, $32,750.00 has been awarded to our youth bowlers.
Ask your Program Director for an application or print it here >>>> 2015 Annual Youth Scholarship. Make sure you return the completed form to your Program Director before the end of January 2015.
Check out the Annual Scholarship Report to see the previous recipients and the amounts they were awarded.
Good Luck!
On November 22nd and 23rd, 2014 we held the Annual London & District Men’s and Ladies’ Championship Tournament at Bowlerama Royale. We had a pretty good turnout this year. Congratulations to our winners!
Men’s Team Event
1st Place – Monday Nite Men – 2836 – $342.00
2nd Place – Bowlers On A Roll – 2816 $120.00
Men’s Singles Event
1st Place – Neil McKay – 788 – $180.00
2nd Place – Mike Friese – 777 – $82.00
3rd Place – Peter Mindorff – 773 – $60.00
4th Place – Lee Doxtator – 768 – $50.00
5th Place – Ryan Locker – 766 – $30.00
6th Place – Robbie Chaplin – 761 – $30.00
7th Place – Doug Sears – 757 – $30.00
Ladies’ Team Event
1st Place – Ya Baby – 2884 – $198.00
Ladies’ Singles Event
1st Place – Mylene Comeau – 860 – $160.00
2nd Place – Jill Friis – 844 – $75.00
3rd Place – Julie Skillings – 808 – $55.00
4th Place – Lynne Savage – 782 – $45.00
5th Place – Lois Tillotson – 769 – $40.00
6th Place – Ashlee Moon – 757 – $37.50
FULL RESULTS
2014-2015 Men’s Championship RESULTS
2014-2015 Ladies’ Championship RESULTS
MEN’s WORLD TENPIN CHAMPIONSHIPS, Abu Dhabi – Dec 2014
In the championship singles match Dan MacLelland of CANADA bowled local hero Shaker Al Hassan of the UAE in front of a packed crowd at the Zayed Sports City’s Khalifa International Bowling Center. Dan closed with nine consecutive strikes to win the match 256-212. RAISING THE BAR and making us PROUD!
This is Canada’s sixth gold medal in World Championships competitions.
Each event includes six games of qualifying before the field is narrowed to the top four for the semifinals. All competition is being webcast live on BOWL.com’s BowlTV. For a complete schedule in Eastern time, visit BOWL.com/LiveStream.
London and District 10 Pin Bowling Association is pleased to announce our 2013/2014 Award Winners!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
2013/2014 Bowler of the Year Awards
2013/2014 Adult Top 10 Composite Averages
2013/2014 Youth Top Ten Averages
2013/2014 Annual Scholarship Report
Beka Loker is one of our London and District youth bowlers. She started in the Bowlerama Royale Youth League program a few years ago as a smiling, quiet and very shy young lady. Since then, Beka has not only found her voice, but her bowling skills continue to improve each and every year.
She recently had an essay assignment in her Grade 9 English class. Her topic was her favourite sport…of course she picked Bowling. With her permission we are sharing this essay with you.
Bowling – My Favourite Sport by Beka Loker (<<<<click here to open)
Thanks for sharing Beka! It is great to know that our sport is inspiring our youth.
P.S. Beka received a very good grade on this essay!
600 Club
1st Place Nancy McSephney-Kenehan +98
2nd Place Pat Lake +94
500 Club
1st Place Maxine Schmidt +69
2nd Place Valerie Boult +63
Congratulations Ladies!
London & District Tenpin Bowling Association 
