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  • 2009 PABCON Youth ChampionshipsAbout2009 Pan American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships
    Sept. 19-27
    San Juan, Puerto Rico    As 2-time Team USA member Cassidy Schaub says, “There is no greater experience than to put ‘USA’ on your back and go out and start striking.” This year Team USA men and women are in Puerto Rico vying for medals for the USA in the Pan American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships.The 2009 PABCON Adult Championships features 16 countries from the American Zone competing in singles, doubles, trios, team, Masters and all-events. The top 16 players in the all-events standings after 24 games advance to the Masters match play competition.In 2008, the Team USA women dominated the PABCON Adult Championships, earning all six gold medals (singles, doubles, trios, team, all-events and Masters). and taking home 14 medals out of a possible 16.Read More
  • 2009 PABCON Youth ChampionshipsContactIf you have any inquiries at all regarding this exciting international competition, please direct them to Lucas Wiseman of USBC Communications at the email address below, and he will be in tough with you shortly:Media Contact
    Lucas Wiseman
    USBC Communications
    (800) 514-BOWL, ext. 3466
    Lucas.Wiseman@bowl.com
 
 
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  • The 2009 Pan-American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships will take place from Sept. 19-27th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Members of Team USA will battle the best talent from around the world at this widely-anticipated international bowling competition.
  • ResultsThe 2009 Pan-American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships will take place from Sept. 19-27th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Members of Team USA will battle the best talent from around the world at this widely-anticipated international bowling competition. Check back here to see how Team USA bowlers fared at this event.Singles
    The 2009 Pan-American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships will take place from Sept. 19-27th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Members of Team USA will battle the best talent from around the world at this widely-anticipated international bowling competition. Check back here to see how Team USA bowlers fared in the Singles division of this event.    Doubles
    The 2009 Pan-American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships will take place from Sept. 19-27th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Members of Team USA will battle the best talent from around the world at this widely-anticipated international bowling competition. Check back here to see how Team USA bowlers fared in the Doubles division of this event.    Trios
    The 2009 Pan-American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships will take place from Sept. 19-27th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Members of Team USA will battle the best talent from around the world at this widely-anticipated international bowling competition. Check back here to see how Team USA bowlers fared in the Trios division of this event.    Team
    The 2009 Pan-American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships will take place from Sept. 19-27th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Members of Team USA will battle the best talent from around the world at this widely-anticipated international bowling competition. Check back here to see how Team USA bowlers fared in the Team division of this event.    All-events
    The 2009 Pan-American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships will take place from Sept. 19-27th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Members of Team USA will battle the best talent from around the world at this widely-anticipated international bowling competition. Check back here to see how Team USA bowlers fared in the 2009 PABCON Adult All-Events.    Masters
    The 2009 Pan-American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships will take place from Sept. 19-27th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Members of Team USA will battle the best talent from around the world at this widely-anticipated international bowling competition. Check back here to see how Team USA bowlers fared in the Masters division of this event.    Read More
  • Top StoriesThe 2009 Pan-American Bowling Confederation Adult Championships will take place from Sept. 19-27th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Members of Team USA will battle the best talent from around the world at this widely-anticipated international bowling competition. Be sure to check back here for out Top Stories as this event unfolds next month.
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  • Shannon O'KeefeShannon O'KeefeStats:
    • 2008 USBC Team USA Trials champion
    • Runner-up at 2007 U.S. Women’s Open
    • 5th at 2007 USBC Queens
    By now, many are aware of Shannon O’Keefe’s achievements as a Gold-Medalist at the 2007 Women’s World Championships and a five-time member of Team USA. What few people may know, though, is that the origin of those achievements is found in one of the most unlikely places imaginable—a pair of shoes.The daughter of a former professional bowler, it was not until O’Keefe turned 16 that she first decided to join her brother on the lanes as her body began to suffer the consequences of a determined softball career in which, at just 15 years old, she finished among the top 160 at the 1996 U.S. Olympic softball team trials.“My Dad took me to Dick’s Sporting Goods and got me a teal plastic ball, and then I looked up and saw this pair of white Lind’s shoes with a teal toe,” Shannon explains. “I am not spending $150 just so you can look cute in a sport you’re not even good at,” her father said. “That was all I needed,” Shannon reflects years later. “As soon as you tell me I can’t do something, I will work at it until I prove you wrong.” Though Shannon’s father surely considers himself proven wrong by now, Shannon aims to prove much more, seeking to “win all the majors,” a goal inspired after she finished as runner-up at the 2007 Women’s U.S. Open in Reno. As for the father who once dared to doubt her? “He is one of my best friends,” Shannon says. “He has been with me on this journey from day one. To have somebody in your corner with you like that, I am very blessed.”Read More
  • Rhino PageRhino PageStats:
    • First bowler ever to shoot televised 300 at the Japan Cup Finals (2009)
    • 2007-2008 Lumber Liquidator’s PBA Tour Rookie of the Year
    By the time Rhino Page gathered his ball to set up for one more strike after throwing the front 11 on TV at the 2009 Japan Cup, he had no idea that he was throwing one short for $100,000. “My jaw dropped when they told me I had won that money,” Page recalls of the aftermath of bowling the first-ever televised 300 game in Japan Cup History.But even the thrill of holding a $100,000 check with his name on it does not rival the excitement Rhino anticipates as he prepares to bowl with Team USA for the sixth time. “Money and PBA titles are great,” Rhino concedes, “but when you’re in a foreign country and you have ‘USA’ on your back and you’re on that gold medal stand, you feel so much pride.” After making history at the Japan Cup and recording the most sensational rookie year in the 50 years of the PBA’s existence in the 2007-2008 season, there is a lot to be proud of in Rhino’s life these days. For all the accolades on his resume, though, one of his proudest achievements has nothing to do with bowling. A feisty youth bowler who was hotly competitive in everything he did—“even if it was a simple card game,” Rhino says—Rhino worked as hard to become a great bowler as he did to become a great person, struggling to soften a temper that provoked his parents to withdraw him from a junior tournament mid-match for kicking a ball return. “I had such a bad temper as a kid. It had to do with that competitiveness. When things don’t go your way you don’t know how to deal with it,” Rhino says. “It is easy to learn how to win, but not so easy to learn how to lose.” With talent such as all-time PBA titlist Walter Ray Williams, Jr. and reigning PBA Player of the Year Wes Malott in his corner on Team USA this year, though, losing is likely the last thing on Rhino Page’s mind.Read More
  • Brenda EdwardsBrenda EdwardsStats:
    • 2009 USBC Open Doubles Champion (With Stephen Padilla)
    • Finished 5th at 2009 USBC Queens
    • 2007 Team USA Member
    Brenda Edwards was ready to quit bowling for good – her father, whom she identifies as her only reason for bowling – had recently lost his battle with pulmonary fibrosis, leaving her unsure of where she was in her life and how bowling fit in.But the former Team USA member comes from a family in which bowling is just what you do – sister Jeri Edwards coaches Team USA, her other sister Kathy Zeilke won PWBA Rookie of the Year honors in 1993, and her brother designs bowling balls for Brunswick.Brenda herself already had learned how to operate a ball spinner at 11 years old in the makeshift pro shop of her fathers basement. So when boyfriend and USBC Silver Coach Stephen Padilla asked her what her father would want her to do, an answer was easy to come by.He said If you give up on this, youre not honoring your Dad, because he started you on this path and youre going to stop walking before this path is done,Edwards recalls of the conversation with Padilla that inspired her to bowl the 2009 USBC Queens. And I decided to bowl. She also, it turned out, decided to bowl extremely well – finishing 5th in the event when, just weeks prior, she was not even sure if she wanted to bowl league anymore. But the many realizations that Brenda Edwards has come to since losing her father have a lot more to do with life than with bowling. The gift her father gave her in death was an appreciation for the fragility and fleetingness of life.Tomorrow isnt promised to anybody, Edwards asserts. Were not even promised the next moment in time. You have to live in the present.Read More
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