Your 2026 Intercollegiate Singles Championships TV finalists are (from left to right) Landin Jordan of Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah; Gianna Brandolino of Jacksonville State; Midland's Kaeden White; Kaitlyn Stull of Jacksonville State; Nate Trentler of Calumet; Vanderbilt's Dannielle Henderson; Tyler Close of St. Ambrose and Katarina Hagler of Pikeville. Those bowlers will compete in Saturday's TV finals, which will take place at The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and be broadcast on CBS Sports Network later this month.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Quarterfinal-round matches were completed at The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday morning, and we now know the names of the eight TV finalists at the 2026 United States Bowling Congress Intercollegiate Singles Championships.

Jacksonville State bowlers Gianna Brandolino and Kaitlyn Stull will be joined by Vanderbilt’s Dannielle Henderson and Katarina Hagler of Pikeville on the women’s side, while the men’s TV show will feature Nate Trentler of Calumet, Midland’s Kaeden White, Tyler Close of St. Ambrose and Landin Jordan of Savannah College of Art and Design – Savannah.

The ISC TV finals in both divisions will be recorded on Saturday and broadcast on CBS Sports Network later this month. The women’s semifinals and finals will be recorded on Saturday starting at 4:15 p.m. Eastern and broadcast on Tuesday, April 21 at 7 p.m. Eastern, while the men’s show will be taped on Saturday morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. Eastern and will air on Tuesday, April 28 at 9:30 p.m. Eastern.

The men’s semifinal matchups will pit Close against White and Trentler versus Jordan while Brandolino will take on Hagler in one women’s semi while Stull battles Henderson in the other.

Those matches are sure to be entertaining considering the excessive amount of star power to be found among this year’s finalists – Six of the eight (Brandolino, Henderson, Jordan, Stull, Trentler and White) have been part of the Team USA program, three (Brandolino, Jordan and White) have won Junior Gold titles and one (Henderson) captured the first USBC U22 Queens title in history.

Nevertheless, résumés won’t determine this year’s national titles; instead, they will be captured by the two bowlers who are able to perform the best under the TV lights come Saturday.

Jordan has considerable TV experience under his belt having won back-to-back Junior Gold U15 Boys titles in 2021 and 2022 and making multiple Professional Bowlers Association and PBA Jr. shows already during his young career.

The talented two-hander from Sycamore, Illinois, is confident his previous TV experience will serve him well during this year’s ISC men’s semifinals and finals.

“I think it’s definitely an advantage knowing how my body reacts under the lights,” Jordan said. “Still, it’s going to be about taking it one shot at a time and focusing on what comes next. I know that’s cliché, but it works”

That approach definitely worked for Jordan during the first two days of ISC competition as he went 2-0 on Tuesday – defeating Pikeville’s Andrew Allen, 694-657, and Evan Flath of St. Ambrose, 614-572 – before topping Aquinas’ David Schaberg by a score of 654-573 on Wednesday morning to earn his spot on TV.

Despite all that he’s already accomplished, winning the 2026 ISC men’s title would mean a lot to Jordan.

“It would be so cool to be able to win not just for me but for my teammates and school because that’s something different that I don’t get to do every time,” Jordan said. “I’m looking forward to it, and I hope it’s me.”

While Jordan wants to win for his teammates, Jacksonville State’s Stull and Brandolino may just find themselves in the position of having to face one another in the women’s championship match.

That doesn’t bother either Gamecock, however. According to them, since it would be impossible for both to win, squaring off in the finals would be the next best thing.

“I think going up against Kaitlyn (Stull) in the finals would be the best-case scenario for us and would be a lot of fun,” Brandolino said. “We’ve been bowling all season as a team, so it’s actually been kind of weird bowling individually again.”

Stull views the potential all-Jacksonville State title match the same way.

“Bowling a teammate makes it just feel like regular bowling, so that’s that the best-case scenario if you ask me,” Stull said. “When Emma (Yoder) and I bowled each other yesterday, we were just having fun the whole time; we didn’t even know what was going on.”

What went on is that Stull started Game 3 of that second-round match with seven strikes in a row before a 10-pin ended her run at perfection; nevertheless, after fellow Gamecock Yoder opened during the 10th frame, Stull struck three times to win the match and advance by a final score of 699-698.

Stull was involved in another final-frame affair on Wednesday during her quarterfinal bout against Sam Houston State’s Denise Blankenzee.

Blankenzee led the majority of the three-game, total-pinfall matchup, but a late open gave Stull an opportunity.

Just as she had the day before, Stull seized it, using a late string of strikes to go around Blankenzee and emerge with a hard-fought 640-625 victory to move on to Saturday’s semifinals.

Brandolino hasn’t cut things nearly as close as.

The 2023 Junior Gold U18 Girls champion led the 24-player women’s field during qualifying with a six-game total of 1,300 (a 216.67 average) and then won both of her matches by more than 100 pins – 727-568 over Ashtyn Woods of Wichita State and 618-517 against Indiana Tech’s Leah Brazier – to breeze her way into the 2026 ISC women’s TV finals.

The journey was a bit more arduous for Hagler and Henderson, who qualified in 13th and 14th place, respectively, which meant having to bowl first-round matches on Tuesday afternoon after missing out on the byes awarded to the top eight qualifiers in each division.

Both athletes responded in fine fashion, however, with Hagler going 3-0 thanks to wins against Savannah Swiatocha of Maryville (604-501), 2024 ISC women’s national champ Sara Duque of Wichita State (552-549) and Tennessee Wesleyan’s Bricey Caudill (628-472), while Henderson earned her undefeated mark courtesy of victories over McKendree’s Addysen Case (592-547), Kaylin Wahlmeier of Newman (542-539) and Pikeville’s Brianna Rogers (650-604).

Despite earning a spot in the semifinals, Henderson hasn’t felt like she’s bowled up to her potential thus far during this year’s tournament.

“I don’t think that qualifying went well for me, and I wouldn’t say the first two matches were as successful as I would have wanted them to be,” Henderson said. “Thankfully, I stayed patient and kept myself mentally in the matches, which has sort of been a challenge for me.

“I think the reset between now and Saturday could be good for me if I use it properly because that will give me an opportunity to practice back home. The girls on the show are amazing, but I’m on the show too. I just need to really put my foot down and remember that I belong here.”

Belief has been and will be equally important for Hagler.

“Belief is what got me here,” Hagler said. “I had confidence in myself, and the belief I had in my coaches and that they had in me that I could get here was very important. It was about trusting them and their knowledge of the sport.”

Hagler may find confidence a bit tougher to come by when making her TV debut on Saturday; nevertheless, she’s hoping to settle in quickly so that she can put her best foot forward in pursuit of this year’s ISC women’s title.

“I’m calm on the outside, but I’m definitely very nervous on the inside,” Hagler said. “It’s going to be nerve racking, but I hope I’ll calm down once I get out there and actually start throwing some shots. I’ve come a long way, and it would mean a lot to me to be able to win.”

Winning also would mean a great deal to Trentler, who viewed this year’s tournament as an opportunity for redemption after he was eliminated during Round 2 of match play last year in Las Vegas.

“Remembering last year and having that feeling of defeat, being so close yet so far, is kind of what kept me going this year,” Trentler said. “Neither one of my matches this week have been very high scoring, but I kind of expected that going in. Keeping a steady head and just focusing on getting what I could was the mentality that allowed me to be successful yesterday and today.”

The matches to which Trentler was referring were a 572-541 win over Newman’s Daryus Alo on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning’s 555-519 TV-show-berth clinching win over Brandon Caruso of Wichita State.

Trentler doesn’t necessarily expect the scoring pace to climb significantly during the TV finals; nevertheless, he knows he’ll have to be at his best if he hopes to outlast the other men’s semifinalists and make his way to the winner’s circle on Saturday.

“We’re already the elite of the elite, so every shot is going to be important,” Trentler said. “Whoever gets the edge during those one or two crucial frames is going to be the one who wins it. I hope it’s me because I’m not just doing this for myself but for my family, friends and teammates who are supporting me. To win would mean everything.”

Speaking of winning everything, White has added some major victories to his résumé in the last year as he captured the 2025 Junior Gold U18 Boys title in Green Bay in July before taking home a PBA Jr. national championship in February.

On Saturday, he’ll look to rack up two more wins to become this year’s ISC men’s national champion. He knows it won’t be easy though as this year’s oil pattern has put all competitors through their paces at Ashwaubenon.

“The oil pattern we’re bowling on out here is just brutal, so every match has come down to whoever has better execution,” White said. “I got a few hits late in the last match, and that’s what allowed me to make my way on to the show.”

White earned his TV spot thanks to a 553-513 win over Mount Mercy’s Jacob Holste on Wednesday morning. The afternoon prior, White collected a 655-633 second-round win over Indiana Tech’s Hayden Tarris.

With Saturday’s TV matches being just one game as opposed to three, White knows he’ll have to get lined up a bit more quickly in order to survive and advance.

“For the show, I’m hoping to build up a nice track that I can play off of because there’s not really much of a line that everyone can be confident playing here,” White said. “I’ll need to manufacture my own line in order to be confident and comfortable for the show.”

For Close, confidence won’t be tied to the lane conditions as much as it will be connected to sticking with what he knows.

“In order to be successful on the show, I need to stay calm, stay patient and repeat the process over and over, which is the same thing I’ve been doing the last two days.”

The process clearly worked during Close’s 669-655 Rd. 2 victory over Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Brady Lauber on Tuesday and his 677-554 quarterfinal win over top seed Brody Wildenmann of Muskingum on Wednesday morning.

Still, Close knows that it’s what happens on Saturday that ultimately matters, so he’s hoping to be at his best when the TV lights come on that morning.

“I’ve been thinking about this tournament for a long time, so it would mean a lot to be the guy holding the trophy at the end,” Close said. “It’s an honor to get to bowl on TV for this title.”

But Close will have to wait a few days for that opportunity because Baker team competition will occupy the schedule at Ashwaubenon on Thursday and Friday during qualifying and match play at the 2026 USBC Intercollegiate Team Championships, which features the top 16 men’s and top 16 women’s teams in the nation.

ITC qualifying will begin on Thursday at 9 a.m. Eastern with best-of-seven match-play rounds to follow at 5 and 7 p.m. Eastern on Thursday and at 8:45 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Eastern on Friday.

The final two men’s teams and final two women’s teams will advance to this year’s ITC TV finals, which will be recorded at The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley on Saturday and broadcast on CBS Sports Network in May.

The 2026 ITC women’s finals show will be televised at 7 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, May 5 with the ITC men’s finals airing at 7 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, May 13.

BowlTV.com will provide live coverage of the ITC leading up to the televised finals.

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