Bowlers reach personal bests to take lead at 2023 Women’s Championships
May 05, 2023
Pictured above: Ann Glock
LAS VEGAS – Making your United States Bowling Congress Women’s Championships debut can be an exciting feeling, and the only thing potentially more exciting would be to take a lead in your division while bowling a new personal high series.
For two bowlers on Thursday at the South Point Bowling Plaza, that’s exactly what they did.
Ann Glock of Cambridge, Wisconsin, rolled her highest series (597) to take the Sapphire Singles lead at the 2023 event, edging the previous leader by a single pin.
Glock only has been bowling for about two years and came to Las Vegas with her league teammates to see what the Women’s Championships experience was like.
“I wanted to go to nationals at least once, just to experience it along with my league teammates, who are a great bunch of ladies,” Glock said.
Glock rolled games of 198, 216 and 183 for her 597 series, and she celebrated with her teammates after she was informed she had taken the lead.
Going into the final frame of the third game, Glock needed a mark and a strike to take over the lead from Kathy Kalis of Monroe, Georgia (596), and she did exactly that. She picked up the 1-2-4-7 and then aced the final shot for a strike.
“It feels amazing,” Glock said. “It won’t really sink in until later that I bowled so well.”
Tammy Ator
In the Topaz Division, Tammy Ator of New Canton, Illinois, had the best series of her bowling career to take the lead in singles and all-events Thursday at South Point.
She started a little slower in team with a 370 series but got things going in doubles, firing 517 to help her and her doubles partner (Marilyn Reeder of Baylis, Illinois) to third place in Topaz with 879.
Ator wasn’t done yet, however, starting singles with 221. She followed with games of 163 and 182 to a personal best series of 566. Her singles score bested the previous leader by 55 pins (Stephanie Bruner of Kemp, Texas with 511), and her final all-events total of 1,453 was 46 pins ahead of Hannah Sancrant of Gladwin, Michigan, who had led with 1,407.
“This is just so out of my realm,” Ator said. “I’ve never bowled this well before. It’s so exciting.”
The Sapphire Division includes bowlers with entering averages of 138-148. The Topaz Division features bowlers with entering averages of 124 and below.
The 2023 Women’s Championships started April 23 and will conclude July 2. The event will run for 71 consecutive days at the South Point Bowling Plaza and feature more than 4,200 four-player teams and nearly 17,000 bowlers.
Follow updates and more from the official USBC Women’s Championships Facebook page.
LAS VEGAS – Making your United States Bowling Congress Women’s Championships debut can be an exciting feeling, and the only thing potentially more exciting would be to take a lead in your division while bowling a new personal high series.
For two bowlers on Thursday at the South Point Bowling Plaza, that’s exactly what they did.
Ann Glock of Cambridge, Wisconsin, rolled her highest series (597) to take the Sapphire Singles lead at the 2023 event, edging the previous leader by a single pin.
Glock only has been bowling for about two years and came to Las Vegas with her league teammates to see what the Women’s Championships experience was like.
“I wanted to go to nationals at least once, just to experience it along with my league teammates, who are a great bunch of ladies,” Glock said.
Glock rolled games of 198, 216 and 183 for her 597 series, and she celebrated with her teammates after she was informed she had taken the lead.
Going into the final frame of the third game, Glock needed a mark and a strike to take over the lead from Kathy Kalis of Monroe, Georgia (596), and she did exactly that. She picked up the 1-2-4-7 and then aced the final shot for a strike.
“It feels amazing,” Glock said. “It won’t really sink in until later that I bowled so well.”
Tammy Ator
In the Topaz Division, Tammy Ator of New Canton, Illinois, had the best series of her bowling career to take the lead in singles and all-events Thursday at South Point.
She started a little slower in team with a 370 series but got things going in doubles, firing 517 to help her and her doubles partner (Marilyn Reeder of Baylis, Illinois) to third place in Topaz with 879.
Ator wasn’t done yet, however, starting singles with 221. She followed with games of 163 and 182 to a personal best series of 566. Her singles score bested the previous leader by 55 pins (Stephanie Bruner of Kemp, Texas with 511), and her final all-events total of 1,453 was 46 pins ahead of Hannah Sancrant of Gladwin, Michigan, who had led with 1,407.
“This is just so out of my realm,” Ator said. “I’ve never bowled this well before. It’s so exciting.”
The Sapphire Division includes bowlers with entering averages of 138-148. The Topaz Division features bowlers with entering averages of 124 and below.
The 2023 Women’s Championships started April 23 and will conclude July 2. The event will run for 71 consecutive days at the South Point Bowling Plaza and feature more than 4,200 four-player teams and nearly 17,000 bowlers.
Follow updates and more from the official USBC Women’s Championships Facebook page.