Four Senior Team USA duos advance to medal rounds at 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships
October 19, 2025
(From left to right) Senior Team USA bowlers John Janawicz, Chris Barnes, Parker Bohn III and Tom Hess celebrate after advancing to the Senior Men's Doubles semifinals at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday night. Bohn and Hess earned the No. 1 seed while Janawicz and Barnes finished No. 2; nevertheless, both squads are now guaranteed no worse than a bronze-medal finish in doubles at the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships.
FULL RESULTS
RENO, Nev. – Senior Team USA went a perfect 4 for 4 during Senior Doubles qualifying at the 2025 International Bowling Federation World Seniors Championships on Saturday, advancing two pairs on the men’s side and two pairs on the women’s side to Sunday’s medal rounds.
The American men secured the top two spots in the 70-team Senior Men’s Doubles competition with Parker Bohn III of Jackson, New Jersey, and Tom Hess of Granger, Iowa, placing first with a six-game mark of 2,660 (a 221.67 average per bowler per game) while John Janawicz of Winter Haven, Florida, and Chris Barnes of Denton, Texas, finished second with 2,608.
Janawicz authored the best individual performance among American men at the National Bowling Stadium on Saturday, using games of 248, 234, 207, 246, 237 and 228 to finish the day with a six-game mark of 1,400 (a 233.33 average).
Bohn was next in line with 1,333, which he arrived at thanks to games of 242, 173, 247, 211, 235 and 225. Hess was just six pins back of his doubles partner and close friend, finishing at 1,327 (177, 247, 247, 192, 240 and 224) while Barnes contributed 1,208 (185, 197, 197, 180, 259 and 190) to the Senior Team USA men’s cause.
The American women were equally strong during Senior Women’s Doubles qualifying earlier in the day with Rina Sabo of Bennett, Colorado, and Jodi Woessner of Oregon, Ohio, finishing first among 54 duos with a six-game score of 2,364 (a 197 average per bowler per game) and teammates Lynda Barnes of Denton, Texas, and Dana Ausec of Colorado Springs, Colorado, qualifying third at 2,328.
Barnes led the way for the American women, rolling games of 190, 226, 219, 225, 225 and 201 to finish Saturday’s action with a six-game mark of 1,286 (a 214.33 average).
Sabo was second with 1,215, which included high games of 277, 223 and 214. Woessner and Ausec added 1,149 and 1,042, respectively.
Thanks to Saturday’s strong performances, all four Senior Team USA squads advanced to the Senior Doubles medal rounds, which kick off Sunday morning at 9 a.m. Pacific.
On the men’s side, Bohn and Hess will face the German duo of Bodo Konieczny and Michael Kr Mer in one semifinal while Janawicz and Barnes square off against Maurizio Celli and Marco Reviglio of Italy in the other.
Celli and Reviglio earned their spot in the semifinals by finishing third on Saturday with a six-game mark of 2,563. Konieczny and Kr Mer earned the fourth and final berth in the Senior Men’s Doubles medal rounds with 2,546.
The Senior Women’s Doubles semifinals will pit Americans Sabo and Woessner against Finland’s Reija Lunden and Jaana Taavitsainen in one match while the other sees Barnes and Ausec battle Germany’s Martina Beckel and Michaela Gobel-Janka.
Beckel and Janka earned the No. 2 seed for the women’s semifinals by coming in with a six-game score of 2,359 on Saturday. Lunden and Taavitsainen secured fourth place with 2,308.
All semifinal tandems will earn no worse than a bronze-medal finish; nevertheless, the Americans have their sights set on gold and silver, which is exactly what they’ll be guaranteed if they can win their opening matches on Sunday morning to set up USA vs. USA gold-medal bouts in each division.
According to Bohn, should that scenario come to pass, it would be a no-lose proposition.
“Whenever you bowl your teammates, there is no loser,” Bohn said. “If all four of us happen to be bowling for gold, it’s a win-win all the way around.”
Hess shared his partner’s viewpoint on the situation.
“It’s Team USA,” Hess said. “We want everybody to get there. If that happens, then may the best team win, but we’ll all go celebrate the gold and silver as a team when it’s over. That’s the plan for tomorrow.”
For Chris Barnes, part of the fun of making it to Sunday’s medal rounds was having a front-row seat to watch his partner’s dominant performance during qualifying on Saturday night.
“I said to JJ (Janawicz) earlier that he actually really does want to be me so that he could watch himself bowl because it would have to be incredible if he actually got to see how great he is,” Barnes said. “He bowled so well today that I’m just trying to keep up. I’ll try to help him out a little bit tomorrow so that he doesn’t have to carry his 165 pounds and my 210 all at the same time.”
But all joking aside, Janawicz has complete confidence in himself and his partner. As such, his plan for Sunday will just be to continue looking for ways to improve.
“We’re going to constantly tweak the strategy to keep trying to get just a little bit better,” Janawicz said. “We’re hitting the pocket pretty well, so it’s just a matter of a little tweak of the physical game and maybe some ball surfaces. Still, I don’t have any doubt we can bowl a good game right out of the gate come tomorrow.”
(From left to right) Rina Sabo, Jodi Woessner, Dana Ausec and Lynda Barnes were all smiles after punching their tickets to Sunday's Senior Women's Doubles semifinals.
The 42-foot IBF World Seniors Championships oil pattern has been a bit kinder to the men than it’s been to the women during the first two days of competition at this year’s tournament. As such, the Senior Team USA women know that they’ll have to be prepared for anything during Sunday’s medal rounds because, according to Lynda Barnes, it’s been anything but smooth sailing thus far.
“They’re hard,” Barnes said. “That’s just it. You have to be on top of your game, you have to throw it good, you have to match up and you have to be watching the pairs in front of you. The coaches are doing a great job keeping us steady and in the right-now moment because you can’t get too caught up in what’s going on because it changes so quickly.
“Dana (Ausec) and I both came out of the gate with two strikes each today and thought we were looking good, and then the fourth frame hit and made it clear it wouldn’t be smooth sailing. But the teamwork and communication are key, and then you just show your heart and keep grinding and working”
Woessner agreed.
“Rina (Sabo) and I bowled well the first two games, and then, after that, all we did is grind,” Woessner said. “Every pair of lanes we hit was different in a different way. I had one pair where the left lane hooked at my toes, and the right lane went 60 feet. I’m usually quick to blame myself, but as I looked back, I realized it wasn’t me; they’re just that hard.”
Battling difficult lane conditions is hard enough as an individual, but it’s even harder when a player has to worry about how his or her performance is impacting their partner.
That’s a battle that Ausec has been fighting during each of the first two days of action at the National Bowling Stadium.
“I’ve done nothing but struggle while watching this woman (referring to Barnes) put the most professional games together for two days straight,” Ausec said. “Yesterday, I felt like I let her down from a singles standpoint because I wasn’t giving her good enough reads. At some point I was out of the mix, but I wanted to keep throwing good shots to help her continue to make the reads and make the moves.
“Today, it was a similar situation, but when you’re bowling with somebody, you just grind. No matter what, I was there, and I was going to make the best shots I could because there was no way I was going to let her down, especially the way she was bowling. There was no way I was going to let that happen.”
Despite bowling the second-highest set among American women on Saturday, Sabo, who is making her Senior Team USA debut this week in Reno, felt the same sense of responsibility.
“Bowling with these ladies is an honor,” Sabo said while trying to hold back tears. “When I found out I was bowling with Jodi (Woessner), I told my husband that I can’t let her down.”
According to Ausec, that mindset, even more than physical talent, is what sets Team USA apart and helped them succeed on Saturday.
“It’s all about the team, and the four of us are here because that’s the way we feel,” Ausec said. “It’s all about bowling for your country and for others. We all probably have a little bit of selfishness inside us because you can’t get to this level with out it, but we’re more about the team than about ourselves.”
And because of that, when asked to discuss their outlook for Sunday’s medal rounds, all four Team USA ladies simply stated “as long as the U.S. wins, then we all win.”
But before Senior Men’s and Women’s Doubles semifinal competition begins, Hess and Janawicz will attempt to bring home singles gold for Senior Team USA.
Senior Men’s Singles semifinal action kicks off Sunday morning at 8 a.m. Pacific with Hess facing Janawicz on one side of the draw while No. 1 seed Adam Hayes of Australia takes on No. 4 Gery Verbruggen of Belgium on the other.
After medals are conferred in singles and doubles, the day will conclude with the opening three games of qualifying in both the Senior Men’s Team and Senior Women’s Team competitions.
CLICK HERE for more information on Team USA.
FULL RESULTS
RENO, Nev. – Senior Team USA went a perfect 4 for 4 during Senior Doubles qualifying at the 2025 International Bowling Federation World Seniors Championships on Saturday, advancing two pairs on the men’s side and two pairs on the women’s side to Sunday’s medal rounds.
The American men secured the top two spots in the 70-team Senior Men’s Doubles competition with Parker Bohn III of Jackson, New Jersey, and Tom Hess of Granger, Iowa, placing first with a six-game mark of 2,660 (a 221.67 average per bowler per game) while John Janawicz of Winter Haven, Florida, and Chris Barnes of Denton, Texas, finished second with 2,608.
Janawicz authored the best individual performance among American men at the National Bowling Stadium on Saturday, using games of 248, 234, 207, 246, 237 and 228 to finish the day with a six-game mark of 1,400 (a 233.33 average).
Bohn was next in line with 1,333, which he arrived at thanks to games of 242, 173, 247, 211, 235 and 225. Hess was just six pins back of his doubles partner and close friend, finishing at 1,327 (177, 247, 247, 192, 240 and 224) while Barnes contributed 1,208 (185, 197, 197, 180, 259 and 190) to the Senior Team USA men’s cause.
The American women were equally strong during Senior Women’s Doubles qualifying earlier in the day with Rina Sabo of Bennett, Colorado, and Jodi Woessner of Oregon, Ohio, finishing first among 54 duos with a six-game score of 2,364 (a 197 average per bowler per game) and teammates Lynda Barnes of Denton, Texas, and Dana Ausec of Colorado Springs, Colorado, qualifying third at 2,328.
Barnes led the way for the American women, rolling games of 190, 226, 219, 225, 225 and 201 to finish Saturday’s action with a six-game mark of 1,286 (a 214.33 average).
Sabo was second with 1,215, which included high games of 277, 223 and 214. Woessner and Ausec added 1,149 and 1,042, respectively.
Thanks to Saturday’s strong performances, all four Senior Team USA squads advanced to the Senior Doubles medal rounds, which kick off Sunday morning at 9 a.m. Pacific.
On the men’s side, Bohn and Hess will face the German duo of Bodo Konieczny and Michael Kr Mer in one semifinal while Janawicz and Barnes square off against Maurizio Celli and Marco Reviglio of Italy in the other.
Celli and Reviglio earned their spot in the semifinals by finishing third on Saturday with a six-game mark of 2,563. Konieczny and Kr Mer earned the fourth and final berth in the Senior Men’s Doubles medal rounds with 2,546.
The Senior Women’s Doubles semifinals will pit Americans Sabo and Woessner against Finland’s Reija Lunden and Jaana Taavitsainen in one match while the other sees Barnes and Ausec battle Germany’s Martina Beckel and Michaela Gobel-Janka.
Beckel and Janka earned the No. 2 seed for the women’s semifinals by coming in with a six-game score of 2,359 on Saturday. Lunden and Taavitsainen secured fourth place with 2,308.
All semifinal tandems will earn no worse than a bronze-medal finish; nevertheless, the Americans have their sights set on gold and silver, which is exactly what they’ll be guaranteed if they can win their opening matches on Sunday morning to set up USA vs. USA gold-medal bouts in each division.
According to Bohn, should that scenario come to pass, it would be a no-lose proposition.
“Whenever you bowl your teammates, there is no loser,” Bohn said. “If all four of us happen to be bowling for gold, it’s a win-win all the way around.”
Hess shared his partner’s viewpoint on the situation.
“It’s Team USA,” Hess said. “We want everybody to get there. If that happens, then may the best team win, but we’ll all go celebrate the gold and silver as a team when it’s over. That’s the plan for tomorrow.”
For Chris Barnes, part of the fun of making it to Sunday’s medal rounds was having a front-row seat to watch his partner’s dominant performance during qualifying on Saturday night.
“I said to JJ (Janawicz) earlier that he actually really does want to be me so that he could watch himself bowl because it would have to be incredible if he actually got to see how great he is,” Barnes said. “He bowled so well today that I’m just trying to keep up. I’ll try to help him out a little bit tomorrow so that he doesn’t have to carry his 165 pounds and my 210 all at the same time.”
But all joking aside, Janawicz has complete confidence in himself and his partner. As such, his plan for Sunday will just be to continue looking for ways to improve.
“We’re going to constantly tweak the strategy to keep trying to get just a little bit better,” Janawicz said. “We’re hitting the pocket pretty well, so it’s just a matter of a little tweak of the physical game and maybe some ball surfaces. Still, I don’t have any doubt we can bowl a good game right out of the gate come tomorrow.”
(From left to right) Rina Sabo, Jodi Woessner, Dana Ausec and Lynda Barnes were all smiles after punching their tickets to Sunday's Senior Women's Doubles semifinals.
The 42-foot IBF World Seniors Championships oil pattern has been a bit kinder to the men than it’s been to the women during the first two days of competition at this year’s tournament. As such, the Senior Team USA women know that they’ll have to be prepared for anything during Sunday’s medal rounds because, according to Lynda Barnes, it’s been anything but smooth sailing thus far.
“They’re hard,” Barnes said. “That’s just it. You have to be on top of your game, you have to throw it good, you have to match up and you have to be watching the pairs in front of you. The coaches are doing a great job keeping us steady and in the right-now moment because you can’t get too caught up in what’s going on because it changes so quickly.
“Dana (Ausec) and I both came out of the gate with two strikes each today and thought we were looking good, and then the fourth frame hit and made it clear it wouldn’t be smooth sailing. But the teamwork and communication are key, and then you just show your heart and keep grinding and working”
Woessner agreed.
“Rina (Sabo) and I bowled well the first two games, and then, after that, all we did is grind,” Woessner said. “Every pair of lanes we hit was different in a different way. I had one pair where the left lane hooked at my toes, and the right lane went 60 feet. I’m usually quick to blame myself, but as I looked back, I realized it wasn’t me; they’re just that hard.”
Battling difficult lane conditions is hard enough as an individual, but it’s even harder when a player has to worry about how his or her performance is impacting their partner.
That’s a battle that Ausec has been fighting during each of the first two days of action at the National Bowling Stadium.
“I’ve done nothing but struggle while watching this woman (referring to Barnes) put the most professional games together for two days straight,” Ausec said. “Yesterday, I felt like I let her down from a singles standpoint because I wasn’t giving her good enough reads. At some point I was out of the mix, but I wanted to keep throwing good shots to help her continue to make the reads and make the moves.
“Today, it was a similar situation, but when you’re bowling with somebody, you just grind. No matter what, I was there, and I was going to make the best shots I could because there was no way I was going to let her down, especially the way she was bowling. There was no way I was going to let that happen.”
Despite bowling the second-highest set among American women on Saturday, Sabo, who is making her Senior Team USA debut this week in Reno, felt the same sense of responsibility.
“Bowling with these ladies is an honor,” Sabo said while trying to hold back tears. “When I found out I was bowling with Jodi (Woessner), I told my husband that I can’t let her down.”
According to Ausec, that mindset, even more than physical talent, is what sets Team USA apart and helped them succeed on Saturday.
“It’s all about the team, and the four of us are here because that’s the way we feel,” Ausec said. “It’s all about bowling for your country and for others. We all probably have a little bit of selfishness inside us because you can’t get to this level with out it, but we’re more about the team than about ourselves.”
And because of that, when asked to discuss their outlook for Sunday’s medal rounds, all four Team USA ladies simply stated “as long as the U.S. wins, then we all win.”
But before Senior Men’s and Women’s Doubles semifinal competition begins, Hess and Janawicz will attempt to bring home singles gold for Senior Team USA.
Senior Men’s Singles semifinal action kicks off Sunday morning at 8 a.m. Pacific with Hess facing Janawicz on one side of the draw while No. 1 seed Adam Hayes of Australia takes on No. 4 Gery Verbruggen of Belgium on the other.
After medals are conferred in singles and doubles, the day will conclude with the opening three games of qualifying in both the Senior Men’s Team and Senior Women’s Team competitions.
CLICK HERE for more information on Team USA.