Senior Team USA medals six times in singles and doubles, starts strong in team at IBF World Seniors Championships
October 20, 2025
Senior Team USA bowlers show off their medals after the conclusion of the singles and doubles medal ceremonies at the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nevada, on Sunday. Team members are as follows (from left to right): Tom Hess, Dana Ausec, Chris Barnes, Lynda Barnes, Parker Bohn III, Rina Sabo, John Janwicz and Jodi Woessner.
FULL RESULTS
RENO, Nev. – Sunday was a long but productive day for Senior Team USA at the 2025 International Bowling Federation World Seniors Championships, which is being contested at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nevada.
The day began with the medal rounds in both singles and doubles and ended with the opening three-game block of Senior Men’s and Senior Women’s Team competition.
At day’s end, Senior Team USA bowlers walked away with six medals (two gold, one silver and three bronze) and finished in the top three in both divisions after Round 1 of team qualifying.
Sunday’s American gold medals were secured by John Janawicz of Winter Haven, Florida, in Senior Men’s Singles and the duo of Rina Sabo of Bennett, Colorado, and Jodi Woessner of Oregon, Ohio, in Senior Women’s Doubles.
Senior Team USA’s lone silver for the day went to Dana Ausec of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Lynda Barnes of Denton, Texas, who fell to Sabo and Woessner, 462-436, in the Senior Women’s Doubles gold-medal match.
The three American bronze medals earned on Sunday went to the men with Tom Hess of Granger, Iowa, collecting his thanks to a third-place finish in Senior Men’s Singles and the others going to the two U.S. Senior Men’s Doubles squads – Janawicz partnered with Chris Barnes of Denton, Texas, and Hess teamed up with Parker Bohn III of Jackson, New Jersey – both of whom landed in third place as well.
Once the podium was taken down and the medals were put away, the Americans shifted their focus to the tournament’s most-coveted event, the team competition.
Team event always takes top priority for Team USA bowlers during international competition, and the four men and four women donning the red, white and blue in Reno made that clear on Sunday.
While the American women led the way during doubles earlier in the day, it was the men who got the best of things during the first three games of team on Sunday night.
Chris Barnes, Janawicz, Hess and Bohn didn’t just lead the pack during Round 1, they dominated the 35-team field, finishing with a three-game mark of 2,614 (an average of 217.83 per player per game), which was 125 pins better than the 2,489 put up by the second-place team from the Netherlands.
Belgium finished third during the opening set with 2,462, which left Italy to claim the final position in the Day 1 top four with 2,445.
Barnes was tops for the American men on Sunday night, notching games of 236, 204 and 234 for a 674 series (a 224.67 average).
Janawicz wasn’t far behind, coming in with 662 (256, 192 and 214) while Hess and Bohn added 639 each. Hess got there with games of 197, 210 and 232 while Bohn reached the mark using scores of 234, 212 and 193.
That effort puts the Senior Team USA men in prime position to earn the No. 1 seed for the semifinals and make a strong run at the coveted Senior Men’s Team gold medal.
On the women’s side, Woessner, Sabo, Ausec and Lynda Barnes kept themselves in the thick of the Senior Women’s Team medal hunt after finishing Round 1 in third place in the 27-team field with a three-game score of 2,280 (an average of 190 per person per game).
That put the Americans 19 pins ahead of Germany (2,261), which holds the fourth and final qualifying position heading into Monday’s final three games of qualifying.
At the same time, the Senior Team USA ladies find themselves just 10 pins behind Finland (2,290) for second place and 17 behind Day 1 leader Canada (2,297) for the top spot.
Woessner led the way for the American women Sunday afternoon, using high games of 239 and 232 to finish with a three-game mark of 627. Sabo was second with 578 while Barnes and Ausec chipped in 543 and 532, respectively.
But before the team event got underway, the Americans put in a great deal of hard work during the singles and doubles medal rounds. As such, here is a closer look at how those competitions played out.
Senior Women’s Doubles
After the American women qualified first and third for the Senior Women’s Doubles semifinals on Saturday afternoon, they had one wish, which was for each pair to win its opening match the following day so that they could bowl one another for gold.
The fearsome foursome of Senior Team USA ladies set that plan in motion as soon as the lights came on Sunday morning with Sabo and Woessner topping Finland’s Reija Lunden and Jaana Taavitsainen by a score of 450-393 while Lynda Barnes and Ausec dispatched Germany’s Martina Beckel and Michaela Gobel-Janka by a final margin of 445-374.
Sabo and Woessner got there thanks to games of 229 and 221, respectively, while Barnes posted 253 and Ausec contributed 192 during that pair’s semifinal victory.
Once the all-American gold-medal match had been set up, the only question left to be answered was which Senior Team USA duo would reach the top step on the podium?
The answer remained elusive until the final frames of the hard-fought match, but in the end, Sabo and Woessner were able to do just enough to hold off their talented teammates and emerge with a 26-pin victory.
Woessner led the way for the winning duo, striking eight times and staying clean to post a match-high score of 248.
Sabo was strong as well during her first international medal match – the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships is the right-hander’s first international competition for Senior Team USA – ripping off a clutch four-bagger in the middle of the game and finishing with a solid score of 214.
Despite coming up a bit short in their bid to capture gold, Barnes and Ausec bowled well too with Barnes putting up 232 and Ausec adding 204.
Although Barnes would have liked to come out on top during the final match, she still counted the day’s experience as a victory.
“The goal was for the U.S. to win, so we achieved our goal as soon as we got to bowl each other,” Barnes said. “Am I disappointed? Sure, I am because you always want to take gold, but I’m happy for Rina (Sabo) and Jodi (Woessner). Also, I had a great time bowling with Dana (Ausec); she bowled great.”
Ausec was pleased with her efforts on Sunday as well, especially after struggling to find good ball reaction on the 42-foot IBF World Seniors Championships oil pattern during the first two days of competition.
“I feel good that I was finally able to help a little bit today,” Ausec said, “It was fantastic getting to bowl with Lynda Barnes; she’s just amazing. This is the first silver medal I’ve won, so I’m taking that as a win and something nice to add to my portfolio.”
Sabo was similarly pleased with the golden addition she’ll be making to her own trophy case.
“This is my first international medal, it’s gold and it’s with Jodi (Woessner),” Sabo said. “This is such a memorable moment. My dreams are coming true this week, and it’s a blessing. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”
Woessner was equally grateful for having had the opportunity to partner with Sabo, whom she credited with getting the pair into the semifinals in the first place.
“Rina (Sabo) was amazing yesterday. She got us there, and she was the reason why we had this opportunity today,” Woessner said. “She drug me along yesterday, so I was just happy that I was able to figure something out and try something different that worked well today. I was glad I was able to contribute and help get her a gold.
“After my performance the first two days, I wasn’t sure I was going to get the chance to get up on that podium except for maybe the team event. Prior to that, I was questioning myself a little bit, so I was very happy with what I saw and how I performed today. It’s giving me a lot of confidence heading into the team event.”
Senior Men’s Doubles
Like their female counterparts, the Senior Team USA men came to the National Bowling Stadium on Sunday with dreams of an all-USA gold-medal match dancing in their heads.
Unfortunately, their opponents felt like performing a different number, one that saw Germany’s Bodo Konieczny and Michael Kramer take down No. 1 seeds Bohn and Hess, 435-414, in one Senior Men’s Doubles semifinal while the Italian duo of Maurizio Celli and Marco Reviglio eliminated Chris Barnes and Janawicz by a mark of 439-382 in the other.
Bohn rolled a solid 215 while Hess added 199 in the losing effort for the first American pair. The other Senior Team USA cause was bolstered by 194 from Janawicz and 188 by Barnes.
One match later, Konieczny and Kramer would go on to defeat Reviglio and Celli, 380-369, to earn Senior Men’s Doubles gold, leaving the Italians to settle for silver.
While Hess is always pleased to medal during international competition, he wasn’t shy about expressing his disappointment in Sunday’s outcome.
“When representing Team USA, of course, the first goal is to get to the medal rounds, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t say I was disappointed,” Hess said. “We just didn’t bowl as good a match as we needed to, and that stinks.”
Bohn’s feelings were similar to those of his partner.
“Obviously, we always want more and to be at the top,” Bohn said. “We want to be the team or individual that’s standing tall when all the dust settles, but the fact that all of us were there and had that opportunity was still something special. Right now, I don’t want to shine the light on the fact that it resulted in bronze instead of silver or gold.”
For Barnes, the disappointment stemmed from not being able to help Janawicz pay off the stellar bowling he’d done throughout the doubles event with a gold medal.
“I feel bad for JJ (Janawicz) because he bowled fantastic to help get us here,” Barnes said. “That pair was tough for us, and it resulted in the only game where he didn’t look like the superstar he’s been throughout this event.
"That being said, I had a chance to pull my weight and maybe take over to push us through, so I feel bad that I didn’t do my part. Still, we’ll learn from that and try to improve our performance during the team event. I’m bowling with three great guys, so I’m really looking forward to that.”
Janawicz is looking forward to it as well.
“I’m very blessed and fortunate to be here,” Janawicz said. “To be a part of this team and get to be around such great teammates and the core staff of Team USA is something I’m extremely grateful for.”
Senior Men’s Singles
Sunday morning began with the conclusion of singles competition, and Senior Team USA was fortunate enough to have two athletes competing in Hess and Janawicz.
Unfortunately, since Hess was seeded No. 2 among Senior Men’s Singles qualifiers and Janawicz was No. 3, it meant the two Americans would have to face one another in Round 1 instead of duking it out in the gold-medal match.
Although the two are happy to call one another teammate day to day, both men are highly competitive, so they each entered the semifinal tilt with victory in mind.
Still, only one could win, and it was Janawicz on this day.
The smooth right-hander kept his score sheet clean and struck on seven of his first nine deliveries en route to a final score of 236.
Hess avoided open frames and managed six strikes of his own, but spares in the eighth, ninth and tenth just weren’t enough, forcing the powerful righty from Iowa to settle for 226 and a bronze-medal finish.
While Hess would certainly have loved to come out on top, he was quick to give Janawicz his due credit.
“Of course, I wanted the opportunity to bowl for gold, but John bowled a better game than I did,” Hess said.
Thankfully for Hess, Janawicz didn’t stop there.
After striking during seven of the first nine frames against Hess, Janawicz went one better and struck on eight of his first nine shots during the gold-medal match against Australia’s Adam Hayes.
Hayes, who advanced to the finals courtesy of a 244-196 victory over Belgium’s Gery Verbruggen in the other semifinal, did his best to stick with Janawicz, but opens in the third and fourth frames and the inability to string strikes thereafter allowed the American to secure the victory before the match reached the 10th frame.
When the final shots had been delivered, Janawicz emerged with a 241-181 victory and the Senior Men’s Singles gold medal.
Afterward, Janawicz was matter of fact when describing his feelings about the win.
“It’s always great to be able to win gold medals,” Janawicz said. “It’s also just good to be able to perform well when you need to. I feel very fortunate.”
Hayes took home the Senior Men’s Singles silver medal while Verbruggen joined Hess in capturing bronze.
Senior Women’s Singles
No Americans qualified for the Senior Women’s Singles medal rounds, which saw Germany’s Manuela Öing take home gold after defeating top seed Alicia Marcano of Venezuela by a score of 201-190.
Öing reached the gold-medal match thanks to a 278-226 semifinal win over Japan’s Eiko Suzuki while Marcano punched her ticket after taking down Janka, 182-178.
Marcano walked away with the Senior Women’s Singles silver medal, which left Suzuki and Janka to each claim bronze.
Monday will see the remaining rounds of team competition completed at the National Bowling Stadium.
Round 2 of Senior Men’s Team qualifying will get the day started at 9 a.m. Pacific with Senior Women’s Team qualifying following at 1:30 p.m. Pacific. The semifinals and finals are scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Pacific and 5:30 p.m. Pacific, respectively, with medal presentations wrapping the night up one hour later starting at 6:30 p.m. Pacific.
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FULL RESULTS
RENO, Nev. – Sunday was a long but productive day for Senior Team USA at the 2025 International Bowling Federation World Seniors Championships, which is being contested at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nevada.
The day began with the medal rounds in both singles and doubles and ended with the opening three-game block of Senior Men’s and Senior Women’s Team competition.
At day’s end, Senior Team USA bowlers walked away with six medals (two gold, one silver and three bronze) and finished in the top three in both divisions after Round 1 of team qualifying.
Sunday’s American gold medals were secured by John Janawicz of Winter Haven, Florida, in Senior Men’s Singles and the duo of Rina Sabo of Bennett, Colorado, and Jodi Woessner of Oregon, Ohio, in Senior Women’s Doubles.
Senior Team USA’s lone silver for the day went to Dana Ausec of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Lynda Barnes of Denton, Texas, who fell to Sabo and Woessner, 462-436, in the Senior Women’s Doubles gold-medal match.
The three American bronze medals earned on Sunday went to the men with Tom Hess of Granger, Iowa, collecting his thanks to a third-place finish in Senior Men’s Singles and the others going to the two U.S. Senior Men’s Doubles squads – Janawicz partnered with Chris Barnes of Denton, Texas, and Hess teamed up with Parker Bohn III of Jackson, New Jersey – both of whom landed in third place as well.
Once the podium was taken down and the medals were put away, the Americans shifted their focus to the tournament’s most-coveted event, the team competition.
Team event always takes top priority for Team USA bowlers during international competition, and the four men and four women donning the red, white and blue in Reno made that clear on Sunday.
While the American women led the way during doubles earlier in the day, it was the men who got the best of things during the first three games of team on Sunday night.
Chris Barnes, Janawicz, Hess and Bohn didn’t just lead the pack during Round 1, they dominated the 35-team field, finishing with a three-game mark of 2,614 (an average of 217.83 per player per game), which was 125 pins better than the 2,489 put up by the second-place team from the Netherlands.
Belgium finished third during the opening set with 2,462, which left Italy to claim the final position in the Day 1 top four with 2,445.
Barnes was tops for the American men on Sunday night, notching games of 236, 204 and 234 for a 674 series (a 224.67 average).
Janawicz wasn’t far behind, coming in with 662 (256, 192 and 214) while Hess and Bohn added 639 each. Hess got there with games of 197, 210 and 232 while Bohn reached the mark using scores of 234, 212 and 193.
That effort puts the Senior Team USA men in prime position to earn the No. 1 seed for the semifinals and make a strong run at the coveted Senior Men’s Team gold medal.
On the women’s side, Woessner, Sabo, Ausec and Lynda Barnes kept themselves in the thick of the Senior Women’s Team medal hunt after finishing Round 1 in third place in the 27-team field with a three-game score of 2,280 (an average of 190 per person per game).
That put the Americans 19 pins ahead of Germany (2,261), which holds the fourth and final qualifying position heading into Monday’s final three games of qualifying.
At the same time, the Senior Team USA ladies find themselves just 10 pins behind Finland (2,290) for second place and 17 behind Day 1 leader Canada (2,297) for the top spot.
Woessner led the way for the American women Sunday afternoon, using high games of 239 and 232 to finish with a three-game mark of 627. Sabo was second with 578 while Barnes and Ausec chipped in 543 and 532, respectively.
But before the team event got underway, the Americans put in a great deal of hard work during the singles and doubles medal rounds. As such, here is a closer look at how those competitions played out.
Senior Women’s Doubles
After the American women qualified first and third for the Senior Women’s Doubles semifinals on Saturday afternoon, they had one wish, which was for each pair to win its opening match the following day so that they could bowl one another for gold.
The fearsome foursome of Senior Team USA ladies set that plan in motion as soon as the lights came on Sunday morning with Sabo and Woessner topping Finland’s Reija Lunden and Jaana Taavitsainen by a score of 450-393 while Lynda Barnes and Ausec dispatched Germany’s Martina Beckel and Michaela Gobel-Janka by a final margin of 445-374.
Sabo and Woessner got there thanks to games of 229 and 221, respectively, while Barnes posted 253 and Ausec contributed 192 during that pair’s semifinal victory.
Once the all-American gold-medal match had been set up, the only question left to be answered was which Senior Team USA duo would reach the top step on the podium?
The answer remained elusive until the final frames of the hard-fought match, but in the end, Sabo and Woessner were able to do just enough to hold off their talented teammates and emerge with a 26-pin victory.
Woessner led the way for the winning duo, striking eight times and staying clean to post a match-high score of 248.
Sabo was strong as well during her first international medal match – the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships is the right-hander’s first international competition for Senior Team USA – ripping off a clutch four-bagger in the middle of the game and finishing with a solid score of 214.
Despite coming up a bit short in their bid to capture gold, Barnes and Ausec bowled well too with Barnes putting up 232 and Ausec adding 204.
Although Barnes would have liked to come out on top during the final match, she still counted the day’s experience as a victory.
“The goal was for the U.S. to win, so we achieved our goal as soon as we got to bowl each other,” Barnes said. “Am I disappointed? Sure, I am because you always want to take gold, but I’m happy for Rina (Sabo) and Jodi (Woessner). Also, I had a great time bowling with Dana (Ausec); she bowled great.”
Ausec was pleased with her efforts on Sunday as well, especially after struggling to find good ball reaction on the 42-foot IBF World Seniors Championships oil pattern during the first two days of competition.
“I feel good that I was finally able to help a little bit today,” Ausec said, “It was fantastic getting to bowl with Lynda Barnes; she’s just amazing. This is the first silver medal I’ve won, so I’m taking that as a win and something nice to add to my portfolio.”
Sabo was similarly pleased with the golden addition she’ll be making to her own trophy case.
“This is my first international medal, it’s gold and it’s with Jodi (Woessner),” Sabo said. “This is such a memorable moment. My dreams are coming true this week, and it’s a blessing. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”
Woessner was equally grateful for having had the opportunity to partner with Sabo, whom she credited with getting the pair into the semifinals in the first place.
“Rina (Sabo) was amazing yesterday. She got us there, and she was the reason why we had this opportunity today,” Woessner said. “She drug me along yesterday, so I was just happy that I was able to figure something out and try something different that worked well today. I was glad I was able to contribute and help get her a gold.
“After my performance the first two days, I wasn’t sure I was going to get the chance to get up on that podium except for maybe the team event. Prior to that, I was questioning myself a little bit, so I was very happy with what I saw and how I performed today. It’s giving me a lot of confidence heading into the team event.”
Senior Men’s Doubles
Like their female counterparts, the Senior Team USA men came to the National Bowling Stadium on Sunday with dreams of an all-USA gold-medal match dancing in their heads.
Unfortunately, their opponents felt like performing a different number, one that saw Germany’s Bodo Konieczny and Michael Kramer take down No. 1 seeds Bohn and Hess, 435-414, in one Senior Men’s Doubles semifinal while the Italian duo of Maurizio Celli and Marco Reviglio eliminated Chris Barnes and Janawicz by a mark of 439-382 in the other.
Bohn rolled a solid 215 while Hess added 199 in the losing effort for the first American pair. The other Senior Team USA cause was bolstered by 194 from Janawicz and 188 by Barnes.
One match later, Konieczny and Kramer would go on to defeat Reviglio and Celli, 380-369, to earn Senior Men’s Doubles gold, leaving the Italians to settle for silver.
While Hess is always pleased to medal during international competition, he wasn’t shy about expressing his disappointment in Sunday’s outcome.
“When representing Team USA, of course, the first goal is to get to the medal rounds, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t say I was disappointed,” Hess said. “We just didn’t bowl as good a match as we needed to, and that stinks.”
Bohn’s feelings were similar to those of his partner.
“Obviously, we always want more and to be at the top,” Bohn said. “We want to be the team or individual that’s standing tall when all the dust settles, but the fact that all of us were there and had that opportunity was still something special. Right now, I don’t want to shine the light on the fact that it resulted in bronze instead of silver or gold.”
For Barnes, the disappointment stemmed from not being able to help Janawicz pay off the stellar bowling he’d done throughout the doubles event with a gold medal.
“I feel bad for JJ (Janawicz) because he bowled fantastic to help get us here,” Barnes said. “That pair was tough for us, and it resulted in the only game where he didn’t look like the superstar he’s been throughout this event.
"That being said, I had a chance to pull my weight and maybe take over to push us through, so I feel bad that I didn’t do my part. Still, we’ll learn from that and try to improve our performance during the team event. I’m bowling with three great guys, so I’m really looking forward to that.”
Janawicz is looking forward to it as well.
“I’m very blessed and fortunate to be here,” Janawicz said. “To be a part of this team and get to be around such great teammates and the core staff of Team USA is something I’m extremely grateful for.”
Senior Men’s Singles
Sunday morning began with the conclusion of singles competition, and Senior Team USA was fortunate enough to have two athletes competing in Hess and Janawicz.
Unfortunately, since Hess was seeded No. 2 among Senior Men’s Singles qualifiers and Janawicz was No. 3, it meant the two Americans would have to face one another in Round 1 instead of duking it out in the gold-medal match.
Although the two are happy to call one another teammate day to day, both men are highly competitive, so they each entered the semifinal tilt with victory in mind.
Still, only one could win, and it was Janawicz on this day.
The smooth right-hander kept his score sheet clean and struck on seven of his first nine deliveries en route to a final score of 236.
Hess avoided open frames and managed six strikes of his own, but spares in the eighth, ninth and tenth just weren’t enough, forcing the powerful righty from Iowa to settle for 226 and a bronze-medal finish.
While Hess would certainly have loved to come out on top, he was quick to give Janawicz his due credit.
“Of course, I wanted the opportunity to bowl for gold, but John bowled a better game than I did,” Hess said.
Thankfully for Hess, Janawicz didn’t stop there.
After striking during seven of the first nine frames against Hess, Janawicz went one better and struck on eight of his first nine shots during the gold-medal match against Australia’s Adam Hayes.
Hayes, who advanced to the finals courtesy of a 244-196 victory over Belgium’s Gery Verbruggen in the other semifinal, did his best to stick with Janawicz, but opens in the third and fourth frames and the inability to string strikes thereafter allowed the American to secure the victory before the match reached the 10th frame.
When the final shots had been delivered, Janawicz emerged with a 241-181 victory and the Senior Men’s Singles gold medal.
Afterward, Janawicz was matter of fact when describing his feelings about the win.
“It’s always great to be able to win gold medals,” Janawicz said. “It’s also just good to be able to perform well when you need to. I feel very fortunate.”
Hayes took home the Senior Men’s Singles silver medal while Verbruggen joined Hess in capturing bronze.
Senior Women’s Singles
No Americans qualified for the Senior Women’s Singles medal rounds, which saw Germany’s Manuela Öing take home gold after defeating top seed Alicia Marcano of Venezuela by a score of 201-190.
Öing reached the gold-medal match thanks to a 278-226 semifinal win over Japan’s Eiko Suzuki while Marcano punched her ticket after taking down Janka, 182-178.
Marcano walked away with the Senior Women’s Singles silver medal, which left Suzuki and Janka to each claim bronze.
Monday will see the remaining rounds of team competition completed at the National Bowling Stadium.
Round 2 of Senior Men’s Team qualifying will get the day started at 9 a.m. Pacific with Senior Women’s Team qualifying following at 1:30 p.m. Pacific. The semifinals and finals are scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Pacific and 5:30 p.m. Pacific, respectively, with medal presentations wrapping the night up one hour later starting at 6:30 p.m. Pacific.
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